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

BANKSIDE REGATTA.

The twenty-sixth annual regatta for a new beat 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
smilers in three heats, the distance being from Mason-stairs,
down round a boat moored off the Phoenix Coal Wharf, up
round Messrs. Horne'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.

Joint Hicks, red
William Knight, green
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 HEAT.

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, Busts 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, 86 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, Horse-
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.

Joseph Royal, Vauxhall-bridge, IL Gardner, Horseferry,
blue
S. Bloomfield, Horseferry, T. Davis, jun., ditto, red 2
A. Bray, Millbank Pier, J. Goatley, Horseferry, stripes
J. Piper, Horseferry, S. Rush, ditto, pink
Stripes and blue went away with the lead, and the latter,
in their desire to get the first place, having fouled the former,
they were hampered by some craft that lay in the way,
and red took the second place.

GRAND HEAT.

This consisted of the two winning boats of each of the two
former heats :

Royal and Gardner

BlOomfield and Davis
T. Coombes and Gardner

The winners took the lead directly after the start and kept
it, coining in first by some lengths. The race was respectably
conducted throughout, and the men rowed very well.

WOOLWICH REGATTA.

The exceeding fineness of the weather yesterday, with the
anticipation of good sport, induced a great number of the
holiday folks to visit this popular place of resort, who, with
the townspeople, made a very full attendance. The race was
for a coat and badge—six scullers, in five heats ; the race ex-
tending the whole length of the town and back.
The first heat was won by George Wright (pink).
The second heat was won by Field (light blue).
The third heat by Henry Jewitt (dark blue) and William
Southgate (yellow).
The fourth heat by light blue and dark blue.
The grand heat was between the two last as winners of
the preceding heat. Light blue took the lead and kept it,
winning easily.

TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION BETWEEN WINDSOR
CASTLE AND PADDINGTON.—TWO engines, to be attached to
special trains, have been commanded to be kept in constant
readiness with their steam up, both by day and night, at the
Paddington Terminus of the Great Western Railway, to start
at five minutes notice for the Slough Station, for the purpose
of conveying the great officers of state en route to Windsor
Castle, upon their being summoned from town on the auspi-
cious and interesting occasion of the accouchment of her Ma-
jesty. A powerful alarum has just been fixed at the gal-
vanic telegraphic office at Paddington, communicating with
the telegraph at Slough, for the purpose of arousing the attend-
ant whooleeps at the-office, in the event of a telegraphic ex-
press reaching the 'terminus from Windsor during the niglit.
A trusty person has also been appointed to r in in attend-
ance at the office of the Slough Station thro out the whole
of the night. It is computed that sage can be ex-
pressed by the aid of the telegraph from indsor Castle to
Buckingham Palace in 25 minutes.

•
THE ALLEGED MURDER AT CHELSEA.—Last even-
ing, at six o'clock, Mr. Higgs, Deputy-Coroner for Westmin-
ster, resumed at the Spread Eagle, Thames-bank, the in-
quiry into the circumstances attending the death of Mr. E.
Larking, aged twenty-three years, a block maker, of Queen-
street, Chelsea. The inquest-room was much crowded, as a
report had been circulated that the deceased had been first
robbed and afterwards thrown into the river. The evidence
was of a conflicting and unsatisfactory character; but the
medical testimony went somewhat to show that violence had
been used towards the deceased. There was, however, no
proof as. to how he had come by his death, or to show
whether he had fallen or been thrown into the river; and
the jury, therefore, returned an open verdict of " Found
.drowned."