The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-17 00:00:00

AQUATICS..

ROWING MATCII.—The double-scull wager for two silver
cups, given by tubseriptior, to be rowed for by landsmen, took
place yesterday, and drew a very large attendance of the ad-
mirers of this sport. The weather was unusually fine, but
rather too chilly for the as who had no labour to do in a boat ;
but fur those who were working it was just " comme it fact."
The contest was with 16 pairs of sculls, two pairs in each
wherry, and in three heats. The following started at two
o'clock for the first heat, to start from buoys moored off Tom
Chandler's, up round a boat moored off the Spread Eagle,
back down the Middlesex shore, round a boat moored off Tom
Chandler's, up to the beacon, and back to the starting place.
Messrs. Baker and Williams, black; Messrs. Viicarry and
Stewart, white ; Powel and Husley, green ; and Vowels and
Lane, blue. Green and blue were the winners of this heat.
The following were immediately afterwards started for the
second heat :—Purselow and Doughty, brown ; King and
Green, pink ; Goddard and Tayleure, yellow ; Fitzgerald and
Griffiths, red. Red was first, pink second. At starting for
the grand heat, red took the lead, closely followed by green
and blue ; the two latter, however, immediately began fouling,
and the leading men went right away; they rowed beautifully,
and green, the crack pair, succeeded in passing the second
boat, but the others were too good for them. Red came in
first, green second, blue third, and pink fourth. It was won
by upnards of 100 yards.

Gunton Park, Norfolk, the magnificent seat of Lord
Suffield, has been the scene of great gaiety during the last
fortnight.
REMEDIES SUGGESTED BY M. EWART.—In
the most extensive constituencies the suffrages have been
most purely given, and the contests have been the least
expensive. One principle, therefore, of renovated Reform
ought to be an increase of the number of the voters. But
it is not :41'ncient to increase their general number. The
inequality of the numbers in the different constituencies is
a main source of the evil. A redistribution of the repre-
sentation—so that 300 ignorant voters, or a few country
squires and clergymen, or a single powerful lord, or one old
lady, shall not return as many members as 10,000 enlight-
ened electors—a redistribution of the constituent bodies is
indispensable. There ought to be a periodical revision
and reproportionrnent of the constituencies. Shall we be
scared by the presumed difficulty of such an undertaking ?
The people of Norway, with appliances and means far in-
ferior to owe: have successfully carried this principle into
execution for centuries. At all events, how easy it were
every ten years, that the census of the population is taken,
to make such a redistribution of the franchise as the al-
tered circumstances of the country testify, by figures and
facts, to be required.—Pamphlet on Reform,
LEITH AND EDINBURGH RAILWAY.—This un-
dertaking is now fairly begun, and some progress has been
made in the cutting and embanking necessary for the work.
The soil hitherto cut through is a fine soft sand, and has
consequently presented no extraordinary difficulties to the
operations of the engineer.—Edinburgh Courant.
Sir W. Crighton was among the passengers to Ant-
werp oa Sunday in the General Steam Navigation Com-
pany's steam-ship, the City of Hamburgh.