The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-12 00:00:00

AQUA TICS.

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SKIFF RACE FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF

THE CLYDE.

The great skiff race for £2OO and the championship of the
Clyde, which has been looked forward to for some time past
with considerable interest by those patronising aquatics,
took place on the Clyde on Tuesday morning, the competi-
tors being Robert Campbell and Duncan Cameron, both of
Glasgow. About four months ago Cameron challenged
Campbell, through Bell's Life, to pull him for £2OO and the
championship of the Clyde, a challenge which was promptly
accepted by Campbell, who at that moment occupied the
proud position of " champion of Scottish rowers." The race
was fixed to come off on the Ist of May last. Cur readers
may remember, however, that owing to the ill-health of
Cameron, or from some other cause, he did not compete
(though he put in an appearance), Campbell walking over
the course. After some misunderstanding, it was finally

agreed that the race should be run on the 10th June,
Mr. J. B. secretary to the Glasgow Regatta Club,
being named referee by Bell's Life. Accordingly on Tues-
day morning, shortly after eight o'clock, the steamers
Cardiff Castle and Craignish Castle, which had been
chartered by the supporters of Campbell and Cameron,
respectively, to convey the public to the scene of contest
for the purpose of witnessing the race, left the Steamboat
Wharf with a goodly number of passengers. On arriving
at the Course, which was from Garmoyle Lightship to the
Dyko nearly opposite Dunglass, a distance of about four
miles, very little time was lost in preparation. The men
stepped into their tiny craft, and without much preliminary
paddling, at once took their positions—Cameron to the
south and Campbell to the north. At this moment the bet-
ting in the Cardiff Castle, which a day or two before had
been 6 to 4 on Campbell in town, was 5 to 4 on Campbell.
On board the Craignish Castle the betting was even, with,
in some cases, Cameron for choice. Odds were scarcely to be
got. Looking at the men, the appearance of Campbell was
most trustworthy, though a number were very sanguine
about Cameron ; and both were loudly cheered and encou-
raged by their respective supporters. All things being
ready, the signal gun was fired, and the start made. It
was one as fair and clean as we have ever seen. If there
'as any advantage it was possessed by Cameron who, how-
ever,
proved himself quite unable to retain it. After the
first few strokes Campbell quietly crept away from Came-
-1
ron, though the latter exerted himself nobly.
Though the excitement was great for the first half mile
of the race, it soon subsided, it being evident that
Campbell was the better man, as he managed not only to
pass Cameron, but to keep a head of him with comparative
ease. When opposite Dumbarton Castle Campbell was fully
a boat length in advance of Cameron, and from that point
he increased his distance regularly and steadily, till it
reached about 10 boat lengths. This space between him
and his antagonist Campbell kept up till within 100 yards
of the goal, when he proved himself to be quite fresh and
lively by putting on a spurt, which increased his distance
from Cameron to 13 or 14 lengths, at which he came in
victor, in beautiful style, amid the loud cheers of a large
number of spectators. Cameron seemed pretty much ex-
hausted when the race was over. Although great interest
was felt in the result of the race, the amount of money
that changed hands on the event did not seem to be very
large, as the conviction was generally prevalent that Camp-
bell was the man to claim the stakes.

The race, of four miles, was run in 21 minutes 47 se-
conds, Campbell, the now " Champion of the Clyde," is
36, while his opponent is only 24 years of age. The stakes
will be paid on Tuesday next by the Editor of Bell's Lye,
On arrival at the Broomielaw, a large concourse of people
had assembled at the Steamboat Wharf to learn the result
and cheer the victor.—North Bratsk Mail.

THE VOYAGE OF THE GREAT EASTERN.—This
vessel has just finished another successful voyage from New
York to Liverpool, at which port she arrived yesterday
morning, after a detention of nine hours outside the bar
for want of water. She left New York on the morning of
the Ist June, and so great was the desire of shippers to
send their produce by this vessel, that upwards of £l,OOO
worth of freight was left behind. The big ship brings 500
passengers, 56,000 dole. in specie, and upwards of 6,000
tons of cargo—consisting principally of wheat, corn, and
provisions. While lying at New York the Great Eastern
was opened for a few days for exhibition, and upwards of
3,000 people daily visited the vessel. On the voyage to
Liverpool the ship encountered very severe head, winds, yet
so steady was her motion that the doctor had a clean "bill
of health" all the way, and the passengers, instead of being
"inconvenienced" by maladre du men spent a very jolly
time of it in concerts, balls, hurdle races on decks, &c. The
night previous to the vessel entering the Mersey a grand
ball was given in honour of the birthday of Mrs. Walter
Paton, the captain's wife. The passengers are loud in_
a sailor.
their praise of Captain Paton's conduct as a
gentleman and

JAPAN AT EPSOM.

(From Punch.)

(From Take-No-OuiAi-Skimod-Zuke-No-Kami, &c. &c.,
Japanese Envoy Extraordinary, to the Head Daimio of
the Department for Correspondence touching the Barka-

rians. Nagasaki.)

"Truly these English Barbarians are a wonderful people.
We hair° already seen the houses and feasts of their Dairaios,
their Parliament, or national talkingshouse, their great
Exhibition, their Woolwich, their wax works, their garden
of wild animals, their coal-pits, and their manufactories,
and we are indeed very weary, and long much for the time
when we shall return to our beloved Japan. But we had
not yet seen the strangest of all the strange sights here—
what may indeed be called the day of the going forth of the
people of London—the feast of Dar-bee.
"Dar-bee is the name of one of the Great Daimios, the
chief of the party opposed to the present Tycoon Par-mer-
stoon. But how this feast comes to be called not after the
name of the reigning Tycoon, but of him who is now plot-
ting to get his place and his power from him, we, your
humble slaves, cannot explain. But it is the opinion of
Matsadaira Iwaime, a man of sagacity and learning, that
the feast is in honour of an ancestor of the living Daimie
Dar-bee, who, according to the religion of the barbarians
being worshipped under the symbol of a horse, is reverenced
with processions and races of horses, such as we yesterday
beheld. The living Daimio Dar-bee much loves horses,
and races of horses, as we are told by our attendant Mac-
donald.
" All the Barbarians in their chief town of London are
compelled to celebrate this festival, which is held at a place
called Ep-sum, seven li distant from the capital, situated
among hills, and approached by many high roads. Those
who cannot buy or hire a horse to carry or draw them
thither, are compelled to go on foot, and all the inhabitants
of London assemble on the hills of Ep-sum, overlooking a
smooth space of green turf, which is an enclosure sacred to
the great ancestor Dar-bee, and is guarded by police-men
in blue garments. Even the great Tycoon Par. mer-stoon
himself is compelled to take part in these rites, and the
Councils of the Nation are closed, and all the Daimios and
Counsellors, and all their servants, may go with the Tycoon
to the feast of the great ancestor Dar•bee.
"We journeyed in two norimons, drawn each by four
horses, wishing to show our respect for the religion of the
Barbarians. For all the seven li the road was full of car-
riages and horses carryingthem that journeyed to the feast.
They recited loud prayers and sang odes to the ancestor,
and played on musical Instruments, like to the straight
horns used by the sellers of fried fish in Japan, as they
moved along in procession. For all the seven li these wor-
shippers showed us much respect, liftinguptheir fore-finger
to the nose, andextending the other fingers outwards, which
is their greeting of honour in public, and calling out
leo, keel' meaning,' Oh, beautiful and wonderful 1' They
also expressed aloud their admiration of our persons and our
garments. Our hats, which I and Matsadaira Iwaime
wore because of the sun, which shone this day—a circum-
stance not frequent in the country of England—Were much
praised, and many (as interpreted to us by Macdonald)
asked at what place such hats could be purchased (in the
Barbarian language 000-is-your-hatter r) I bade him
(Macdonald) tell these inquiring Barbarians the name of
the merchant in the Street of Hatters at Nagasaki, of
whom we purchased our travelling supply of hats, and
when I see the Daimio Rus-sool, I shall propose to him the
opening of a trade in these hats, which the Barbarians so
much admire. This will give exceeding satisfaction to the
Barbarians, spread our manufactures, and cause great gain
to the hat-makers of Japan. Also, observing us to use our
nose-papers. many asked us if we had sufficient thereof—
the words being in their language, How-are-yer-off-for-
pa-per I' the meaning of which words Macdonald taught
u's, telling us to answer in the Barbarian tongue, ' You-
bee-blode I' which means, Thanks be unto you, 0 people,
we have sufficient for our needs.' The Barbarian tongue,
as your serenity will perceive, is brief, and a few words
mean much.

" On their way to this feast the crowd stopped at certain
small temples by the wayside called turn-pike,' where
invocations were uttered in a loud voice, and small pieces
of coin given to, the priests, doubtless in payment for
prayers, or for propitiation of the great ancestor DAR-DEE.
At other temples by the way-side meat and drink offer-
ings were made by the Barbarians. Also priests in ragged
mourning garments, with dust upon their heads, and bare-
footed, ran by the way-side, with prayers inscribed on
papers whieh they offered to the people for money. Of
these prayer-papers we have bought some for deposit in the
archives of the department for Correspondence with Bar-
barians.

" When we came to the place where a seat of honour was
prepared for us, we saw that all the Barbarians of London were
indeed here assembled. The crowd was as the crowd of flies
about the honey-pots in the market of Nuku Haima, and the
shouting as the roar of many waters, and the horses and the
carriages more than could be counted. And we saw the
Tycoon, Par-mer• stoon, in common garments like other men,
with many counsellors of the Mikado and Daimios, and all the
Parliament of the nation, in an enclosed place, below where we
sat, and many of them had little books in their hands, and they
stood in a ring, and wrote in their books, and uttered invo-
cations in a loud voice, sounding like ' I—lay—five—to—
one," Six to nine—on—Buckstone."
which we believe to have been prayers or religious exclama-
tions, but they were not clearly explained to us, as indeed
one interpreter was not sufficient for the many strange
sights we saw that day.
" After awhile, all the people gathered in two rows, with

an open green space between them, and a dog was let loose,
and the people shouted as if devoting him to the evil powers,

to which inde d we believe the unclean animal to have
been offered as a sacrifice. Then came forth horses of ex-
ceeding height, but more thin than storks or flamingoes,
with men on their backs in bright garments, and the people
shouted, and the horses galloped up and down like the
wind, more and and more joining them, till at last they
all disappeared round the hill in front of us, and by the aid
of the glasses which make far-off things near, we saw
them a mile and a half away. Then of a sudden we heard
a bell, and a loud shouting, and the crowd swayed to and
fro, and we felt our heads go round by reason of the cry-
ing and the multitude, and in two moments after the bell,
we heard a great roaring and a great sound of horses' feet,
and behold something rushed before us, but whether it
was horses or men, or soldiers, or railway carriages, we
knew not, and then the people poured into the green space
which they had abstained from till now, and we were told
the feast of Dar-bee was over, and there arose a noise as of
pistols, and our hearts turned to water, but Macdonald told
us to be of good courage, for it was the corks of the whole-
some medicinal drink called by the Barbarians ' sham pain,'
of which we have often drunk, for it is good for the stomach
in this country. Then all the multude took food, and the
means of spreading it out before them from their carriages,
and drink, and began eating and drinking much in honour
of ' Dar-bee,' for this is a part of the festival which must on
no account be omitted. '

" We are told that many Daimios give thousands of taels
at this festival to the priests of Dar -bee, who tend and do
honour to the sacred horses, who are kept for this curious
festival, and that there are many Daimios who keep sacred
horses for the feast, such as we had seen, tall and strong
and exceeding thin, and men in bright garments to ride
upon their backs. But all these things are a mystery to us,
and our heads still ache with all we saw and heard that day,
though we took many bottles of the Barbarian medicine
'sham pain' to cool us, and give strength to our bodies.
" Why all the Daimios and the people of all ranks down
to the lowest coolies flock to the festival, unless it be that it
is enjoined by religion, we cannot tell. The way of seven
li is very sore to travel for heat and dust and crowd, and
Matsadaira Iwaime thinks it is a journey of penance, laid
upon the Barbarians by their priests, and I agree that
this is probable, though Macdonald. when we asked, said it
was sport,' a word meaning play' or ' pleasure.' But how
there can be play or ' pleasure' in suspending the Councils
of the Nation and the business of the capital, and journey-
ing seven li, through heat and dust and crowds, to see many
tall and thin horses galloping madly for two moments like-
railway engines that have run away, and in paying many
thousand taels to the priests of the horses, neither I nor
Matsadaira Iwiame can understand. We believe there is
some meaning in this which the Tycoon does not wish us
to fathom. Indeed there are many things just as difficult
of comprehension, about which these barbarians clearly
wish to keep us in the dark. When we inquire, they give
us reasons which would not satisfy children, much more
men of statecraft and learning.

" Of all their strange things, certainly, the feast of ' Dar-
bee' is the most strange. What passed on our road home
is little known to me. The medicine ' sham-pain,' among
other qualities causeth sleep to descend on the eyes, and I
think I slept, for when I next remember, I was in my bed
in the Yamun of Claridge, and my head ached exceedingly
by reason of the much thought I had given to the strange
things of this day."

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THE FLOOD IN THE FENS.

LYNN. WEDNESDAY.

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Whatever' grounds there may have been in the
past for the many complaints that have beZql made
of the tardy manner in which it is said the w 011-0
for the stoppage of the tidal waters have been car.,
ried out, one thing is certain, that the most enerd
getic efforts have been made during the last four
days, under the direction of Messrs.Hawkshaw and
Lynn, the engineers. Since Saturday, from 800 to
1,000 men have been employed, and since Monday
morning down to Tuesday there had been dropped
no less than about 75 panels into their places, or
more than 24 feet in height of panelling. On that
afternoon it was determined that the attempt
should be made to complete the coffer-dam suffi-
ciently to stop the water. The fourth row of
panels were dropped on the flood tide, and the tidal
waters were actually stopped. Of course the
stoppage caused an accumulation of water on the
outer or sea side of the dam, on which side alone
there were 24 feet of panels above the soil. The
" head" of waters, as it is called, was very swell
there being only a difference of about seven feet is
the height of the water on the two sides of the dam,
whilst from the inside of the dam the loose earth
had been washed away by the force of the scour.
The greatest satisfaction was experienced at the
apparent victory which had been achieved by the
art of men over their powerful antagonist, nnd
messengers were at once dispatched to Lynn with
the welcome intelligence. Alas, that the grail&
cation which was felt should be so short-lived. The
panels were dropped in at about half-past four
o'clock, and by half-past five o'clock it became pain-
fully apparent to all that the dam had burst, frogs
the boiling seething waters on the upper side of the
dam. The full force of the facts suggested them-
selves at once to the engineers, viz., that the panels
had been undermined, and the water was scouring
beneath; and the transition from cheerfulness to
gloom was rapidly apparent in the countenances of
the managing men, who, without doubt, realised
the disastrous results of this failure just at the
moment when success was being rejoiced at. It was;
quite a study to look at the long faces which the en-
gineers pulled, as the dam has gone just at the point
the weakness of which we have previously called
attention to. It was found to be necessary to take up
three rows of the panels, otherwise it was feared that
the whole dam would be carried away. As soon a 0
this was done, the water again rushed up the cut with
considerable force. A portion of the gallows frame
was broken down by the lifting of the panels. As
soon as the water got at the highest point, at flood
time, some divers were sent down to ascertain the
extent of the damage, which was variously esti-
mated. The divers found that one of the panels waS
completely shattered, whilst a number of others
were doubled up into strange fantastic shapes. Two
or three of the principal piles were also broken, and
the bottom of the cut was scoured to a great depth.
For the last few days there has been about 2,000
sacks of earth per day thrown into the drain on the
upper side of the dam, but the divers found that on
one side of it, they were all washed away. Of all
that had been deposited none remained.
It is greatly to be feared that the chapter of ca.
tastrophes in connexion with the unfortunate inun
dation is not over. The tides will be at their highest
on Friday morning.

COUN2BY 111ARKE25.

...... 4.
LYNN-TUESDAY.

A moderate show of wheat to-day, for which the demand,
was pretty fair, and taken at fully last week's rates. The
barley season is nearly over, and the few samples offered
were at no more money. Oats scarce, and little changed in
value. Beans ruled at late rates.
New white .. 57s to 58s Barley, 3os to 32e
Red .. s2s to 54s Oats .22s to 2Ge
Beans .4os to 44s j Peas 44s to 480

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE —TUESDAY.
At to-day's market there was a good inquiry for wheat
of all descriptions, and prices were rather improved upon
last week. Oats keep firm. Barley steady. Flour had it
slow sale,