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London, England, 1850-08-20 00:00:00

S. Whitehead, Esq., b w illis . 67 b Mynn l2
E. Morse, Esq., c Hartnell, b Fre-
dericks

7 b Mynn l5

W. Nicholson, Esq., c Oxenden,
b Mynn .. 7 b Fredericks .... 3
J. Walker, Esq, run out
C. H. Hoare, Eqq., b Willis ...... 9 c Willis, b Mynn 14
H. W. Fellows, Esq , c and b Mynn 2 b Willis 0
C. G. Taylor, Esq, b Mynn 0 b Mycn
E. Hartopp, Esq., b Willis ... ... 9 Ibw, b Myun .. 0
R. Antrobus, Esq., c Bligh, b Willis 12 not out
W. Prest, Esq., not out
Byes 3, lb 5, w b 6 ........ ....... 14 B 2,1 b 9, w b 6. 17

Total ... 153
KENT.

Total .....106

First Innings. Second Innings.
F. Fredericks, Esq., b Prest 6 b Prest
T. H. Brenchley, Esq., b Fellows... 17 run out 8
A. Denne, Esq., c Taylor, b Fellows 10 b Fellows ...... 22
W. S. Norton, Esq., b Fellows 0 Ibw, b Antrobus 1
N. Felix, Esq., c Prest, b Fellows 22 run out ...
Hon. E. thigh, b Fellows l2 not out
C. V. Oxenden, Esq, b Fellows ... 2 not out
A. Mynn, Esq., c and b Prest. 8 b Walker
H. W. Andrews, Esq., b Prest...... 2 b Fellows
E. Hartnell, Esq., run out
C. F. Willis, Esq., not out
Byes 8, wide b 6 l4 83,1b1,wb11... 15

Total . . 95 Total 165
And so the " Gentlemen of Kent" were the victors by
one wicket.

AQUATICS.
ROTHERUITHE REGATTA.

The annual contest for a new skiff and other prizes
subscribed by the residents of St. Mary, Rotherhithe,
came off yesterday in the presence of some hundreds of
spectators. The weather, although extremely fine, was
very rough for such frail affairs as wager-boats of the
present day, and some difficulties were consequently ex •
perienced by their occupants. There were twelve com-
petitors in five beats, it being a double-scull race.
First Heat—Henry Gobbet, Hanover-stairs, and
James Craddock, Globe-stairs, (green) 1 ; John Sai-
-1 clair. Dog and Duck-stairs, and Daniel Henderson,
Church-stairs, (yellow), 0 ; Robert Fenton, Platform-
stairs, and Ralph Butler, Princesi.'s-stairs, (purple), 0.
The distance was from upper to Lower Rotherhithe and
round, commencing at Platform-stairs to the Dug and
Duck. The winner took the lead and kept it.
Second heat—H. Dryden, Surrey canal, and R. Sin-
clair, Dog and Duck (light blue), 1; W.Williams, King's-
stairs, and W. Maxwell, Elephant-stairs (red), 0; R. Ga-
render, Pageant-stairs, arid J. Everest, Church-stairs
(pink), O. Red took the lead, followed by light blue,
who shortly after overhauled them, red being water-
logged.
Third heat—Gardner and Everest (pink), 1 ; Sinclair
and Henderson (yellow), 2 ; Robert Fenton and Ralph
Butler (purple), 0; W. Williams and W. Maxwell (red),
0. Red wus rowing with a slight lead, when an accident
bofel his boat which prevented his further progress.
Pink then went on, and a good race followed between the
two next best pair.
Fourth heat—Gobbet and Craddcck (green), 1;
Dr) den and Sinclair (light blue), 2; Gardner and Eve-
rest (pink), 0; Sinclair and Henderson. (yellow), 0. The
winner took the lead and kept it. A good race for
second.

Final heat— R. Dryden and R. Sinclair (light blue), 1.
The other boat (green) filled with wat©r soon after the
start, and the men were, of course, unable to proceed.

WESLEYAN REFORM CONFERENCE.
Yesterday a general conference of delegates com-
missioned from all parts of England to meet in oppo-
sition to the duly recognised conference of preachers
now assembling in London, was held at Albion
Chapel, Mourfields. The proceedings were held with
open doors, and a large attendance was thus secured,
more especially as from the ordinary conference meet-
ings the undelegated members of the Wesleyan body
have been rigidly excluded. The first question that
presented itself for discussion was whether or not the
assembled delegates should present themselves to the
conference and demand the restitution of the rights of
which the great body of the people had been unjustly
deprived. It was ultimately resolved that the most
dignified course for the delegates to pursue, after an
insulting message which ti ad been received from the
conference, would be to remain perfectly silent upon
the matter. On the motion of Mr. Baldwin, seconded
by Mr. Warne, and supported by Mr. Stanley, Mr.
Bolton, and Mr. Mitts, the following resolution was
agreed to :-" That this meeting is convinced that the
conduct and spirit of the present conference, from its
rejection of all conciliatory overtures, and especially
from its total disregard of the memorials signed by
thousands of office-bearers, and tens of thousands of
members, that the most decided measures are neces-
sary on the part of the Wesleyan reformers to carry
out the objects indicated in the memorials." On the
motion of Mr. Martin, of Manchester, seconded by
Mr. Benson, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the follow-
ing resolution was agreed to :—"'Tat this meeting,
although deeply interested in the progress of Wes-
leyan Methodism, and having a strong attachment
personally to many of its ministers, is painfully
convinced that the assumption and acts of the con-
ference are palpably, opposed to the authority of the
great head of the Church, at variance with the de-
sign and constitution of the early Christian churches,
and practically opposed to the genius and spread
of Chri▪
stianity, and that consequently it is no longer
desirable to contribute to the system as it now is,
or to the support of the preachers without being
partakers of their shame and guilty of their deeds;
and thi▪
s meeting therefore recommends the imme-
diate withdrawal of all funds as the only remaining
practical means of memorializing the conference."
The proceedings are to terminate with a public
meeting.

GE }MANIA ; ITS COURTS, CAMPS, AND PEOPLE.—
This new work of the Baroness Blaze de Bury, comprising
so many curious disclosures concerning the various Sove-
reigns and Courts of Europe during the recent revolutions,
will be hailed by all as one of the most notable books of the
day. To give an idea of the scope and variety of its con-
tents, it need only be mentioned that among the countries
visited by the distinguished author will be found Prussia,
Austria, Hungary, Bavaria, Saxony, Servia, Styria, the
Tyrol, Hanover, Brunswick, Italy, &c. To enumerate all
the distinguished personages with whom the writer had
intercourse, and of whom anecdotes are related, would be
impossible, but they include such nameslas the Emperors of
Austria and Russia, the Kings of Prussia, Hanover, Bavaria,
and Wurtemberg, thel Count de Chambord (Henry V.), the
Queens of Bavaria and Prussia, the ex• Empress of Austria,
the Grand Duke of Baden, the Archdukes John, Francis, and
Stephen of Austria, Duke Wilhelm of Brunswick, the Prince
of Prussia, Prince John of Saxony, the Countess of Bat-
thyanyi, Madame Kossuth, &c. Among the statesmen,
generals, and leading actors in the revolutionary movements
we meet with Radowitz, Von Gagern, SchwarzenLerg, Bekk,
Esterhazy, the Ban Jellacic, Windischgratz, Radetzky, Wel-
den, Haynau, Wrangel, Pittersdorf, Kossuth, Blum, Gorgey,
Batthyauyi, Pulszky, Klapka, Bem, Dembinski, Hecker,
Struve, &c., &c.
EXHIBITION or 1851.—We understand that Mr.
Alexander Redgrave has been appointed to co-operate with
Colonel Reid in obtaining information and in making the
necessary arrangements for enabling the working classes to
visit the Exhibition, and communicating on the subject with
the proper authorities in London, the railway companies, and
with the local committees.

•„. . •
ASSIZE INTELL IGENCE.
NORTHERN 67RCUI T.—Liverpool, Aug. 19.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice Wicur-
MAN.)
_ _

Samuel Smater was charged with having feloni-
ously fired cif a certain loaded musket, on the 25th of
July 'alit, at Rusholme, near Manchester, with intent
to maim and disfigure James Farr and others her
Majesty's subjects. There were other counts varying

the charge. -
Mr. Pollock and Mr. A. Crosse appeared for the
prosecution, and Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr.
Wheeler for the defence.
The prosecutor, Farr, it appeared, was a brick-
maker, living near Platt Chapel, Rusholme, and the
proprietor of some brickfields there, at which he bad
employed a man as a labourer who did not belong to a
trades' union of the brickmakers. This having caused
great dissatisfaction among the labourers, about tell
o clock on the night of the 25th of July last a large
number of them (between 300 and 400) assem-
bled together, and proceeded to the prosecutor's
brickfields with the intention of destroying his
hriclN. A police-constable immediately went to
Mr. Fares residence, and acquainted him with whist
was going on at his brickfields, and the pr„:ecu-
tor immediately went there. He had no sooner
arrived than ha was fired upon by several persons
in the crowd, many of whom were armed with guns,
and nearly 60 shots were tired at the prosecutor, the
constables, and others there present to prevent the
destruction of the prosecutor's property. One of the
constables said he felt the shot from one of the guns
about his legs, and others of the witnesses said they
heard the shot strike the bushes is the field. No
person was, however, wounded. One man in the
crowd presented a pistol at a policeman's head, and
threatened to blow his brains out. Several witnesses
swore that they had seen the prisoner in the crowd
taking part in the disturbance, in the course of which
damage amounting to 451. was done to the prose-
cutor's bricks.

Mr. Sergeant WILKINft then addressed the jury for
the prisoner, contending that there was no evidence
to support the charge in the indictment, that the
prisoner had shot at Farr or at any ether person, with
intent to maim, or disable, or du him grievous bodily
harm. had the guns been loaded, it was impossible
but that they mu't have injured some person or other
when fired ; but it was evident that they had only
been charged with powder, for the purpose of making
a noise, and perhaps frightening Farr. However ille-
gal such conduct might be, it would not sustain the
charge Lid in the indictment.

His LORDIIIP having summed up,
The jury Acquitted the prisoner.
NISI PRIUS COUR T.—(lLitore Mr. Justice

CIRESSIVELL)
The Court has been occupied nearly all day with
trying an issue out of Chancery, in the case of •' liol-
gate v. Wright," the question being the legitimacy
or otherwise of a child of Mrs. Wright during her
husband's lifetime, and whilst he was hying separated
from her.

The jury found a verdict for the defendant, thereby
finding the child to be a bastard.
The case was most uninteresting.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. GURNEY.)
Joseph Jones, 34, labourer, was indicted for stealing
501., in notes and gold, the property of Robert Cotton.
Mr. CL,ckle prosecuted, and Mr. O'Brien defended,-
The case, which has appeared within the last rive
days, arose out of skittle transactions, and the facts
were very similar to those in the numerous cases that
have already been the subject matter of several inves-
tigations. It appeared that the prosecutor, a would-
be-wide-awake countryman, a draper's Assistant out
of place, was, on the morniug of the 10th of April,
passing along the Westminster-bridge-road, when tard
men came up and spoke to him, and as they were
walking along they saw the prisoner, who was in front,
drop his purse. Prosecutor picked it up, and gave
it him, upon which the prisoner thanked him, and
said he would not have lost it for 1001., and begged
that the prosecutor and the two who 'were with him
would come and take some wine, upon which they
adjourned to a public-house, where the parties began
betting upon throwing weights, and finally the game
of skittles was introduced, and up to this time the
prosecutor had lost 81. at betting. The prisoner then
offered to bat him 501. that he could not get the
skittles in nine throws, upon which the prosecutor,
who had been plied with wine, went and borrowed
the money of his landlord, which, when he came back,
he staked in the hands of another of the party, named
Chick. They then proceeded to the skittle-ground,
when it was proposed they should play for a bottle of
wine first, and while they were so engaged the pri-
soner went out. The prosecutor then went up to
Chick, who said that he had given the money to the
prisoner. Prosecutor then went out after him, and
when be came back they were all gone. Some of
the parties so engaged had been taken for a similar
offence upon other persons, and among them was a
hairdresser named Anderson, who received 18 months
imprisonment at this court, but the prisoner was not
taken until the 4th of August, when Brett, an active
officer of the City police, took him in the Old-street-
road.

Mr. GURNEY having summed up,
The jury, after some deliberation, returned a verdict
of Guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to twelve
months' imprisonment and hard labour.