The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-25 00:00:00

HARWICH JULY REGATTA.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sru„—Seeing in your columns an occasional notice of the
Royal Harwich Yacht Club (which during the week the
Queen has been pleased to patronise), may I, as an old
yachter, suggest to your paper the following scale for the
July Regatta in Harwich Harbour, a place where very small
boats do not require time for tonnage, since they can out-
manoeuvre larger craft from the facility of getting close in
to the esplanade on every tack where the water is very
shallow, and where larger craft cannot but get aground. In
beating, therefore, small boats have much advantage inside
the harbour and river Stour, but not so round the Cork
Light, on the Sufolk shore. Then time should lie allowed,
say 30 seconds per ton. The cups will only cost 140/.
First race-8 tons and under 8, a ten guinea cup.
Second race-8 tons and under 13, a fifteen ditto.
Third race-13 tons and under 26 (time), a twenty ditto.
Fourth race-26 tons and under 36 (time), a twenty-five
ditto.
Fifth race-36 tons and under 50 (time), a thirty ditto.
Sixth race-50 and upwards (time), a forty ditto.
Your obedient servant, TRUE BLUE.

MONUMENT TO JOHN KNOX.
The members of the Free Church have recently been ac-
tively engaged In raising subscriptions for the erection of
a monument to John Knox, en the well-known spot at the
Nether Bow, where the illustrious reformer lived and died.
The monumental structure is to consist of a tower, with two
churches and two schools in connexion therewith. Monday
was appointed for the laying of the foundation •stone, and in
order to impart to the ceremony all visible solemnity and
attraction, three several meetings were convened in the course
of the day to celebrate the occasion. The first of these was
a meeting fur public worship in the ball at Cannonmills,
which was filled by a respectable audience, most of whom
were ladies. Dr. Candlish preached and conducted the ser-
vice, and Dr. Chalmers delivered an eloquent address on the
character of Knox and the appropriate character of the
proposed monument to his memory, in the course of which
he was loudly applauded. About three o'clock the com-
mittee of management, resident ministers, and others,
met in the Merchants' Hall, Hunter-square, from whence
they proceeded in procession down the High-street to lay the
foundation-stone. The procession, which was headed by A.
Campbell, Esq., of Monzie, Sir J. Forrest, Dr. Candlish, Dr.
Mackellar, and other ministers, was firmed three deep. A
large concourse of people assembled at and in the vicinity of
the Bow, to witness the interesting proceedings. The pro-
cession having arrived at the site of the monument, Mr.
Milroy opened the proceedings by giving out the first and
last verses of the 100th Psalm. These having been sung,
and a prayer offered up by the same Rev. Gentleman, Mr.
Campbell, of Monzie, delivered ashort address to the " Friends
of the Reformation," in the course of which he said they were
peculiarly favoured in having the erection of so appropriate
a monument to John Knox entrusted to them after the lapse
of 300 years. Mr. Campbell then deposited three glasses,
which contained the " History of John Knox," the " First
Book of Discipline," several of the works cf the reformer, a re-
port of the proceedings of a meeting held in Edinburgh in re-
ference to the monument, a list of the names of those (3,788
in number) who had subscribed to its funds, and other docu-
ments. Mr. Campbell having applied the trowel, plumb,
and line to the covering stone, and administered to it three
blows with a mallet, three cheers were given by the assem-
blage. Two verses of a psalm were again sung, and the pro-
ceedings concluded with a prayer by Mr. Noble, of the Gaelic
Church. Both in going and returning a portion of the crowd
assailed the procession with cries of Send back the money,"
in allusion to the aid received by the Free Church from the
churches in America. •

In the evening a meeting toile place in the Music Hall,
which was crowded. Mr. Thomson, of Bauchory, a lineal
descendant of Knox, occupied the chair. On the platform
we observed Dr. Cappadose, from Hollund, Sir James
Forrest, Bart., Mr. Campbell, of Monzie, and a large
number of the ministers of the Free Church from town and
country. After a short introductory address by the Chair-
man, the meeting was addressed by Drs. M'Crie and
Hetherington on the history of the Reformation ; by
Begg on education ; by Dr. Cunningham on the ecclesiastical
bearing of the Reformation ; and by Dr. Candlish, Dr.
Buchanan, the Rev. Mr. Milroy, and Sir J. Forrest,
on various incidental topics connected with the day's pro-
ceedings. A letser was read from Dr. Merle d'Aubigue,
inclosing a subscription of four hundred francs, and ex•
pressing his delight at the near prospect of so appropriate a
monument being erected to the memory of the Scottish
Reformer. Mr. Jaffray stated that the sum required for the
monument would be about 15,0001., and that there was al-
ready subscribed upwards of 4,0001. In the course of his
speech, Dr. Cunningham made the following remarks :—" In
regard to Ireland, the fact is this : Ireland cannot be said to
have had a reformer or a reformation of her own at all. He
Would be a bold man, I think, who would venture to say that
the ecclesiastical establishment of Ireland has ever done any
material or appreciable benefit to the cause of Protestantism
or to the cause of genuine religion. I fear that its influence,
direct and indirect, has been of an opposite description, and
I am very much persuaded of this, that it would be for the
benefit of Protestantism, and for the benefit of true religion,
if the ecclesiastical establishment of Ireland were swept away.
—(Loud applause.) I think there is good reason to believe
that, in the existing position of things, the abolition of the
Irish ecclesiastical establishment may be regarded as the
first step towards the reformation of Ireland."—(Cheers.)
Scotsman.

HORRIBLE TRAGEDY IN SPAIN.
BAYONNI, MAY 15.—One of those rugged and solitary
valleys, formed by the spurs of the Navarrese Pyrenees, has
just been the scene of a shocking tragedy, which, if possible,
excited increased horror in the neighbourhood, from the fact
of its having occurred within a short distance of the spot
where the famous Christino Guriello Elorrio was assassinated
only a few days ago.
A. fortnight has not yet elapsed since a woman entered an
isolated house, situated in the above locality, and begged its
inmates, consisting of a peasant, his wife, and their infant,
to give her shelter for the night. No sooner was the prayer
made than it was granted with that hospitality for which
the inhabitants of northern Spain are proverbial, and the
stranger sat down to rock the baby's cradle whilst the
patrona lit a candle for the purpose of preparing supper.
She and her husband then observed that the new corner,
whose rough voice had previously excited their attention,
bad a very m isculine aspect, and they were not long in
finding out that a man, disguised as a female, was beneath
the roof One rapid glance exchanged between the dis-
mayed couple sufficed to show that each had made this
alarming discovery at the same time, and the peasant, under
pretext of looking after some pigs, went out to seek the as-
sistance of his nearest neighbours. No sooner was he gone
than the pretended weman, assuming a ferecious aspect, ap-
proached his trembling companion, who precipitately shut
herself up in an adjoining room. The robber, f r such he
was, tried to burst open the door, but, finding it resisted all
his attempts, desisted, threatening that if a sum of money
received the day before by the peasant for some maize was
not immediately given up, he would kill the child which
was sleeping near the miscreant. The poor women, half
dead with fright, and not imagining that such a threat
could be put into execution, refused to leave her
place of refuge, and in a minute afterwards the
screams of the little innocent and its
.subsequent silence, sud-
den and profound, told its agonised mother that the monster
had murdered it. This deed of blood consummated, the
wretch strove to break through the mud wall separating him
from his other victim, and in a short time he made an orifice
sufficiently large to admit his head and shoulders, through
which he strove to make his way; but the peasant's wife,
rendered desperate by the death of her child and her own
danger, caught hold of a sickle, and seizing the assailant by
his hair, hacked at his neck with such energy that she
severed his head from the trunk. This done, she fell to the
ground in a fainting fit, just as the peasant returned with
aid, whose horror and consternation may be imagined on
discovering his infant dead and weltering in its blood, the
body of a decapitated man extended on the floor, and his
unfortunate wife in a swoon, with the robbers head at her
feet.

A NEW KIND OF POTATO.—John Digby, a cottager,
of Buxton, in Norfolk, and the grower of four crops of potatoes in one
year, in a letter to the Nor:folk Chronicle, says, " I have discovered a
berry which I will gather from the banks or hedges, and which win
produce the finest potato or potatoes in quality that ever were
grseign One quart of these berries win produce as much as one
bushel of our common potato. These berries are of a small sub-
stance, and are to be planted whole. They must go through a re-
gular process in the course of the winter, which is scarcely any
trouble, and of no expense. I now have in my possession a quantity
of potatoes raised from these berries last year, and it is my intention
to grow crop after crop this year, until the fourth crop. The size of
the potatoes raised from the berries the first year are about that of a
duck's egg. The berries ate 50 numerous that all England can be
supplied."

VICTORIA PARE FAIR.—From Monday, up to
Thursday night, a fair was hold in King Edward's-road, adjoining
the Victoria Palk. Effort was made by parties in the South Hack-
ney district to suppress it, hut the magistrates, under legal advice;
declined t, interfere. Every species of amusement was afforded,
and the utmost older and good humour prevailed. The booths war
closed at 11 o'clock by the police.
POST OFFICE NOTICE.—REDUCTION IN THE RATES
Or POSTAGE —The following document was issued on Thursday:—
General Post-office, May 21,1846. On and after the let of June
next the foreign rates of postage on letters sent through France
between the United Kingdom and Wurtemburg, will be reduced from
10d. to scl. on each single letter. No alteration, however, will take
place in the present British rates of postage on these letters. The
British and foreign rates must be combined, and taken on the same
principle as that adopted for letters addressed to France, as shown in
the following table :—Ccpabined British and foreign rates on a letter,
weighing under a quarter of an ounce, British sd. ; foreign 5d.; total,
to destination, led. Weighing a quarter of an ounce, and not
exceeding half an ounce, British, 5d ; foreign,lod. • total to
destination, Is. 3d. Exceeding half an ounce, 'd
three-
quarters of an onnee, British, 10d. , foreign, Is. d.a•n(tiotmiter
destina-
tion, 2s. Id. Weighing three-quarters of an ounce, 'and total
ezeeed-
ing one ounce, British 10d. ; foreign, Is. 8d ; total to destination,
2s. 6d. Exceeding one ounce, and under one. ounce and quarter,
British, Is. Bd.; foreign, 2s. Id. ; total to destination, 3sa. 2d. Th
payment of postage on these letters is optional, but the letters must
be either forwarded unpaid, or the entire postage to destination, both
British and foreign, must be paid in advance...
A gentleman, from Nottingham, observed a remark-
able scene in Exeter one day recently. A. number of Nottingham
Stockingers were parading the streets of that city, dragging along a
o
stagework on wheels, occupied by one of their number and a stock-
ing-frame in full work. The. astonie men
t ofcarri the citizens
withciti them,enswasertehaety,
and, from the sal, of stOC3lll s the
reaped A good harvest.
Sir' Robert Sale left
HONG-KONG.—The freight ship
China en the 16th of January last for England, and
detachments of
,
made an excel;
lent passage in 110 days, with the under-mentioned
Invalids on board :-1 sergeant and I gunner of theßoyal i
2 corporals and 1 private of the Royal Sappers and 3
scants, 48 privates, and 2 drummers of the 18th Regiment ilslesryer-;
privates of the 98th Regiment. Of naval invalids there were .5 l6
war-
rant officers and 38 seamen and marines, with 10 women and 10
t;
and
children. Died during the passage 7of the 18th Regiment, 7 of th 3.
98th Regiment, 3 naval, and a children. Lieutenant Armstrong, of
the 18th, commanded, with Lieutenant Elliott, of the same Regie
ment and Or. Shelton, of the 28th Regiment, was the medical
officer in charge. Mr. Cook, purser, R.N., Dr. Neill, surgeon, R. N ,
Mr. Gordon, clerk, and Mr. Boyce, volunteer, returned at the same
time

CONCLUSION OF THE SALE OF MR. R. NICHOLL'S
COLLEcTioX OP PlCTuitEs. —On Thursday the sale of this gentleiral s
collection of pictures was concluded at Messrs. Foster's auction
rooms, Pall Mall. 'The following are worthy of notice : Lucas Cra-
nach—" Portrait of the artist's daughter as kerolias, with the head
of St. John on a ,harger," sold for 180 guineas. Gerard Dow--.. A
warrior surrounded by implem nts of war, and holding a spear in his
left hand," sold for 170 guineas. " Two men fishing on the banks of
a stream, attended by a dog ; on the ' fight, a ruin in the midst of a
wood," Ruysdaei, sold for 116 guineas. Lot 88—" A young lady
sketchlir," engraved under the title of " The Design," Sir J. Rey-
nolds—sold for 90 guineas. The followin: lot—" A girl carrying a
milk-pail on her head, with cattle and other figures," by Gains-
borough, and well known to the public by Miss Linwood's copy in
needlewerk, sold for 70 guineas. Lot 114—" The interior of a cot-
tage, &c ," A. Ostade, sold for 94 guineas. Lot 115--" A very small
landscape, with a woman milking a cow, &c.," A. Vandcrvelde, sold
for 63 guineas. Lot LIG—. Beads," Titian—formerly exhibited at
the British Institution—sold for 43 guineas. The sale in the aggre-
gate realized between 4,000/. and 5,000/.
HORRIBLE DEATH OF A FEMALE BY FIRE. An in-
quest was held on Thursday by Mr. Wakley, Sl.p,, at the Middlesex
Hospital, to inquire into the death of Louisa Richards, aged twenty
fire. The deceased was femme de citanaltre to Madame Flora, of 32,
Wyatt-street, Regent's Park. About two o'clock on Tuesday morn-
ing she went into the front kitchen for a light, and took it into the
actjoining room for a pitcher of water, and in putting the candle on
the floor the current of air blew it towards her dress, which suddenly
became ignited. Mr. Shields, the landlord, perceiving a glimmering
light from his bedroom window, immediately ran down stairs, and
seeing what he took for a piece of carpet all in a blaze, he instantly
threw a pail of water on it, and then discovered it was the deceased,
Ong on her face, frightfully charred from head to foot. The unfor-
tunate creature was removed to the hospital in a hopeless condition,
and died in a few hours after her admit/flop: Verdict, " deCidental
geinti."