The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-16 00:00:00

AMATEUR ROWING MATCH.

A Rowing Match took place yesterday for a purse of 20
sovs. betrVeeu six pair of oars, which excited a considerable
degree of interest. The following were the parties :
E. Shepherd, W. Newson, blue ; R. Harley, W. Col-
lett, pink ; J. Wilson, J. Horden, scarlet ; J. Scarborough,
W. Warner, red ; W. Morgan, W. Lee, yellow ; J. Bower-
man, W. Neal, green.
Blue, scarlet, red, and green, being the best of two
heats, they were entitled to row for the third and grand
heat. After an admirable contest, they came in as fol-
lows .—Scarlet first, red second, blue third, and green last.

YORK FESTIVAL.-The party who will as-
semble at liishopthorpe, at the approaching Festival, con-
sist, we hear, (exclusive of the Archbishop's own numerous
family) of his Grace the Duke of NORFOLK, his Grace the
Duke of DEVONSHIRE, the Earl and Countess of SCAR-
BOROUGH, the Earl and Countess of CARLISLE, Viscount
MORPETH, Lady BL NCHE HOWARD, the Earl and
Countess MANVERS, Viscount NEWARK, Lord and Lady
SELSEY, Sir JOHN and Lady JOHNSTONE, &c.—Sheffield
Courant.

The celebrated Professor AIRY, of Cambridge,
has been spending the last few days at this place. We
understand the Professor has arrived at some new and un-.
expected conclusions by his experiments with the pendulum
in the
.deepest mines in Cornwall. The pendulum was
kept incessantly swinging for six days and nights. In one
stage of the experiments a sudden irruption of water gave a
somewhat romantic interest to the inquiry.—pla
Paper. n:oath

SPIRIT of the PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

(pawl THE DUBLIN FREEMAN'S JOURNAL OF SATURDAY.)
The Catholic mind of Ireland is unquestionably
wrought up to art.-assurance, that the first national
act of Legislature will be emancipation'. The speech
of Mr. Dawson, and the daily speeches of Lord
Anglesea, tend to preserve this hope, unembittered
with the most trivial alloy of suspicion, that the case
will be otherwise. This repose of the Irish mind is
the fruit of any thing but complex reasoning. The
Viceroy's advices, always recommendatory of chris.
tian fellowship and amnesty of religious feuds and
distinction, are naturally enough regarded- by the
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the settlement of the Catholic question be not
seriously entertained by the Cabinet, it would be an
act of policy on the part of the Cabinet to give a
hint to Lord Anglesea to alter his tone. At all
events, we are certain that so far as there is question
of individual sincerity, his Lordship is sincere.
FROM THE GLASGOW FREE PRESS OF SATURDAY.)
RUSSIAN WAR.—The Russians have yet pene-
trated no farther than they formerly did in their last
war with Turkey. They have captured only a few
of the fortresses once before masked or, occupied by
them. They have neither met with nor overthrown
a regular Turkish army, the enemy having prudently
retreated before them from the open country, and
concentrated his forces along the range of the Balkan,
where the serious part of the struggle in reality is
yet to commence. That the Turks hare acted with,
great skill and sagacious foresight, in thus rendering
a desert, before the Russians, of the open country
stretching from Mount thernus to the Danube, is
clearly proved by the late tardy progress of the
Russians, owing to the difficulty of precuringsupplies,
and also by the reluctantly acknowledged fact, that
the cattle employed in conveying their provisions and
baggage, are destroyed in great numbers by the in-
tolerable heat of the climate, the titter aridity of the
soil, and the consequent scarcity of fodder and water.

The Right Hon. J. FOSTER has left town fo
is residence in Dorsetshire.

Mr. GEORGE ROBERT DAWSON.—A letter
from Mr. DAwsoN is said to be in private circulation,
saying that he is still a friend to the Ascendancy, and so
forth. Now we know that in high Orange circles, this is
trumpeted with great glee. We demand the letter—we
challenge its production. If there be such a letter in ex-
istence, let it be openly exhibited, in order that the Public
may put their own interpretation upon it. —D übl in Even-
ing Post.

At Port St. Mary's, in did neighbourhood of
Cadiz, WASHINGTON IRVINE is at present staying ; I be-
lieve his pen is again at work.

Misses 1. and E. PATON have been during
the present week performing in the Perth theatre with great
success.—Aberdeen Chronicle.

HIGH NOTIONS.—The man in the play,
who feels that it is rather disreputable, to get his living by
leading a dancing-bear, endeavours to get rid of a part of
the opprobrium of his profession by—" My bear never
dances but to the very stenteelest of tunes."
IMPROVEMENTS IN COVENT GARDEN
MaRKET.—The bustle of the present season being nearly
terminated in Covent Garden market, a boarding has been
erected, which encloses the whole of the northern side,
and yesterday a number of workmen were employed in
pulling down the whole range of shops on that side, pre- '
vious to the building of the new market, which is to be
commenced forthwith.
A few days since, a number of the poor
Catholic pariThioners of Islandeady, near the town of
Castlebar; came forward unsolicited, and cut down the en-
tire crap, to the extent of ten or twelve acres, belonging to
the Rev. Mr. HART, the Protestant Rector of that Union.
—Dublin Evening Post.

A leap, unparalleled we believe in the annals
of horse history, has lately been accomplished in this neigh-
bourhood. On Friday last, as Mt. BROWN, of Nuneaton
Colliery, was returning, in a gig, from Coventry, about
seven o'clock in the evening, his horse took fright, and
running away, leaped at Cotton toll-gate, which is about
seven feet high, when, singular to relate, the animal fully
cleared the gate, and bringing the gig after him, and in
contact with the upper bars of the gate, which were
broken, the gig, with two persons in it, passed over un-
damaged ! Mr. BROWN and another gentleman were in
the vehicle at the time, and though flung uut with great
violence, also escaped from any serious injury.—Coventry
Observer.

STEAM COACHES.—Messrs. JAMES and
GEORGE NAYSMITH have been trying their steam coach
daily for a week past, on the road from Leith to the Ferry.
They have kept it running in general fur an hour and a
half without a halt, and at the rate of about six miles an
hour. We mentioned before, that, in making it, they
looked upon it merely as an experimental machine, which
would serve to give them more precise ideas of the power
necessary, and the most advantageous arrangements of the
parts. The result is, we understand, that they have got
much new light upon the subject, and they have increased
confidence—we should rather say, entire confidence—in
the practicability of this species of conveyance. One point
of great consequence they consider as settled, by their ex-
perience during the past week—that the steam coach, pro-
perly constructed, will not alarm the horsee which it meets
en the road. They have passed great numbers of coaches,
carts, and saddle-horses, and though the engine was not
masked lay a coach body, as it will be in the finished
vehicle, the horses have rarely shown any restiveness.—
We should be well pleased now to see them employed by
some enterprising individual, to build a steam coach, com-
plete in all its parts, to ply on some of our roads.—
Scotsman.

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS.

Our city article teems with projected machina-
tions of the country bankers for the support of
what they call " credit," but in fact for securing-
/to themselves a continuance of that system which
made them joint issuers of money with the King,
and arbiters without appeal of the amount of
bread and beef which every man in England.
should have the memo of purchasing. Gold, it
appears from calculations which have recently
appeared in this journal, can be carried abroad
more rapid diy en.
_to a greater profit than that at which it can be
employed at home. Yet this 'is the time for
getting up a conspiracy of the paper. dealers,
to render gold of still less value in the
manufactures
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depredations, comes from that .of men in busi-
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ness buying and selling wholesale. on that kind of
credit, and to that extent, both of which have
been encouraged amongst Diglishmen, by the
long prevalence of an irresponsible paper coin-
age. The whole world has been taught to live
" promise-crannied :" not only new enterprises
in trade, with new firms, large orders, long-winded
bills, loaded warehouses, bulky failures, paltry
dividends, with all the et cetera of factitious
bustle, were the fruits of that monstrous expe-
dient—the substituting hazard for capital, and
audacity for prudence in the affairs of com-
merce ; but in the economy of private families,
the entire scale of expense of every week ' rose
and spread itself into-- the nature of a specula-
tion. The small farmer of 1815 outdid the
squire of 1790. Instead of "saving money like
their fathers to provide against accidents, modern

men saw in chance a shield, not a danger, and
trusted that the recklessness of the passing hour
would be retrieved by some future miracle.--
Of this condition of things we are now, every
one of us, enduring the evil effects. The out-
cry for a accommodation" to trade is raised
again, when trade has not yet recovered the
ill consequence of being over-accommodated,
and indefatigably and pertinaciously forced.—