The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-13 00:00:00

,BER.

AQUATICS.

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• HENLEY ROYAL REGATTA.
SECOND AND LAST DAY.
This great regatta was concluded yesterday with
some admirable sport. The weather was again
very fine, and the assemblage of visitors even larger
than that of the previous day.
The,following were the principal races :
FINAL CONTEST FOR THE GRAND CHALLENGE CUP.
The London Rowing Club
Cambridge University Boat Club
The London Crew.
st lb' I st lb
G. Dunnage 9 5 W. Farrar
W. Foster
F. Potter.. lO 4 A. Casamajor. lO 9
W. Dunnage ll 7 H. Playford, stroke.. ]0 3
W. Weston, coxswain, 6st 41b.

The Cambridge Crew.
st lb st lb
S. Heathcote, Trin .. 9 7 H. Haley, Trin.-hall 12 0
H. J. qlayton, Jesus 11 2 H. Collings, Trinity.. 10 12
J. P. Ingham, Trin.. 10 12 H. Royd%, Trinity... 10 4
H. L. Loyd, Magd .. 11 10 Hall, Magd., stroke 10 5
J. T. Borland, Trinity, coxswain, Bst 131 b.
This was the greatest event of the whole re-
gatta. The Cantabs were.the holders of the prize,
they having defeated the London Rowing Club
last year. As stated in our last, the Londoners beat
the University of Oxford on Monday in the trial
heat, and were now the opponents of Cambridge.
The latter were slightly the favourites, and had
been so for some days, and the odds were increased
in their favour by the exhausted condition of Mr.
H. Playford, evidenced on Monday in his rowing
himself to a dead standstill for the Champion Sculls,
and being absolutely helped out of his boat in the
middle of the race.
Mr. T. S. Egan, of the University of Cambridge,
was again the umpire, and led the way in his eight,
manned by picked watermen, down the course to
the starting place. He was followed by the Cam-
bridtie, whose lively, buoyant stroke was very much
admired. Then followed the Londoners; whose
style is certainly the perfection of art. Thousands
of persons had congregated in the meadows, and all
eyes were directed to the island whence the start
was to be made. Cambridge had the Berks side.
IThe start was admirable, and immediately after it
the Londoners took a slight lead, which they re-
tained and enormously increased by a fine spirt ,
just below Remenham, where with not a foot of
room to spare, they crossed their opponents and
took their water. The race was' even more despe-
rate than before. The Cantabs put on a vigorous
spirt, and stroke by stroke overlapped their oppo-
nents' boat. The shouts on all sides were deafen-
ing, and amid the uproar of applause the London
Rowing Club won by three•quarters of their own
length. Time, 7 min. 45 sec.
THE LADIES' CHALLENGE PLATE.
Cambridge—Firsts Trinity Boat Club 1
Oxford—Balliol College Boat Club
The Cambridge Crew.
St lb St lb
1. G. Low lO 35. J. Lyle
2. H. Wright
3. W. Campbell
4. D. Ingles
J. T. Borland, Bst 131 b.
The Bal iol Crew.
St lb St lb
1. D. Smith
2. St. D. Haramick .. 10 8 6. E. Warre
3. E. Lane
4. E. T. Thomas ll 8 8. H. S.Walpole, stroke 9 3
Next to the University contest was this race,
which by many was looked upon in that light from
the position either crew held upon its respective
river. It made the third eight-oared race at Henley,
and such things are unusual even at great regatta
meetings. First Trinity- were the favourites at 5
to 4. Oxford had the Berkshire side. A very
rapid start was succeeded by the Cambridge men
taking a slight lead, which they so increased, net-
Ntithstanding the desperate labour of their oppo-
nents, that they took their water within half a mile,
and won by two lengths.
THE STEWARDS' CHALLENGE CLIP.
Cambridge—Third Trinity Boat Club
London Rowing Club • 0
The Cambridge Crew.
St. lb. St. lb.
1. R. Beaumont .... 9 3 3. J. P. Ingrain
2. H. H. Collings.... 10 12 4. W. Holland, stroke 10 1
T. K. Gaskell, coxswain, 6st 131 b.
The Londoh Crew.
St. lb. St. lb.
1. Casamajer lO 9 3. J. Paine... l2 10
2. W. Farrar . . 12 4 4. Playford, stroke.. 10 3
W. Weston, coxswain, Est 41b.
This was another great race. The Londoners had
the Berks side, and took the lead, but ere they had
proceeded far the Cambridge came up, and a most
extraordinary race occurred, the boats making
alternate shoots yard after yard. Cambridge was
outside, and, having at length nearly got a lead,
began to close for the corner, and their oars over-
lapped for some time, till Trinity put on a beautiful
spirt and went ahead. The London men went so
desperately to work that they reduced their oppo-
nents' lead at last to three feet, there only being
that difference between the heads of the boats at
the finish. After the race an appeal was made to
the umpire by the London Rowing Club, who
alleged that in the overlapping above mentioned
the oars had come in contact ; but the umpire de:
cided there was.no foundation for such an assertion.
PICKED WATERMEN'S RACE.

Henry Kelly, Fulham. I J. Hammerton, Teddington.
J. Mackinney, Richmond. I Jonn Phelps, Fulham.
•
W. Weston, coxswain.

Thomas White, Lambeth. T. Mackinney, Richmond.
I
William Pocock, Lambeth. John Frances, Teddington.
Mr. Moreland, coxswain.
The winners took the lead from an early period
of the race, and kept it.

THE NEW CITY CORPORATION
REFORM BILL.

The bill of the Government for the " better regu-
lation," or reform of the Corporation of the City of
London, was printed, yesterday, prior to the second
,reading in the House of Commons, when the prin-
ciple of the measure will, in all probability, be
affirmed. The city is to be divided into 20 wards ;
nine of the old wards will remain unaltered—these
Aldgate, Aldersgate, Broad-street, Castle Baynard,
Coleman-street, Cripplegate Without, Farringdon
Within, Portsoken, and Tower. The other wards
to be formed by union and divisions of existing
wards will be named Billingsgate, Bishopsgate
Without, Bishopsgate Within, Bread-street, Candle-
wick,'Cheap, Cornhill, Cripplegate Within, North
Farringdon Withoxt, South Farringdon Without,
and Queenhithe. The last ward (by way of exam-
ple) will will include the old wards of Queenhithe
and the Vintry. The right of voting for aldermen
and common councilmen is conferred on males
of full age occupying, solely or jointly, any
house, shop, office, wharf, or other tene-
ment, and rated in'respect of such holding on a net
annual value of £lO. The list of electors will, of
course, be revised and purified periodically. On
St. Thomas's Day the common councilmen will be
elected by the 20 wards of the city, as now, for one
year. The total number of common councilmen
will be 120. On the 21st day of December next
each ward will also elect one aldermen, who will
hold his office during good behaviour, or until he
die or resign. The duties and powers of the new
aldermen and common councilmen will commence
on New Year's-day, 1860, on which day all the ex-
isting aldermen and common councilmen, unless
previously re-elected on Thomas's Day next, will
have to " clear out" of office. The Lord Mayor,
however, as king of the city, will remain on his
throne until the usual period (9th November).
Next year (1860) his Lordship will be elected by
the persons whose names appear the ward lists
in force :pro tern, under t 1 e act. Three auditors
will be annually chosen on the 15th of March by
the ward electors. The Lord Mayor and alder-
men will be justices, as now. No clerk in holy
orders or minister of a dissenting conventicle may
be elected an alderman, common-councilman,
, or
auditor of the city. The qualification of a layman
is the possession of an estate of £l,ooond such,real must
or per-
sonal, or a rating on an annual value of £3O. In-
solvency will, pro facto,
disqualify existing Lord
Mayors, aldermen, and councilmen, a
at once resign their gowns. The common-hall
elections are transferred to the Court of Common
and street toll
Council. The exclusive rights of trading in the
iaglahri beadiff magistrates of S
city are summarily swept away,
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iso hffiecd. se o f h
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may be appointed by the Queen at the request of
the Corporation. Freemen of the ' city may take
apprentices for a term of three instead of seven
years.

BATTLE-FIELD ANECDOTE.—The following is an
anecdote of the battle of Solferino :—" Corporal Ferriere,
of the 3d company of Foot Chasseurs, scaled at the head
of his men an eminence on which the Austrians had placel
a battery which kept up a murderous fire on the French.
In doing so, he had his left arm completely shattered by
gape. He exclaimed No matter ; before I die, I will
bring down one of the officers.' So saying, he threw downs
his rifle, which was no longer of any use to him, drew hol
sabre, and, with his left arm hanging by merely somerp:
the muscles, rushed forward through a shower of grape,
reached the battery, and plunged his sabre up th hilt
into the body of the captain. An Anstrian.cs(rdotpnbeils,wwohnot
saw the act, ran to the spot, and with his
hpi I
the corporal's brains, and he expired on the
captain," - body of the

THE DI7CII OF

The Vienna Gazette publishes the following pro.
test of the Duchess Regent of Parma, dated from
St. Gall, in Switzerland:—
We, Louisa Maria of Bourbon, &gent of the
States of Patma 'for Duke Robert I.—Being re-
moved from the country which we governed with
real love in the name of our orphan son, we haye
been painfully affected by hearing of the serious
political changes which. have taken place, contrary -
to the directiOns left by us on our departure, and •
to the rights and interests of the Duke of Parma.
• In consequence we are compelled, in spite of out-
selyes, to raise complaints againsta part of onr.sub-
jects and against a neigbouring Government, which
intends to establish itself in our place, and which,
without any legitimate motive,.wciuld 'regard us as
an enemy. In truth, we never. could Lave ex- ,
pected such events. When on the 3d of May
our subjects came of their oWn accord and replaced
themselves uhder our authority, we saw in that*.
fad a sign of the -good-feelings of the country to--
wards us.; as to abroad,- we constantly received on
the part of all the Powers' including the bellige-
rent ones, marks of a cordial understanding., which
perfectly responded to the policy which- we had
constantly follbwed.

Nevertheless, the events which have taken place
in the States of our House, first at Pontremoli, then
in the capital, and lastly at Piacenza, are violations
of the rights of our son, the Duke of Parma,'
Robert L; and we cannot refrain from protesting
in a public and solemn manner, as we do by this
document, against the acts of rebellion committed
by the municipalities of Parma, Piacenza, and Pon-
tremoli, in speaking in the name of the people, in
arrogating to themselves the right of releasing
them from the obedience they owe to the duke as
his subjects, and in proclaiming the incorporation
of the country with Oa kingdom of Piedmont.
We, moreover, protest against the proceedings of
the Piedthontese Government, first in the province
of Pontreinoli, and afterwards in other parts of the
country, seeing that that Government has, on the
one hand, excited and supported
,the revolution,
and on the other has, contrary to all right, and to
the stipulations of European treaties in general,
and of special treaties with Piedmont in particular,
-accepted the delivery made to it of the-Duchy of
Parma, and Mat without-any provocation, or legiti-
mate cause of war.

At the same time we reject any argument which
.may be invoked as a motive or pretext de leye or de
facto to render us jointly responsible with Austria
for the acts of that power towards Piedmont when
the former stsrted from the fortress of Piacenza.
We also protest against all those who, in the
course of political vicissitudes, have made or may
make any attack whatever against the rights of our
son—rights Which we declare by the present docu-
ment to maintain intact and in all their integrity.
We further protest and declare that we consider
as null and void all the acts which have already
been done, or which may be done, in the States of
Parma against the rights of our well-beloved son.
We protest likewise against the consevences of
these acts, reserving to ourselves at any time what-
ever, and by all legal means, to re-establish the
before-mentioned.rights.
We make this solemn protest in the presence of
God and man. We protest not only in the interest
of our son, but also in that of his subjects, and• we
desire that our protest be made known to the
powers on whom the public law of Europe reposes.
We appeal to those powers with the fullest confi-
dence that in their enlightened justice, in' the in-
terest of the inviolability of the rights .of sove-
reigns and of states; and in their magnanimity
they will take to heart and effectually support the
cause of the young orphan sovereign of Parma.
Given at Saint Gall, in Switzerland, the 20th
June. LOUISA.