The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-30 00:00:00

SCULLERS' RACE FOR £2O.

A very pretty scullers' race, although for the above
amount, which is small as stakes go in the present day,
came off yesterday, the competitors being James Lewis and
William Stratford, both of Lambeth, the former a barge
builder, and the latter a waterman ; but although Lewis is
over 30, and his opponent only 22, the fact of the former
having rowed two or three races previously made him the
favourite at 5 and 6 to 4, a state of odds which was war-
ranted, when it is known that this is Stratford's maiden
effort. The men had taken cars of themselves since the
making of the match, and came to their poste in excellent
fettle, being accompanied as usual by cutters, while the
Venus, Captain Sharplin, conveyed spectators to see the
race. There was considerable dodeng4i# the Vei •itch '1;0
"old-'un" wanting a lead, which he got in the shape of half
his length. The youngster, however, dashed after him, col-
lared him, and led by the same in 300 yaRP. Sharp practice,
however, did not succeed so well as it ; -enerally does, for
Lewis was "there" again in the next 209 yards, and after
a clipping ding-dong race, led again, making the race in-
tensely exciting. Stratford put on the steam, and gradu-
ally came up again, and then there was another neck-and-
neck contest right away to Craven. Here youth began t•
tell, and the young one again led, but was come time
getting away, and although he led by three lengths at
Hammersmith, Lewis rowed so good a stern race that he
never allowed his opponent to get any great distance away,
and Stratford won after a good race by four or five lengths.
Ho trained at Salter's, the Feathers, -Wandsworth, and
rowed in one of Salter's boats.

The distance was Putney to Barnes, and Mr. Charles
Newnham, referee.

THE _ROBBERY OF £2,690 FROM A
NOTTINGE2III" BOOKMAKE.R.

NOTTINGHAM, MONDAY.
Yesterday, Mr. Nichols, who had been
garotted at Newmarket and robbed of nearly £3,000
on the previous Friday, arrived in Nottingham. A
brief outline of the affair has already appeared,
partly incorrect. Mr. Nichols, however, gives the
following version of the robbery :—On Friday night
he went to an establishment in one of the main
thoroughfares of Newmarket where sporting men
are in the habit of assembling during the race meet-
ings at that town, and wrote a letter for transmis•
sion by that evening's post to Nottingham. He
then left the house and proceeded to the back of
the premises, when he felt himself suddenly grasped
tightly by the neck from behind, and in such a
manner as to deprive him of all power of resistance,
and indeed of capacity to give an alarm. At the
same instant he saw a little man come in front of
him and heard a voice say " Open his waistcoat."
He then became insensible, and was unconscious of
anything for some time. On recovering he found
himself lying upon the ground with his clothes dis-
arranged, and on searching his pockets he dis-
covered that he had been robbed of his watch and
the whole of his money (with the exception of 2d.),
amounting to £1,840 ls. 6d. in beak notes, gold,
and silver, and a cheque on Messrs. Moore and
Robinson's bank for £B5O. No trace whatever of_
the thieves could be found. It was ascertained.
that two men had by the means of a ladder passed
over a wall near the scene of the robbery,oneof the
thence made their escape through a ho
through
inmates of which observed two fellobwuusrareo;
in dark clothes, the other in light,
sympathy
was ex-
pressedne dressed
the passage. The greatest
leading men of the
out-
rage, and Mr. Payne, onebo
subscription with the sum of
towards the victimf
tboefhs flagrant
turf, offered to head a
also expressed their willing-
£so to reimburse
members of the ring oales fors his loss ; several other
pie, It is satisfactory to
ness to follow this
personalexample,
injuries are concerned,
add that as far a °Manchester paper is exaggerated.
the report in the Nichols
Nichols has sustained no material injury from the
ill-treatment .
b he
e received; none of his ribs are
broken nor is way maimed or rendered
incapable o • in any .
f pursuing his ordinary avocations. His
pecuniary
will, it is to be feared, b
• ry losse Consider-
able any circumstances. Only one or two of
the
under a
bank notes in his possession can be identified,
the numbers of the great bulk of them, which we
believe he drew from Messrs. Moore and Robin-
son's
bank previous to his departure from New-
market, not being known. The cheque for £B5O
will, of course, be unavailable to the thieves, as
payment of it has been stopped. It is perhaps due
to Nichols to state that, severe as his loss has been,
he is, we understand, quite able to meet all his
engagements. His heaviest losses at Newmarket
amount to about £9OO, principally due to persons
resident in Manchester, and this sun will be paid
before Wednesday. His liabilities in Nottingham
have already been discharged. The police are on
the alert to discover the perpetrators of this daring
outrage, and we understand there is some chance
of their being detected.

THE WARSAW CONFERENCES.—It is very gene-
rally asserted and believed that the failure of the Warsaw
Conferences mainly arose from the prominence given by the
Czar in the Imperial and Royal deliberations to a revision
of the Treaty of Paris—that being the main object at pre-
sent of the policy of Russia. To the revision of the treaty,
deemed necessary by Russia in satisfaction of its amour
propre, the other potentates were unable to asfient.—Daily
iffifot