The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-31 00:00:00

THE THAMES CLUB OARS MATCH.

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The gentlemen of this celebrated club contended yes-
terday in:a pair-oared race for silver cups. The distance
was from a little above Hammersmith-bridge down to
Putney, and five pairs started.
Messrs. Mongredian and Podmore I
Wallace and Field (Green) 2
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J. Walmsley and Rhodes (Light Blue) 0
Travers and Levine .. (Dark Blue) 0
Elliss and Webb ... (Blue and Red) 0
It was a very fine start, immediately after which
Messrs. Wallace and Field took the start, followed by
Travers and partner, the other three.pairs being abreast
of each other. At about a hundred yards below Ham.
mersinith•bridge Travers and partner dropped a little
astern, and Mongredian and partner began to pick up a
little. Off the Crabtree Mr. Walmsley (the holder of
the silver sculls) and his partner put on a spurt, and were
beginning to catch the leading boat, when, in the heat
of the race, they unfortunately fouled a barge, which
made them unship. and deprived them of all chance of success. Mongredian
cameand Poadimnnogrseidpeicknetdwupaitlhaenier boatand
in gallant style, and
partner at the point, and a desperate struggle ensued, in
which they might be said to have had alternate very
trifling leads. Ultimately Mongredian and i'odmoro
succeeded in winning by a length, after one of the most
gallant races on record.

STRANCFORD, AUG. 28.—The Commerce, Bigger,
from the Clyde to the Chester River, which was put on
shore on Ballyquinton Point, 26th inst., has completely
broken up.

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CUATHAM, AUGUST :30.—This morning the following
detachments ot regiments serving in India marched Iron
this garrison For Gravesend, and there 'embarked 9°
board the ship Prince of Wales, 1,330 tons, ConunapdPr
W. F. Hopkins, for the presidency of Bengal, viz.:710111
Foot, twenty men; 24th (Warwickshire), twentreigo
• men ; 29th. one man; 32d (Cornwall), three men; 80tbf
one man; 96th, ninety-tour men, with one woman,
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i'one child of the 53(1; with the following officers;---4Ju.'
;sign l)enne, of the 10th Fo t; Lieutenant Francis
:Spring, Ensign Robert G. A. De Montmorency, Easigu•
Charles William Kippen, and Assistant-Surgeon J.
Grant, M. 1)., of the 24th Regiment; Ensign James WO.
'Bostuck, 29th; Ensign R. D. D. Lecky, 80th; and Lieu'
'tenant Ochavius Lowry, 96th Regiment; Colonel Thomas
Weare, K.H., Commandant of the ProviEional
with Staff Captain Jackson, inspected the ship previous'
to the troops embarking.
The following detachments arrived yesterday at the
Invalid Depot, Fort Pitt, viz.:—One bergeant, thirteen
privates, with four children, ot the 19th Regiment; one
private of the 20th, and one private 71st Highland Light
Infantry, in charge of Lieutenant E. Hunter Blair, of the
93d Highlanders. Upon medical inspection six men
were token into the hospital. These troops .are
Quebec, and came home in the Resistance troop frigate'
Also arrived the same day the following invalids Mrs
Malta, brought home in the troop-ship Belleisle, via":
one sergeant, three privates, one woman, and four ebi'.
dren, of the 34th Regiment; tour privates 56th, two pat-
Yates 66th, one private 67th, seven privates 69th, and
one corporal and twenty-two privates, four women and
four children, 97th Regiment; out of the above fifteen
men w ere taken into hospital; two men of khe 691 b,
in consequence of their being too bad to proceed, were
lett at the hospital at Portsmouth. Lieutenant B. G.
M'Cria, of the 97th Regiment, was in charge of the de.
tachmentd.

WOOLWICH, Auu. 30.
ROYAL ARTILLERY. The sixteen newly-formed
companies are to be mustered to-morrow for the fir"
time.
The following is a list of the officers, with the
number of each company, and the battalion to which It
is attached:—
Captain N. E. Harison, Second Captain W. A.
(Beton, First Lieutenants P. Dickson and E. G. Breclun
91h company, Ist battalion.
Captain C. Cheetham, Second Captain A. C. L. kill"
roy, vice Cannon (appointed Adjutant of the sth big'
whorl), First Lieutenants 0. E. Clarke and W. .1'
Bolton, 9th company, 2d battalion.
Captain G. J. L. Buchanan, Second Captain J. S.
Gibbon, First Lieutenants F. Place and G. 13.aralaerne,
9th company, 3d battalion.
Captain W. S. Payne, Second Captain J. 'R. An'tier-
son, First Lieutenants E. J. Bruce and S. G. Batchelor.
9th company, 4th battalion.
Captain W. R. Gilbert, Second Captain P. F.G. Scott,
First Lieutenants W. P. Richards and H. T. Middle Wu,
9th company, sth battalion.
Captain A. F. W. Papillon, Second Captain S. M•
Calder, First Lieutenants J. E. Hope and F. Close, 9th
company, 6th battalion.
Captain H. Aylmer, Second Captain W. P. Pollock. •
First Lieutenants H. Dashwood and J. Sinclair, 9th
company, 7th battalion.
Captain C. R.Levinge, Second Captain H. F. Strange.
First Lieutenants A. Brendon and H. L. Talbot, Val'
company, Bth battalion.
Captain A. G. Hamilton, Second Captain J. S. Wil-
lett, First Lieutenants J. de Havilland and W. J. Wilson.
9th company, 9th battalion.
Captain W. Fulford, Second Captain J. C. W. For'
tescue, First Lieutenants S, Carden and W. H. R. Sitar
son, 9th company, 10th battalion.
Captain A. Irving, Second Captain W. H. Cox, First
Lieutenants G. A. Wilkinson and L. W. Penn, 10th
company, Ist battalion.
Captain St. J. T. Browne, Second Captain R. O'Con-
nell, Fit-in Lieutenants W. W. A. Lukiu and H.
B.
Saunders, 10th company, 2d battalion.
Captain C. Bingham, Second Captain W. Smith Neill,
First Lieutenants, W. Walker and E. G. Snow, 10th
company, 3d battalion.
Captain H. S. Rowan (Brevet-Major), Second Cep" '
tain M. Clifford, First Lieutenant C. E. Walcott and
J.
1). Ramsey, 10th company, 4th battalion.
Captain J. N. A. Freese, Second Captain R. Brettior
ham, First Lieutenants G. Burtchaell and W. Morrie.
10th company, sth battalion.
Captain F. D. Cleaveland, Second Captain C. T. Da
Plat, First Lieutenants G. Davis and H. Penny, 10th
company, 6th battalion.

WINDSOR CASTLE, AUG. 30.—1 t is expected that
the session of Parliament will close on Tuesday next.
Arrangements are making for the Queen and the Court
to leave Osborne on Monday; and on Tuesday her Mw
jesty will prorogue Parliament in person, and the same
day embark at Woolwich with his Royal Highness the
Prince Consort for Scotland.
Yesterday the Lord Mayor gave an elegant enter..
Liinment to the chairman and directors, and several
influential gentlemen connected with the Licensed Vic-
tuallers' and General Fire and Life Assurance Company.
of which his Lordship is a director. Covers were laid
for forty-five.
The Deanery of Carlisle has become vacant by the
death of the Very Rev. Dr. Cramer, who was appointed
to the office by the Crown in 1844, on the death of the
Very Rev. Dr. Hodgson, Rector of St. George's, Hew
never-square. The appointment is worth nearly 2,0001.
per annum.

- On Monday morning last an explosion of fire-
damp .took place at Messrs. Wood and Co.'s colliery,‘!
Hindley green, about two miles from Leigh, by which
several workmen have been dreadfully burned, and five
persons have already lost their lives. Maechester
Guardian.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—The city of Zell, on the
Moselle, has been visited by a fearful conflagration. The
fire broke out at seven o'clock on the 2241, in the southern
part of the town, and spread so rapidly through by a
south-west wind, that there was not the slightest chance
of extinguishing it until 200 houses were destroyed; .
and, with the exception of the street running along the
Moselle, and a portion of the northern end, the whole
place iy lying in ruins Nearly 2,000 inhabitants are
houseless, and have not only lost their shelter, but their
stores, provisions, and wine, as also their furniture and
clothing,. Those whose houses have escaped have, for
the most part, lost their press-houses, wine, &c., which
were mainly situated in that part of the town which has
been burnt down.
ACCIDENT TO THE HOLYHEAD STEAM-PACKET
CAMBBIA.—An accident happened to this fine steamer,
which ran from Holyhead on Monday evening. She
left the Head at her usual time, and when at sea
of her larboard paddlewheel gave way from some nu' •
foreseen cause, which detained her beyond the usual
time of her arrival. The injury will be repaired in a
and Scotia rem
few days, in the meantime the Angliaain
on the line.part
THE ORLEANS FAMILY.--The Count de NeuillY ;
paid a visit to her Majesty the. Queen Dowager on Mon-
day, at Bushy House, Bushy Park. The ex-King was
unaccompanied by any member of his family. He ar-
rived from Claremont in au open landau and on passing
through Hampton Court was
saluted with every mark of .
respect by the numerous visitors and residents of the
place. His ex-Majesty appeared in the enjoyment of
good health, and pleased at the attention he received.
DETENTION OF THE MAIL FOR NEw bnuTir
WALES.—Mail for south-west coast of Africa—The `
Alert, with the mails of this evening, the 31st ins:, for
Sydney, New South Wales, Van Dietnen's Land, South
Australia, and New Zealand, is detained. Letters, 41M,
in time on the evening of the 2d of September. This
evening, the 31st inst., mails will be made up and dill.'
patched by her Majesty's ship Spy for Madeira, Sierra
Leone, the Gambia, Ascension, Cape de Verdei, and St.
Helena. Newspapers are free to all the above, except
Madeira, to which placeithey are charged twopence each. -
HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION,.—Yesterday after-
noon, a quarterly general meeting of the governors and
directors of this charity was held at the board-roont•
Edward Speer', Esq., in the chair. The report for the
last quarter, from which it appeared that the .buiding
committee were again called into requisition
tor to take tbs.,
necessary preliminary steps towards theextension
the hospital was read, and hope expressed that efficient
means would bo accorded by the benevolent for the COw
pletion of the building by the ereotion of the eastern •
wing. Very warm allusion was made to the generoal •
exertions of the Archbishop of Canterbur and the
y.
clergy generally, and also to those of Madlle. Jenny
Lind; and after the disposal of the routine business, the
usual compliment was paid to the chairman, previous t°
the breaking up of the meeting.

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At St. Petersburgh, on the 19th inst., the lady of Ao
Buchanan, Esq., her Majesty's Secretary of Legation et the
Court of Russia, of a son.
On the 25th inst., at Woodhouse Parsonage, near Budder"'
field, the wife of the Rev. J. W. (;race, of a son. On the 26th inst , at Lady Bateman's, Portman-sq---„„ro. the
Hon. Mrs. Whyte Melville, of a daughter.
On the 27th inst., at Bitteswell-hall, Mrs. R. Fellowes, of
a sun.
On the 27th inst, at Eghatn-park, the lady
Salwey, M.P., of a son.
On the 28th inst., at the Fort, Bristol, the wife of T. 0.
Tyndall, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 26th inst., at the Rectory, Harlington, the lady of
•
the ltev. W. C. Berkeley, of a son.
On the 28th ins•., at Conduit-street West, Hyde-park, Mme'NV. Ttompson, of a son. of Colonel

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On the 29th inst., at St.Pancras Church B. J. Littlebsla' '
Esq.,
Rsecond son ot the Rev. Joseph G. Littlebales, 0- fob • stow ectory, Bucks, to Catherine, sixth daughter of
Ris:lon, Esq., of Lansdowne-place, Brunswick-square...,
On the Z9th inst., at St. John's, Margate, George "hi',
Eq., son of F. B. White, Esq., M.D., ot Tetbury, to E
izs
only daughter of the late J. Flint, Esq., of Brighton.
On the 29th inst., at Summer-town near Oxford, ao
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Frederick, eldest sou of John Elliston,
Esq., of Clapham,H ton.arriette, only child of the late Mr. S. Delf, ot Brighton.

At Point de Galle, Ceylopnagona.h's return from India, after '
35 years' service in the British larmy, Colonel CourtenOr •
...hag'sb Lieutenant-Colonel of the 25th Regiment (." ,
zan' Own Borderers), and formerly of the Grenadier Guano-
On the 24th inst., at the Royal Barracks, Dublin, Lieute•
mutt W. 11. Stirling, of the 60th Royal Rifles, aged 21.
On the 29th inst., in Forchester-terrace, Bayswater, Si
,;
J. Osborn, hart., of Chicksands Priory, Bedfordshire, aged. 7
On the 26th inst., at Alderton, Wilts, the Rev. A. Anson. I
On the 26th inst., at Chichester, G. Fraser, Esq., Lieutie"
nant R.N., youngest son of the late MaJor-General JOllll P.
Fraser, of Ashling-hou e, Sussex.
On the 27th inst.. W. Stokes, Esq., of Newington ,crescent' i
Surrey.
On the 27th inst., at Godalming, G. Soper, Esq., lat-6 0f
Guildford, Surrey.
On the 25th inst., at Wandle-grove, Mitchan3, aged 65! :
Bennett Pell, Esq., late of Finsbury-place.
On the 25th inst., at Kilburn, Mr. B. Mitchell, aged 3_46,......

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