The Sun.
London, England, 1824-08-24 00:00:00

POETRY.

ON DREAMING OF MY MOTHER.
Spirit of her, too briefly, who sojouned
Upon this dim and clouded orb of earth ;
Whence haat thou fled, to what bright sphere retura'd,
Spirit! that gav'st this worthless being birth ?
In what blest region, where the chasten'd mirth
(The holy bliss of Angels) fills the air •
With dulcet symphonies of love and grace,
Doat thou now dwell ? With flow'r-enwreathed hair,
And snow-white wings unifurl'd, methinks I trace
Thee, floating buoyantly thy sweet course around some star,
Than gems our azure sky more glorious, far :
Circled in Beauty's bow 'r, where Amaranths glow,
And all unfailing flowers in heaven that grow
Expand their many colour'd blossoming,
And o'er the enchanted space sweet incense fling.
Oh ! if thou'rt thus enspher'd within the beam,
The mild bright beam of thy Creator's face ;
Visit me oft as in sonic lulling dream,
Let retrospection still such thoughts give birth,
That I may think thou still adorn'at our earth.

MATRIMONY.
Cries Sue to Will, 'midst matrimonial strife,
" Curs'd be the hour I first became your wife !"
" By all the powers," said Will, "but that's too bad !
You've curs'd the only civil hour we've had."

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

STATE OF THE ODDS.-I
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BETTING. ROO3l, Atm. 23.
25 to 1 apt Tarandta
23 to 1 apt Serab
25 to 1 apt Oldie
28 to 1 apt Diadem
33 to 1 apt Canteen
35 to 1 apt Equity
40 to 1 apt Elephant.

11 to 2 agst Swiss
9 to 1 agst fltutendorif
11 to 1 agst Helenus
12 to 1 agst Streatham.
12 to 1 agst Mustachio
12 to 1 agst Osmond
17 to 1 agst Altisidora f.
20 to 1 agst Jerry

EA NKSIDE REGATTA.
The sixth annual contest took place yesterday for a new
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form good conduct of the watermen plying on Bankside, who
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men
were the competitors on the present occasion. The two first
heats were well contested, and the following persons rowed the
grand heat : —Thomas Loader, Benjamin Cummings, James
Harrison, and William Nevill. At starting Harrison took the
lead, but was overrated by his friends, and Loader passed him,
followed by Cummings. These two kept the lead throughout,
and Loader came in winner. He received the boat amidst the
loudest cheers. Cummings received 41., Harrison 3/., and
Nevill 21. The successful candidates were loudly cheered by
their friends.

COWES REGATTA, Aua. 22.
Our Regatta commenced on Thursday, and the Parade was
crowded by vehicles of every description, from the gay coach and
four down to the humble market-cart, while youth, beauty, and
fashion were anxiously expecting the signal-gun for the boats
to repair to ;heir respective stationa.---At three o'clock, the un
was fired from Lord Yarborough's ship, arid instantly the live
following four-oared boats, belonging to Cowes, came to the
starting-post, Mr. Ward's Meteor, with white and red hori-
zontal for her distinguishing flag; Mr. Scrivens' Swallow.
blue; Mr. Stephens Willing Maid, red; Mr. Stephens'
Nell Gwynn, white; and .Mr. Cocks' Lightning, red,
with a white cross. They had to proceed from the
starting post, round Lord Yarborough's yacht, Falcon, off
Cowes Castle. The Earl of Craven's yacht, Louisa, the
Duke of Norfolk's yacht, Swallow, and the Earl of Cravente
tender, • May-Fly, all moored in owes Roads. Five succes-
sive times, at starting, the Lightning kept to the eastward of
the others, and passed the Falcon first, and had the lead consi-
derably till the third round, when she was passed by the Willing-
Maid, and in the fifth by the Nell Gwynn, which two boats got
the first and second prizes, and the Lightning the third, the
other two were completely distanced, but it certainly was the
fault of the formation of the boats, for the men behaved nobly.
The second match by the following galleys belonging to the St.
I felons, was an admirable race. The Pigeon for her distinguish-
ing flag carried blue, with white ball ; the Dove, white, with
blue ball ; the Swallow, white, with red ball ; the Martin, red,
with white ball ; and the Hawk, yellow, with red ball. It was
won by the Dove. The Martin was the favourite at starting. On
Friday the rain was rather unfavourable for the sailing match,
hut notwithstanding there were more people than on Thursday,
no doubt owing to the beautiful breezes which prevailed the whole
day. The vessels entered for the race were the Nancy, L. Cock,
owner, carrying the blue flag; the Cupid, It. Newman, red,
white and blue, horizontal; the Jane, %V. Davidge, blue peter;
the iieorge, J. Matthews, white and red, vertical; the Mary,
E. Mitchell, blue, white, and vertical; the Jane, George,
Greenham, blue and white, horizontal ; and the Argus, Join
Wallis, red. There were four prizes, one of' thirty sovereigns,
one of eighteen, one of twelve, and another of ten. The ',To-
ros remained in a north and south line, off' Cowes Castle, with
their sails close down, and booms topped, until the signal gun
was fired from the Falcon yacht, when they proceeded to the
southward of the %Vest Black Buoy, of the Middle Bank off
Norris Castle, then to the Emit White Buoy of the Brambles,
then to the Vest Red Buoy of the Brambles, and thence round
the yacht Falcon, off' Cowes Castle, going the same course
afterwards three times, and leaving the Buoys and Falcon
yacht on the larboard hand. The first prize was won by Mr.
Wallis' Argus; the second by Mr. Davidge's Jane ' • the third
by Mr. Greenhom's Jane; and the fourth by Mr. Newman's
Cupid. The prizes were adjudged, and all disputes decided
by the Sub-Commissioners of Pilotage of this port. There was
a Ball at Blundell's Medina Hotel In the evening, which was
numerously and fashionably attended. Owing to the wet wea-
ther on Thursday and Friday, the fire-works were not set off
till Saturday night, when Jones (the engineer from Vauxhall)
delighted every one present with his display from the Parade.
All the yachts in the harbour and roadstead displayed blue
lights in succession, and fired rockets in every direction. The
night was dark, and what with the explosion of the rockets and
other lire-works, some of which were very brilliant, Cowes had
really the appearance of a bombarded town.