The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-16 00:00:00

THAMES REGATTA.

This great regatta, commence n Saturday, was re-
sumed yesterday. The atte 42 opening
day, was titin, but spirited as carried on
throughout the afternoon. T e first race arranged

was :--

CHAMPIO.,II3 SCULLS. Prizes £502 WO, £5.
FINAL HEAT.

J. H. Sadler, Putney ...
R. Chambers, Wallsend ...
R. Hepplewite, Newcastle...

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Sadler started a good favourite, and from the west
station cut out the pace, and cleared himself at the
Point ; Hepplewite, who had rowed well with the Putney
man, here 'gave way to Chambers, and as the North
countrymen could not reach Sadler and row in the same
four, they did not persevere, but divided the prize, £25.

Previous to this Matfin and Carr, Newcastle, who had
had some fouls with Kelley and Griffiths in the pairs on
Saturday, rowed over the course to entitle them to start
in the final heat, Kelley and Griffiths declining to go.
APPRENTICES' RACE.—Coat, badge, and freedom, £3O ;
second, £4 ; third, £2 ; fourth, £l.
FINAL HEAT.
W. Messenger, Teddington 1
H. Messum, Richmond ... ... 2
J. Mackinney, Richmond ... ... 3
A. Trodd, Staines ... ... 4

Putney to Chiswick.—Messenger was the favourite, but
Trodd and Mackinney got off together, and held the lead
to the Point, where Messenger came to the front, all
having had enough of it. At the Dung Wharf Messum
disposed of Trodd, who stopped at the Crab Tree ; and
Messenger, retaining his lead, won by four lengths ;
Messum defeated Mackinney on the Point for second
honours by two yards.
CHAMPION FOURS.—Final Heat.—First prize' £lOO ;
second, £2O ; third, £5.

Newcastle.—R. Heppeiwite; J. Bright, J. Percy, R.

Chambers, 0. Heavens (cox.) ... • 1
Gourock, Clyde.—J. Moody, T. Smillie, J. Calder-
head, W. Calderhead, H. Rushbrook ... 2
Newcastle.—M`Neile, W. Matfin, G. Carr, T. Matfin, n

Nuttall (cox.) ... ••• ••• •••
Hammersmith.—T. Wise, G. Dark, J. Anderson, W.

Biffen, J. Holder (cox.) ... ... ... ..• ••• 4
Chiswick to Putney.—Betting began at evens on the
Calderheads, and closed at 5 to 2 on the Scotch crew.
Percy's crew dashed cff with the lead at tremendous pace,
the Scotchmen and Matfin together. Hammersmith last
all the way. At the boathouses Percy's crew cleared the
Scotchmen, who shook off Matfin at the Point, and
although they rowed with great pluck and determination,
keeping up 47 strokes per minute all the way, they were
beaten, amid great applause, by four lengths ; Matfin six
lengths astern of them, and Hammersmith far off.
CHAMPION PARIS.—Final Heat.—First prize, £4O ; second,

£lO ; third, £5.
T. Matfin and R. Carr, Newcastle...

G. Hanamerton and J. Coxen, Surtiton

J. Percy and J. Bright, Newcastle ... ... ..• 3
F. Kilsby and G. Johnson, Wapping ... .. 4
W. Biff n and T. Wise, Hammersmith ... ... 5
Chiswick and Putney.—Betting even on Percy and
Bright, and 2 to 1 against others. Matfin and Carr,
from the best station, came away and won easily by two
lengths. Hammerton and Coxen held their own against
the favourites, who were terrribly cut up at the finish.

The next mails for Australia will be despatched
from London via Southampton on the 3rd of September,
and via Marseilles on the 9th.

Malta is about to be strengthened in its fortifica-
tions and garrison on account of the war. Workmen are
already working day and night on the new naval dock in
the French creek.

The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer
and Mrs. Lowe left their residence in Lowndes-squre, on
Saturday, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of sh-
burnham, at Ashburnham Place, Sussex.
The ancient mansion of the Rhodes family at
Great Houghton, Yorkshire, within whose walls the
great Earl of Strafford wooed and won his bride, is now a
village alehouse.
At the Leeds assizes, on Saturday, Thomas Rid-
dlough, a Bradford mason, was sentenced to `penal
servitude for life for attempting to murder Henry Whit-

taker.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has formally
accepted the resignation of the Right Rev. Dr. T. N.
Staley as Bishop of Honolulu. It is doubtful whether
another bishop will be appointed.
The Western Mail is authorised to state that a
committee has been formed in Cardiff, consisting of MM.
Guret, Bregeon, Krieger, and Ronnfeldt, in order to raise
contributions for the aid of the sufferers in the Franco-
German war now raging on the Continent. The Marquis
of Bute has generously headed the list with a donation
of £lOO.
Mr. Godfrey Knight, brewer, of Scarborough, who
was out shooting- grouse on Friday, on Lockton Low
Moor, near Pickering, when taking aim was seen to fall
down suddenly. His groom ran to his assistance, and
picked the unfortunate gentleman up, and he was found
to be quite dead. The body was removed to the
Durham Ox Inn, Lockton, and awaits, the coroner's
inquest.
In all the Roman Catholic churches of London on
Sunday, the clergy called attention to the recent proceed-
ings of the (Ecumenical Council, and added that they
were requested by authority to make known to their
congregations that the definitions of the Council required
no other publication than the solemn act by which the
Holy Father had already published them to the Universal
Church. Archbishop Manning, who endorsed this state-
went, preached on Sunday evening at St. John's Church,
Duncan-terrace, Islington.
The Board of Trade have awarded a telescope to
Captain E. Chantard, of the French ship Formose, of
Nantes, in acknowledgment of his humane services to
four British Indian seamen whom he picked up at sea. It
appears that these four seamen, who came from the coast
of Aracan, had been overtaken by darkness and driven
out to sea by a heavy north-east gale, and when disco-
vered by Captain Chantard, on the .6th January last,
were suffering greatlyy from exposure and hunger. After
being on board the Formose till the 7th February, they
were landed at Reunion.
ANNIVERSARY OF THE LANDING OF THE PILGRIM
FATHERS.—The Pilgrim Society of Plymouth is preparing
to celebrate the 22d of December this year in an appro-
priate manner. It is understood that Hon. Robert C.
Winthrop will deliver the address. Since the last cele-
bration there have been wars and rumours of wars, and
nations have risen and disappeared ; but the land of Pil-
grims has kept on its even course, prospering in spite of
all calamities, and adding new glory to the history of the
country. The two hundred and fiftieth anniversary will
be observed with especial interest as the beginning, so far
as can be now seen, of a new era of peace and prosperity.
—Boston Advertiser.
THE BOILER EXPLOSION NEAR LEICESTER.—The
inquest on the three persons—William Davis, Joseph
Armistead, and Frank Underwood, who were killed
through the boiler explosion at Mr. J. W. Stablefords,
brick yard, Coalville, on Saturday, was opened yester-
day afternoon by the Coroner, Mr. J. Gregory.
The only evidence was as to the identification of
the bodies, after which the inquiry was adjourned to
Thursday, the 25th inst. The two lads, named Frank
Armistead and Alfred Orton are so seriously injured that
they are not expected to survive. The latter is in a verS
precarious state. The cause of the explosionhas noa yet
been accounted for, but it is believed to have been caused
by a youth, engaged as stoker, allowing cold water to
pass into the heated boiler.
FATHER HYACINTHE AND THE WAR.—The fol-
lowing letter has been addressed to the Make of the sth
Arrondissement of Paris by the well known pre.acher,
Father Hyacinthe :—" Monsieur le Maire,—The spirit and
the law of the Church forbid the priest from taking up arms
except in moments of extreme danger to tfie country.
That danger—if France should not be spared from it—will
certainly find all those who are not bound by the obliga-
tions of the sacred office faithful to their duty as citizens
upon the ramparts. In the meantime there is no reason
why we should not assist in the national defence by use of
the pick and shovel Please to direct me to what place
I must go, in order to take part in the earthworks and
fortifications now proceeding for the defence of Paris.
From to-morrow, after mass, I hold myself at your
orders.—Receive, &c., L'Abbe JULES TH. LOYSON,
Professor of Sacred Eloquence in Paris.— Viva la France ?"
Noting that prices were yesterday exceedingly strong on
the Stock Market, the Times observes that the two tele-
grams received during the morning respectively
from Prussian and French sources with regard
to the battle before Metz contributed to the im-
provement, since, although they indicate losses equally
severe, perhaps, on both sides, the continued
retreat of the French army increased in many
minds the expectation of an early close of the struggle.

Among a large class, however, a strong impression pre-
vails that a French victory would now be most favour-
able to the prospect of peace, since it is difficult to con-
ceive any amount of disaster that would induce the
French nation to submit to unqualified defeat.

The Daily News notes that the settlement, which will
be finished to-day, occupied very little attention, in con-
sequence of the limited extent of the account. No sus-
pensions were announced, nor are any expected. The
absorption of stock by the public has recently been very
large, and the result is a small supply amongst the dealers,

THE ADMISSION OF UNITARIANS TO
COMMUNION. •

There are many sincere Christian-minded people
who feel, with the Archbishop of Canterbury, that it
is a melancholy thing ._,lit the religious faith of an

individual communicant at the Communion Table
should have become the subject of a harsh news-
paper controversy, and have led to uncharitable ac-
cusations being heaped up against men who had no
desire but that of asking God's blessing on the work
of revising the Testament by uniting in a holy rite.
His Grace, in reply to a protest against the mixed
Communion,sined by 1,500 clergymen of the Church
of England, explains that ➢lr. Vance Smith the
Unitarian minister, against whose participation
in the Communion question has been raised, was
invited in common with the other revisers
to attend at the Holy Table, and it was
left, and the Archbishop thinks rightly left, to
each clergyman to decide in his own mind whether
he could conscientiously draw near to it or
not. His Grace adds that Mr. Vance Smith
has since written to him repudiating in strong
terms views that have been attibuted to him,
and expressing his belief in the Divinity of our Lord.
Perceiving in this statement a further proof of what
his Grace has long known, namely, that it is
extremely difficult to estimate the exact degree of
divergence between the doctrine of the Church of
England and that which makes a man attach himself
to the Unitarian body, he frankly declares that he
must withhold his sympathy from those hyper-
prudent men who would see in the admission of
such Dissenters to Holy Communion a ground for
condemnation or controversy. Western Morning
News.