The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-05 00:00:00

AQUATICS.

THE AMATEUR CHLIPIONSHIP OF THE THAMES.
THE SILVER SCULLS CONTEST.—The great contest for the
Winktield sculls, the symbol of amateur championship of the
Thames, came off on Monday; but, owing to a succession of
very heavy showers and the lateness of the tide, was not
concluded until nearly dark. According to the conditions of
the wager, the gentlemen who aspire to the honorary dis-
tinctiou row their trial heat on the 3d of August, and the
winner contends with the holder on the succeeding 10th.
On this occasion, however, the race was decisive in its trial,
as Mr. Chapman, who has won them three or four times,
ultimately last year expressed his intention of not again con-
tending for the symbol of amateur superiority. The distance
was, as usual, from Westminster to Putney with tide • and
notwithstanding the exceedingly unfavourable state Of the
weather, was most numerously attended.
Mr. Russel ........... 1 I Mr. Fellowes 0
Mr. Whalmsley 0 Mr. Dood CI
Mr. T. L. Jenkins, the Hon. Secretary of ,the Thames Re-
gatta, and himself more than ence the holder of the prize,
was the umpire. It was a good start, Mr. Fellowes taking a
short lead, followed by Mr. Russel. Mr. Whalinsley, who
had not got off so well as his opponents at the first moutent,
went to work, and off the Penitentiary they were almost in
a lump—so close, indeed, were they, owing to the press o:
craft, that three of the combatants came in slight collision.
Fellowes and Russell then went in advance, and at a very
great pace were scull and scull up to Chelsea. Mr. Russel
then gradually went away, and won by about a hundred
yards, or nearly so, Mr. Whalmsley having mended his posi-
tion off Wandsworth. Mr. Allen had intended to enter the
lists, but from some reason that did not transpire he did not.

HAYMAR KET THEATRE.--QTR, J. M. STEPHENS'S
BENEFIT —The sunerintendent of the free-list, Mr. J. M.
Stephens, takes his benefit at the Haymarket this
evening. The bill of fare is a good one, but even were it leis
excellent the friends of Mr. Stephens (and every one who
knows him is his friend) would tally round him on this occa-
sion. If a strict attention to duty, combined with uniform
civility and kinl-heartedness, are worthy of the public pa-
tronage, then will Mr. Stephens have a bumper house.
Mr. Rice, the celebrated " Jim Crow," has been
deprived of speech and the use of his limbs, by a stroke of
para lysis. —Devonport Telegraph.
THE LATE THUNDER-STAIM.—OR Saturday after-
noon, during the violent thunder•storm, a lad named Mus-
kett, a lighterman's apprentice, was employed on a barge in
the Commercial Dock, Rotherhithe. He was walking along
the gunwale with a quantity of steel bars on his shoulders,
when the electric fluid first struck the warehouse opposite
and then the lad, who was forced into the hold of the barge,
while the steel bars fell into the dock. Immediate assistance
was rent ered, but the lad was quite dead. The warehouse
sustained considerable damage by the lightning.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—AS Charles Maxfield, Esq., re.
siding in Park-street, Regent's Park, was passing through
Munster-street, on Monday afternoon, he trod on a cellar trap
that had not been properly secured. Being a heavy man,
he was thrown to the ground, and suffered a compound frac-
ture of the right thigh.
During the season the gamekeeper at Duff House has
shot upwards of 2,900 rabbits, which, by order of the Right
Hon. the Earl of Fife, were distributed among the poor and
working classes in Banff and its neighbourhood.
THE ELIZABETH FRY REFrGE:—The subscription
towards this asylum for affording temporary food and shelter
to destitute females on their discharge from the metropo-
litan gaols, now amounts to near 5,000.1. Amongst the sub-
scriptions within the last few days are their Majesties the
King and Queen of Denmark 501., and an anonymous dona-
tion of 2001. •

Hull, last week, J. M. Suger, a bankrupt, who
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corn merchant, underwent his final examination.
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THE ATHANASIAN CREED —We are informed that
an unhappy controversy is being carried on between the in-
cumbent of the parish of Woodbury, near this city, and some
of the parishioners, relative to the use of the Athanasian
Creed, which the Church orders to be used on almost all her
solemn celebrations. We are told that a meeting was re-
cently held, at which resolutions were passed expressive of
hostility to any incumbent who should use this confer lion of
faith in the performance of public worship. The living is
said to be a peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and
consequently exempt from the superintendence of the bishop
of the diocese. The circumstance of its being attached to so
distant a jurisdiction can alone explain the most incredible
report that the Athanasian Creed has not been used in the
parish for the last thirty or forty years.— Inohner's Exeter
Gazette.
GREENLAND FISHERY, LERWICK, JULY 20.—The
Eliza, arrived here from Greenland, brings the fol-
lowing report : Commerce, with 6,000 seals ; no
whales. Hannibal, with 2,000 seals, no whales. Union,
with 2,000 seals ; no whales. Eclipse, with 1,500 seals;
Dublin,
whales. Hamilton Ross 1,100 seals; no whales.
seas;
with 300 seals ; one whale. Enterprise, with 3,000
Fairy,l
one whale. Flamingo, with 700 seals ; no whales.
wallow with
no whales. Jane, with 400 seals; no whales,.
1,800
with 40 seals; no whales. Sarah and Elizabeth, 2,800 seals;
wi
;late. Anne, with
40 seals ; one whale, Constantin, t.
whales, Ilebe, with 1,250 seali ;
one
e4OW seals; two whales.
5,000 seals; no whales. Forth, seals;' no
reported to be a
Hamburgh, and another foreign
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Li Scotch Reformers'
St. George, with 1,21'0 seals; no with
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vessel,a!es .
reeulan .
schooner, have been lost at G . _ The Hoffnting, ni.
Gazette,