The Sun.
London, England, 1822-06-18 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIG ENCt.

BETTING-ROOM, JUNE 17.—STATE OF THE ODDS.
DONCASTER ST. LEGER.
5 to 1 agst Swap 12 to 1 agst Newbyth.
8 to 1 agst Ajax 14 to 1 agst Pilgarlic
11 to 1 agst Mandane 18 to 1 agst Marcellus
NEWMARKET ST. LEGER.
Even on Moses.
DERBY.
100 to 7 agst the Orville colt 1100 to 6 agst c by Woful, out
out of Emily of Pantina.

CRICKET.—The Cricket-match between the Knavestock and
Patteswick Clubs was played on Knavestock Common on
Thursday, and decided in favour of Knavestock.
I{NAVESTOCK: PATTESWICk.
Ist Innings - - 127 Ist Innings
2d ditto - 77 2d ditto

- 87

- 45

204 1
Knavestock won by 72 runs.

MATCH TO FAVERSHAM AND SACS.-Mr. WEST, the pe,
destrian, undertook to go from Bromley to Faversham and
back, a distance of seventy miles, in 16 hours, for a bet of 100
guineas. He started at 8 o'clock on Sunday evening, and did
the first 20 miles in three hours and a half ; after taking re-
freshment, he proceeded on to Faversham, and arrived there in
seven hours and a quarter (35 miles). The pedestrian stretch-
ed himself on a bed, and started back. After doing three miles
in half an hour, he left himself 32 miles for the next seven
hours. He performed rather more than four miles and a half
in each hour, and had something more than four miles to do
in the last hour. He won with three minutes to spare, but
much distressed. Captain Allan was the umpire.

WALKING ON THE WATER.—MI. KENT exhibited his
art in walking upon the water, on the Wear at this city, on
Friday, 7th inst. About five o'clock, the hour announced, a
large concourse of persons assembled on Elvet-bridge and the
adjacent banks. The aquatic pedestrian discharged a fowling-
piece as the signal of his commencing operations. The ma-
chine which he uses is a very ingenious one, and may be not
inaptly described as the water-velocipede. He fired about a
hundred rounds of cartridges with a surprising rapidity and
dexterity.—(Durham Chronicle.)

COWESoIts 'JUNE 15.
ROYAL YACHT CLUB.—The season of assemblage for the
Yachts composing the most useful Marine Institution having
propitiously set in, Cowes is already distinguished by the ar-
rival of the following Members :
The Marquis of Anglesey in the Pearl cutter-113 tons.
Capt Hon. Sir C. Paget, H.M. cutter Em'rald—ss tons.
Right Hon. Sir Arthur Paget, Union yawl-45 tons.
Capt. Hon. P. B. Pellew, Giulia yawl-42 tons.
The Hon. 'Wm. Hore, Frisk yawl-20 tons.
Sir George Thomas, Bart., Eliza yawl-34 tons.
James Maxee, Esq., Sabrina cutter-84 tons.
Thomas A. Smith, Esq., Elizabeth yawl-65 tons.
Owen 'Williams, Esq. Gazette cutter-78 tons.
John Shakspzar, Esq., Experiment yawl .6 tons.
John Gordon, Esq., Syren cutter-32 tons.
Capt Symonds, Cornwallis yawl-22 tons.
Colonel Sliedden, Lord of the Isles yawl-45 tons.
James Weld, Esq., Julia yawl-43 tons.
J. P. Powell, Esq., Briton schooner-92 tons.
A. Swinton, Esq., Louisa schooner-24 tons.
11. Fawkes, Esq., Falcon schooner-90 tons.
Rev. George Hoper, Wellington yawl-36 tons.
J. S. Penleaze, Esq. Mary 'awl-53 tons.
And, the following are fitting out for immediate cruizing:—
Falcon ship, 181 tons—Hon. C. A. Pelham.
Antelope cutter, 80' tons--Lord Willoughby de Broke.
Rebecca Maria yawl, 76 tons—Sir Win. Curtis, Bart.
I%lary schooner, 95 tons—Viscount Deerhurst.
Elizabeth yawl, 66 tons—John Fleming, Esq.
Arid cutter, 71 tons—Thomas Halifax,, Esq.
Unicorn schooner, 122 tons—Henry Perkins, Esq.
Coquette cutter, 24 tons—Thomas Lewin, Esq.
Lady of the Lake yawl, 38 tons—George Halliday, Esq.
Blue Eyed Maid cutter, 39 tons—Thos. P. Williams, Esq.
Arrow yawl, 90 tons—Joseph Weld, Esq.
On Saturday the Bth instant was launched from Batsey's
yard, West Cowes, a beautiful cutter yacht, called the Ruby,
built for Sir George Leeds, Bart. ; and yesterday -came to an-
chor in the Roadstead, from London, the admired schooner
Hussar, 120 tons (Virginia model), belonging to Captain
Bacon.

MINING INTELLIGENCE.--Copper ores sold at
Redruth on Thursday, 1,915 tons, standard 1081. 7s. Copper
ores for sale this week at Bedruth, 3,230 tons. Copper ores
sold.by private contract the 6th instant, 106 tons, 10 cwt., 2 qrs.
at 81. 10s. per ton.
The officers of the Provisional Battalion have remitted
301. to the Fund for the distressed Irish peasantry, being the
proceeds of an amateur play at our theatre. The expenses
have necessarily been very great, the whole of Mi. Kelly's
materiel of the theatre being at Chichester, whence actresses,
scenery, stage-keepers, &c. were obliged to be conveyed
to Portsmouth. The officers personal expenses have been very
considerable, and they. certainly anticipated a fuller attend-
ance of the neighbouring famihes, but whose absence is as-
cribed to the intense heat of the weather.—( Hampshire Chro-
nick.)
In the evening of Thursday week about thirty
boys lost themselves in the old mine near Fenham, wherein the
smuggling utensils were discovered, and remained the• greater
part of the night under ground.
There is now growing in a pot, at the resi-
dence of Mr. Hall, at Southwick, in Sussex, a geranium,
raised from a sprig planted about two years ago, which now
measures nearly five feet in height, and exhibits flowers spread-
ing more than three feet in width.
The floating island, of about two acres in ex-
tent, covered with alder and willow trees, which was detached
from the land at Fawley, in the New Forest, in the spring of
1781, by a high wind, still continues to float in the large sheet
of water, called Pondhead.
A large quantity of ice was shot about ten
o'clock on Sunday night into the cellar of the confectioner's,
next door to the Crown and Anchor. It consisted chiefly of
large lumps as white as snow, just imported from Norway.
The novelty of the scene arrested the attention of the passen-
gers, and collected a crowd upon the spot.
CANAL STEAM VESSELS.—With a view to the introduc-
tion of steam vessels on canals, a very interesting experi-
ment was made in the Union Canal on Saturday last, at
two o'clock, with a large boat twenty-eight feet long, con-
structed with an internal movement, upon the principle of the
model invented a considerable time ago by Mr. Wight,
Abercromby Place, and exhibited to a general meeting of the
Highland Society f Scotland in the month of January last. A
Committee appointed for the purpose, by the Directors of
the Highland Society, attended to witness the experiment,
and a Meeting of the Union Canal Company's Committee
of Management having taken place at one o'clock, the Chair-
man and most of their principal members were also present.
The boat had 26 people on board, and although drawing 15
inches of water, she was propelled by only four men, at the
rate of between four and five miles an hour, while the agita-
tion of the water being confined'entirely to the centre of the
canal, was observed to subside long before it reached the banks,
and consequently obviating its hitherto destructive tenden-
cy in washing them into the canal. We understand, that
the Gentlemen of both the Committees expressed themselves
highly satisfied with the results of this experiment, from which
it seems to be obvious, that canal navigation by steam vessels,
on Mr. Wight's plan, is not only practicable, but by a little
experience, will soon be found preferable to the present
tedious and expensive method of dragging with horses.—
( Edinburgh Courant, June 10.) •
CORONERS' INQUESTS.—Last night an Inquisi-
tion was taken at the Feathers, Dean-street, Westminster, on
the body of Caroline Cortellow, who put an end to her exist-
ence by hanging herself in St. Margaret's watch-house, on
Monday morning. Verdict—That the deceased hanged herself
in state of insanity, produced by intoxication.—A Coroner's
Inquest was held on Thursday evening, at the Turf Tap,
Grosvenor Place, before Thomas Higgs, Esq. Deputy Co-
roner, on the body of James Skean, Nato was unfortunately
killed on Tuesday last, by the falling of a high wall at Bran-
denburgh House. The deceased, with others, were employed
in pulling down the premises of•Brandenburgh House at Ham-
mersmith, the materials of which had been sold by auction
in lots to several purchasers, and on Tuesday afternoon the
deceased, with others,•were at work in taking down the brew-
house part of the premises; at that time only the wall and two
frames were standing, which was about 14 feet high. They
' broke away the lower bond timber, and tried from within to
push it outward, but the wall suddenly fell inwards upon the
deceased, whose scull was dreadfully fractured ; he was taken
to St. George's Hospital, where he expired in about ten minutes.
The Jury, after some consultation, returned a verdict of Acci-
, dental Death, by the falling of the wall, and levied a deodand
of 3/. upon the bricks,