The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-09 00:00:00

, AQUATICS.
I MATCH BETWEEN TEE LEANDER, . 15.51)
CAMBRIDGE- CLUBS.
Ott Saturday this great eight-oared cutter naleb'
which haS excited so much interest in the sporting world,
between the C.,smbridge and Leander Clubs, took p lace: ,
For some time nest this match has been the pr: '1,e,13a,
topic of conveisaeio:l among the admirers of river : rfts
! Fronz the celebrity of both the Clubs, it occasione( cou.-
siderabie speculation among betting men.
In order to prevent either of the crews possessini. rad •
vantage ov,er the other, in having a superior boat, two
cutters were, ~0-,...-ne time since, commenced by Me. ism-
eSgenaalrled,imthene -builders of Lambeth , or
edafterthe most appro vect
m7sob athm:ed, awl measuring : 44,
principles, both being
siwonelsi;akniril'onsbtrueatt‘:
feat 5 inches in length,
atf.:e river f2re...
From an early hour in the afternoon,
sented a most animated appe..iranee, being neatj %Totted:
with cutters, boata, and steamers. Westminster 1.. 14:ges-
LYon'i and Searle's -yards, and ihe• whole of the ri verb
fronts on both sides of the Thames, were crowded wit! t a
fashionable company, amongst whom we observed set ea-
ral elegantlpattired ladies; while the numerms steam, ;re
were well filled.
A few minutes after five o'clock the start took pl:
from Westminster Bridge, the Leander Club being i
shore, which was considered to be a half-boat's length
favour of the Cambridge. The Leander Club, bowel,
-took the lead, closely followed by their opponents. 'I
I river at this momentwsented one of the most inter(
ing spectacles which has been witnessed for many ye.
Both crews rowed in the most gallant style; the Lear
keeping the lead about two lengths a-heart, in Iv!
state they continued until they reached the Red H(
when they (the Leander Chi'l) improved their dist:
and reached Putney Bridge a minute and a qitarte
fore their opponents, amidst the eheersof thousan
Tectators and the firing of cannor,'•
34Tmhienudti:st,awncheicirswaspearvfoerrmy
wind in Chelsea reach. ecishobrtyti
.
I:ll:e,Lrldonsidererie,
The Leander Club dined at the -S tar and
Tavern, and the Cambridge at the Bells Tavern.
The whole of the bridges were covered with ri
able company, and Wandsworth -meadows frresent.
appearance of an Epsom downs in miniature.
We did not hear of any accident. •
. The folloWing are the names of the crew of - th(
bri-L'ae Club :—Messrs. Brett, Abercrombie,. .
ChrtAll..Denman, • Selwyn, Cobbald, and Nich
we.. sfr EO.an
steered by it_ ' '" oxen '.
:—Messrs. Dagg ,
The Leander lisb C. .3
'' onomain, Wallace, Layto
Oinmany, Jenkins, 4,7420,Thard.
Julius , steered by gr. r 4,,...........
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" . SHIPPING INTEZ.44 _, rd. --
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DLoEszoNA, Atiau.a.
67.._—Nina
tihvis.sdlavy.,at no 'IITC.‘ ariable
Arrived the Richard Webb, Ste2le, from F!ydney, _ 'aronne,
Campbell, Jamaica ; Teneriffe, Terieriffe ; Geo.. re and
Phillips and Princess Victoria, Westward; "rive Laun-
the River, Everetta, for Sydney ; Ma-11 MIT'
ceston ; Salus, Port Philip ; William Mooey, Csl cotta ;
Mary Ann, Mauritius ; the Belle, DoniC.''ica•„
PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 6.—S.W. very aqua tiy:•—A rrived
the Orion, Tulloch, from St. Domingo ; EUir..on,
..i. .Lon-
don, for Sierra Leone.
FALMOUTH, AUG. s.—Wind S.W. to W.S:W*9 '
gales and squally.—Arrived the Alexande. i' Self,
Odessa ; Essex, Shields, for Gibraltar.
PLYMOUTH, Ana. 6.—Wind W.S.W.—Sail. ithe
lox, Morris, London.
COWES, Am. 6.—Arrived the Anelax, from I°i
for Gibraltar.
OFF MARGATE, AUG. 6.—Arrived the Mary
from Antigua.
BRISTOL, AUG. 6.—Arrived the Edward Colsto:
yell, from Africa.
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 6.-Wind N.N.W..—Arrived
Europe, Volum, from Lima, sailed 10th April ; Thor,
Fielden, Smith, Valparaiso ; Emma, Fisher, Belli:,
G lengarry, Porte Rico ; Jamaica, White, Jamaica
Sheffield, Allen, Nev York ; Lord Ravensworth, Chin:
and Caroline, Quebec ; Messenger, Zante ;' Redclit
Faro. Sailed the Seagull, for Monte Video ; Emil 3
Ancona. MEm.—The James Dunn, for Naples, did no
sail yesterday, as reported. It blew a gale at midnight
at W., but it is more moderate to-day at W.N.W.
SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 6.—Arrived the Thames, Rob-
son, from Quebec. A wreck, with the two lower masts
above water, was passed on the 20th ult. off Point Rich,
Newfoundland, by the Thames, arrived here.
YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WlGHT.—Arrived the Thomas
Howet, London, for Singapore.
TORBAY, Ana. s.—Arrived the Faith, Beer, from Lis-
bon, with main-mast sprung ; Plantagenet, ondon, for
Calcutta ; Sarah Crisp, ditto, for Mauritius; Caledonia,
ditto, for Rio Janeiro.
DUBLIN, AUGUST s.—Arrived Sarah Stewart, Law,
from Quebec.
lilfrisrLspsoLßE, D, AAutToGutisTsT3.—ailed
s.—SArriNTedry Asaguaicyn, —ja,e...,?_L,f'cibec•
.oro ;
Alexandria.
Wiliam, AUGUST s.—Arrived Fame, from nieß' !,
with loss of bulwarks, &c., having been in conta et vou Al
a brig off Rouen this morning.
YARMOUTH, AUGUST 6.—Prince Albert, of S.: .ti ase-
land, has come into the harbour with damage, and I e: Lk,
having been in contact this morning with the Bessy,. F. ll-
den,.of North Shields. The latter proceeded, with her
pumps at work,

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VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—The Pomona, from SL 'i ro,
sth ult., off Cape Race, by the Combatant, arrived It
Dover. Pearl,_ Tarragona to Valparaiso, June 2.9, air
Cape de Gatt, by the Alexander, arrived at Falntot :a..
Palestine, Sydney to London, June 3, lat. 27 5.,31153- ! tt;
Cheshire Witch, June 19, on the Equator; Nortlraonlor-
land, Madras to Calcutta, June 24, lat. 8 N., lo o. 24 ;
Mary, of Leith, for Mauritius, June 29, lat. 12, lot L 26 ;
Corinthian, Gibraltar to Newfoundland, 18th ul lat.
40, lon. 34 ; Switzerland, Gibraltar to Newfoundland,
20th ult., lat. 43, lon. 24 ; William Shand, Sierra Leone
to Cork, 23d ult., lat. 44, Jon. 26; Monongahela, Liver-
pool to Philadelphia, 25th ult., lat. 44, lon. 25; 2-:n telope„
Ilio Grande to Hanaburgh, 27th ult., lat. 46, lon. 23, by the:
(
Thomas Fielden, arrived at Liverpool. Thistle, V,7ater-
ford to Quebec, Ist inst., lat. 46, lon. 15, by the Ettnia,
arrived at Liverpool. Henry Wolley, Barbadoes to Ja-
maica, June 26; South America, Liverpool to New Yorl:;-
Ontario, Liverpool to Wiscaset, June 30, lat. 46, lon. 19;
Athens, Liverpool to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, lst
ult., lat. 48, lon. 15; Workington and Arethusa, sth ult.,
off Tuskar, by the Jamaica, arrived at Liverpool. Ocean,.
Malta to Liverpool, 4th ult., lat. 49, lon. 8, by the,
Thames, arrived at Southampton. Heywood, Liverpool.
to Africa, Ist ult., lat. 11, lon. 47, by the Faith, arrived.
at Torbay. Eliza, Bristol to New -York, 27th ult., lat.
48, lon. 24, by the Marmaduke, arrived in Mumble
Roads. Thalia, Marseilles to Bourbon, June 17, lat. 10
N., lon. 21 W.by the William, arrived in the Clyde ;
Ann, Limerick to Miramichi, 13th ult., off St. Paul's ;
William. Reid, 20th ult., on the banks of Newfoundland,
by the Harriet, arrived in the Clyde.

PROSPECTS OF THE HARVEST.

THE HARVEST.—Reaping has commenced in this
neighbourhood. Tuesday and Wednesday's rain has
laid several fields of wheat, but no mischief has as yet
been done.

Sou Tit OF DEvoN.—The late rains have, in some
places where there is a great shear, laid the wheat.
The 'crop of new potatoes is very good, and they are
selling from Bd. to 10d. per peck.
SALTASH.—The weather here has been more like No-
vember than August for the last two days—incessant
rain and wind. It is feared the corn that is in a forward
state will be beat down. The wheat certainly looks very
fine and beautiful, and harvest has commenced in some
parts of the country ; should the weather be fine, the
harvest would be general in a few days. Potatoe crops
were never so fine, and in some places the apple-trees
are weighed down with fruit.
THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. IN CORNWALL.
-e
al Tcitroooopfk ii sn
looking
11
eery t
—The cold ungenial state of the weather lately.
has tended much to retard the ripening of the crops ; and
the wind and rain of the present week have beaten them
A few days
down and done tliem considerable injurY•
of fine weather would render a great number of fields in.
different parts of the count:
pro-
spect of having such weather is not very encouraging
at present. A correspondent from extensive corn
fit for cutting, but the
district in the
thenorwtlhi the county states that the
farmer can desire
appearance of e
promising. i'lle,
and the spring corn 1
the week.— West Briton.
VE4THER AND THE CROPS IN NORTH
niarkw., hale, however, advanced considerably during
THE 1 -
DEvo._we are exceedingly sorry to state that since
ouriexae lasttAciacth we
has continued of the same ungenial
d e have had occasion to notice for
past. Some portion of the hay remains in
the field,
much of it mowed, and it must have received
.
sweeksidescription
ti
e then
material injury; the price of good hay is likely to be very
high. But attention is principally directed to the corn
crops, of which the reports are most satisfactory. The
bulk is said to be vary good, but in consequence of the
coldness of the weather and its extreme wet the ears
have not filled; and, what is worse, the canker or yellows
and the rust have appeared generally, the former especi-
ally in the white wheats. The maturing of the crops is
greatly retarded, and the harvest will certainly be very
late. The barley is said to be laid greatly by the
rains, and though there • is every appearance of a full
crop, it is likely to be thin and coarse. The oats look
better generally than either of the other crops, but they
are very much laid, and the yield will not at all ap-
proach the result of last year. We have only heard of a
single instance of the commencement of harvest, which
is in the parish of Bishop's Tawton, where a small field
of self- sown wheat was reaped on Saturday last.—North
Devon Journal.

I Mr. Manning has succeeded Mr. Therry as
Chairman of the Court of Requests in New South Wales,
Mr. Therry having been appointed Attorney-General.
Last week Mr. Baird,- of Dunkeld, visited the
Breadalbane and Athol districts of Perthshire, and
offered, on behalf of a Company in Australia, to shep-
herds, willing to emigrate thither, 401. of yearly wages,
with half-wages during the voyage, besides the board
and lodging usual in that colony. He succeeded in get-
ting a few in both districts. Our informant says that
Mr. Baird's visits were succeeded by those of other gen-
tlemen on similar errands. The principal difficulty in
getting shepherds to engage in their own country is the
impression that they will fare better going to the colony
disengaged.—Perth Paper.
• RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following are the
and North
receipts of the principal railways in operation for the.
past week, .that is to say, up to the dates to which the
respective returns are made :-Brighton, Ics,esB7:ls.tefa.r,-;21:214a5e1k.
aannddEDaerstebyrn,l,,432s97l:;:
wall, 1,0771. ; Hull and Selby, 891/. ; York r
,Moiudnlatnieds,,
21:9726:1. :BNiromrithnghlliamdlananad,Gl4o,u6
GSoreutalti
Western,Western 71,46,9913/41.B; irNmiorntghhernam
Birmingham, 18,596/. ; Eastern Counties, 9421• ; anci Great North of England, 1,457/.