The Sun.
London, England, 1838-07-11 00:00:00

AQUA TICS.

GRAND OARS WAGER—DUKE OF BUCCLECTCH'S SOVEREIGNS•
—This oars wager, which created so much interest, was yesterday
contested in the presence of the leading nobility of this and other
nations ; and with a spirit that does credit to those engaged in it.
The competitors were picked expressly for this occasion, in order
to demonstrate the science of rowing to its fullest extent. The last
heat was a sucession of fouling, and when four pairs are engaged
there are opportunities without any deviation from the watermen's
laid down rules of rowing, of others, than the very best men winn-
ing. The purse was one worth contending for. It contained 60
sovereigns. It was with eight pair of oars in three heats. The
following were the competitors

First Heat.
John Freeman and Thomas Harrison Green.
Thomas Piper, jun., and James Maynard Pink.
Thomas Bvford and William Butler
William Watts and Jacob Hamblin Yellow.
Second Heat.
John Kelly and John Emery
John Phelps and Henry Barrow blue.
James Dodd and J. Castle, jun
J. Harris and J. Bryington Red.
The distance in the two first heats was altered in the third,
which was certainly better adapted for the power of the men. In
the grand heat it has off Montagu House, down round the police
ship off Strand-lane, up round a boat moored off Chandler's, round
another off Hungerford, and finished at the Duke of Buceleuch's.
After a false start, pink, yellow, light blue, and red, went away for
the grand heat. They were together for a moment, then yellow
took the lead, pink was close up, and light blue a good third. The
first pair picked up the second, and the latter passed them. Red
came up, and directly afterwards got alongside of the leading boat.
The fouling was mo, eor less kept up all the way. Phelps and his
partner " picked her up" and went a-head. The two leading boats
forgot they had been engaged so severe.y, and rowed beautifully to
overhaul the hero of Putney, but without avail. Light blue dashed
on and came in first, pink second close up to the others thwart,
and red third. Young Piper behaved, as did his partner, very
well. They might have changed the fortune of the day but never
attempted to take an advantage. The thing was well managed,
and the favourites won.

night
ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE.-011 Saturday
a new opera, intitled Rd of the Fen, was produced at this house with
grcit success. The music, which is of an extremely pleasing cha.
racter, has been tastefully selected and arranged by F. Romer, from a
favourite opera of Kirschner, the German composer. The plot is
sufficiently simple to admit due attention to the music without being
uninteresting. The libretto, which is from the pan of Mr. Mark Leman,
is superior to the generality of English operas, and some of the songs
are remarkable for elegance, which would have produced greater effect
had the singers been of opinion that the words were of the slightest con-
sequence. From this censure we except Miss Rainforth and Mr. Frazer;
the latter sang " A forester's HO is blithe and free" with great spirit,
and obtained a hearty encr. His duet with Miss Rainforth, "My
native land again receive me,'' was excellently executed. The very
pretty song in the first act, " A dewdrop on a summer's night," was also
sung very sweetlyby Miss Rainforth. Mr. Seguin had one or two very
pretty airs. Miss Poole's song, "Oh, love, they say," was pretty, but tame.
The comedy of the opera was admirably sustained by Compton, in the
character of a jolly tinker. The piece, which is likely to have a consi-
derable run, was given out. for repetition by Mr. Baker, amidst the
general applause of a very good house.

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TIIE ROYAL WILLIAM.—We are at length
enabled to announce the departure of this noble specimen of our Liver-
pool steamers, fur Nevi 'Yolk, accompanied by the best wishes of all
clasaes in this great commercial community. The event forms a pro.
mincrit and brilliant epoch in the annals of Liverpool, as well as in the
history of steam navigation. As the Sirius was the representative of
Liverpool capital, so is the,. Royal William of the mechanical skill of the
engineers and shipbuilders wf this port ; and there is every probability
that she will be able to perform her voyage in less time than that in
which it has yet been accomplished.—Live pool Mercury.
A horse-race wa:vy lately annourieed to take place
in a village not a hundreJ miles from Nellstoa. An old Lair tempered
residenter in the neighbourhood, who has recently joined the ranks ur
the Teetotallers, scandalised by a proposal so abhorrent, and perhaps
sti Imore so at the prospect of the benefits which might flow to the
tavern-keepers, posted ou 1112 walls numerous copies of the following :
" Notice.— Aneay perspn, being desposed to give aneay Supnrt, far the
behoufe of the hors rece, thAt is to be run at vanity fair, Contigous to
the city of destruction, upon fridey the '29th Ctnnint, there mite will be
thankrepey rrccir ed, Jan :22th 183 S. N.B. Applay to the Manegers."
___Giasgusu Argus.
CIIARGE OF MURDER.—On Wednesday Wm.
Huselbury was brought to our County Gaol, chargel on the verdict of a
Coroner's Inquisition with the wilful murder of John Machin, by stab-
bing him with a knife, at Dawley, near Wel.ington. The prisoner and
the dec:ased were colliers; anti we are informed that the alleged crime
occurred at a pub iclhouse on Nfonday evening,—which was what the
miners call "sett ing.day" between the multitudinous workmen and
their employers, on which day quarrels and scenes of drunkenness com-
monly prevail. A dispute arose between the parties—a scuffle or
fight ensued; and during the fight, or after it, it is slated that the
prisoner thew out a knife, and plunged it into the !eft arm of his tin.
fortunate antagonist, intl cling a wound of considerable extent, and
dividing the principal artery, which caused such on effusion of blood,
that he expired before medical aid could be procured.—Shr.-wsbtay
Chronicle.

MAD Doc.—The ne;ghbourhood of Roehampton
was thrown into a state of considerable excitement on Friday last. A
large rabid dog, between the greyhound and Luther species, belonging to
some person in Hammersmith, after passing through Fulham and Put_
ney, attacking everything indiscriminately in its cJurse, was purstud to
the grounds of Joseph Nirrington Ridgway, Esq., where, after a severe
contest, with a much admlred Nswfoundland dog, was for a considerable
time lost sight of. lovigorated by this interval of rest, when discovered
it took towards .Barnes,. causing increas; d apprehension. The liue and
cry by this tinit raised had, however, so multiplied his follnwvrs, that he
was for.unately shot before he entered the village. The dog is said to
have bitten its owner severely, and the number of animals in its progross
is very considerable. As part of the chain was attaeheit to its collar, it
had broken away. It is much to be regretted that the numerous occur-
rences of the above kind, more or less fatal in their results, during this
season of the year, should not have given rise to some law compelling,
undo* a heavy penalty, the use of a muzzle for a period of time. If tt.e
animal be pnaerfol, chains are no safeguard, as in this instance.

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The Haymarket company will he stretwthetted next
week, by the powerful ricces•ion cf M 1 r. Macr y, during who,e
engagement Mr. S.,rgeant Ta:fouidk; tragidy o le Athenian Captive IA
to be produced, un !er the immedia'e suoi Rendence of its amiatile and
talented author.
The daughter of a respectable woman, named God-
dard, residing at S,iirley, Dorset, having off,mictl her inother, the, • ,"nt
appro .ched to chastise her, and immediat,ly felt pri 3-1 ale to r ~o-pleetic
pleetic fit (the result of the exeite.nent) and died itumediatelx.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

It has already been made Known to the citizens of Lon-
don by the Lord Mayor, that Lord John Russell was re-
quested by Lord Palmerston to " represent the great in-
convenience experienced by British subjects arriving in
foreign countries without passports, and to express the
hope entertained by the said Lord Palmerston that all
persons intending to go aLwo id will provide tbem-
se!ves with the requisite passports before they leave
the kingdom." Now the meanie gof all this tender-
ness for the comfort of." British subjects" is per-
fectly intelligible to those behind the scenes, and it
is quite wortny of that kind-hearted and exemplary
personage v t makes the complaint through the in-
stromentaliiy V ord John Russell. The " requi-
site" pas ? • no more nor less v.an
passports s tication to Lord Palmerston
himself, or same nt n:., es at the Foreign Office,
for which every " British subject" who is sift
enough to apply for them has to pay into the pocket of the
liberal Viscount himself, or of one or other, or all, of the
said official harpies, the sum of two pounds seven shillings
sterling. No wonder that the public should be so earnestly
recommended to provide themselves with such passports,
nominally for the benefit of those who take them out, but
really for that of Palmerston and Co. This gross impo-
sition upon the country has been denounced for years past ;
but the grievance has never yet been redressed. What
arc Members of Parliament about ? What is Kilkenny
Joseph doing, that he has not raised his croak against
an imposition so palpable ? Have any of his friends a per
tentage nn the plunder? We should not be surprised. But
what " British subjects" have a right to complain of is, that
a tax should thus be levied upon every Englishman or
English woman who dares to exercise his or her acknow-
ledged freedom of purpose in visiting foreign countries—a
tax without authority of Parliament, but levied by virtue
of the arbitrary will and pleasure of a mere jack in office,
receiving a salary from the public, and richly paid for what-
ever official seriices he performs. We demand to know
who it is that pockets the 21. 7s. which Viscount Palmer-
ston thus attempts to extort from the fears of English tra-
vellers ? We have a right to demand that every facility
which can be afforded by the public servants whom we
pay shall be given gratis to the native-born subjects of her
Majesty. We hope that Parliament will not rest until
this extortion be put an end to, and this greedy nuisance
abated. It is monstrous that such frauds should so long
have been practised with impunity.—Times.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

TUESDAY.

CONSPIRACY.-THE QUEEN ON THE PROSECUTION EIF THE
MARQUIS OF DOWNSHIRE V. JOHN FAGNOIT, WILLIAM DALY,
AND JOHN BRYANT.

The defendants were indicted for a conspiracy.
Mr. PHILLIPS stated the case for the prosecution. He sti!cl
the case was one all-important to the noble family concerned
in it. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to detail the
facts of the case. In 1821 the Dowager Marchioness of
Downshire, accompanied by her daughter, Lady Mary Hill,
went abroad, intending to visit Italy. While abroad they took
into their service a person named Reitenhoffer, the principal
in the present conspiracy, as courier. He continued for same
time ia the family, and until the death of Lady Mary Hill,
when he for the first time gave vent to these slanders, which
by the death of the unhappy victim of them admitted no longer
of refutation. He set afloat these slanders; and did all in his
power to make them the subject of conversation in the com-
munity in which they lived. The statements made by
him were contradictory and of various kinds. He first said
that he hart been married to Lady Mary Hill, but he
could neither give the name of the place or the king-
dom where the ceremony took place. He then made
other statements, of the truth of which he could not ad-
duce any evidence, and he thought he was justified in stating
that the whole proceedings were a conspiracy to extort
money from the noble family who had so long been
the benefactors of Reitenboffer. The defendant also claimed
the fortune of Lady Mary Hill, stating that she bad left a will
in his favour. He went, in pursuance of this pretended opi-
nion, to a professional man, and instructed him to file a bill
of discovery. That professional person, however, after some
communication with this Reitenhoffer, suspected what the
real facts of the case were, and he refused to have anything.
to do with the proceeding. At length Mr. Reitenhoffer found
an adventurer in the profession of the law who actually filed
a bill of discovery in the Court of Chancery. Upon the in-
vestigation which took place the whole of the noble members
of the family were examined, and they proved that no will or
any other document whatever had been left by Lady Mary
Hill in any way disposing of her property. The venerable
Marchioness, prior to her decease, bad sworn to the same
effect, and upon her affidavit letters of administration had
been granted to her. The bill of discovery had no
effect, and nothing more was heard of Mr. Reitenhoffer
until a short time since, when the Marquis of Down-
shire received a communication from Reitenhoffer, threatening
to make public the slanders which he had befoce given vent
to. The Marquis took no notice of the communication, but
treated it with contempt. Reitenhoffer was determined not
to let his scheme drop so easily, and he then addressed a
letter to Lord Hillsborough, in which he expressed his
intention to open a shop in a public situation for the purpose
of vending his pamphlets, but hinted at the same time that
the pamphlet was not yet in a shape for publication, and that
its publication might be prevented by means which the Jury
were no doubt well aware of. Having .failed in extorting
money by these means, either from Lord Downshire or his
sons, Reitenhoffer then proceeded to carry his threats into
execution, and he found ready instruments in the other de-
fendants who now stood at the bar. The defendant, Fagnoit,
and the others, were active agents ; and Teuton, the man wbo
had not surrendered, actually had the cold-blooded impu-
dence to instruct the men who carried the placards to parade
them through the streets where different members of the noble
fanely were known to reside. There could be no doubt that
ell these persons were acting for one common object. The
d: fondant Daly had also been found carrying about the pla-
cards, and when he was taken into custody he said that two
men were watching for him ; and when the officer went in the
direction pointed out, he observed the defendants Fagnoit and
Teuton, who both took to their heels, but were stopped and
taken into custody. Teuton then gave a false name, that of
Janes ; and upon Fagnoit were ',found a quantity of pamphlets
and paste, and the necessary articles to affix them upon the
walls. It was very evident that the whole parties were corn-
billed together to extort money from the noble family. After
Fagnoit had been taken into custody, he addressed a letter to
the Marquis of Downshire, in which he stated that if the
Marquis would consent to his discharge, that he would giSre
him full information relative to the authors of the vile libel,
which was the way in which he designated the pamphlet in
qu-stion. He made the offer to give up all his associates, and
' also said that he should be ready to appear as a witness against
hisaesoeiates. The Marquis took no notice of the offer, but
ectermined to meet his slanderers in the only place where he
felt he could meet them without pollution, in a Court of Jus-
tice, and before a Jury or his countrymen. The Learned
Counsel concluded by calling witnesses to prove the case.
After hearing evidence at length, at a quarter to four o'clock
the Jury retired to consider their verdict, and returned in about
twenty minutes with a verdict acquitting Daley, but finding
Bre get and Fagnoit Guilty.

The IlEconoxit ordered the two convicts to be called up for
judgment, and sentettced Fagnoit to fifteen months' imprison-
ment in the Penitentiary, and Bryant to six months' imprison-
ment in the same gaol.