The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-20 00:00:00

SEPTEMBER.

Curragh
Limerick

OCTOBER.
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Donn Ito) al Corr— 2O

26

AQU.4 TICS.
HENLEY ROYAL REGATTA.

The great aquatic meeting at Henley-on-Thames, in
which the University gentlemen and members of the
leading aquatic clubs of London ordinarily engage, is
fixed for the 25th aid 26th of June. The following are
the prizes for competition :
Grand Challenge Cup (with medals), for eight-oared
boats; now held by the University Boat Club, Oxford.
The WS fold Challenge Cup, tor the winners of the
trial heat for the Grand Challenge Cup, now held by the
University Boat Club, Cambridge.
The LAies' Challenge Plate (with medals), for eight-
oared boats; now held by the Brasenose Club, Oxford.
The Stewarda' Challenge Cup (with 'medals), for
four-oared boats; now held by the Cambridge Univer-
sity Club. s s
ss

The Viiitors' Challenge Cup (with medals), for four-
oared boats ; now held by the Christchurch Club,
Oxford.

The Town Challenge Cup (with medal:), for four-
oared boats.

The Silver Gublots (Presentation Priz-), for pair-
oared boats.

The Diamond Challenge Szulls and Presentation Cup,
for miller." the former now held by Mr. Peacock, of
Loddon.

The entries close on the 18th of June.

CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE THAMES.

The exciting race between Robert Coombes, of Mort-
lako, and T. Cole, of Chelsea, for the Chamionship of
the Thames and 400/., will come off on Monday next,
fr,.m Putney to Mcrtlake. Both men are in capital con-
dition, and a first-rate contest is expected. Coombes is
slightly the favourite. The Lalla Rookh has been char-
tered to accompany the match, for the benefit of the
losing man, and for the use of the umpires and referee.

CRICKET.
ENGLAND v. FOURTEEN OF YORKSHIRE.
May 17th, 18th, and 19th.
YORKIIIIIRE.

First Innings. Second Innings.
Ellison, Esq., b Clarke ...
Crossland, s Box, b Clarke 2B a Box, b Clarke ... 1
J. Berry, b Clarke 8 b Bickley 9
Anderson, c Bickley, b Mynn... 30 a Box, b Clarke
Chatterton, c Parr, b Mynn 0 c Felix, b Clarke... 0
Sampson, c Guy, b Bickley 24 not oat 4O
G. Berry, s Box, b Clarke ..... 40 b Martingell
Armitage, c Box, b Clarke ...... 0 c Caffyn, b Clarke l2
Wright, b Bickley... 3 c Box, b Bickley 2
Coates, not out
Skelton, Eeq , s Box, b Clarke 3 c Bickley, b Clarke 0
Dakin, c Caz4ar, b Clarke 0 b Clarke
Barber, ruu out ..... ....... .. ...... 0 clSlartingell,bClarke 3
Hodgson,
_c Caffyn, b Clarke ... S c and b Martingell 11
Byes 2 Byes

Total .............. 162 Total 150
ENGLAND.
N. Felix, Esq, cßerry, b Crossland 30
A. Mynn, Esq , b Crossland..... 0
Bickley, b Wright ..... . ..... 1
Box, c Sampson, b Crossland ... 0 cJ.Berry,b Wright 3
J. Cresar, cJ. Berry, b Skelton.. 9 b Wright 25
W. Caffjn, b Wright. ......... 2 c Armitage, b
Crossland
Parr, c Armitage, b Crossland... 8 not out ...
A. Clarke, b Wright ............. 0
W. Clarke, b J. Berry ...
Guy, not out . ................ 9 b Wright l9
Martingell, c Chatterton, b
Wright ... 4 not out 8
Byes 3,1 b 3,w 2 ...... 8 80, lb o,w 1 1

Total. ' 78

Total ...... ... 68

ANEW AND MAGNIFICENT ENTERPRISE.
Private intelligence from New York, by the Europa.
enables us to state confidently that arracgeuients are in
progress for connecting New York and S!. John', (New_
foundisnd) by means of the eleciric telegraph, and St.
John's and Galway (or some other convenient port nn
the west coast of Ireland) by a line of powerful and fleet
steamers. The lino of telegraph has already been sur-
vey ci . from St. Joha'a to a point, opposite Cape Breton
(N-ov,-,, s.wria), a distance of ;.loc.ut 350 miles; thence the
Gulf of Lam eye° is to be er..), sod by a submarine wire
48 miles in length; therice 100 miles Viand to Sydney.
Cape Breton, to which place the wires are now ex-
tended fro.a. the' capitals of Nova Scotia, New
Biunswick, the Csnadas, and the United States.
Telegraphic dilatolp:s are sow readily trans-
milled from New York to Halifax, a distance
of nearly 1,000 miles, in a few moments, bat 11w new
line will extend some air hundred miles farther east, Bud
it is confidently anticipated will enable London to COra-
1 municCe with New York in about six days.
The Government of Newfoundland have given the
entrap ilty who, have this enterprise in hand a most
liberal charter, in which it is provided 'bat the province
shall take stock to the amount of thirty thousand pounds;
and they also grant to the company, as a gratuity, laud
to the extent of thirty square miles, which the company
have a right to select wherever they please along the
route of the telegraph line. As that section of New-
foundland is known to be rich in its mineral resource!,
it is believed that the lend itself is worth far more than
the whole expense of building the telegraph. At all
events, certain it is the, every shilling of the capital
' stock of the company (amounting to about two hundred
thise
and fifty thousand dollars) was taken in two days by
seven of tho principal capitalists of New York, and the
agent of the company is already on his way to
country for the purchase of the materials to construct
under a different .
tlElThteelesgarmaephanlidneoaths
ebiefporae drtieess,cribbeutd.
organization, are about contracting for two or more
ocean steamers of the first class to run between New
York, St. John's, and Ireland, and there is the very
best reason to believe that within one year these two en-
terpriseso
ls p wreipllabriengin
to
connect successful
tehpeo r
Irishat i
nn.line of steamers
Other parties
at
St. John's with
are a
ifax, Boston, &n, steamers from Montreal, Quebec,
The telegraph company will employ
at Cepe Race for the purpose of interceptinga small steamer
to and from America and Europe, all of whichall steamers
pass very near to that place, and thu • usually
a
news by the Cunard and Collins it is expected that
steamers
through to New York some four or five days in advance
may be seat
of their arrival in the United Staters.

A final dividend of about id. in the pound will be
shortly declared under the estate of Ross and Ogilvie, army
agents, who were made bankrupts in March, 1804. This,
with the previous dividends, will constitute an entire distri-
bution of 13s. 4id. upon debts proved to the extent of
177,8071., of which 7s. 4d. was paid by the parties appointed
on the issue of the commission, and the remainder by Mr*
Geoom, the ofeial assignee, since the estate has
passed to
his management.

ROYAL FREEMASONS' SCHOOL FOR FEMALE CRIL-
IIREN.—The anniversary of this most excellent institution
was held yesterday evening at the Freemasons'-hall, under.e
the presidency of the Right Hon. the Earl of Zetland,tn
Grand Master of the Masonic body. Nearly 400 membersen-
of the craft sat down to dinner. In the course of the
ande a
ing the children went in procession round the room'be wit-
more beautiful or interesting scene could,
.rhard&l
ew)
nested. The secretary of the institution (Mr• be 1,400/.
an-
nounced the amount subscribed in the room
nu mt° and other
Miss Birch, Miss E. Birch, Miss M. Williams, The
vocalista enlivened the company during the c
baracter, and
dinner and accompaniments were of the fret
Mr. Harker was himself as toastmaster.
Tun JENNINGS' ESTATE.—.--- e Court of Chancery.
has, 1
we -earn, been this week settled by th lies,
we believe, prin-
cipally property connected with the estate
and at one period was
cipally in the county of Suffolk,
Phis long litigated case
nalf of that amount has
esti-
mated at 7,000,0001., but only
about this end other
been divided in the late decisi,re-Twn
this town and others
are scatteredone living in this district
claimants reside in
counties ; 'but the only fortunate i
own,
in the employ of
is a journeyman painter named_ l' n
divided into seven portions, and
hlr. Howard, of Maldon.
under-
stand that the property is
will be 500,0001.—Chelmsford
By the recent decision we
that Longhorn's share
atronicle.

TO THE EDITOR 0.17 THE SUN.
rr•fe*ence to a cormspoildence which has
11,te!y mi.-eered io your valuable journal, on the eubject
ci the British North Ani?riem Rai!trap, snore partica-
o;ncerning the Great Truettl4e, from Halifax
to Queix.e, I may, perhaps, be enabled, if you can
afford me the spice, to offtr it few rettarka' to enable
your readers the more, clearly to understand the whole
subject in questioe. First, let us saiiify ourselves, how-
ever, that nll parties are agreed as to the important ob-
jects sought for by the preposed trunk line from Hali-
fax -to Quebec, or rather, as Earl Grey says, to
Montreal. We believe the object to be gained is this—
the connecting all the British provinces with themselves,
and also with the nearest to Europe, and most available
port that is open at all seasons of the year, for com-
mercial purposes ; and further, we believe, that in order
to obtain this object, it will be necesscry to have re-
course to British capital, under the guarantee of the Im-
perial Parliament, as well as that of the local legiala-
tdrea. It appears then, Sir, to me," that the duty
of the Colonial SOCI4 Lary is c'early to obtain
tho j)ei pwsibie inf,:oaation he eau, not vs to what
this or that c:,lony has done, car is willing
to do for its own iramecilato interest; taut as to which is
the prver route for a trunk line that would connect the
several Nurth Americau cuienies with each other and
with Europe, and will confer, either by itaelf -or by
braeclr;cs froir. it, the greatest amount of advantage to
the '`bole America, and be the hest for the
traffic of goods, mail:, and passengere, to and from Great
Britain or Europe.

Now, Sir, this is not the proper -place, perhsps, to
discuss ;,Il these points. One observation, however, I
may 63 alluald to make, as it will serve to show
the volt impottacee of a searching inquiry into the
matter before the British Parliament is suited to grant
its aid or cOuntenanee to any final plan. One of your
correspondents would take the Windsor and Annapolis
lane as a part of the gigantic undertaking proposed to
ii :Elf by the St. Andrew and Quelace line, with the view
of reaching the Pacific. Now, Sir, elne glance st the
app will show that such a line of route would oblige
the crossing of the Bay of Fundy, which would be fatal
in the opinion of any Parliamentary Committee; for it
would occasion a transhipmtnt of goods
Toe Scotia, as has
cessary„should the grand route follow the line,
perfectly num-
riovE:igg-ted.to pass wholly through the province ot
in the Colonies"—but
There area variety of other objections to the route ita
proposed by your correspondent—" One much interested
been suggested by able engineers.
in England, who have been ern
the Secretary of the the
Colonies to adopt is, in my humble
opinion, to summon before •
only safe and proper plan for
him such persons as are now
British North:American
the advantage of the information Provinces; and then having also
are in this cowir -
-euutdliut it trill IL
niioc ewYs sreaoxrnyPgr :lwii bunitY clplayed on surveys in our
of the delegates who
matters,. he
"olamintagiltwoaayfinal decision.
idways, that If England is not'ecabitieocrd - bear in milid
part of the expense, she can hardly have upon to pay any
right to dic-
tate a line for the outlay on th 3 constr a
the colonists alone are to be in the end htielectiion of which
actually
spon4ible. Let, however, all matters be fully
0 inquiredre-
into, and I am sure it will be found that B,ooo'o
be required, and can be most beneficially ex Awill
pt.tde., to
the great advant=age both of the mother country, to her
labour and her capital, as well es to her most thriving,
loyal, and valuable North American provinces. Depend
upon it, vre have arrived at s crisis, and all friends of
England and her colonies should be rip and stirring. It
is not yet " too late;" but we know not what a they may
bring forth.—l am, Sir, &c.,
May 9. A CONSTANT READER,

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.— (Miles in work, 223 i)
Return of Traffic for the Week ending May 9, 1852:
Passengers, parcels, carriages,
horses, dogs, and mails —. £5,575 88.
Merchandise and minerals ... .5,842 17 6
Cattle ... ... 245 7 2

Total .. £11,663 12 I t
Corresponding week, 1851 (236 miles):
Passengers, parcels, &e. ... £5,360 10 7
Merchandise, Cattle, &c. 4,152 6 6

Total ...

. £9,512 17 1
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. (260 miles
open.)—Traffic for week ending May 16 £16,190 4 11
Corresponding week in last year (260
miles open) ....£16,443 7 2
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.TraffiC for the
week ending May 16 :

MAIN LM.

Passengers ...
Parcels, H. C. and D.
Goods, cattle, &c.
Mails

Total

£1,345 9 4
... 77 4 6
... 577 17 6
... 575 0 0

MOLD.

Passengers ... ...
Parcels, H. C. and D. ...
Goods, cattle, &c. ...

Total

... £2,575 11 4

~. £5O 7 10
... 1 14 3
... 91 18 6

... ... ... £144 0 7
STEAM-BOATS.

Passengers
Parcels, H. C. and D. ...

£238 8 2
Scorrisa CENTRAL RAlLWAT.—Traffic for the Week
ending May 16, 1852
Passengers (9,973), parcels, horses,
and carriages ... .£1,054 1 6
Goods, cattle, &c. ... 916 8 11

£209 12 8
28 15 6

Total

Total .. ... .. 1,970 10 5
Corresponding week in last year... 1,834 8 6
Perth, May 18, 1852.

YACHTS AND YACHTING IN LIVERPOOL..—The
establishment of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club has at last
induced several gentlemen in Liverpool to commence yacht
building. Mr. Nevins, Messrs. Holme, Slater, and Crook, and
Mr. Wilson, are all busily engagediin the construction of yachts
of various sizes. Mr. Geinuell, of the firm of Bowman,
Grinnell, and Co., has. imported per the New World, from
America, a small yacht of about ten tons burden, which is
expected to prove a very fast sailer. She is furnished with
every late improvement, including a moveable keel, by the
elevation of which the craft will be enabled to glide safely,
through narrow and shallow channels as well as to ride se-
curely in rough weather.
On Monday lost, as a horse was landing from
one of the steam-boats at the landing-stage, by some mis-
chance the rails were broken, and the horse was thrown
on the broken rail, which pierced its bowels so deeply that
they protruded, and it was put to death in a few minutes.
Yesterday another accident occurred at the same place. A
well-known stallion called Bay Middleton, belonging to Mr.
Reyes, of Preston, was landing from the Rock Ferry, when
the horse slipped through the smoothness of the plank
caused by the rain, and it was thrown down into the water,
and got under the paddles of the steamer. Some time elapsed
before the animal could be got ashore, which it reached alive,
but it died immediately after it was landed. Accieents to
horses at the landing stage are now of every-day occurrence.
—Liverpool Courier.
COMMERCIAL AND NAVIGATION TREATIES.—The
ef 71 ,le of Bolivia,
Gazette of Tuesday publishes the following list
poten-
tates with which commercial treaties have been otty, ,et Britein ;—llis Majeety the Emperor f trade by
Majesty the King of the Belgisus, Ili II lof _ Austria, his
Equator, the
tl-te Senate of the Free Hanseatic city
public of Costa Rica, his Msjesty the r• full''' the Be-
French Republic. the Free City of Frankfurt,of
Be-
the Dominican Republic, the Republic bang of Denmark,
the
the King of Greece, the Repel:Ale of Guatemala, his Majesty
of the Free Hanseatic city of the Senate
liamb
King of Hanover, the Republic of Liberia, his
MajestY the
Free Hanseatic city of Lub • iberia, the Senate of the
Grand Duke of Alec] 1 b Lubeck, his Serene
'erl urg Schwerin, Highness the
the Grand Duke of Meek' his Serene Highness
public, his Majesty the liburg
Stralitz, the Mexican Re-
lic of New Grenads, his King of the Netherlands, the Repub-
Oldenburg, his highness
Royal
Highness the Grand Duke of
the Republic of Peru, her the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire,
his Majesty the King ( f Majesty the Queen of Portugal;
the German Conans ) Prussia and the other States forming
Wurtemburg, ercial Union, viz. :—Bavaria, Sa"nY'
Duchy of Hesse, Baden, the Electorate of Hesse, the Grand
Union of Thuringia, the States forming the Customs and Com-
mercial United Provinces of 111Pugia, Nassau, and Frankfort; the
Rio de la Plata, his 11114esty the Empe-
ror of All the Russian
Majesty the King' his Majesty the King of Sardinia, his
the king
of Sweden and No
of the Two Sicilies, Majestyhis,i.o4
the Grand Duke rway, his Imperial. ana_ y Highness
of Tuscany, the United States of America,
the Oriental
_ Republic of the Uruguay, the Republic of
Venezuela.
ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, MAT 10.—Sir
Roderick Murchison, the president, in the chair. Messrs. S.
R. Bleck, ( 1.7.
a B. Beaumont, and C. Tagart, were officially
introduced upon their election. Colonel Edward Sabine,
R.A., F.R.S., Lieutenant J. Lyons WLeod, R.N., and Mr.
Henry Edwards were elected Fellows. The papers read
were :-1. Captain Win. Allen, R.N., " Observations taken
with the Aneroid in Syria and Palestine ;" 2. Mr. John
Crawford, F.R.S., " Sketch of the Geography of Borneo
3. Lieutenant Leicester, R.N., on the Volcanic Group of
Milo." The president announced that the catalogue of the
books and pamphlets in the library had been published since
the last meeting, and that the anniversary meeting would
be held at the Society's apartments on Monday, the 24th
inst., when the royal medal for the ear would be delivered
to Dr. John Rae and to Captain Henry Strachey, and the
annual address on the progress of geographical science and
discovery would be delivered.
Tun DUNFERMLINE MURDER.--The men Fancoat,
who was sentenced a few weeks ago, at the Perth Circuit
Court, to be executed at Dunfermline on the 25th inet., for
the murder of a fellow-workman in the streets of that
town, by stabbing him with a knife, has received a respite.
The letter containing the information to that effect reached
Mr- Gillespie, the governor of the gaol in Dunfermline, on
Friday evening. The result was brought about, we believe,
chiefly through the exertions of the Rev. Dr. ISPMichael
and other influential inhabitants of Dunfermline, who
deeply commiserated the fate of Fancoat. who had pre-
viously borne a good character, but had unfortunately, in a
state of drunken frenzy, been led to commit the rash act
of taking away the life of a fellow creature—Glasgoui
Herald.
PROPOSED EMIGRATION 'OF ENGINEERS. The
emigration committee of the Amalgamated Society to the
trades in general have issued an address to their fellow. work-
men, in which, after detailing the well-known facts and_
sequel of the engineers' strike, they call for pecuniary cont . -i-
-butions to enable their unemployed members and theirrfa-
milies to emigrate, if desirous of doing so
foss.--Mr. Henry Vincent has 1 tas week been
visiting the electors, waiting upon them er
the day, and addressing large, en t busiest; eP son
ally
duringectable
meetings in their various localities in '_ , and respectable
result has proved that his success the evening. The
at
garded as certain. the poll must be re-
POISONING FISH --I) •
urilig tie past week thou-
sands of freshwater fish e
Caine, at Colchester, an '
immense tank of gas tar having
been emptied into the river ' from the premises of the old gas-
works. A great number of busily engaged persons • . .
them-
selves in capturing fish ofweight, which
several pounds in
were floating intsxic' sted upon the water, and many were
the siegular expeuients resorted to for that purpose. We
hear that after feasting themselves to their hearts' content
upon the carcases of the thane delicacies, the gas tar pro-
duced an effect
upon those who partook of them similar to
1 that it had upon the fish.—lpswich Express.

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