The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-19 00:00:00

FOOT RACE OF ONE HUNDRED YARDS.

A running match of one hundred yards, for 51., took place
on Tuesday afternoon, in the Vauxhall Bridge-road, between
young Sharpe (a pupil of Townsend's) and a youth named
Hodges. After three false starts Sharpe took the lead, which
be maintained nearly half the distance, the other then sprung
by him, ran along half-a-yard in advance a few more paces,
and ultimately won by more than a yard and a half.

STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT IN THE SOLWAY.--
The body of Captain Gilby, of the 81st Regiment, who
was drowned by the upsetting of a boat against the steamer,
was found on Tuesday on a bank near the mouth of the
\Vampool. Several gentlemen, on being informed, con-
veyed the body to Cardurnock, when an inquest was held
on the same day before Mr. Carrick, Coroner, and a verdict
of " Found drowned" was returned. The left arm of the

lamented officer was found broken above the elbow. The
body was much decomposed, which circumstance, owing to
the great distance at which his relatives reside from the
place, rendered it impossible for them to attend the funeral.
After the inquest Lieut. Howe went down to Cardurnock,
and had the body removed to Carlisle. The remains of
this deplored and highly-respectable officer were committed
to the grave on Thursday afternoon, with military honours,
by the depot of the 81st Regiment, in the churchyard of
St. Mary, Carlisle. The body was met at the church gates
by the very Rev. the Dean of Carlisle, the Rev. Mr.
Ward, chaplain to the garrison, and by the Rev. Mr. Rees,
Minister of St. Mary's. The Mayor of Carlisle, Mr.
Joseph Ferguson, and Mr. W. Nanson, Town-Clerk, fol-
lowed the corpse. It need scarcely be added how deeply
the loss of so estimable an officer is felt by his relatives,
whose memories can never forget his cheerful temper and
his truly honourable and benevolent mind.
TIIE NEW REGISTRATION ACT.—The October
number of the " Christian Observer" contains the following
remarks on the Leeds registration case. This publication
is known to be the organ of the Evangelical Church
party, and, of course, it would view the conduct of a
clergyman with all favour. After remarking that " the Re-
gistration Act presses unjustifiably on the clergy, the Rev.
Editor proceeds as follows :—"At the same time there can
be no doubt that they arc bound, both legally and for con-
science' sake, to obey the requisition till it is repealed or
modified, which we trust it will be ; and we regretted to see,
in a recent case brought before the magistrates, that a
clergyman had sent in a certificate, purporting only that he
he had buried a dead body ;' also another, and a-third, and
so forth. An Act of Parliament ought not to be treated thus
by men who acknowledge the obligations of subjects to obey
lawful authority in all things not sinful, If a clergyman
has any doubt whether the corpse is that of the person spe-
cified, he ought not to enter that name in his own
registry ; but if he enters it there (and this the Rev. R.
Taylor did), what moral reason can there be why he should
not send in the name, as well as the mere fact of a burial,
to the registrar ? If he doubts whether he is warranted in
recording what he is only informed of, but does not know
of his own knowledge—though' he does this in his own
register of baptisms, marriages, and deaths---he might try
whether a general notice would be allowed, that the corpse
was stated to be that of so and so, and that he had no
reason to believe otherwise -; but to write merely a dead
body' is too like ridiculing the statute. In the case alluded
to, the magistrates fined the clergyman, and the decision is
appealed from ; but the proceeding which gave rise to the
discussion was rather vexatious than calm and wise. The
clergy ought, by their prompt obedience, to show the legis-
lature that they respect even a distasteful law, if it does not
enjoin an immoral act ; and this would be a more likely
step to procure its repeal than to offer a factious opposition to

At the late meeting of the Brighton Board of
Guardians, the following Resolution was passed :--" That
the Governor be ordered to have a joint of meat ready by
three o'clock for the refreshmeM, ct the Board of Guar-
dians and Directors !"