The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-24 00:00:00

ROWING MATCH FOR FIFTY POUNDS.

The sculler's contest between Thomas Coombes, the
brother of the champion of the Thames, and Frederick
Lett, of Lambeth, came off yesterday afternoon. The
race had been looked for with a great deal of intereit,
and from the well-known qualities of the men, who had
distinguished themselves in many very spirited contests,
a first:rate struggle was anticipated. The men have
contended on three previous occasions, Lett having won
the first match after a great deal of fouling, Coombes
the second, and Lett the third, and the result of yester-
day's performance makes the score even between them.
Both men have been in very active training, and came to
the starting place, Battersea-bridge, to row to Hammer-
smith, in first-rate condition, Coombes in the beautiful
wherry, built by Cownden and Wentzell, in which his
brother defeated Charles Campbell for the championship,
and his opponent in one by Noulton and Wylde, of very
handsome construction. Betting was 5 to 4on Lett.
Lett got the start, and at Battersea Church was a length
a-head, having had considerable advantage by the choice
of station. His opponent, however, stroke by stroke,
gained upon him, and, almost immediately came scull and
scull, and passed him in gallant style. Lett did his best
to overtake his antagonist, but his efforts were useless.
Coombes was five or six lengths a-head at Wandsworth,
wont on gaining, and won by about two hundred and
fifty yards.

We regret to hear that the Earl of Munster and
Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence received the melancholy
intelligence, on Monday last, of the death of Lady
Augusta Bond/ whose premature demise took place►at
Stockholm on the sth instant. Her Ladyship's sccoache-
ment happened on the 2d, and her death resulted from
her confinement. The deceased lady was second daughter
of the late Earl and Countess of Munster, -and grand-
daughter of his late Majesty William IV. Her Lady-
ship was born 31st of July, 1822, and was married last
year to M. Ronde, at Paris, when Lady Mary Fox, Lord
Adolphus Fitzclarence, and other branches of the family
attended the nuptials. By the lamented death of her
Ladyship, the Earl of Munster, Viscount and Vis-
countess Falkland, the Earl and Countess of Errol, Lord
and Lady Frederick Fitzzlarence, Colonel and Lady Mary
Fox, Lord De Lisle and Dudley, Lord and Lady Augustus
Fitzclarence, Lord Frederick and Lady Augusta Gordon
Hallyburton, &c., are placed in mourning.
FOREIGN GRAPES.—To show the extent to which
the importations of foreign grapes are carried at the
present time, the following arrivals may be especially
mentioned as having just taken place, and will be suffi-
cient to illustrate the subject :—The Tyro, from Lisbon,
brought 503 large boxes, 651 half boxes, 94 quarter
boxes, and 50 other packages of this kind of fruit, be-
sides several hundred packages of oranges, lemons, &c.,
the production of Portugal. The steam-ship Rainbow,
from Rotterdam, brought 893 baskets of the large and
fine description, known as the Hambro' grapes, and pro-
duced in the vineyards in the neighbourhood of Ham-
burgh ; and the Giraffe, from Rotterdam, also the un-
usually large number of 1,423 baskets of the same kind
of grapes. The Racer, from Lisbon, subsequently
brought 899 half boxes, 6 quarter boxes, and 43 large
boxes of grapes, the produce of Portugal. The impor-
tations of the description of grapes known as the Ham-
bro' grapes, previously alluded to, are taking place this
season to an extent beyond all former precedent. The
shops throughout the metropolis are abundantly supplied
with them ; they are of unusually fine quality and fla-
vour, and are vended at so reasonable a price as to place
them within the reach of the general public, which is to
be ascribed to the unusual and extraordinarily fine wea-
ther which has been experienced generally throughout
Europe during the past summer and up to the present
time.

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EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE.—On Sunday, the 20th
instant, Mr. Luscombe, the Netherlands Consul at Ply-
mouth, was applied to by Edward Johansen, a native of
Holland, under the following extraordinary circum-
stances:—The applicant stated that he formerly belonged
to the Isis, a Dutch East Indiaman, new masted at
Plymouth about fourteen months since, and he recalled
to the recollection of the Dutch Consul several things
which made that gentleman believe his statement. Having
gone on to Batavia in the Isis, Johansen suffered there
severely from a discharge of blood, and was in conse-
quence under medical treatment in the public hospital
for two or three months. On his recovery he joined the
Dutch barque Jocatra, Captain Verkevisser, bound from
Batavia to Amsterdam, and when off the Cornish coast,
on the passage home, about five or six days since, in
the middle watch, he took his trick at the wheel
from twelve to about one o'clock, at which hour he
was relieved by the mate, who ordered him aloft, to
prepare for rigging out studding-sails. While at the
end of the mainyard, fitting a boom and gear, the
rope which for security he had fastened round his
body gave way, and he unfortunately fell into the sea.
In his first attempt to alarm the ship his mouth
filled with water. It was very dark at the time, and
the vessel passed on out of sight, his shipmates being
totally unconscious of his perilous fate. Providentially
for Johansen, he had on only his shirt, shoes, and
trousers. He is about twenty-five years of age, strongly
built, and an expert swimmer. The land was in sight
on the previous day, and by the help of the stars he now
endeavoured to swim in that direction. After remaining
in the water an hour and a half or two hours, he became
almost exhausted, when day began to break, and to his
unutterable joy he was happily descried by some
fishermen who were passing near him, and between four
and five o'clock in the morning, took him on board their
vessel. The figures No. 11 were on the boat's sails. His
deliverers immediately landed him, in a very weakened
condition, at a small fishing town of about ten or twelve
poor houses, where he was humanely treated, and re-
mained two days and nights in bed. He does not know
English, but, when somewhat recovered, in the best
manner that he could he begged his way, about thirty
miles, to Plymouth. Mr. Luscombe and two Dutch
captains have closely interrogated Johansen, whose
answers, under the circumstances, were very satisfactory.
He is supplied with suitable clothing and necessaries
from the office of the Consulate, and has been kindly
taken on board the galliot Jantina, Captain Potjer,
which put into Plymouth from Bordeaux, bound to Rot-
terdam.

BURIAL SERVICE.—By the Act of 9 and 10 Vic-
toria, c. 68, which came into operation on the 26th of
August last, provision is made to enable the burial
service to be performed in one chapel, where contiguous
burial-grounds are provided for two or more parishes
or places. The Bishop of the diocese may declare, in
the sentence of consecration, that a chapel is intended
for the use of the several parishes or places. The
Act is to extend to any parish or place already or here-
after to be formed under the provisions of the Church
Building Acts, and also any new parish already or to be
hereafter constituted by or under the proceedings of th©
Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England,
DELAY or THE DELIVERY OF LETTERS.—Yester-
day morning the whole of the General Post-office letter-
carriers were ordered back to the office in St. Martin's-
le-Grand, in consequence of the non-arrival of the mail
bags from the Liverpool branch of the North-Western
Railway. The men, after having delivered the first dis-
patch, were sent out with the Liverpool mail abut fivo-
hours after the usual time. A serious accident below
Birmingham is stated by the Post-office authorities to
have been the' ie 9f the'deter if 111 !responder

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