The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-25 00:00:00

THE AMATEUR PAIR-OARIED RACE FOR TWO SILVER COPS.

FIRST HEAT.
Messrs. Arnold and Mann (pink)....... ........ I
Clowes and Hill (sight blue) o
Julius and Bumsted (red) 3
Pink took the lead, and carne by the committee's boat half a
length in advance of red, blue being well up, and shortly taking
the second place. It was a very pretty race throughout, especially
between the first two boats. Won by two lengths.

SECOND DEAT.
Messrs. Chapman and Wain.ley (green)

Wallace and Peacock (black) .....

It was a very close contest ; at one time black was slightly is
advance after passirg the committee's boat, but green chal:engtSl
there, and a beautiful race followed. Won by a length only.

GRAND HEAT.

This heat was started downwards, anti was composed of .the &el
two bunts of the previous heats :

Messrs. Chapman and Walmsley ...... 1
Clowes and Hill
Wallace and Peacock . 3

Arnold and Mann took a slight lead, all being at a moot dashing
pace, and shortly afterwards Climes and IEII chal.enged them, s.nd
some tine rowing resulted. Arnold and Mann kept a: work very
fairly, and then Chapman and partner rowed level with the leafing
boat;and a most de.errnitied struggle followed, wlaeli tersninated.
by the winner coming in first by a length only.

WATERVEN SCULLEMS.

FIRST HEAT.

,
Leach (purple)
Pocock (light blue) .... . t2
There were four others , who contended, and Goodwin cattne In.
third.

Purple led well from the first, and won by two lengths.

SECOND HEAT.

Cook (red and white)
T. Coombes (red)
There were also tour others in this heat. 4ubitis, of Hiatsey.
down, of whom much had been expected, t..ok the lead, but c.aild
not keep it, and was passed in the bight near the Crabtree by
Coombes, and Cook. Cook then went in front, and a
capital race followed for second place. ..

GRAND IJEAT,

nicock .
Leach
Conk

~- 2

T. Cuombes . 4 ,
Coombes went away with the lead, could not hold Its and lave
place to Pocock, who almost did as he liked with the whole party.
Cook was waited upon eventually by Coombes, but was Lirty out-
rowed at last.

•
Inspectors Evans, Judge, and Luton. with a large party of men
'on the river, preserved very excellent order throughout'. as 4i4 the
constables on shore. We are happy to say that we 41 not hear of
any accident in the course of the. day.

, IMPERIAL PARLIAAIE/4 T.,
HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 24.
The St. Helen's Canal Railway Bill was ordered to be re-
committed.
The Preston and Wyre Railway Branches gill was ordered
to be recommitted.
The Newry and Enniskillen Railway Bill was ordered .to lie
on the table.

UNIVERSITIES' TESTS ABOLITION (SCOTLAND)
BILL.
Mr. FOX MAPLE presented a petition from the General
Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, and from several
other parties in favour of the Bill for the abolition of teas in
the Universities of Scotland.
BOUVERIE presented a petition from Glasgow with
a similar prayer.

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TEN HOURS' BILL.
Sir R. INGLIS presented a petition from the West Riding
of Yorkshire in favour of the Ten Hours' Bill:
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Mr. P. BORTH WICK preaetated two petitions to the same
effect.

MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS. .
Messengers from the House of Lords brought up several
Bills, which were ordered to be laid on the table.
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SALE OF ARDENT SPIRITS IN IRELAND.
Mr. ROSS postponed his motion for the repeal of so much
of the Act 6 and 7 William IV., cap. 38, as prohibits grocers
in Ireland from selling ardent spirits.
DEODANDS BILL—ILLEGAL COMMITTAL IN THE

INLE OF 111A14.
This Bill was read a first and seeond time. and ordered to be
eomtr.itted.

Mr. BOWRING rose to ask the Right Hon.. Baronet the
Secretary of the Home Department three questions of whiob
he had given notice. They were—Whether John Walters Col-
dicott was committed, on or about the 9th of September last., to
Castle Rushen, in the Isle of Man, on a charge of assault,
without any examination or hearing before a magistrate?
Whether, on complaining of the irregularity and. hardship of
his commitment to the Lieutenant-Governor of the Island, the
case was referred by the said Lieutenant-Governor to the ,eoco-
mitting magistrate himself? Whether the original committal
was not to compel the prisoner to keep the peace for six
months, anti whether the six mouths being passed, he w as. not,
and is not now detained in gaol ?
Sir J. GRAHAM thought that he must be, discreet. in the
reply which he was about to give. The party of wheel the
Hon. Member had spoken had been committed on the 9th of
September. He had then been required to enter into his own
recognizances, and to tind sureties of. 40/. cacti. This.; warn
agreed to by the parties, but a detainer for debt was lodged
against him on the 16th of October. Even this had been set
aside, and he would have been ready to accede to the petition.
but he believed that the Hon. Gentleman gas not aware of
the character of the person whose cause he had advocatid, The
detainer fir debt had been set aside, and another. and more
serious charge had been preferred. In the whole of these pro-
ceedings the utmost regularity had been observed, and he could
not ascertain that any defect had been permitted in complying
with the rules of the island. The character of the individual
was best developed in the circumstance that the individual for
whom the Hun. Member pleaded had been convicted and im-
prisoned for two years on a charge of attempting to commit a
rape on his own daughter.
1)r. BOWNING—That was not a committal, which he
ought to recognise in his observations.
Sir J. GRAHAM was perfectly aware of that circumstance,
but 5.t.11 he must affirm that, as the rules of :be istaxid bad
not been violated, the charge could not he preferred. ,

MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS.
Their Lordships agreed to the following Bills :
Monkland an I Kirkintilloch Railway Bill; Battersea Poor
Bill, without amendment ; Taunton Gas Bill ; West of Lon-
don and Westminster Cemetery Bill; York and North Mil-
land Railway (Bridlington Branch) Bill ; Hell and Selby
( Bridlington Branch) Bill ; Whitby and Pickering Railway
Bill ; Manchester arid Leeds Railway (Burnley, Oldham, and
Heywood Branches) Bill ; Kendal and Windermere- Railway
Bill ; Lynn and Ely Railway Bill ; Midland Railways (Sutton
to Peterboroegh) Bill ; Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Rail-
way Bill; Midland R .ilways (Nottingham to Lincoln) Bill;
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Coal Turn Bill ; Brighton, Lewes, and
Hastings Railway ( Keymer Branch) Bill; Ely. and Hunting-
don Railway Bill ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junetiots
Railway Bill, with amendments.
RAILWAYS.
Mr. GISBORNE wished to ask the question, of which he
had given notice, as to whether any new regulations had hoes
introduced into the House with respect to railway Bills.
Si; R. PEEL was not at the present moment prepared to
answer the question of the Hon. Gentleman to its lull extent.
The Government had been occupied for some time Pat
it► con-
sidering this subject, and he wished to have the benefit of expe-
rience with regard to the working of the railway system be-
fore they decided upon any plan whatever.
THE . . • •
Mr. L A BOUCIIERE ;NishedTARIFF to bring under the consii;
deration of the Government the fact th't the Spanish Govern-
ment had endeavoured to have Spanish singer introduced at
the same rate of duty as that on which the most favoured nation
wss introduced, He thought that there was a great necessity
that there should be some alteration in this respect. He did
not wish to enter into the old question; but if it were inconve-
nient to the Government to lay the whole of the correspond.
ence on the table, or the decision at which they bad arrived,
they might lay the decision without the correspondence, or
the correspondence without the di cision.
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OPIUM.
necessary, the decision might be discussed. •

Mr. LABOUCHERE wished to ask another question, as
he saw the Vice-President of the Board of Trade in his place.
Was there to be any alteration in the duties on morphine?
He knew the difficulties which would arise from the alteration
of this duty. Morphine was a peculiar preparation, of which
opium was the raw material ; and he had heard, from an
eminent chemist, that the trade in this article was likely to be
altogether destroyed. The whole duty on the article was only
from 3,0001. to 4.0001. a-year, and by its . remission a great
benefit would be conferred upon the public, and no injury done
to the trade. He would, therefore, hope.that that duty would
be remitted altogether.

sir G. CLERK said that the duty was only Is. a lb., and
that it had been reduced some years ago. In 1842 the duty
we.. 16s. a lb., but in 41181 year the duty was reduced to ss. a
lb., but yet there had been no reduction or increase in the
amount of the drug imported. Drugs of this nauseous and
unpleasant kind would not be admitted at the same rates
a. those which were necessary for the comfort and enjoyment
of the people, and he should have been glad to propose a reduo-
ti in of the duty if it had been for the welfare and interest of
the people.
Sir R. PEEL said that his Right Hon. Friend the Chu.
collor of the Exchequer would, in the eourse of a few dap.
lay on the table a modification of the tariff, and he trusts*
therefore, that the House would wait until they saw the aliens.
tions there proposed.
The subject then dropped.
THE SLAVE. TRADE.

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Mr. HUTT said that be ruse to move "that the course pur-
sued by Great Britain, since 1814, for the suppression of the
slave trade, has been attended by large expenditure of the public
money, and by serious loss of Life .to the naval forces of the
country, and that it has not mitigated the horrors of. the middle
pas,aee, nur diminished the extent of the traffic slaves." In
doing this, he could not but express his surprise that a subject
so important as this should so long have gone onuniniestigated.
It was known that since 1814. an immense sum had been 'ex-
pended in the attempts to.abolisla the slave trade. He was still
of. opinion that the attempts. to abolish thisi trade would
prove utterly futile. During the forty year's which the
attempt had been, followed .up, there.. Lad been an
energetic attempt, to put down the ilate trade, and he must
bear his testimony to the zeal and energy. with,. which that
attempt had been prosecuted on the part of the Admiralty.
There bad been an immense expenditure, Whin the army
and navy, and he must say that nothing more important ,ould
be brought under the consideration of Parliament. Foreigners
looked with a great distrust upon the attempts..of.this.country
.to liberate the slaves. Since 1814 the attempt bad been in-
creasing, and every Government had used its utmost eitge,crogr
to carry this out with varying suecess, but certainly
.smith un-
tiring perseterance. For nearly thirty years ibis coil:. y bad
busied itself in nothing more than efforts t got.
.hadiut demoun!
the slave trade. Fleets employed to gnarclutthe.o tat,
matte energy unparalleled employed yid! doss
attained this, our failure
pletely failed, and we had only f
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