The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-09 00:00:00

HENLEY ROYAL REGATTA.

Several of the gentlemen amateurs who are to take a
part in this great regatta on Monday and Tuesday next
have already arrived at Henley, and are training over the
beautiful reach of water selected for the sport. The Chester
four was great last year, and, encouraged by their suc-
cess, they have got up an eight for the present regatta,
which, it is said, will cut out some sharp work for the
university men, and also give the great London club the
Argonaut, a warming for the four•oared match, in which
Oxford and Cambridge both have also crews of a very
first.rate character. Of the two London psirs, Messrs.
Playford and Payne, and Nottidge and Cassmajor, the
former are 'slightly tke favourites ; and Cassmajor has
strongly the call for the sculls. Since our previous no-
tice of the facilities of reaching Henley per Twyford, the
Great Western Railway, for the accommodation of per-
sons attending the regatta, have put on special trains to
and fro, and the transit between Paddington 'and Twy-
ford will be as follows :—Down, 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 12 50
p.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m., 8.10 p.m. ; up, 4.30 p.m.; 5.38
p.m., 7.40 p.m., 9 p.m. The last, as well as the ordi-
nary trains, will call at Slough and Maidenhead.

MANUFACTURING STATISTICS.—In England and Scot•

land generally, the weekly consumption of cotton is not
under 31,500 bales. There are spun 50,000,000 miles
of yarn per day, a length sufficient to circumscribe the
►lobe two thousand times : and there are woven by
250,000 power•looms, 3,551 miles of cloth per day, equal
to the distance between Liverpool and New York,--or
forming an annual produce of cloth that would extend
over?a surface in a direct line, of 1,000,000 miles.—
Builder.

VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN
THE CIVIL SERVICE.—InIand Revenue Department—
Excise Branch—Mr. W. Wrenford, collector of Mid-
dlesex collection, has been appointed collector of
London North, in the room of Mr. Jonathan Bar-
ber, who has retired after 40 years' honourable ser-
vice. Mr. Horatio Standley, surveyor general exam-
iner, has been appointed collector of Middlesex collec.
tion, in the room of Mr. Wrenford, promoted. Mr.
John Thornick, collector of Lynn, has been appointed
collector of Canterbury, vice Mr. W. A. Mark, Mr. Wm.
Ritson, surveying general examiner, has been appointed
collector of Lynn, in the roam of Mr. Thorndick, pro-
moted. Legal Department.—A vacancy has occurred in
the office of official messenger of the Liverpool District
Court of Bankruptcy, by the death of Mr. S. Day. Ctrs•
toms.—A vacancy has been caused in the landing-waiters'
department by the death of Mr. F. Francis. Mr. Wm.
Daly has been appointed a clerk for general business in
London. Mr. W. H. Ramsbottom has been appointed a
clerk for general business in London. Mr. A. Campbell
has been promoted from second to first class searcher in
London ; Mr. D. J. Ure has been promoted from third
to second class searcher in London ; Mr. J. Tattersall
has been promoted from fourth to third class searcher in
London. Ireland—The lord lieutenancy of the county
Wexford has become vacant by the death of Lord Carew.
Mr. Stanley, late secretary to the poor law commission,
has been appointed comptroller and accountant-general of
the stamps and taxes department, Dublin, in the room of
Mr. E. B. Powell, retired on full salary. Cape of Good
Hope—Mr. A. Henderson has boen appointed clerk to
the civil commissioner of Victoria ; Mr. J. F. J. Wrench
has been appointed clerk to the civil commissioner of
Albert. Canada—Mr. A. Douglas, of the city of Ottawa,
has been appointed a surveyor in her Majesty's Customs
to the province of Canada,—Civil Service anotte.