The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-06 00:00:00

FOOT RACING AT WALWORTH.

70n Monday some interesting foot races came off at the Bee-
hive grounds at Walworth, and from the great celebrity of the
contending parties, the affair attracted upwards of 3,000 per-
sons. The first prize was for a silver tankard, which was
walked for over a ten miles distance, and the following well-
known pedestrians contended :—East of Westminster, Haynes
of Hammersmith, Oliver of Pimlico, Powell of Hampton, Har-
rison of Hounslow, Penfold of Tooting, and Blackwell, the Un-
known Bee, and Howe of London. At the signal they went
off at a smart pace. When six miles had been covered, several
of the men had relinquished the contest, and finally the prize
was won by East, who accomplished the ten miles in one ,hour
and thirty-five minutes, fair toe and heel walking, and Powell
came in second. The next contest was for a handsome silver
cup, to be run for over a quarter of a mile of ground, and to
leap ten hurdles. The billowing men formed the field at
starting :—Smith, the London champion, Jenkinson, the Lon-
don Stag, Warwick of Epsom, E. Smith and Patterson of Lon-
don, and Handley of Nottingham. The competitors bounded
off at locomotive speed, and cleared the hurdles with great ce-
lerity, and after a very admirably contested race Smith came
in the winner, and won the cup; Jenkinson was second, and
Warwick third. Subsequently the day's sport was brought to
a conclusion by the race for a silver snuff-box, 'over 440 yards
of ground and fifteen hurdles placed equi-distant. Cheeny,
Makpioce, Bung, Read, and Williams (country professionals),
and E. Smith and Fibbins, of London, were the candidates.
At the start Stahl) went away with the lead, closely followed
by his adversaries, when, after a spirited race, Smith came in
the winner.

WRECK of the JOHN HENDRICK,
DUTCH EA zeT INDIAMAN.
We are happy to state that the eleven men, left by Captain
R. W. Heckelbury, of the Dutch East Indiaman, the John
Hendrick, on the 30th May last, upon a rock near the Line,
as was reported in The Sun, were rescued from their frightful
situation, after having been on the rock 15 days, by Captain
Snell, of the merchant ship Eliza, of Liverpoel, and have ar-
rived in London. It will be recollected that, upon the cap-
tain, with seven of the crew, being taken off, the vessel, on
board of which they were received, was for several days pre-
vented, by a violent storm and adverse winds, from making
head towards the rock, and was carried some hundred of miles
away from it, when, it being supposed by the captain that the
poor fellows would have been starved to death, as there appeared,
to be no means of obtaining food, they were left to their fate.
Fortunately, however, after enduring the most dreadful suffer-
ings and privations, the Eliza hove in sight, and prevented
that calamity which was looked for by the captain of the John
Hendrick.
The following account has been given by P. L. Zeeman,
the second mate of the John Hendrick, one who was left on
the rock, of the dreadful visitation of his companions, one of
whom was the surgeon of the vessel. It was expected that
after the captain had left, every effort would be made to
return and take them off ; but, when it was found that the
wind was so long in a direction that would carry the vessel
away from them, they took steps, under thy direction of the
surgeon, to provide for extremities. The rock was discovered
to be about half a mile in circumference, and upon making a
survey of it there was found to be a plentiful supply of fowl,
but no fresh water was anywhere to be met with. The only
meat they had was a little pork : with this they made bait, and
attached to nails, which were made in the form of hooks, and
them caught fish, which abounded there. They killed the
fowls, a sort of duck, during the night, and in the day time
gathered their eggs. There was a description of crabs upon
the rock, the legs of which were serviceable in quenching
their thirst. For some days they were able to cook their
food by burning pieces of the wreck of the vessel till that was
exhausted, and by pounding the charcoal and mixing this
with the sea water they thought they should be able to deprive
it of its saline properties ; but in this they were unsuccess-
ful. During the day, between eleven and three o'clock, on
account of the extreme heat, they waded into the sea.
In this situation they continued for eight days, when nearly
the whole of them were seized with a swelling of the lips
and tongue and a vertigo, that for two days rendered them
almost insensible. This excise from the want of water. The
surgeon for some days previous had been in that situation. On
the tenth day they were visited with occasional showers of rain,
to collect which the sail they had was expanded, a hole made
in the centre, and a cask placed underneath in which the rain
water was collected. This, which was very sparingly distri-
buted, assisted to restore the strength of all. In this state
they remained till the 15th of June. when the Eliz.t, Captain
Snell, belonging to Liverpool, and trading to Sydney, hove in
sight. A flag was waved which was happily observed by some
of the Eliza's crew. upon which two boats were lowered and
the whale were taken off. They were most kindly treated by
the captain ; but for ten days they endured the greatest bodily
sufferings, several of them not being expected to recover.
Shortly after being on board, as the captain expected to be
short, of water, upon the Lenters, Captain Gelmon, from
Bombay to Liverpool, appearing in sight five of the men
were put on board that vessel. The Lenters reached Liver-
pool last Friday, when the men brought by her proceeded
to the residence of the Dutch Consul, who, upun being
made acquainted by them that they belonged to the
John Hendrick, and were the men abandoned upon the rock,
gave them immediate assistance. He provided each man with
a jacket, a pair of shoes, and a'pair of stockings. He also paid
their passage up to Loudon, and gave them a letter of intro-
duction to the Dutch Consul in London. The men are now
lodging at the Yorkshire Grey Tavern, in Lower Thames-
street, and appear not to be in the least degree affected by
their dreadful sufferings. The rock on which the men were is
supposed to be a volcanic eruption. The mate described the
composition of the material of it to be iron, stone, and glass.
There are three spires or pillars arising cut of it, on the top
of one of which (this being a flat surface, a few feet diameter)
a flag was placed during the day, and a man was also stationed
to watch for a vessel. It has beenascertained that the surgeom
and five men, who were in the Eliza, have been la,.ded at the
Brazils, where they were taken under the protection of the
Dutch Consul, and treated with the utmost kindness and atten-
tion. Nothing was heard of the mate, five seamen, and the
passenger, who went off previous to Captain Heckelbury's
departure, and it is supposed that they were lost in the storm
already spoken of. The captain of the Eliza had placed in his
care two quadrants, two spy glasses, and the log books of the
John Hendrick, which he retained possession of.

THE ACCIDENT ON THE EDINBURGH AND GLAS-
GOW RAILWAY.—In the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh,
on -Friday, William Paten, superintendent of locomotives
on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, and Richard
M'Nab, engine-man, employed on the railway, were charged
with culpable homicide; William Paten for having, on the
19th of May last, recklessly dispatched from the Cowlair's
station an engine called the Napier, defective in its tubes, fire-
box, or other machinery, for the quick conveyance of Thomas
Cooley to Edinburgh ; and Richard M•Nab, knowing the said
engine to he defective, for culpably neglecting to take a lamp
with him, though the lateness of hour required such a precau-
tion. In consequence of the inefficient state of the engine,
and the absence of light, the carriage containing Thomas
Cooley was overtaken by and brought into collision, when
nearly opposite Corstorphine, with the next ordinary passage
train, which was to leave Glasgow shortly afterwards, whereby
Thomas Cooley was thrown out of the carriage, and the wheels
of the next train of carriages went over his body, in conse-
quence of which he was killed. A jury having been empanelled,
the Solicitor-General intimated that the Crown had found
it necessary to desert the diet against the prisoners ; the
reasons for which he was proceeding to state, when the
Court said it was unnecessary to make any
.explanation, as
the Crown had a perfect right to exercise its cnscretion in de-
serting the diet. The prisoners were then discharged from
tie bar.
FATAL ACCIDENTS ON THE RIVER.—On Monday
afternoon Mr. J. Payne held an inquest at the King's Arms,
Queenhithe Dock, Thomas-street, on the bodies of James
Jelly, aged 10 years, and Emily Rushton, aged 14. Tiuching
the death of tire former, it appeared that the deceased, on Sun-
day afternoon last, together with a great many more children,
were pla)ing on some barges in Queenhithe Dock, which nn a
Sunday is resorted to by crowds of the infantine population,
when suddenly a cry was raised that the man was corning, and
the deceased, in his eagerness to get ashore, struck his foot
against the rowlock of the barge and fell overboard, and was
sucked immediately tinder the barge's bottom. A lighterman,
named plunged after the deceased, lut his body was
not found for tweney minutes, when life was found to be extinct.
Respecting the death of Emily Rushton, it appeared that the
rit,eeased, along with s.ime other girls, tvere playing on some
barges off Trigg-stairs, and in attempting to jump from a
barge on to the landing-place, she fell into the water. arid was
also sucked under the barge's boi torn before any one could ren-
der her any aid. Her body was found in a quarter of an hour,
and conveyed to the Glazier? Arms, Water-lane, where the
usual means were applied to restore her, but without eff'ct.
The jury returned verdicts of " Accidental death " in each
case, with a recommendation, that for the future, from the open
and exposed state of Queenhithe Dock to children, a constable
should be placed on duty on a Sunday, to prevent a further loss
of life ; and the Coroner undertook to lay the suggestions of the
jury before the City Police Committee.
Innumerable are tlw suanises afloat concerning
the nature of Mrs. Gore's new novel. At first " The Royal
Favourite " was reported to be one of the Courtiers of Queen
Elizabeth ; and subsequent Tumours have pointed out the Court
of Catherine of Russia as the scene of the novel. Both these
reports we are able to contradict. It is, however, now ad-
mitted that the Royal Favourite is a Courtier of the pre-
sent day.