The Sun.
London, England, 1832-08-18 00:00:00

FUNNY CLUB.

The grand contest fur the annual gift of the Funny Club
took place yesterday, but was not so well attended as usual.
The men, as usual, were the best on the river, and as usual

it was an oars wager, and the pairs were very ably picked.
The match, as a two-heat one, the whole of the competi-
tors starting in the first heat, was always mismanaged, as
not giving so fair an opportunity as a three-heat contest
would have done. Stil very excellent management was
displayed i❑ giving both sides of the river an opportunity
of witnessing a heat, the first going down the Surrey
shore, and the second the Middlesex. The following men
were placed to start for the first heat : _

H. Norris Waterloo Bridge }
scarlet.
IL Croker ......... Vauxhall
J. Dodd Hungerford
/ NV. Cole
E. Emery Hungerford
} T. Byford Lambeth White.
J. Parish Strand
T. Loader
F. Brithwaite Hungerford
} Pink.
%V. Campbell ... Westminster
W. Windsor ... Westminster
} Pea Green.
It. Williams Bankside
G. Butcher
} Yellow.
G. Allan

The distance in this heat was to start from Westminster-
bridge, round a boat moored off Tuggey's Windmill, be-
yond Vauxhall, down the Surrey shore, round a boat
where the beacon formerly stood below Westminster-bridge,
and through the centre arch of Westminster-bridge. Light
Blue, Pink, and White, as the winners of this heat, were
alone entitled to start for the grand heat. At about a
quarter past six they were positioned at Westminster-
bridge, the distance being to Chelsea College and back,
down against the tide. After two false starts they went off
beautifully, and so even were the boats for the first few
yards that it was somewhat difficult to discern who was in
advance. White seemed to have the advantage as far as
Lambeth Palace, but the rowing of Light Blue was the
finest we have witnessed for a length of time, and they
went away from the other two boats in masterly style.
Their advantage was permanent, and never did men mote
satisfactorily acquit themselves. They came in first by
twelve or fourteen lengths, and Parish appeared dreadfully
distressed. White was second.

The order given to M. AIA4zINI, the Italian
refugee, to quit Marseilles and France, in consequence of
an application from the Sardinian Government, has given
rise to a protest on the part of his fellow exiles, who re-
present it as an aut of persecution.— Galignani's Mes-
senger.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUGUST
16.-3,500 bales of cotton have been sold to-day, and
consist chiefly of American descriptions, from bid. to
; 100 Bahias, 71d. and 100 Maranhamsil to 90.
CHOLERA.—LIVE INSURANCE.—'I herc. are
at present 150,000 lives insured in England. This Las
been about the number for some time past, and upon a cal-
culation just taken, it appears that only sixty of the in-
sured have falsest victims to the cholera. These have all
died suddenly.
CHOLERA AT LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.—
New cases, 51; deaths, 23 ; recoveries, 33 ;
ing, 185.
THE CHOLERA IN SToocPollt.—We are
sorry to announce that this town is it'length visited with
this fatal pestilence; It has appeared on three successive
days this week, in different parts of the town, until we
have had eight cases; of which there have been four deaths,
and without one recovery. One of the victims is in a
respectable situation of life, and lives in a healthy and
airy situation ; the other cases are in confined and loath-
some places, and the persons attacked are of tie poorest
of our fellow-creatures,..—SOOport 4dvertiser,