The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-05 00:00:00

AQUATICS.

A match having been made at Mr. Hazlewood's, the
Ship Tavern, Fore-street, Lambeth, between the celebrated
Bob Bain and E. Hazlewood, a novice, against W. Hazle-
wood and R. Clayton, a veteran, for a spread for twelve
and a couple of dozen of champagne (to row from Lambeth
New-bridge to Chelsea New-bridge), it was to come off
yesterday ; but, in the absence of the latter crew, Messrs.
Bain and Hazlewood rowed over the course, claiming the
match. We trust a fresh match may be made at the supper,
so as to test the prowess of the noncombatants, who, we
feel inclined to think, will have their physical powers
thoroughly tested. We should observe that the winners
rowed in the identical boat rowed in by Cole and Eagers
in their celebrated match against Drewett and Shepherd,
built by Mr. Wyld, of Lambeth.

BANK OF ENGLAND.

An Account, pursuant to t:
cap. 32, for the week ending
of Sept., 1862:

she Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
on Wednesday, the 3d day

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
Notes issued ........£31,661,716 Government Debt £11,015,1C0
Other Securities .. 3,634,000
Gold Coin & Bullion 17,011,715
Silver Bullion

131,661,7151
BANKING DEPARTMENT.
Proprietors' Cap!. Government Seen-
tal £14,553,000 rities (including
Rest
Public Deposits (in- nuity) £11,069,942
cluding Exche- Other Securities 19,641,806
quer, Savings' Notes
Banks, Commis- Gold and Silver 813,505
missioners of Na- Coln

£31,661,715

tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-
counts) 7,671.934
Other Deposits 14,973,470
Seven Day and
other Bills i39,623

£41,677,673
W.
Sept. 4, 1862.

X 41,677,673
MILLER, Deputy Cashier.

The Solferino iron•cased frigate has commenced
h®r trial trips at Lorient.

An artilleryman named Durand, in garrison at
Douai, who returned to his barracks, two nights since,
somewhat affected by drinking, fell from the window of his
room into the court, and was so much injured that he died
during the night.

The Tribunal of Correctional Police of Moulins,
recently gave judgment in a charge preferred against a
notary of Montet, named Michel, lately a candidate for the
council of arrondissement, on a charge of having distri-
buted electoral bulletins bearing his name, without having
previously obtained the necessary authorisation. M.
Michel being acquitted, a new trial was moved for, and
took place at the Court of Riom, which confirmed the deci-
sion of the lower jurisdiction. An appeal was then made
to the Court of Cessation, which ordered the case to be
again tried before the Court of Bourges. This third trial
has just come on, and has resulted in the confirmation of
the judgments of the Courts of Moulins and Riom.

The Steele relates the following act of religious
intolerance :—A short time since, an old man, aged 7d,
named Dennebeck, who had gone from his house on some
business to the neighbouring town of Mouy (Oise), stopped
rather late at a public•house, and the night being dark, fell
into the river Cherin, along the bank of which he had to
pass, and was drowned. The cure of the parish attributed
his death to suicide, and in spite of the remonstrances of
his family, of the juge de pais, the commissary of police,
and other functionaries, who clearly established that the
death was purely accidental, refused Christian burial to the
body.

The Court of Assizes of the Seine-et-Oise has just
tried a man named Joubert, a labourer. rharer,
slaughter committed on the person of another labourer,
named Cateau, at Noisy-le-Grand, on the 30th July. It ap-
peared from the evidence that the prisoner and his victim
had been drinking together, and that when both were rather
excited by what they had taken, the prisoner asked Catean
to give him a blouse and waistcoat, which the latter carried
in a bundle, as a security for 10f. which he had lent him.
On receiving a refusal, Cateau attempted to take the bun-
dle, and in the quarrel which ensued the prisoner stabbed
him in the abdomen with his pocket knife, inflicting a
wound which caused the man's death two days afterwards.
The prisoner declared that he had used the knife under
great provocation and in self-defence, and the jury, believ-
ing this to be true, brought in a verdict of not guilty. The
prisoner was accordingly set at liberty.
A widow, named Chatenet, was tried two days
since by the Court of Assizes of the Charente on a charge
of murdering her newly born infant. The body was found
concealed in an outbuilding with the head nearly severed
from the body. The prisoner admitted that the murdered
child was hers, but asserted that it had been killed by its
father, a farm servant, living in a village three leagues dis-
tant. This, however, was proved to be false by the young
man's employer, who proved that ho was at home when the
crime must have been committed. The jury having found
the prisoner guilty, the Court sentenced her to 20 years'
hard labour.

THE POTATO DlSEASE.—Complaints are made
that potato disease has reappeared in West Suffolk, and in
the neighbourhood of Newmarket. The disease is at pre-
sent only very partial, and it is considered that the crop
generally presents an improvement upon last year, the
tendency since the disastrous year 1845 having been
towards a gradual although rather irregular amelioration.

The Press of Vienna says that at Dornbirn, in
the Voralberg, a vise is now to be seen bearing no less
than 1,906 bunches of grapes.

A great festival for the conclusion of the harvest
has just been held at Munich. Mass was performed in the
Church of Notre Dame, and followed by a procession. The
crop in Bavaria has been one of the most abundant known.

An explosion of fire• damp took place three days
ago in a ceal mine at Elouges, in Belgium, not far from
the French frontier. A considerable part of the sides of
the pit fell at the same time and buried from 15 to 20
workmen beneath the fallen mass. Prompt measures were
adopted for their release, but up to the present time no
account of the result has been received.

The inauguration of the section of the Toulon
and Nice railway from the former town to Arcs, noir
Draguignan, has just taken place.
The Emperor yesterday received a letter fromthe
sty
Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, announcing to his
2,feinjaecu
the death of Duke Bernard of Saxe-Weimar-PI-i-nnin;
The Court will go into mourning three days,
from to-day. The Emperor also received a I t'-
wbfregorn the
e the Princess
- aware that in
Grand Duke of Baden, notifying the birth of
Sophie-Marie-Victoire, his daughter.
tolerably
r readers (says
SCARCITY OF GAME.—Most of 00aie
forenoen of the Ist of
the Manchester Guardian) are, no doubt, aware
been
liberty zo infer (if we
former years the game dealers'. shops
arev,:risen very early indeed
well supplied with partridges in Ilia
September, from which we
choose) that somebody mustiroot theni. Whether it is
on that morning in order to
from the want of these ear the scarcity of birds, or
:0; Act, We cannot undertaearly
the operation of the recent
fear the usual supply of par-
)to say, but certainly Otto wanting, So far as we eau
in the usual localities--
had circum-
stance has been sitl,PiesdaY) noon not a single partridge
led in the memory of the
hleaadrnb,euepn teoffyereesdterf:dersi_ovaintiep
oldest
stance perhaps _uket.
habitue of the of
Assizes of the Aube Sitting at
The Court tried a lad named Nicolot 161 y mg
and ,a
dweellairsngohf
oausgee,
Troyes, hasi of setting fire to a barn
on two ch_aerri:is mother was also charged as an accessory
at Vill4cuLia'ct.—lt appears that the woman Nicolot kept a
hef.o.rice.litboeuee at the above•named village, and lived on very
pu°l with her neighbours, whom she accused of spread-
jog scandalous stories about her. The two fires occurred
ill Wry'•
n the Ist and 6th of July last, and on the last occasion
young Nicolot had been seen to run from the premises
where the fire occurred only a few minutes before the alarm
was given. He was accordingly arrested, and confessed
that he had set fire to the buildigs at his mother's instiga-
tion. Ample evidence was soon found to prove the truth of
this confession, and the two prisoners were committed for
trial. In court the boy Nicolot repeated his confession,
which was confirmed by many witnesses. The jury found
both prisoners guilty, with extenuating circumstances
and the Court sentenced the mother to hard labour for life,
the son to 15 years of the same punishment.
As M. a collecting clerk in a house of
business, was yesterday passing along the Rue Mont-
martre, a large dray horse, which was standing by the side
of the foot pavement, seized him by his wrist, and after
lifting him twice in the air, threw him with violence to
the ground. OA lib PVlllg taken up the wrist Wag fouttd to
be brehoht

OXFORDSHIRE AGRICUL7URAL

ASSOCInION.

The annual exhibition of stock in connexion with
the Oxfordshire Agricultural Association was held
at Banbury on WI-dnesday, when prizes eveie
awarded for cattle, horses, sheep, pigs, and imple-
ments. The principal prizes were given by the
Earl of Macclesfield, the Dake of Marlborough, Vis-
count Dillon, J. H. Langston, Esq., M.P., and Col.
North, M.P.

The show of stock was not large, but was ex-
ceedingly good ; and although the weather was as
unfavourable as it could be, the attendance was
considerable.

In addition to these prizes numerous others were
given to servants in husbandry for long and faith-
ful services, and also to shepherds for rearing
lambs, by the Oxford Agricultural Society : and by
the Banbury Agricultural Association, for shep-
herds, labourers, and servants giving evidence of
good and faithful servitude.
In the evening the usual dinner took place at the
Red Lion Hotel, Colonel NORTH, M.P., in the chair.
Among the guests present were—the Hon. J. W.
M.P., Colonel Fane, M.P., Sir Henry
liDeanshlewyO od, the Rev. W. C. Risley, H. Ward, Esq.,
Mayor of Oxford, Colonel Cartwright, M.P., H.
Cowper, Esq., Mayor of Banbury, &c.
After the usual loyal and patriotic toasts, the
awards were read over, and the prizes were dis-
tributed amongst the exhibitors.

"The Members for the counties of Oxford and
enduranceßev. of the
proposedthe b
patienty the
Northampton, the borough of Banbury, and the city
xwf ohr
who
W. S. MIL-
LofEnO, 'r"efwerarsedto
Lancashire people as an instance of the admirable
manner in which our 1 epresentative system worked.
Mr. HENLEY, M.P., regretting he was the oldest
of the members whose health had been proposed,
said it was a great pleasure for a member of Pox-
iiament coming among his friends on such Occasions
as this that all political differences were set aside,
and that social converse was uninterruptedly en-
joyed. We English had every reason to congratu-
late ourselves on the present condition of this
country. We had not read the chapter of liberty
so widely as our Transatlantic brethren; but we
were reaping benefits they did not now possess. We
could not but deplore the sufferings, dire disasters,
and misery at present existing in the new world. We
must hold our hands, however, and trust the suffer-
ings of our own people, from the loss a one source of
supply, cotton, might be alleviated by the supply
being obtained from some other source. It must
be a source of satisfaction that every step had been
taken calculated to mitigate the distress in the
north. Those who recollected the distress of former
years would remember that then the people bore
their privations with fortitude, and that there was
no outbreak until the crisis was over. That showed
that prosperity was harder to bear than adversity.
He congratulated them on the peace reigning in this
country, whilst wars and rumours of wars raged
abroad. The best way to have peace was to pre.
pare for war. (Applause.) It was all nonsense to
suppose that we should stand still unmoved when
we saw an enemy pulling his coat off, with a lot of
guns and swords lying close at hand. It was na-
tural for ns to pull our coats off and double up our
fists under those circumstances. People said it was
disagreeable to "pay the piper," but it was cer-
tainly more pleasant to " pay the piper and have
peace" than pay and fight. (Applause.) He thanked
them very sincerely for drinking his health.
Col. NORTH, M.P., said one of the chief supports
of a member of Parliament, and one of hie chief
comforts, was to know that he was likely to receive
the support of his fellow-countrymen; and not me
of their least gratifications was to meet their consti-
tuents on such an occasion as the present. His
right hon. friend Mr. Henley had alluded to the
distress in the manufacturing districts. He was
afraid he might say he was old enough to have
partaken in the riotous proceedings which occur-
red in the manufacturing districts in 1827-28-
29. He was then stationed with the military
at Manchester, and hardly a day passed with-
out his having to perform the most disagree-
able of duties to an English soldier—being called
out to support the municipal authorities by attack-
ing the populace. Mr. Henley was quite right in
remaraing tnat in those times the least disturbance
in t our social system caused an outbreak on the part
of the people. The accounts now received from the
manufacturing districts, however, showed that the
people bore the greatest privations and suffering
without the least tendency to commit a breach of
the peace ; and he thought they deserved the sym-
pathy and active support of their fellow-country-
men on that account. He hoped and trusted their
sufferings would soon be mitigated.
Colonel FANE, M.P., briefly responded.
Colonel CARTWRIGHT, M.P. for Northampton-
shire, said he and his parliamentary colleagues had
been told they had not done so bad ; and if that was
the case they must have done pretty well. (Hear,
hear.) It had been very truly said that these were
troublous and warlike times. Not very long ago
we had a European war. They could all recollect
how recently the Emperor of Russia wanted to get
rid of the " sick man." That gave rise to one of
the most bloody wars of modern times. Then came
the Indian mutiny, suppressed by the indomitable
courage and vigour of our English soldiers. Then
there were the two Chinese wars, in both of which
we were engaged; and now we were spectators, so to
speak, of one of the most uncivilised civil ware ever
known between two nations, one of Whom seemed
desirous of exterminating the other, whilst that
other was fighting for
independence. In 1851 they
had an Exhibition in which there were shown no
implements of war, as it was peculiarly an Exhibi-
tion of peace. New they had a second Exhibition
in which a person who had previously shown
hydraulic machines, exhibited an article for which
he had received knighthood, as being calculated to
ensure the greatest destruction of life of any similar
invention ever produced—he alluded to Sir W.
Armstrong and the Armstrong gun. We had now
at tb head of the Government a nobleman who
bad passed through all political shades, but whose
policy was nearly approaching the conservative,
and who was Popular because he adopted the gene-
ral policy of
Englishman."
the country, and was " every inch an

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

IRISH NORTH-WESTERN.

The directo;;;;Z:La. ;aa a dividend at the rate of 5 per
cent. per annum on the preference shares, class A. and B,
carrying the balance of £54 to the credit of the next account.

wHITEHAVEN JUNCTION.
At the half-yearly meeting of this company a dividead of
lot, per share, less
income-tax, payable on the 4th of
September, has declared.

WHITEHAVEN AND FURNESS.
At the half-yearly meeting a dividend of ss. per share
(less income-tax) was declared on the original shares of the
company, payable on the 4th of September.