The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-01 00:00:00

Second Heat.

Messrs. Sewel and Perry . (Green) 1
Sanderson and Larby. .
Censon and Regan (Light Blue) 0
Green took the lead and kept it, winning by about two

lengths. Heat.
Messrs. Heat.
Messrs. Sewel and Perry (Green) I
Sanderson and Larby
Red took the lead to the rounding boat, where losing one
of the oars, green passed them and kept it.

PEDESTRIANISM-.
FOOT HURDLE RACE, &C., AT WALIVORTIT.—A consider-
able muster of the patrons and admirers of pedestrian per-
formances assembled on Monday at the Bee live Ground, to
witness the competition for the several prizes announced by
advertisement :-1. A silver tankard, value 251., to be tun
for, distance 440 yards, and the men to leap fifteen hurdles.
2. A silver snuff-box to the victor in a six-mile walking
match. 3. A sweepstakes of 11., with 5/. added, for a 440-
yard fiat race. 4. A prize for the best running jump in
length. The snuff-box was first contested, nine men coming
to the post, James Brian, Benjamin Wright, Charles Bee's
Novice, Taylor (of Oldham), Stedman (of Epson ), and four
others. OP these last we shall merely observe that the pace
was so much too good for them that they quickly fell out of
the match, which concluded by Wright coming in first by a
trifling lead, Brian second, Bee's Novice third, Taylor fourth,
and Stedman filth. It being, however, decided that Wright
had broken from a walk to a run at the coming in, the prz,.;
was adjudged to James Brian. Stedman, it was thought. by
many, lost from over-confidence, as he actually walked in his
ordinary trousers (thick cord ones) and laced boots! The
speed was good, the six miles (short ones we suspect) being
covered by the winner in fifty-three minutes. The hurdle
race for the tankard followed, and was one by James Patter-
son, who beat Jenkinson (the London Stag), and George
Martin. The Stag, when leading, had the misfortune to
stake himself at the tenth hurdle, and injure his thigh so as
to throw his chance entirely out. The flat race fcr a sweep-
stakes did not fill. Makepeace and Patterson next con-
tended for the running jump. Patterson set Makepeaee
17ft. 10in., which he tied. The little one then cleared Mt.
Sin., of which Makepeace fell short, and the prize was ad-
judged to Patterson.

PUGILISM.
JAMES SCULLEY AND JOSEPH DPGEE.—These sprigs
of Southwark and Pimlico met on Tuesday, near llorley,
on the Brighton line, to decide their claim to fifty so‘ l!••
reigns, duly deposited, and the laurel of victory. A
shift took place, at the recommendation of a landowner,
who desired them to choose a more retired ground, and
and this was readily complied with—a proof of the order
and good behaviour which characterised the motley
assemblage. After a long mile of tramping across
ploughed fields and winter turnips, a commodious pieco
of waste land presented itself, and here the commissary
pro tem. pitched his mc4eriel, and at a little before one
o'clock the men were in position. A bin f notice of the
battle must suffice. M'Gee, who looked all his friends
could wish, fought wildly and without precision, while
his antagonist, with superior game and steadiness, met
his hasty and ill-judged onslaughts, and after punishing
his rashness, stood erect at the close of almost every
round. M•Gee, on the contrary, when foiled in his
rush, dropped repeatedly, and several times in a manna.
so questionable, as to call for a public caution from the
referee. Finally, in the 64th round, his getting down
from a mere feint of Sculley's right (which had just
before rudely visited his ribs) was so palpable that. it was
declared " foul," and Sculley adjudged to have Won the
fight. Time, 1 hour and 38 minutes.

THE GREAT WESTERN IIAILWAY.-011 Tuesday
night the passenger train from Exeter en route to Lon-
don, which should have reached Slough at ten minutes
before ten o'clock, did not arrive until twenty minutes
to twelve o'clock, owing to the engine tender being. sup-
plied with coke of an inferior description ; so miserably
deficient was the locomotive power, that for some time
previous to the arrival at the Slough station, the velocity
of the train did not exceed more than six miles an hour.
Fresh coke was taken in at Slough, and with the view
of pulling up lost time, the engine, under full pressure
of steam, proceeded with such awful rapidity as to cause
an unpleasant oscillation, and create considerable alarm
among the passengers. It was ten minutes past twelve
o'clock before the train reached London.
NEW MARKET IN LAMBETH.—In the course of a
few days a market on a most extensive scale will be
opened in the Westminster-road, at the end of the Nee.-
cut, for the sale of merchandise and provisions of every
description.
THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER.—OH Monday evening a
meeting was held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern,
Strand, for the purpose of adopting a national petition
for the enactment of the People's Charter, which was
very numerously attended. The meeting was addressed
by Mr. F. O'Connor, Mr. M‘Grath, Mr. Barney,
Mr. E. Jones, Mr. O'Cavanagh, Mr. Marriott.
and others, and resolutions were passed expressive of
the opinion of the meeting that the elective fracbiso
should be extended to every male adult of mature ago
and sound mind; that the rights of equal representation
were embodied in the People's Charter, and that a na-
tional petition should be presented to Parliament pray-
ing that that document should be made a statute of the
realm; and also that, in order to strengthen the friends
of the charter in Parliament, the principles and objects
of election and registration committees should be recog-
nised and supported. The national petition was also
agreed to. It declares the protection of life, the security
of property, and the diffusion of education and
morality and happiness among all classes, to
be the end of all government ; the repre-
sentation in Parliament of every man of sound
mind as his right ; that the Reform Bill is unjust
as restricting the rights of citizenship to one-seventh of
the male adult community; that the present representa-
tive system is based upon class selfishness, prejudices,
and contracted views of humanity; and that the elective
franchise is a right inherent in every man. It also prays
for universal suffrage, vote by ballot, the division of the
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country into equal electoral districts, each with one
ifiatiore-
presentative, the payment of Members, the substitution
of annual for septennial Parlianients, and the abolition
relief
oft
he resolutiondistrcs
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was proposed by Mr. F. O'Connor, to the effect that the
Government should be called on to raise ten millions
o f
sterling propertyby Exchequer-bills,qualcn
for
in Ireland, to be called the Church Restoration Fund,
the interest and repayment of which should be payable
from tithes, and by bishops and other dignitaries, par
sons, and other salaried officers of the State Church, and
the sum to be applied for the purchase of land in Ire-
land, and the location of the Irish people upon it, at its
present value. It was agreed that this resolution should
be published in the Nation, Freeman's Journal, and the
World newspapers. The meeting separated at a Into
hove.

MERCHANT SEAMEN'S SOCIETY.-011 Tuesday
quarterly general court of the President and Governors
of the Corporation for the Relief and Support of Dis-
abled Seamen, and the widows and children of such as
have perished in the merchant service, was held at the
offices of the corporation, No. 25, Birchin-lane, Corn-
hill; B. Benson, Esq., in the chair. The report read
by W. Watson, Esq., was of the most satisfactory
nature, and the other business, for which the court was
called, having been transacted, the required, relief ,was
given to considerably upwards of fifty applicants, and
the meeting separated, with a vote of acknowledgment
to the chtvirman.