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

AQUATICS.
LAMBETH REGATTA.—The Lambeth Watecail%'/13''',.Ane
majority of whom have acquired some cfklebfitfTis
wagermen, yesterday contended in three heats; with six' 2_
pair of oars, for a purse of sovereigns, givela- by th..4w).
ladies and gentlemen of St. Mary's. The race Wasivell::_J—
contested throughout, and drew a vast number 1'46-404 , At
tators who lined the Bishop's-walk, and availed them: `"',:l
selves of every other place that could command a view of
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 scultiera'
contest among the watermen plying at Waterloo-bridge,
Arundel-stairs, and Strand-lane, in three heats, With
twelve competitors, the distance rowed being from 'tile
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. Scullthorpc and R. Ridg-
way were the winners.
GREENWICH REGATTA.—The first east-end regatta
here, which owes its origin to the increased l atronage
the watermen Lave received at this favourite place of
surnmer-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 Lago
was the winner.

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CRICKET.

SUSSEX V. THE MARYLEBONE CLUB ♦ND 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, got 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 nubility
and 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 celebrateal ' Hoe
sopher and chemist was the first and only Qua •i s
whom the honour of Doctor of Laws wasconferr• s 14
the University of Oxford. He was installed at the
of the the British Association for the Advancement- et
Science, in 1833, and the enthusiastic reception eihiciee
the illustrious individual met with on that cccasion 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-
annuations.
THE INFANT PRINCE AND THE CITIZENS OF YORx.
—The town council of York met on Monday, for the
purpose of agreeing upon en 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, ie 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 ho 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. tie, 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 dud
milk. Thomas Edwards said :Who was the deceased's
landlord. Deceased was a man of singular habits, and••
would never speak to a woman. Witness did not knos
he was dangerously ill until Tfiday morning. He was's
a law-writer, performing his business at home, and
witness believed that he had not left his room for the
last three •ears. He bad no bed to lie upon, and In
change of linen. Mary Ann Wheatley said that fa
three years she had lived in the next room to the de-
ceased, and she never saw him during the whole of that .
time. He was a most eccentric man. An o I man
used to carry his writing backwards and forwarYs. 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, he 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 (lace then commenced,
in which, for three long hours, the strange and luck-
less visitant was hunted by the maimed, the halt, the
blind, the infirm, and the able-bodied of all sexes and
ages, en 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 hang by stone
walls, and, above all, bewildered and overpowered
by the demoniacal yells which rang around him, so
unlike the music of the.chace 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 Chib
repaired to the poor-house, and indignantly reproached
the inmates for their conduct, stating that they had de-
stroyed the Lyrath fux, a particular favourite of Sir J.
Power, Bart.—Kilhenny Moderator.
NOVEL FISIIING.—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 _
ash 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. —Kent
Examine,.
AN OLD APRICOT TREE..—A remarkable instance
of the great age to which this tree attains is evident in
the garden of J. J. Deighton, Esq., at Harston, where a
fine specimen is growing on an east wall, which was(
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 Lonse
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.—Westatcrela4
Gazette.
THE CROPS, WEST KENT, AUG. 18.—The weai
ther has been fortunately favourable fbr the corn, boai
cut and us:cut, fur the last three days, and a large qual?4,
tity of the latter has been carried. There appears to tie
little if any injury suffered by the crops, although tl
farmers apprehended great damage to the corn whica -
had been cut but not carried. Sonic of the barley
to'.
sprouted, but the change of the weather will,
This week, if tine, .
hoped, put an end to arty further appreh
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safety of the crops.
entire of the wheat and bean crops as yet uncut.
Four mechanics, three of them English and the
other Irish, arrived at Lewiston last Saturday, from
Bermuda, in an open boat, after fourteen
.days of peril:
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and suffering. Thbeeyin
employment, but 0
boat, for want of means to obtain a passage in any other
manner.—New York Paper of July 26.
Lieutenant Peel, R.N. son of the Right Hon.
Baronet, has proceeded to Portsmouth, to go on board
the Collingwood, Admiral Sir George?. Seymour's flag•
ship, preparatory to sailing in that vessel to the Pacific,
where he joins his ship, the Cormorant.