The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-17 00:00:00

- STRAND .LANE REGATTA.
i•-:iterday a ''arse 'of sovereigns and other prizes
IrtsY;icinity, were con-
I - ------- ' AQUATJCS.
/e-Strand, St. Cle-
-I:_tle ichstbeitTaL'e.mtspoif6;.Sat.n3dl
given by
ment's Danes,
tended for by font-Peen free- watermen, belonging to
Waterloo-bridge, Arum2el, Essex, rind Ten3ple Stairs'.
in throe heats. The two fir:: boa in. e. 11.0 heat to start
for the grand heat..
• First Heat. • .
Richard TeLtsdale and Isaac Scuithorpe ... (Pink) 1 -
Andrew Mitchell and W. Mason ... (Light „hlue) 2
George Garrett and William Webster (Greksl3e) 4
3
Richard Martin and Joseph Waite ... (Purpl) _
A good start waS' deeded, when pink and light b;ue 1-
soon showed in front, and arrived in the above, order:- -
Green being third in thglieati was entitled to row in the
second heat.

. Second Heat.
Benjamin Russell and Robert Ridgway ... (Green) 2
White) 1 '
George Garret and William Webster ••• (
(Yellow)
John Bush and James-Dupers ..• 0
Samuel Martin and Joseph Teasdale •.. Wed) 0
Grand Heat.
This heat was severely contested throughout by 3h.
and pink, when pink ultimately came in the winner.
CHELSEA REGATTA.
The annual regatta at Chelsea took place yesterday,.
twelve watermen contending, in an oars wager, for si
purse of sovereigns, subscribed by the residents of the
vicinity. The rowing throughout was excellent, and the
attendance of spectators, as usual, ezaremely numerous.
The contest was in three heats.

First Heat.
Williasa Waight and Charles Cole, jun, ... (Green)
Thomas Cole, jun.. and William Cole (YellOw) 2
James Atkins and Thomas Woodford ... (Pink)
The distance •in this and the next succeeeing heat
was from opposite. the Yorkshire Grey, up to Cre xnorne-
house, down round a boat moored off the British Flag,
and back to the Eight rfells, Cheyne-walk.
tin even start, at , a good pace, was suoceedea by
Yellow taking the lead; but in coming up nearly oppo-
site the British Flag, the winners, who bad been upon
their quarter for some distance, took the Rrst place aitd
kept it. Won by a length and a half. •
Second Heat. •
George Thomas and John Prince ... (Scarlet) 1
2
Joseph Cole, jun.' and George Brown
The
the
o nwinsneecrt took
ok
manth, and m
e leadeaande
in a kept
lengthit, closely y :•haietaotia
on by .

Grand Heat.
The distance in this. heat was reversed to suit the tide.
The men started from Battersea-bridge down to the
British Flag, back to Cremorne-gardens, and finished
by rowing to the Yorkshire Grey.
William Waight and Charles Cole 1
Green took the lead, kept it, and won vosy by half a
dozen boats' length.

EXTRAORDINARY -HAIL-STORM.—On Wednesday',
August 4, at about 3 P.M., an extraordinary storm swept
over the town of Foix and its vicinity. Hail fell for
nearly half an hour in such vast quantity that wfsere it
could agglomerate it was left in heaps a yard high. Its
effect on the vines was so destructive that nothing is _left
but their bare stalks; the beans, corn, potatoes, and fru.'t
have also disappeared. The storm took. a direction from
west to east. The breadth was of no great extent, for it
scarcely covered a quarter of a league; but it was consi-
derable in length. Taking its rise at Col-del-Boueh, at
about 4 kilometres from Foix, it devastated successively
the communes de Lavelanet, Sainte-Colombes sur Lhers,
Chalabre, and reached Quillau. in the department of the
Aude. It is impossible to calculate the total loss, but
some idea can be formed of it by that sustained by a M.
13 eri e, nurseryat
tfrom 2
grodoeon etor,
22a t,ooFoix,
nnctich has b:e 11 esti-
mated Mr. Cunard has entered into a contract with the
British Government to run a line of steamers from HaM-
fax to Bermuda, and to place a steamer on the route'
I between Halifax and St. John's, Newfoundland. The
contract has no connexion direct, or indirect, with the
1 British North American Royal Mail Company.—Liver -
pool Albion.
SHIPWRECK.—On Friday night the brig Mute,
laden with coals from Whitby, went on shore on the
Nore sands, about two miles above the light-vessel. The
wind blew freshly from the E.N.E., and the vessel soon
after striking bilged, and filled with water. Several
boats from Southend, and a steam-tug, put out to her
assistance, and her cargo was thrown overboard to lighten
her, but she had worked into the sand too deeply for any
assistance to save her. On Sunday she was abandoned
by the crew, and now lies with her hull covered at high
water, gradually sinking in the sands, which will ulti-
mately absorb the whole of the bull, Another brig
went on shore on the same sands on Saturday night, but
was got off with the loss of her rudder.
THE LATE ATTEMPT AT MURDER A/11D SUICIDE:.
From the hour that Mr. Sully, the senior assistant-
surgeon at St. Thomas's Hospital, performod the diffi-
cult operation of extracting the bullet from It.r. Craw-.
ley's jaw, as noticed in our journal of yester,lay, the
unfortunate sufferer has been improving. ..4t six
o'clock last evening it was the opinion of the surgical
staff of the hospital that no fatal consequences need now
be apprehended. It is matter of surprise to every 'one
that Mr. Crawley and his intended murderer were nest
both killed instantaneously when the pistols were dis-
charged, for when Ovenstone fired at Mr. Crawley the
mouth of the. pistol nearly touched his cheek. it is
stated by Ovenstone's friends that the pistols had been
charged for• upwards of two years. The intended
murderer is also considerably better, and it is the opinion►
of the surgeons at Guy's Hospital that if no unfavour-
able symptoms come on, he will be fit to be removed to
the Mansion house to hear the charge against him in the
course of a day or so. He has been under the strict
surveillance of the police ever since .he was removed to
the hospital, and hp has not uttered a single word about
the deplorable occurrence during the time he has been
in bed. He has been visited by several of his friends,
but he has not so much as alluded to the event to any of
them. Besides the document found upon his person by
the police, in which he alluded to the motives that in-
duced
letters
hrei
them
were
te onw alsocommitbhya
wthret written
be
hnasedubc
stated
oabnthieemodrortutiobthla e
tot
his crimes,
(10.ihm the
sisters, e
money
no nt
owei
nnyoe
:voov
rbtf f siti
:he
bger ,
l'e
letterstold
to himself was more than he owed, and he hoped his
creditors would be all paid and the overplus given to a
relative of his.
FIRE IN SPITALFIELDS. ---• Yesterday morning,
shortly before four o'clock, a fire brake out in the pre-
mises occupied by Mr. J. Nicholls, a bedstead maker,
flames
1,
Thomas-street, Brick-lane, Spitalfields. ,The
' when first discovered by the police were rkging in
few
the
workshops on the first floor, and in the tours
v of a
The
in-
third floor of. Mr. Thomas Muntz's p remises. .
minutes penetrated the root and communicates('
Th'to the
mates of the adjoining houses having been arou.led, a
messenger was dispatched to the fire stations, and seceral
engines quickly attended; but the fire continued to pro-
gress, and it was not until the workshops were burned
out, and their contents consumed, that the firemen could
obtain the mastery. Considerable damage is also done
to Mr. Muntz's premises by fire and water. The origin
of the disaster could not be ascertained. Unfortunately
Mr. Nicholls was uninsured for his stock in but
the building was insured in the West of Englandtrade,
Fire
Office.
THE LATE MISS DUNCES BURDETT (SISTER or
hthasis 0
nlal
ydyjuhsats
bbeenenn
proved
the husband of
the
en
Court FRANCIS—The
osm e t i
mwei,l la
and
df
by the executor,
Wm. Jones Burdett, Esq.
her niece Sarah, the elder daughter of her late brother,
estimated at 30,0001. She has provided an Nannity of
100/. for Mrs. Thornett, who was her faithful a,ttendant
J.
G.
Ramsdell, q•+
property was
for twenty-two years;_ also a small annuity for a former
maid of her aunt, Lady Jones; a legacy to the widoNT of
her late brother, W. J. Burdett; and to her sister, Las.'lY
Langham, to whom she has left her share in the Oxford-
shire property bequeathed to her by her aunt, 1
Jones. The residue of her personal estate,
the furniture, plate, books, pictures, and jewels, of
the real estate, to be divided among the childreo,•to' "
late brother., William Jones Burdett, Esq.._:_. ,
-.... li AdITTLE...
DEATH OF VICE-ADMIRAL BESM"Ze of the above
HALES.—WO have to announce the der%,,,ea compton
Gallant Admiral, who died a few daseif
d age of 82 years.
Bishop, Somerset Shire, at the s4r_tuf oat' on board the
The deceased flag officer watieidrgTePiwit,:on between the
Vigilant in'l77B, '
and
as
is
under A.dmire: Seppel and
inoluch.nz
English and French tef,t!est.
Admiral d'Orvil!lOrs, ott.f
Admiral Sir Thornew.l Bour-
Cntrass CiaLbT
b -7;I'EG; Court of Inquiry on boas d her
Mier has been, ..i,nicti'e'r9, at Chatham, to examine the
Majesty's S"IP - f h Iris recently arrived with a
' heads. Upon , part of the e paid by the Chinese for breaking
some of our countrymen s opening one of
night, Pension
tind al-
though the captain
c h e :In. :u p° money
poed too be filled with'
silver, to the amount
of I,ooot, it was 'discovered to be filled with lead. Tr.()
other chest s was-stronglyts.
bi n doubtclas ped
existsdo wans s
too
Chinese, and that the one was substathisteutkto-endraebvseeyrni3trbhloeemf the
er
the other. Captain Mundy, who commanded the Iris,
recveiAveudxtuhleLeLheGstitsßfrpoEmissthle,
had a benefit at these
VTgihaxerednre.nrsinitaesrts
So-
ciete
was somewhat unfavourable,
the weather
the past week or two, and were
was numerously and respectably attended. The enter-
tainments were the
greetecsth still
thei
same that have been preseOfed during
warmest arobation, the whole scene, lighted up as it
was, by innumerable lamps and other splendid &ea.
rations, being of the most brilliant description. Ths
only drawback was the absence of the French eques-
trians, who, we understood, were detained by stress of
weather.
Tan GREAT BRITAIN.—The following is an ex-
tract from a letter to Gibbs, Bright, and Co., written by
Captain Claxton, and dated Dundrum Bay, Aug. 14
f°No tide ; only 12 feet 6. We want 12 feet 6, as tide
table gave it. Every exertion was made both lby our-
selves and her' Majesty's ship. Her Majesty's people
stand by us, and her ship returns on the 22d. I cannot
say enough in praise of their exertions. I beg to add,
that nothing can exceed Messrs. Bremner's exertions,
father and son. They have been beat this time by the
' s
forßirkenhead
the
element. . Mr. Bellamy we are extremely lucky in hav-
ing, and his suggestions are most valuable ; he stands
byAusw
proposalith 56
hasmebne. Majestyeniimerade
in Glasgow
will be here on the 22d inst."
in-
stitution of a fund for the purchase of an annuity to
Mr. Sheridan Knowles. No definitive method of raising
it has yet been resolved on ; but an amateur theatrical
performance is one of the methods talked of. •
IMPORTATION OF CATTLE.—An account of all
cattle, sheep, and swihe imported into Great Britain from
Ireland, from the sth day of April to the sth day of
July, 1847, has just been published by order of the
House of Commons. Of oxen, bulls, and cows, the
number during the quarter was 34,917; of calves, 4,428;
of- shesip aud lambs, 88,178 ; Ina of. salvias, 14,750.