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

REGATTA, AT liAynE

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This much-talked,ef affair 'eame off on the *29th of July, the
last of the three "glorious days" that placed .Louis Philippe
on the throne •of France. .It was held under. the patronage
of his .Royal Highness the Prince de Jainville, who gave
Prize 44 1,500 francs 601.), the -largest. that was contended
for at -this regatta, for -a rowing match open to all nations.
Some -English • sailors -brought a boat- over . from 'Ports--
mouth- with the intention of entering her, but she was
found tt,o long for the regulations. Determined upon
making a profitable voyage, they borrowed an old leaky French
boat of the landlord of Frascati, and caulking her as well as_ they
could upon a kw hours veva, at ion, started against three crack
French row beats, manned with the-best mariners of Havre, in a
strong north • west wind, and rather a heavy sea. The contest *as
witnessed by an immense coecourse of spretators assembled on
the beach, where the authorities of the place, the military with
tneir bands of • music, and the fashionable visitors at Frascati,
added much to the splendour and gaiety of the spectacle. From
the first it was evident that the old boat had got a crew of men
in her; the pull a-together. the feathering of her oarA, the
helmsman's method of meeting the swell, and her constantly
gaining upon the other boats, told the spectators the plain
story that that- was - the English boat. The best ap-
pointed French-boat pulled most manfully to keep np wiih
her, but in vain. At length,- baffled in the attempt,
they permitted their boat to drift too -much in shore, and
shipped a breaker that-put them all hors de combat. The
English-boat absolutely stopped awhile to-pick them up; but
finding•that Old Davy was not likely to get anything out of the
Frenchmen that time, they stre, ched out their oars again, aid
reached the goal up to their knees- in water. The French admit
that the-English sailors did their business in very handsome
style, hut are not a little annoyed that Jack should have carried
off the-Prince's best prize with one of their own worst boats.

DEATH OF THE DEAN OF LiNcoLN.7IVe regret
to have to announce the demise of 'the Very Rev. George
Gordon, D.D., Dean of Lincoln, who expired at the Deanery
on Saturday last, in his eighty-fourth year.

Edward Forster, aged 46, was charged with cutting
and maiming Edward Reynolds, at .Anstey, on June 4.
Mr. HILL, Q.C., who opened the case, sail that Rey-
nolds was a farmer living at Anstey. On the evening in
question he went to the Crown public-house at Anstey,
and sat drinking there till he was intoxicated. The pri-
soner came in, when the prosecutor accused him of shoot-
ing rooks on his mother's farm. The prosecutor laid
hold of prisoner with both hands, shaking him, and
knocking him against the wall. He then loos4 pri-
soner, and told him to leave the hou‘•e. Prisoner would
not do so, and prosecutor then laid hold of prisoner and
shook him again. Prisoner drew a clacp knife fr,in his
pocket, opened it, and threatened, if prosecutor did not
let him go, to make a bole in him. Prosecutor would
not, upon which the prisoner drew the knife 'across his
wrist, making a wound about four inches in lenirth and
two in depth. FrOm the evidence of the surgvon, he
would probably never have the use of his hand as he had
had.

This statement of the quarrel was corroborated by
several witnesses, and that great provocation had been
given by the prosecutor there was no doubt.
The jury, under the Judge's direction, acquitted him
of the capital charge, finding for the common assault
only.—Sentence deferred.
August 6.
(Before. Mr. Justice MAULE.)

Rice Findon, aged 30, was placed at the bar, charged
with stealing three sovereigns, under the, following cir-
cumstances :

The prisoner, who is a saddler living at Paulton, in
the vicinity of Coventry, had gone to the office of a
Mr. Orton; in that-city, to pay a bill of 2/. 155., and ss.
for a letter. When he got there he found Mrs. Wind-
less, the wife of the clerk of Mr. Orton, and complained
to her of the charge of 55., saying he would only pay
3s. 6d. This she consented to, and wrote a receipt,
when the prisoner walked away with the money and re-
ceipt both, saying, " Her master might come and fetch
it." The -prisoner is a person in very good circum-
stances, and the matter was altogether inexplicable, un-
less he thought it a means of defeating what he consi-
dered to be an unjust demand.
Ho was found. Guilty, and sentenced to four months'
imprisonment and hard labour.

In the course yesterday and to-day three road in-
dictments..(tried at one) were disposed of. The ,-,llj, ct
of the prosecution was to fix the parishes of Ansley,
'Over-Whitacre, and the 'township of Bentley, wilt th,
repairing .of a road. called a public carriage road. run-
ning tor three miles and a half through those parishes
and townships. The case possessed no features of in-
terest, -except to the parties immediately concerned.
The fury found for the defendants, thus absolving the
parishes from any liability. •
The Counsel for the prosecution were Mr. Will, Q.O ,
Mr. Gale, and Mr. Mellor; and for the parishes, Mr.
Htimfrey, Nlr. Ilayes, and Mr. Macaulay.

WESTERN CIRCUIT --Bridgfwater, Aug. 5.

CROWN COURT.—.(Before Mr Ju-Lice E 12LE
George Strong, Edward B,yont, and William Hitch
cock, were indicted for burglariously breaking int!, the
dwelling-house of the Rev. Charles Deedes, at West
Camel. • -

From the statement of the Counsel to the jury, and
from the evidence, it appeared that Mr. Deedes had gone
to bed soon.after twelve o'clock on the night of the 10. h
of April, after having fastened up the house. About Inc
on the morning of the 11th he was alarmed by hearing
a noise in his study, which was immediately under hid
hed-room, - He listened for some little time, and sail
hearing the noise went out ieto the passage, when he
s:t w stream of light proceeding from the study door.
kvhich was partly Open. he then immediate!y wont el:avi,
stairs, and Went into the.roona, on getting into which h,
saw` a candle lighted on the-mantlepiece, and two MPD,
out standing at the tablaexarnining something, and the
other busily engaged in 'rifling a desk of its contents.
He then coiled out to them, saying," Holloa, you fellows.
what are you about here ?" upon which they both re-
treated, one went put of the window, which was open, and
the other retreated slowly, putting himself in a fighting
position.- Mr. Deedes upon this immediately dosed with
the man, and a struggle ensued, during which the wan
(who Mr. Deedes stated he believed to be Strong) struck
Mr. -Deedes' repeatedly on the arm with some sharp in-
strument; Mr. Deedes, hoWever, sueceede in pinning him
aggirist the hbutter, 'when the other man returned and
struck him a blow across'the bridge of his nose with a
small iron crowbar, which made him loose his hold, end
the two men-then made their escape through the window.
Mr. Deedes then proceeded to examine the premises, and
found that the entry into the house had been effeeged by the
window shutter having been cut through near the hinge,
and then forced open. Nothing was taken awry, but one
desk ,was broken open, end the articles contained in is
strewed about the room.
A witness was called of the-name of Eliz'abeth Clarke,
who had been originally committed to take her trial as a
.p• • tor-in the- burglary, but as it did not appear
mope.
that she was actually engaged in it, she was admitted to
give evidence on the part of the Crown. She stated that
she'had become acquainted with the prisoners at,Brid
port Fair on the 7tit of April. and by the invitation of
S:rng had joined ,their party, and had gone to Crew•
kerne with them. They travelled altogether in a spring
cart. On the 9th they went from Cre+vkerne to Yeovil,
and remained there until two o'clock on Thursday, the
iozh. They then left Yeovil and went to the I iolston
Arms, about ten miles • from Yeovil, passing through
West Camel on their way. Upon passing-Mr. Deedes's
House there, Strong said, " What a pretty .kirk that is,"
and on the witness asking him what he meant, he sail,
Whet odds. is that to you ?" They all stayed at the
Colston Arms until eleven o'clock, and then drove away
in the direction at Mr. Eteedes's house, until they got
within a quarter of a mile of it, when they stopped their
cart, and Strong said-he bad left his carpet-bag behind,
at the Colston Arias. Hitchaook said, " Have you ?
then let's go back after it a" and they went off together
in the direction of Mr. Deedes's house. Briant followed
in a few minutes, and after they were gone Elizabeth
Clarke observed the earpet-bag in the cart. The three
men were away about a quarter of an hour, and then all
returned together, running, and they all got into the
cart, and drove awry as fast as they could to Ilehester.
'Oa the way there, Clarke observed a mark on Strong's ,
lip, as if from a blow, and heard him say to Hitchcock,
"He made three straight blows at me, but I never

caught but one, on my lip ;" to which Hitchcock, re-
plied, " Vou would 'have caught it worse if it had oot,
been for we. I hit the kit-Lean across the nose with
the jemmy."
Witnesses were called who confirmed this witness, and
to their all being at the Colston Arms at the time she
had stated ; and on being taken to the spot where she
had stated the cart to have stopped, she pointed out the
direction in which Mr. Deedes's hous was, and on their
being taken up at Chard s me time afterwards by Holt,
a constable of several bunches of skeleton keys
were found upon Bryant, and a " jemmy" which ex-
actly corresponded with the marks in the shutter where
it had been forced. There was also found a round box
of Lucifer matches of a peculiar make, and one quite
similar was found in the room that had been broken into,
Counsel having addressed the jury for Strong,
The Learned JUDGE summed up the evidence with
great care, and

The jury immediately found all three prisoners Guilty.
Mr. Justme EnLE then sentenced th..in all to be trans-
ported for life.
There were no le,s than four other indictments against
the prisoners fvr burglary, which were not tried, and,
singular to say, they were all for breaking into the
houses of clerg) ;nen.

POLICE IN TELLIGENC E.
CLERK EA 14 ELL.

John illqr chant was plaeed at CliiThar, charged by
Thos. Cater, an Excise ffieer, of 3, E-sex-placv, Old-
sireiot, tit. Luke's. with hav:iig hawkel k bout eig-irs for
sale without a license. •

Cater deposed that boing given to understand that a
fair was to commence ou Monday last, and to he con.
tinned tor five days; in a field near Chalk or Caledonian-
road, White Conduit fields, Islington, he proceeded
thither in company of Duckwelf, anoti:er officer, to keep
Witch, when he saw the prison.-r has king about cigars
for sate.

BINGTIAM— suppo:e it is a sort of fair or ?
Clit,r—lt was uescribk-d as being c.nduc'ed in a very
orderly and respectable way, and the police were cun-
stantly in attendance.

The Clerk—l super se it is free for any body to enter
without payment ? Cater—Oh, yes, Sir.
Mr. BINGHAM inspected the cigars, and asked Citer if
he was sure that the cigars were real t,baeco ? Ca
37 ter—
Oh, lam sure of that, ~ur worship.
Prisoner —Tney are not. real toltee,. If you cxarnine
thsin you tied they e.aisist only of a leaf. They
are nut toluteco ; we (-1,41't st-li them as tobacco.

Mr. BINGHam-- dben you
raLiiin to say you hate not
rehdertd yourself liable to thv Excise laws, but. to a
oblige of fraud upon the pubite.
Th prisoner made no answer to this
Diwkwel corroborated the evidencAif Cater, and the
cigars hAvin,' been id. otified as being tobacco,
Mr. BINGHAM said he was bound to convict him ; the
law said he should pay 251. fine or three months' im-
prisonment in the House of Correction wtth hard labour;
but he might apply to the Commissioners of Excise fur a
mitigation of the penalty.
The prisoner, who said he had a wife and family, was
eventually conveyed to the tionse of Cormetion.

Ann Richter, the young woman who was charged on
suspicion of the murder of a female infant child, was
finally examined, but there not being any further or
sufficient evidence against her, she was discharged.
QUEEN SQUARE.
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On Friday Anne Santh, a prostitute of the lowest
grade, was charged at this Court with inhuman neglect
of her infant, in consequence of which Dr. Wright, one
41f the medical officers of St. Margaret, considered it
douhtful whether the child would survive. It was
shown bv the evidence that the prisoner went to reside
at a brothel in the Almonry about two months ago, at
which time the infant, who was only a month old, was
in a fine healthy state, but owing to the gross and in-
human neglect of the mother, her frame became in so
emaciated and deplorable a condition that a girl of the
same abandoned course of life as the prisoner was so
horror-stricken at its appearance as to give information
to the authorities, who caused the wretcned mother to
be apprehended. She had been in the habit of leaving
the poor child in her room alone all day long, and the
only attention it appeared to have received was from a
fellow lodger, who on hearing its pitiable cries occa-
sionally fed and wrshed it. On the day that the
prisoner was apprehendes, she had le- t the child at nine
in the morning., and was found at six in the evening
playing a game at cards with some soldiers, at a low
public-house in the neighbourhood ; and a witness,
speaking of the condition of the neglected infant, said
it was on that day so weak that it could hardly cry.
The prisoner way remanded until Friday, and the child
was taken to the workhouse, in order that every atten-
tion might be paid to it.

Mr, Eliott,ihe master of the workhouse, waited upoil
Mr. Burred, and-informed him that the child was dead,

Mr. BURRELL said that information must, of course,
be given to the Coroner, who would hold an inquest on
the bo,iy.