The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-31 00:00:00

WESTOFT

FURTHER COMMUNICATION WITH
NORTHERN EUROPE.
A feat of locomotion, unprecedented in the Eastern
Counties' territory, was performed on Tuesday and
Wednesday last, with a view to signalize this year's
Lowestoft Regatta, which was otherwise abundantly dis-
tinguished beyond the anniversary of this time twelve-
month. At seven o'clock on Tuesday morning, Mr. D.
Waddington, M.P., chairman, and whirs of the direc-
tors, together with Mr. Gooch, of the locomotive depart-
ment, and Mr. G. Richardson, the coaching superin-
tendent, started in a special mixed train of ten carriages
from the Shoreditch terminus, and arrived at Lowestoft,
the extremest eastern point of England, distant from the
capital 126 miles, in a few minutes over three and a half
hours. Even this speed, calculated as it was to astonish
the somewhat lethargic philosophers of the Fens, would
have been exceeded, but that the line was in several
places impeded by excursionist traffic, entailing the ne-
cessity of shunting between Cambridge and Ely; and a
considerable time was also lost between Norwich and
Lowestoft owing to the cheap trains, laden with an enor-
mous number of passengers, proceeding to the regatta.
On arriving at Lowestoft the party were met by Mr.
Pete, Member for Norwich, chairman of the Norfolk
Company, and by Lord Alfred Paget, lately become a
director of the Eastern Counties, who had proceeded
thither the previous day in his beautiful craft the Mona,
which however met with no competitor for the 50 guinea
cup, and the Noble Commodore of the Royal Yacht
Squadron set sail for Cowes in the evening.
The directors and their friends inspected the lions of
the place, now of a magnitude and completeness that,
considering they are but the growth of yesterday, can
hardly be credited by those at a distance, notwithstand-
ing the engineering skill and the continuous liberality of
the means well known to have been expended upon them.
The contrivances in particular for the accommodation of
the Danish cattle trade, which, though commenced but a
few u:ontha ago, has already attained an importance alto-
gether beyond the most extravagant expectations that could
have been formed, elicited great admiration from those
who saw them for the first time. No less so did the un-
usual number of religious and educational institutions,
compared with the population; and among those peculiar
to Lowestoft is that of Colville-house, situated on the salt-
water Lake Lothing, for imbecile children of the upper
classes, where Dr. Foreman is most successfully carrying
out a new treatment of mental complaints in young sub-
jects, having been induced to select that neighbourhood for
his experiments by Mr. Peto, whose donation of 1,0001. to
the Idiot's Asylum is but one of the many evidences of
the special interest that gentleman takes in the alleviation
of the disorders more immediately referred to. The staple
of Lowestoft, the fishing trade, being universally pros-
perous both this and last season, the resident inhabitants
were in the best possible frame of mind for the apprecia•
tion of the compliments bestowed on the natural and ar-
chitectural beauties of their town, whose buildings vie
with those of many of the older and more fashionable
watering places—the Royal Hotel in particular, on the
Marine Parade, the great boast of this part of East An-
glia, being an establishment rivalling the most famous
hostelries of Brighton, Bath, or Cheltenham.
At this house, on Tuesday evening, a splendid dinner
was provided by Mr. Hewett, the proprietor, in the su-
perb new banquetting-hall, at which upwards of 100 sat
down, under the presidency of Mr. Peto, who, in the
course of one of his addresses, which were for the most
part necessarily of a local character, communicated some
facts of general interest in connexion with the subject of
inc eased extension of our commerce in the north of
Europe, and which consequently deserve a wide-spread
publicity. Iu reply to his health, proposed in very elo-
quent terms by Mr. Waddington, M.P., who happily eu-
logized his well-known enterprise, far-sightedness, and
munificence, in various parts of England, especially on
the site of that day's festivities, in which nearly all the
leading gentry of Norfolk and Suffolk had participated.
Mr. PETo, after gracefully disposing of the personal
portion of the compliment, and disclaiming the unqua-
lified disinterestedness of the motives ascribed to him,
inasmuch as his own interest IN as identified with that of
his immediate friends and neighbours around him, ad-
verted at considerable Jena to the greatly increased
development of the cattle trade between the north of
Europe and Lowestoft. Be remarked, that he re-
garded the advancement of the latter locality, on which
he had set his heart most intently, with the almost con-
fiderce from the moment he had fixed his eyes on the
distant shore opposite, and felt that its trade must be
theirs if sought. They were all aware that within the
last few months a new route had been opened to Den-
mark, and with the best results. By next Saturday he
trusted to be on his way to Norway, there to arrange
for the construction of the first line of railway in that
country, forming a connecting link with the capital of
the former kingdom; and as the best evidence of the ear-
nestness and honesty of the Norwegian people, he might
mention that before they permitted them (the contrac-
tors) to move a step, the commissioners had deposited
in the National Bank a quarter of a million sterling as an
assurance that no risk would be run. By th next
regatta dinner he hoped to announce that a railroad
was in rapid progress between Copenhagen and Chris-
tiana, as well as between the former capital and those parts
on the Danish shores with which Lowestoft had re-
cently commenced a direct trade. If, by these means,
there were brought into operation new facilities of inter-
communication between the nations; and that St. Pe-
tersburgh, for instarce, was placed three days nearer
London than at present, he hoped his good friends of
the city of Norwich would take advantage of the cir-
cumstance, and by carrying to other countries the arts in
which that city was still unrivalled, as she had ever been
unsurpassed, would nobly emulate those foreigners to
whom they themselves were originally so greatly in-
debted ; for he need hardly remind his hearers that it
was to the emigration of the ingenious and industrious
Flemings from their own country and their settlement in
Norfolk, that Norwich owed its early pre-eminence, still
sustained amidst all vicissitudes, in pursuits so
long identified with her celebrity, and thus
reciprocate the obligations their forefathers had
incurred at the hands of the ingenious and accom-
plished strangers of the Low Countries. It was the duty
of all, as it was evidently the instinct of the great majority,
and the tendency of the age, to go forward; and ho was
proud to think that those in that neighbourhood showed
no disposition to stand still, much Jess to retrograde.
If, some very few years ago, he had told them that, from
the spot on which he stood, he could send a question to
the port of Chester, and receive an answer within an
hour and a half, as was the case last week, they would
have thought it high time to send him to Thorpe Asy-
lum; but it, on Saturday next, he should set out for Nor-
way, and having consulted and arranged with the autho-
rities of that kingdom and of Sweden and Denmark,
tor bringing all three into closer proximity, and be able
to communicate that he
Shad done so by the 17th, he
thought he would have supplied proof that what had
been lately done in the way of economising time and dis-
tance was hardly more remarkable than what might be
anticipated in the same direction.

It is unucessary to add that ihe Hon. Gentleman's
speech was received with all the enthusiasm to be ex-
pected from an assemblage of his personal friends. Most
of them, in common with the great bulk of those arri-
ving in Lowestoft that day, had met rather to observe
the progress of the woiks he had suggested so wisely,
and was carrying out so triumphantly, than to criticise
the strictly marine entertainment to which they were os-
tensibly invited, though these were of a character suffi-
ciently gratifying to the amour propre of the proverbially
daring and skilful mariners of this coast, whose manage-
ment of the •yawls" constitutes an unique feature of
sea craft. At night the front of the Royal Hotel was il-
luminated with great brilliancy, and fireworks were dis-
charged in a fashion highly creditable to the skill of the
bloater" community.
The special train retarned at eight o'clock yesterday
morning, i❑ the pleasantest manner possible; and, in-
cluding a more than reasonable stay at Ely and Cam-
bridge respectively, accomplished the entire distance in
three hours and three-quarters—a celerity, as before
stated, previously never attempted on this line, and the
facile attainment of which is a fact of the highest im-
portance taken in connexion with the forthcoming deve-
lopment of the railway system in the north of Europe,
as indicated by Mr. Peto.

GRAND MARINE REGATTA AT

LOWESTOFT.

LOWESTOFT, TUESDAY NIGHT.—This day the grand
annual marine regatta took place at Lowestoft, under the
patronage of Sir Thomas Marion Wilson, Bart., S. M.
Peto, Esq., M.P., and a large body of members of the
Eastern Yacht Club, and was most numerously and
fashionably attended. Amongst the company present
were Lord Alfred Paget, S. M. Peto, Esq., M.P., Mrs.
Peto and family; Colonel and Miss Hardy, Captain and
Mrs. Lethes and family, the Rev. Dr. Bird and Mrs. Bird,
Mr., Mrs., and Miss Clarke, J. Ouchin, Esq., J. Green,
Esq., Mr. Vernon, the Misses Leighs, Captain Ellis, Cap-
tain Preston, Mr. Webber, J. R. Burkett, Esq., J. Clay,
Esq., W. Ashcroft, Esq., &c. &c.
From an early hour in the morning trains continued
to pour in visitors from London, Norwich, and Yar-
mouth, until mid-day. Several vessels in the har-
bour were gaily dressed in the colours of all nations,
and the pier and esplanade were crowded with elegantly
dressed ladies and their families. A considerable num-
ber of persons took advantage of the steamers lying in
the harbour, and accompanied the different matches
round the course. The course for yachts, yawls, and
beats, was from the moorings laid down abreast of the
New South Pier Head, thence to the South buoy off
Newcombe, thence through the Stamford Channel, round
the light-ship under the shoal buoy, thence to the start-
ing Place, passing between the pier and the cutter an.
chored abreast. Twice round the course, passing all the
buoys on the port. The distance sailed was about
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Royal Victoria, 61 feet, Yarmouth—Red and white.
Queen Victoria, 64 feet, Yarmouth—Blue and red..
Reindeer, 69 feet, Yarmouth—Blue and red.
Tnese vessels got away well together, the Royal Vic-
toria, however, slightly taking the lead, followed closely
by the Queen Victoria, which positions were nearly
maintained throug.hout,but the vessels coming in on the
first round in the following order:—
Queen Victoria...
Royal Victoria-. 2
Reindeer... ••• ••• ••• ... 3
Greyhound -•-• ..• ... 4
Eclipse ... ..• ••• ••• 5
The match was rendered most interesting from the
nearly-balanced qualities of the Royal. favourites, there
being on the first round but a bowsprit length between
them. On coming round the pier on the first round
the Greyhound, having unshipped her gaff, gave up the
contest. The seoond round caused the greatest excite-
ment,
and the vessels, after a very animated race, came
in in She following 9zder

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE:
We are pleased to hear that Commodore Lord John
Hay, superintendent of the dockyard at Devonport, is
again convalescent, but we understand, in deference to
the wishes of his medical attendant, the Gallant Com-
modore will absent himself on leave for a short time.
The members of the Pl 3 mouth Royal Naval Club dine
together at Elliott's Royal Hotel, on Wednesday, the 6th
of August, the anniversary of the naval engagement off
the agger Bank.
Lieutenant Dorville, late first lieutenant of the Gram-
pus, has been appointed to the Royal Naval College,
Portsmouth.
Dr. George Rae (1850) has been appointed surgeon,
and John M'l3winey,(lB47) has been appointed assistant-
surgeon of the Calypso, 18, at Chatham. Dr. Rae
served during the operations in China; was senior as-
sistant-surgeon of the Canopus, 84 guns, in the experi-
mental squadron; and afterwards was promoted from
the Wellesley, flag-ship in the West Indies. Dr. Rae is
made honourable mention of by Dr. Wilson,
inspector of
hospitals in China, for his services in the hospital-ship
Minden, during the extreme prevalence of sickness in
that ship in 1848.
Eagle, 50, was taken out of No. 5 dock at Devonport
on Monday ; and the Styx, steam-ship Commander W.
K. Hall, will be taken in to clean her copper this day.
Trafalgar, 124, Captain Greville, weighed anchor at
Spithead yesterday at 11.30 A.M., and made all sail to
royals, with a light northerly breeze. At noon she
set her studding sails, and was soon afterwards outside
the Nab light-vessel. She takes several officers, seamen,
marines, and marine artillery to fit up ships in the Me-
diterranean.
Oberon, iron steam-packet, got up steam, and left at
the same time as the Trafalgar. The Oberon is in
charge of Lieut. Norman, and is manned by a party
from the Trafalgar,
DOCKYARD.—John Wallis, shipwright, who has been
ill for some time, with no prospect of returning to his
duty, has been discharged from Devonport dockyard,
their Lordships having granted him a gratuity of four
months' wages.

PLYMOUTH, •JULY 30.—Her Majesty's steam-ship
Magicienne, in charge of Mr. Biddlecombe, which left
Portsmouth on Monday morning at 3 1.m., notwith-
standing a strong head wind, made 11 knots an hour
under steam, and arrived here at 8 P.M. the same day.
The brig Express, 6, Commander Fead, was warped
to her moorings on Saturday and was towed yesterday
by the Kite from Hamoaze into the Sound. The boy
which is to accompany her to Bermuda is also in the
Sound.

The steam-vessel Styx was warped yesterday from
her moorings to this jetty. To-morrow she will be exa-
mined and have her copper repaired, and on the sth
proximo she is to be ready for sea.
The contract ship William Hyde, Captain Apple-
whaite, with Burra Burra copper ore from Port Ade-
laide, ore and flax from Auckland, and spars from New
Zealand for the dockyard, arrived last evening. She left
Auckland on the 9th of April, touched at Pernambuco
on the 15th, and sailed therefrom on the 17th of June.
Passengers:—The Hon. Miss Clinton, niece to the
Duke of Newcastle ; Mrs. Pitt, widow of General
Pitt, late Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's forces
at New Zealand, three Misses Pitt, and five
children; Captain Pitt and lady, 80th Regiment; Lieu-
tenant Page and lady, 58th Regiment; Miss Morton;
Dr. Campbell, ono of the Emigration Commissioners'
surgeons; Mrs. Applewhaite and child, and five servants.
Off the Western Islands spoke the ship London, 84 days
from Valparaiso, for Liverpool; and the Hamburgh
barque Johannesse, 45 days from Bahia, for Cowes.
Emigrants are much required at New Zealand, where
farm labourers are getting 201. to 251. per annum besides
rations. Trade brisk at Pernambuco, only ono or two
cases of fever had occurred. I❑ harbour no men-of-war
but many merchant vessels—the British chiefly from
Liverpool.
WooLwrcx, JULY 30.—Mr. Join Lee, second-class
clerk at Woolwich Dockyard, is promoted to be first-
class clerk, vice Peter Morgan, appointed store-receiver.
The Polyphemus, 5, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, of 200-
horse power, having undergone a thorough repair at
Deptford Dockyard, was towed down the river to-day
to Woolwich, to be made ready for commission, and is
expected to be employed on the Mediterranean station.