The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-20 00:00:00

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AQUA.,
LAMBETH REGATTA.—The
majority of whom have acquirea
wagermen,-yesterday contended in thre.
pair of oars, for a purse of sovereigns,
ladies and gentlemen of St. Mary's. The raee
contested throughout, and drew a vast number o.
tators who lined the Bishop's-walk, and availed the.
selves of every other place that could command a view at
the match. George Maynard was the winner.
WATERLOO-BRIDGE AND STRAND-LANE REGATTA.—
This regatta, for some very good money prizes, annually
subscribed by the residents of St. Clements Danes, St.
Mary-le-Strand, the Savoy precincts, &c., came off yes-
terday, and afforded much amusement to the spectators,
who were very numerous. It was a double scullers'
contest among the watermen plying at Waterloo-bridge,
Arundel-stairs, and Strand-lane, in three heats, with
twelve competitors, the distance rowed being from the
Temple-gardens, round a boat moored off the Fox-under-
the-Hill, down the north shore, round the boat off the
Temple-gardens, up again to the Fox-under-the-Hill,
and finish at Strand-lane. J. Scullthorpe and R. Ridg-
way were the winners.
GREENWICH REGATTA.—The first east-end regatta
here, which owes its origin to the increased patronage
the watermen have received at this favourite place of
summer resort, took place yesterday, and was as attrac-
tive as could have been anticipated, the holiday folks
taking a trip down from London in the evening, to wit-
ness the two or three last heats. The regatta was under
the patronage of Admiral the Hon. Sir R. Stopford and
the nobility and gentry in the vicinity, the race being for
a new boat, and about 201. divided in fair proportions
amongst the other men. The course extended the entire-
front of the town, the distance being repeated, and five
heats afforded a whole day's amusement. -Henry Lego
was the winner.

CRICKET.
SUSSEX O. THE MARYLEBONE CLUB AND GROUND.—
This match was commenced yesterday in Box's ground,
at Brighton, in the presence of a large concourse of
spectators. At five o'clock Sussex had lost nine wickets,
and had obtained 161 runs. Box had scored sixty from
his bat, and was not out.

WINDSOR, MONDAY EVENING.—A grand " Revel,"
in honour of the birth-day of her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, gut up by the bachelors of Windsor,
under the auspices of her Majesty and his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert, took place this day., in the Bachelors'
Acre. Amongst the rural sports, commencing at ten
o'clock, which were not concluded till the dusk of the even-
ing, handsome prizes being given to the successful com-
petitors, may be enumerated back-swording, wrestling,
foot, hurdle races, gingling matches, climbing soaped
poles, eating rolls and treacle, and rural dancing ; con-
cluding, at nine o'clock, with a splendid display of fire-
works. A great number of the neighbouring re bility
end gentry, with their families, were present to witness
the sports, and the day was observed throughout the
town as " one universal holiday."
THE LATE DR DALTON.—This celebrated philo-
sopher and chemist was the first and only Quaker upon
whom the honour of Doctor of Laws was conferred by
the University of Oxford. He was installed at the visit
of the British Association for the Advancement of
Science, in 1833, and the enthusiastic reception which
the illustrious individual met with on that occasion will
be long remembered by every visitor.
We hear that an order has been issued from the
Admiralty by which a number of able seamen will be
secured to the service, by entering them on board the
ordinary guardships, in lieu of the oldest and least qua-
lified pensioners, who will go on shore on their super-
annuattons.
THE INFANT PRINCE AND THE CITIZENS OF YORK.
—The town council of York met on Monday, for the
purpose of agreeing upon an address of congratulation
to her Majesty on the birth of another Prince. Mr.
Alderman Hudson, in seconding the address, " heartily
hoped that the Prince now given birth to would be a
Duke of York. It was not for them, however, to go
further than to express a hope on that subject. It must
be left to --the Prince's royal parents to say whether he
should be a Duke of York or of Kent. At the same time,
he did trust that our gracious Queen would not forget
the ancient city of York.—(Cheers.) York was once the
seat of royalty, and now that that great boon had been
taken from us, he hoped, nay he could not believe that
her Majesty would determine otherwise than that the
Prince should be named the Duke of York. That this
should be so was the ardent hope of himself, and he felt
sure that it was also the anxious desire of the council,
and of the citizens at large."—(Cheers.) All the gen-
tlemen present concurred in expressing their fervent
hope that the Royal infant might " live long to be an
ornament in the British nation, and an honour to their
city as the Duke of York." The address was adopted
by acclamation.
DEATH OF AN ECCENTRIC CHARACTER, •-••• An
inquest was held last evening at the workhouse of the
West London Union, West-street, Smithfield, before
Mr. Joseph Payne, the Deputy Coroner, on the body of
Michael 'Wright, aged fifty-four, a law writer, who
died under the following remarkable circumstances :
Dr. Jordan Lynch, medical officer of the above union,
said that on Friday afternoon last he received an
order to attend upon the deceased at his lodging, in
Star-court, Chancery-lane. He proceeded up to his room
on the first floor, but upon opening the door the stench
which issued from the apartment was so overpower-
ing that he was compelled to step back again. He, how-
ever entered, and saw the deceased, with his body bent
forward and his head upon a pillow on the table. De-
ceased had his clothes on, but they were ragged, and his
flesh being black with dirt, he could hardly distinguish
his legs from the cloth of his trousers. Some papers and
pieces of furniture were strewed about, and the whole
place appeared to witness a mass of filth and squalid
wretchedness. Witness endeavoured to raise him into
a more erect position, but deceased was quite insen-
sible, and an old man, who seemed to be his at-
tendant, said that he (deceased) had rested in
that posture for the last three years. Witness
told the old man that his neglect of the deceased was
shameful, and asked whether deceased was in want of
money or food. The man replied that deceased was
not in want, and that he could earn money as a
scrivener's clerk. Deceased was then utterly unable
to swallow, and witness lost no time in having him
conveyed to the workhouse. All possible care was
taken of him, but he died at three o'clock the next morn-
ing. From the appearance of the body witness judged that
deceased died from disease of the lungs, probably-ac-
celerated by bad diet. He lived entirely upon bread and
milk. Thomas Edwards said thathe was the deceased's
11 landlord. Deceased was a man of singular habits, and
would never speak to a woman. Witness did not know
he was dangerously ill until Friday morning. He was
a law-writer, performing his business at home, and
witness believed that he had not left his room for the
last three -ears. He had no bed to lie upon, and no
change of linen. Mary Ann Wheatley- said that for
three years she had lived in the next room to the de-
ceased, and she never saw him during the whole of that
time. lie was a most eccentric man. An old man
used to carry his writing backwards and forwards. Se-
veral other witnesses having been examined, the inquiry
Was adjourned for the evidence of the man who attended
upon deceased.
A Fox-RUNT IN A POOR-HOUSE.—A few days
since, a fine full-grown fox, by some unaccountable
means, obtained an entrance into the precincts of
the Kilkenny union poor-house. After wandering
about for some time in search of a mode of regain.
ing liberty, be was discovered by one of the paupers,
who, with a view -hollo loud enough to wake the dead
from their graves, called all the inmates of the in-
stitution to his assistance. A cline then ccommenced,
in which, for three long hours, the strange and luck-
less visitant was hunted by the mitimed, the halt, the
blind, the infirm, and the able-bodied of all sexes and
ages, eh masse, out of the house and in, the house, up
stairs and down stairs, through parlour, kitchen, and
hall, flower-beds and potatoe-ridges, till at length poor
reynard finding himself met at every turn by numbers
of uncouth hunters, surrounded on all hands by atone
walls, and, above all, bewildered and overpowered
by the demoniacal yells which rang around him, so
' unlike the music of thiechace to which he was accus-
tomed, calmly lay down and submitted ingloriously to be
trampled to death by his blood-thirsty pursuers. On
the following day the huntsman of the Kilkenny Club
repaired to the poor-house, and indignantly reproached
the inmates for their conduct, stating that they had de-
stroyed the Lyrath fox, a particular favourite of Sir J.
Power, Bart.—Kilkenny Moderator.
NOVEL FISHING.—On Monday last, while a drove
of porpoises were in pursuit of salmon, convenient to a.
shallow bay formed by the waters of the Shannon, in the
vicinity of Tarbert, one of the fugitives, in a moment of
bewilderment, having approached too close to the shore,
was secured by a countryman, who casually passing at the
time, rushed into the water and seized it in his arms. It
was truly laughable to behold the grotesque appearance of
the fortunate captor, whose breast appeared as if cased.
in the cuirass of a Lifeguard, from the adhesion of the
scales. The fish, on being examined, bore evident marks.
of the destructive nature of its original pursuer, a deep•
gash being observable at the extremity of the back,
which thus rendered it an easy object of prey to its se-
cond enemy, more destructive than the first. —Kerry
Examiner.
AN OLD APRICOT TREE..—A remarkable instance
of the great age to which this tree attains is evident in
the garden of J. J. DeiOton, Esq., at Harston' where le
fine specimen is growing on an east wall, which Wits
planted in the year 1714, bearing an abundance of fine-
flavoured fruit, with a stem three feet in circumference.
—Cambridge Chronicle.
SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—About three months.
ago Mr. John Wearing, of the Fleece Inn, Kirby Lons-
dale, was strolling out with his gun, when he fired at a.
throstle, whose leg he shot off, the bird escaping other-
wise uninjured. On Thursday he shot the identical bird
which he had previously dismembered.—Westmoreland
Gazette.
THE CROPS, WEST KENT, AUG. 18.—The wea-
ther has been fortunately favourable for the corn, both
cut and uncut, fur the last three days, and a large quan-
tity of the latter has been carried. There appears to be
little if any injury suffered by the crops, although the
farmers apprehended great damage to the corn which
had been cut but not carried. Some of the barley had
sprouted, but the change of the weather wilt, it
fiosrtotte
hoped, put an end to any further apprehen
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safety of the crops. This week, if fine,
-F English and the
entire of the wheat and beau crops as
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Four mechanics, three of then yentwuneut.
st4Saturda , from
other Irish, arrived at LeVeiston
Kent to Bermuda in search
and suffering. They
disappointed, left there in the
Bermuda, in an open beat, after fourteena-
in search
perilf
moansgto obtain a passage in any other
rv‘,ao t butof beln
manner.—New York Paper of July 26.
employment,bo t
n f o the ight Hon.
Lieutenant Peel, R.I. ~ so
Baronet,
has proceeded to Portsmouth, to go on board
the Collingwood, Admiral Sir George F. Seymour's flag.
ship, preparatory to sailing in that vessel to the Pacific,
where he joiP bib ship, the Cormorant,