The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-24 00:00:00

THIRD DAY-SATURDAY.

The weather was beautiful, the racing grand, and at-
tendance of visitors immense. The sports commenced at
four o'clock, with the
AMATEUR POUR-OARED RACES, amongst Gentlemen,
for two Silver Cups.
FIRST HEAT.
THE LEANDER CLUB—Red.
Dagleish, stroke 2. Julius
3. Bumpstead 1. Jeffries.
• Shepherd,i
coxswain.
ST. GEORGE'S CLUB—Red and White.
G. 8.! Smith, stroke I 2. M‘Kay
3, Ross 1. Wadham.
G. Bannister, coxswain.
CIVIL ENGINEERS—Orange.
Arnold, stroke I
2. Montagu
3. Bell 1. Harriott.
H. C. Ford, coxswain.
NEPTUNE—Green.
J. Walmsley, stroke I 2. L. Palmer
3. H. Robinson 1. E. Harrington.
H. Halliday, coxswain.
_ _ _

The Oxford University b-oat, which had been entered,
was withdrawn.
The Leander did not get away with their wonted
quickness, and made a bad start. The Neptune showed
a foot ahead, and, as a new club, surprised some of those
well acquainted with rowing by their skill and speed.
The Leander then rowed into the leading place, but
fouling their oars against some craft, the Engineers and
Saint George's passed them ; the Leander, however,
spurted, and, giving both the go by, won by a length or so.

SECOND HEAT.
THE Guy's CLUB—Black.
Chapman, stroke I 2. E. Lloyd
3. Ferguson 1. Earnshaw
Martin, coxswain.
ROYAL ACADEMY.

2. H. M. Cooper
1. Revel
D. Cameron, coxswain.
WAVERLEY CLUE—Light Blue.
R. W. Hall, stroke
2. A. Prior
13. W. Rush 1. E. Prior
J. Charlton, coxswain.
Christ Church, Oxford, was withdrawn.
was won with perfect ease.

B. ,L. Atkinson, stroke
3. D. Cooper

The race

GRAND HEAT.
The Guy's and St. George's went away together, the
Leander being half-a-yard astern. The Guy's then made
play, and went in advance at a good pace, but the Lean-
der laid down to their work ; first passed the Guy's,
then the St. George's, and won by two lengths—St.
George's being second.
The CHA3IPION RACE of 100 sous. for four-oared boats,
open to all the world.
FIRST HEAT.

LONDON CREW—Red.—R. Coombes, stroke ; J.
Phelps, R. Newell, T. Coombes ; D. Coombes, cox-

swain
GREENWICH CREW—Yellow. Forest, Humphries,
J. Wogan, L. Wogan ; T. Cordell, coxswain
An apology for a race ; won without any difficulty.
SECOND HEAT.
NEWCASTLE CREW—Purple.—H. Clasper, R. Clas-
per, W. Clasper ; E. Hawkes, —, coxswain
LONDON CREW—Light Blue.—W.Pacock,J. Double-
dee, R. Doubledee, F. Lett ; J. Parish, coxswain 2
CHELSEA CREW.—G. Hammock, J. Shepheard, T.
Prince, J. Chittle ; H. Coles, coxswain 3
The Newcastle men took the lead, followed by the
Londoners, who, off the Duke's Head, rowed level with
them, and continued so for a trifling distance. The
Newcastle men continued hard at work, and won by
four or five lengths.

GRAND HEAT.
Coombes's party, the Claspers and Pocock's crew,
were the competitors ; the race creating considerable
interest, the Newcastle men having acquitted them-
selves so gallantly on the previous day and in their own
heat. There might have been a good deal of money on
this ; but we can only say that, surrounded as we had
been for an hour before by the leading men on the
Thames, we never heard a bet offered. There was much
conversation, in which it was broadly asserted the Lon-
doners would have their work to do to beat the strangers
who had not, until their debut on Friday, been considered
formidable, and the interest and betting lying between
Pocock's and Coombes's crew.

On the signal being given the Newcastle men took the
lead, and were facing the Star and Garter, nearly half a
length off red, blue being about the same distance
astern. Coombes's party then went up to the Claspers,
and a desperate struggle the whole way was the result.
Coombes's party never were so tackled, and by dint of
immense labour contrived to keep their lead in advance
of their adversaries, and won by a length and a half
only, the Newcastle men being second.
The bad steerage of the lad who had the yoke lines in
the Newcastle boat was the subject of general observa-
tion, while that of the Pocock crew was a finished speci-
men of what may be effected in that line. Had it been
other than a boy, and he, too, a stranger to the water he
was rowing, it would have favoured the idea that some-
thing was wrong ; as it was, much fault was certainly to
be found, and had Jem Parish had the lines and weighed
no more than the boy, there might have been a different
result. The race undoubtedly proves one thing, that the
Pocock party are not so good as the Coombes.

DOUBLE SCULLS FOR A NEW PRIZE WHERRY.
Nelly and Powell—yellow
F. Phelps and J. Green—light blue
A good race ; won by those least expected, and who
rowed with very great pluck.
THE EIGHT-OARED SCRATCH MATCH.
Introduced as an appropriate finish, concluded the
sport. They went up in procession (six of them) and re-
turned in somewhat about the same order.

The winning boat, red and white, was manned byMessrs.
Palmer, Moran, Cloves, Porter, Foanes, Harrington,
Pickering, Stewart, and Martin, steerer.

HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF
THE CHEST. —His Royal Highness Prince Albert has
been graciously pleased to forward the munificent sum
of 1001. in aid of the building fund of this Institution, so
that the committee are now enabled to proceed with one
wing. The total amount collected at the fancy bazaar
exceeded 2,4001., but the gross amount required to com-
plete the splendid building contemplated is 16,000 L The
Marquis of Westminster has also forwarded fifty guineas
for the same object. The benevolent founders of the in-
stitution have great cause to congratulate themselves on
the favourable auspices under which they have com-
menced their labour.

FIRES ON CHATMOSS.—SeveraI furious fires have
raged on Chatmoss during the past week, supposed to
have originated in the long-continuud dry weather,
which has made the peat moss as dry and inflammable
as tinder. At one time, on Thursday and Friday,
Chatmoss was on fire in three different places. One of
the firee reached within a dozen yards of Mr. Baines'
woods, and was there stopped by great exertions.
These woods, which consistprincipally of larch, fir, and
beech, spread upwards of a mile from west to east,
and, if once ignited, could not possibly have been saved.
Some of Lord Egerton's woods were injured, though
not very seriously. Great quantities of game were
destroyed.
HEIRS-AT-LAW AND FORTUNE HUNTING. —We
have this week received from a person in Manchester; a
letter inquiring for some particulars of an advertise-
ment for a next of kin, which some one had told the
writer he believed he had seen in a Lancashire newspa-
per, some years since. Scarcely a week passes but we
have applications for similar advertisements, about which
the applicants are about as much, or even more, in the
dark than the present writer. The applications are
generally for copies of advertisements for next of kin,
but of the paper in which the advertisement appeared, or
the time at which it was published, they, in nine cases
out of ten, are entirely ignorant. They are generally
set upon their wild-goose chase by some one who has
"heard a neighbour say that such a one believed he had
at some time or other seen some person who thought
the advertisement had been published !" Much time is
lost, and much money thrown away, by parties who got
it into their heads that they are the heirs to property,
and act upon that idea without getting proper advice or
assistance.--Preston Chronicle.

HOUSES 01 ILL FAME IN WESTMINSTER.—In the
House of Lords, on Friday evening, during the dis-
cussion on the Bishop of Exeter's Suppression of Brothels
Bill, the Bishop of Gloucester stated he had been assured
that the whole of the houses of ill fame in the Almonry,
Westminster, had been pulled down, and that he " had
the satisfaction of learning that the whole of the pro-
perty in question was entirely and completely be-
yond the control of the Dean and Chapter." In reply
to these statements, a correspondent of the Patriot, and
parishioner of Westminster, says—. There is not one
word of truth in all this. Everyz one of the twenty-four
brothels at this very moment ; 'tis true, four of them
aemrerclosed, butas t theh e y other
have twentyheeh,
taer e fullyriy
ee
rat:
idha
very
actively
ledge, for the last forty years ; and, I believe, fora
much longer period than that. I have just returned
from a personal inspection of these Almonry brothels,
it being eight o'clock on Saturday evening, the 15th of
June, 1844, and have counted twenty of them occupied
in a way public decency forbids my further describing."
The " Parishioner" states that, during the forty years
in which, to his personal knowledge, these houses have
been devoted to their horrid purposes, the leases of most
of them have been renewed over and over again ; that,
,as the application for renewal is made every. fourteen
years, his Lordship and his colleagues, or their prede-
cessors or representatives, could not have inspected any
of the houses in order to settle the renewal fines, without
seeing the immoral purposes to which the whole were
devoted; that these houses are not held in the Dean and
Chapter's general lease, as his Lordship intimates, but
are or were held by different parties, and the leases of
the different parcels fell in for renewal at different pe-
riods; and that the clergy or their representatives could
not inspect a portion of them without becoming ac-
quainted with the vile character of the whole.—Noncon-
formist.