The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-23 00:00:00

BAINTICSIDE REGATTA.

The twenty-sixth annual regatta for a new boat and some
very excellent minor prizes, liberally subscribed by the resi-
dents of the Clink Liberty, Southwark, to the watermen who
had never before won a boat at Bankside, came off yesterday,
and was well contested. The attendance was certainly not
very select, but if numbers can compensate at all for quality,
the Bankside wager may lay first-rate claim to notice. Not
a barge or inch of the shore was unoccupied, and many had
absolutely ventured up the cranes which adorn the bank, in
order to obtain a view of the race. The race was with six
scullers in three heats, the distance being from Mason-stairs,
down round a boat moored off the Phoenix Coal Wharf, up
round Messrs. Home's road, down again round the before-
mentioned boat, up again to the road, and finish off Thames-
street Stairs.

FIRST HEAT.
'William Kelley, brown
James Bush, yellow ...
Alfred Harris, pink
Won easily.
SECOND HEAT.

John Hicks, red
William Knight, green
a
Josiah Cummins, blue

Knight took the lead, and off Thames-street Stairs, foul-
ing the wherry that was moored there, Hicks shot by and
maintained the lead.

GRAND iiEAT.

The two first men ofeach of the two preceding heats rowed
in this ; Bush after a dozen strokes took the lead, closely fol-
lowed by Kelly, when, on rounding the flag-boat, Kelly took
the first place and maintained it throughout, Bush pressing
him closely, and making a capital race. Knight was third,
eight lengths astern of the second man.
A serious accident occured during the race. A man who
had just lit his pipe in the tap-room of the Welsh Trooper,
flung the paper down, when it set fire to the dress of a female
who stood next to him, and she was in an instant enveloped
in flame. Police-constable Ross, 8G M, was passing, and,
running to her assistance, succeeded in extinguishing her
clothes, not before the lower part of her dress was consumed,
and her person much burnt, as also were the constable's hands,

ST. JOHN'S, WESTMINSTER, REGATTA.
An effort was made four or five years ago by some of the
most influential residents of this parish to establish the re-
gatta on a very superior footing, and although for a season
or two their endeavours were attended with very tolerable
success, and an example worthy of imitation set, want of
general patronage with other causes, induced those who had
been most active to abandon the project. We had hoped
that the excellence of the arrangements on these occasions,
with the gratification exhibited by the body of subscribers,
would have induced some gentlemen of standing in the
parish to have again formed themselves into a committee
and taken the control, but we apprehend more for the want
of some two or three to set it on foot than any other cause,
the collection and distribution has fallen upon the watermen
themselves, who we understand have been tolerably well
supported.
The race was in three heats, with 16 free watermen, com-
prising those who ply at the Horseferry and the Middlesex
side of Vauxhall-bridge ; the distance contested in each heat
being from buoys off the Horseferry, up round a boat off
Mills's, Thames Bank, down round a boat off the new Houses
of Parliament, and back to the Horseferry.
FIRST HEAT.

W. Cussins, Vauxhall-bridge, R. Evans, Horseferry,
yellow
Thos. Coombes, Vauxhall-bridge, Edward Gardner, Hor.ae-
ferry, white 2
William Dolwin, Horseferry, S. Chalk, ditto, green 3
T. Davis, Horseferry, J. Coombes, Vauxhall-bridge, black 4
The winners took the lead, and held it. It was a sharp
and excellent race between the second and third pairs.
SECOND HEAT.