The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-22 00:00:00

COWES.

ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA.
NIONDA Y, AUG. 21.—His late Majesty's Cup, value 100
guireas. The following yachts started at eleven o'clock pre-
cisely, when the Noble Commodore, the Earl of Yarborough,
fired the gun. The four vessels swung round to their course,
with springs on their cables. in beautiful style, viz. :
Names. Tons. Commanders. Distinguishing Flags.
Amulet
Wili-o'-the- Wisp 40 Sir R. Harland, Bart. nute,f Flag
Turk
I.ord of the Isles 45 James Weld, Esq.... Red,WhiteCross
The wind blowing a strong breeze from W. S. W., they pro-
ceeded round the Noll L;ght vessel, and back to the west-
ward past Cowes (at 2 p.m.) close together. The Amulet
having struck her gaff topsail and topmast (the others keeping
theirs up), gained on the others, and patted about 50 fathoms
to windward of the Will-o'-the-Wisp (the second in the race),
the Turk about the same distance astern, and the Lord of the
Isles half a mile astern. At this time it was a snot beautitul
and interesting race. They passed on to the westward round
a station-vessel off Yarmouth, and back again between the
Commodore's yacht and Cowes Castle (the goal of decision),
as follows :
Amulet
Will-o'-the-Wisp 4 50 30
Turk 4 52 46
The Amulet was built by Mr. Michael Ratsey, builder, of
this port.
The roads and harbour are a forest of masts ; the parade
crowded with rank and fashion.
To-night a grand display of fireworks; to morrow the Royal
Yacht Squadron annual dinner.
On Wednesday the schooner yachts sail for a Cup of .501.
On Friday the second (and last this season) Royal Yacht
Squadron ball.

On Saturday the yachts from 45 to 55 tons will sail for a
Cup of 50/.

THE LATE MR. LAWLESS A PRO-

TESTANT!

A letter appeared in Friday evening's Standard, copied
from the Dublin Record, under the signature of " G. W. R."
This letter stated, or at least would wish to have it in-
ferred, that Mr. Lawless died a Protestant. This was not
the fact ; but such was the unexpectedness of Mr. Law-
less',; demise, that the necessary consolations of his own
religion could not be procured before the sad event took
place. If, however, this was not the case, and there had
been time for the procurement of such consolations ; but
more particularly if the writer of that letter was so anxious,
as he appears to have been, that Mr. Lawless should die a
recreant from the faith in which he lived, why did this zeal-
ous individual, in the teeth of the injunctions of his own
creed, neglect to procure the attendance of a Protestant
clergyman ? But the whole thing is a flimsy pretence :
the object of the narrow-minded writer is obvious—it is
evidently to wound the feelings of the surviving relations
and friends of the deceased—hut it is frustrated by its own
malignity. Then, this writer chucklingly says, that Orange-
men closed his eyes : this may possibly he the fact, for Mr.
Lawless was a universal favourite with all, Orangemen as
well as Catholics—parsons as well as priests. But
I wonder the sapient writer did not say that Mr. Law-
less died an Orangeman ! This would have been quite
as fair an inference as that he died a Protestant,
because the attendance of one of his own clergymen
could not be procured. The fact was, Mr. Lawless'
friends were under the impression that he was in Bath on a
visit to Mr. Roebuck, he having stated his intention of
proceeding thither. Indeed, so convinced were his friends
of his absence, that the Rev. Mr. Dowling, an intimate
friend of the deceased, and who was greatly attached to
him, and who had just arrived from the Continent, did not
call at his lodgings, but awaited his supposed return from
Bath. Immediately, however, on receivinc, the totally un-
expected information of Mr. Lawless' death, Mr. Dowling
repaired to the lodgings of the deceased, and offered up
over the body the prayers suitable to such a melancholy oc-
casion. The above-mentioned will, it is hoped, sufficiently
account for the want of religious consolations which the la-
mented individual experienced on his death-bed, and which
seems to serve " G. W. R." as a handle for aspersing Mr.
Lawless' friends, and wounding their feelings.
It may be added that the funeral service was performed
by a zealous Catholic, the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Spencer,
which, with other circumstances, tends to show that no
such recreancy was committed by Mr. Lawless as that of
repudiating the faith in defence of which he exerted his ta-
lented energies through a long and a well-spent life.

J. J. D.

Lord Morpeth has been on a visit at Holkar Hall
to his friend the Earl of Burlington.
SURREY THEATRE,—A new drama was produced
at this theatre last night, and was, deservedly, so successful
as to be announced for repetition every evening till further
notice. It is, somewhat vaguely, entitled The Law of the
Land, or Landon in the Last Century ; and has for its
groundwork the fate of Dr. Dodd, but the details of the
piece have the least possible connection with the circum-
stances of that melancholy event. The general sombreness
of the piece is enlivened by several very amusing scenes and
characters. Nym Nabs, a gentlemanly highwayman, is a
personage most pleasantly imagined, and done full justice to
by Mr. R. Flonner. Davidge himself is exceedingly enter-
taining in Sir Peregrine Platitude. Miss Martin is a very
lively lady's maid, and subsequent milliner ; and Mr.
W. Smith, as Solomon Snail, a special constable, con-
soles us, as much as we can well be consoled, for the ab-
sence of " Glorious John." Mr. Cooper, who, it appears,
has been expressly engaged to represent Abel Dodsworth,
does ample credit to the selection ; and he is effectively
sueported in the serious parts by Mrs. R. Ilonner and Mr.
Lyon. A pleasant idea of introducing Dr. Johnson and
Fielding as actors in the scene gave a sort of personal inte-
r:!st to the thing, and answered quite as well as could be ex-
pected. The attention to costume, &c., is exceedingly cre-
ditable, and there is but little doubt but the piece will have
a long run. The house was crowded in every part.
Yesterday afternoon an inquisition was taken before
Mr. Stirling, at the Elephant and Castle, King's-road, St.
Pancras, on view of the body of a fine young girl, unknown,
about fourteen years of age, who was found in the Regent's
Canal, near the Hampstead-road, under the following cir-
cumstances :—Thomas Barnet, a bargeman, said that on
Friday evening, about seven o'clock, he was entering Hawly-
lock, near the bridge in the Hampstead-road, which passes
across the Regent Canal, when Williams, the lock-keeper,
directed his attention to the deceased, who was in the water.
He took the body out with a hitcher, and placed it on a
barge ; a man by his side recognised her as the girl that he
gave some victuals to on Wednesday last, on the Hamp-
stead-road. She was of full face and tall, and appeared
about fourteen years of age. She had no shawl nor bonnet.
A policeman took possession of the body. There were no
marks of violence.—Anne Barry, a fruitwoman, deposed
that, on Wednesday last, the deceased was on the bridge;
witness seeing her in trouble spoke to her, when she ob-
served, that if she had a halfpenny she would have some of
witness's gooseberries, since she had not had anything to
eat for two days, and during the last two nights she had
been wandering about the streets. Witness said that. she
could not afford to give much, but she would give her a
penny to buy a loaf with. The deceased had half of it, and
eat most ravenously. She appeared a tidy modest girl, and
stated that she had been turned away from home by her
uncle and aunt. She had no father nor mother ; her uncle
and aunt lived somewhere in Lambeth. Some man hear-
ing that she was starved, gave her some meat he had in his
hand for his dinner. Witness told her that if she would
call the next day, she would get a place in some respect-
able family. She had on laced boots, a brown stuff bon-
net, and a whittle. Verdict—" Found drowned."

The high encomium bestowed by Lord F. Egerton
on the electioneering influence of the females of South Lan-
eaThire, and the compliments paid by a Mr. Atkinson to the
jovial Conservative zeal of the gin•drinking wolien of Sal-
ford, appear to have been no more than they merit. Female
Conservative politicians are on the increase, and it behoves
the Reformers to be incessantly on the look-out as to their
movements. During the past week the wives of the Oldham
operative Conservatives—or as one of our local political
stars designates them—journeymen Tories, have been de-
monstrating their love for the Tory cause by taking tea,
drinking drams of liquor, and dancing to the loyal strains o
the church vocalists, on Tuesday evening, at the Shakspe
Inn, Glodwick. The prospects of the Oldham oper:it:
Conservatives are at a low ebb when it becomes nece:sa

to call in the aid of dram-drinking females.—. 2 anchesie
Times.

Tile splendid scenery of the Isle of %Vight is dtaw-
ing a vast concourse of visitors this season. Since the esta-
bhlnent of steam-boats to the island—from Portsmouth
four times a day, from Lymington three times, and from
Southampton three times, at a moderate charge—the visi-
tors have doubled. Persons who have S,.vitzerland
declare that the beauty of the Islard exceeds, in miwy
parts, all that they ever saw. On Wedn,!sday last three
fine lads were bathing in Sand Down Fort, when, v:mtu-
ring too fir into the sea, two of them, named Arnold and
Plomer, were drowned. The-parents were in a state of
distraction.