The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-10 00:00:00

Final heat.

Henry Kelly, Fulham 1
H. J. T. Bell, Richmond 2

A five start was succeeded by Bell taking a slight lead,
but be was collared by Kelly off Messrs. Searles', and
passed like a shot. Kelly retained the lead and won
easily. It was a fine race for second place.
PRINCE OF WALES YACHT CLUB.

The condition of the race on Monday next, for the
Commodore's Cup, requiring that the yachts contending
shall have na hands on board excepting gentlemen
amateur members of the club, renders the match one of
peculiar interest, as affording the yatchsman an opportu-
nity of developing seamanship. The following are the
entries:—

Albatross yacht, 7 tons; Messrs. Barnens and Co.
Valentine yacht, 8 tons; Messrs. Wallis.
Ides yacht, 6 tons; E. Keibbs.
Julia yacht, 7 tons; J. Richardson.
The distance to be sailed is from Blackwall to Graves-
end and beck. A steamer has been engaged, and will
leave London-bridge at a quarter-past nine to a2cota•
patty the race.

UNITED SCRATCH MATCH.—A scratch match, in
which promiscuous, crews were drawn from various
aquatic club men, came off at a late hour on Thursday.
evening. The affair was very unsatisfactory in many re-
spects. The following were the winners :—Macoughkle,
Tubbs, Purdie, Kitchen, Sherman, Bishop, Ireland,
Walmsley, and Davis.
ROWING MATcli.—Mr. Schlotch contended on
Thursday evening, from Putney to Hammersmith,
against Mr. Smith, for a silver cup. Both gentlemen
are members of the Argonauts Club. It was a capital
start, and they were almost scull and scull for a mile,
when Mr. Schlotch became unable to proceed, from one
of his arms giving way, and Mr. Smith was the winner.
CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE THAMES.—COIe and Coombes
are again matched for 2004 a side. A deposit of 401.
was made at a highly-respectable meeting at Mr. Wood's,
the Mitre, Stangate, and articles are to be arranged at
the Feathers, Wandsworth, on Monday next. The race
to come off in the second week in October.

THUNDERSTORM AT STROUD.
The neighbourhood of Stroud was on Monday last
visited with a thunder-storm which, although not re-
markable for excessive violence, yet deserves notice for
the length of its duration. The heat of the morning
was intense the thermometer standing at 824 in the
shade, and the sky cloudless; at four o'clock, however,
the horizon in the S.W. darkened, and a thunder-storm
of average intensity, accompanied with heavy rain,
prevailed for an hour and a half. The sky then cleared,
but at seven thunder and rain again commenced. The
rain soon abated, but the sky presented an extraordinary
appearance. The horizon in the west, south, and east,was as black as Erebus, but lighted up every instant
from every quarter with the most vivid lightning. In
the west and apparently over Bristol the clouds seemed
to open and pour down in a forked channel a violet-
coloured torrent of liquid fire, while the air shook with
separate storms were converging. At
one long unintermitted growl. It was soon evident
that three
11 nat., a sharp
.breeze sprang up from the S.W., and
the storm began in earnest. The clouds hurried about
o'clock the
wietih°utanynext fixed direction, and from this time
morning the storm raged with
tillt h e
two sk
unabated fury. The rain was tremendous, and washed
the roads to their foundations; nothing could exceed the
brilliancy
theilil variety of the lightning, the frequency of the flashes,
rirty of shapes which it assumed. It seemed,
however, generally to leap from cloud to cloud, and to
be bigh in the atmosphere, rather than to descend to the
for the thunder showed that
ewasa. not
At
aboutclose ,
althoughrtb'i t bursting immediately over head flash, followed instantly by a
two o'clock a most vivid
for afterwards nothing but
this ferment of the elements,
mutterings, most terrific crash, ended
a few faint gleams and
scarcely audible
which proceeded probably
from some distant
sank during storm, wore seen or heard. The ba-
rometerduring the storm the afternoon of Monday, but rose
storm which d at night. It must have been this same
damaged the steeple at Ross.

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FASHION.—Tbe inliluenee of mere fashion in de-
termining the state, progress, or stoppage of any manufac-
ture is extraordinary. We once saw a particular article
manufactured of inferior quality to that which could be pro-
duced by the manufacturer, merely to imitate the Fretich,
which it was made to resemble ; and we were informed that
this was rendered necessary by the French dress-makers in
this country, who induced their employers to use the manu-
facture to which they were accustomed. We lately passed
through a considerable town, in which every manufactory
was stopped, and the whole of the population previously
employed in manufacture were out of work, and had been in
distress and privation for months. It was a pitiable sight
to see the groups of decent working men standing idly and
sadly at the corners of the streets. The manufacture was as
perfect, as useful, as beautiful as ever, but It was a fancy
manufacture, and had gone out offashion,..drt-iournai.