The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-28 00:00:00

ST. GEORGE'S BOAT CLUB.

The St. George's " Scratch" Match took place on Friday,
and was, throughout, a most dashing and spirited race. The
distance selected was from Putney .bridge to Chiswick-ait,
instead of from Westminster to P aney, which has hitherto
been the course in such races. At a quarter to five the fol-
lowing gentlemen came to the starting-place :
Messrs. Adams and Lane Red
Messrs. B. Smith and Falls Blue
Messrs. Ross and Johnson Orange
Messrs. Mgiay and Warburton .........81ack
Messrs. Gee and Wharton Green

They started away very prettily together, and after a few
strokes Gee and his partner showed in advance. Adams and
his partner, Smith and his partner, and M'Kay and his part-
ner, being in a line with each other, and Ross and Johnson
astern of all. The whole of the gentlemen sat to their work
well, and rowed very prettily, and a little above Finch's
grounds the leading pair were unable to retain their position,
and Smith and his partner rowed into the first place, followed
by Johnson and partner, who were making some very plucky
efforts to overhaul them. Smith and his partner continued,
however, to lead, gradually improving their position to the
end of the race, and a gallant struggle occurred between
Adams and Lane and Gee and Wharton for the third place,
in which the former ultimately were successful. The boats
came in thus at Chiswick-ait—Smith and partner first by
eight lengths, Ross and Johnson second, Adams and Lane
third, beating Gee and Wharton by half a length.

RACES TO COME.

Newmarket First Spring 28

IL.
Plymouth .. ... 30

Eglinton Park
Gorhambury 2O
Shrewsbury
Epsom
UNE. _ _

Chester
Tavistock Spring ......
Newmarket Second Spr l3
Manchester

Ascot
Sutton Park l6
Hampton

Newcastle-on-Tyne
23
1 Bibury Club 25
Stockbridge .. ...
r LY. _ _

Carlisle
Newmarket July Meet-
ing
Lancaster

Liverpool
Dudley
Newton
Goodwood 29

AUGI

Huntingdon
Horwich . 6
Brighton
Abery stwith 6
Wolverhampton
Plymouth
Tunbridge Wells ..

SEPTE:

,UST.
1 Lewes l3 or 14
York
Devon 2O
Stourbridge
Tiverton 2B
Stockton ... 28

,MBER.

Warwick
Rochester and Chatham 3
Abingdon
Lichfield
Leicester lO
Doncaster
OCTO

Yorkshire Union Hunt...
Newmarket .:.econd Oc-

Idrewood .. 22
Richmond 23
Walsall
Lincoln
Newmarket First Octo-
ber Meeting
BER.

Newmarket Houghton
Meeting 27

MBER.

tober Meeting ...... ... 13
Nov}
Tarporley.. ...

5

IRISH RACES TO COME.
Tullow May 6 Down Royal Corporation
Castletowu Park May 20 (Maze Course)......July 21
Curragh
Bellewstown .........June 24 Cashel Sept. 29
Heath
Carlow July 15

The Archbishop of York entertained at dinner on Thursday
evening, at his mansion in Grosvenor-square, the Duchess of
Sutherland and Lady Caroline Levesen Gower, the Countess de
Grey, Lady Francis Egerton, Viscount Ebrington, Sir John and
Lady Johnson, &c.
The Earl and Countess of Eglinton hale left the Clarendon
Hotel for Eglinton Castle.
The Earl and Countess of Erroll and the Ladies Hay are still
sojourning at Cowes. The Noble Lord is somewhat improved.
The Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury have arrived at Mivart's
Hotel from Alton Towers, his Lordship's seat in Staffordshire.
The Earl and Countess of Albemarle have left their seat, Qui-
dinton Hall, to attend the Newmarket Spring Meeting.
The Duke of Marlborough has taken one of the spacious man.
pions in Eaton-square, adjoining Lord Aylmer's, for the season.

The Duke and Duchess of St. Alban's and their youthful
family are expected to return to Piccadilly at the end of the
ensuing week, from Brighton, where they have been passing the
winter.

The Earl and Countess of Jersey will give a grand farewell
entertainment on Thursday next to their Reyai Highnesses the
hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitc.
THE RAPID MAIL CARRIER—THREE HUNDRED
MILES past Hour..—ln the last number of the Mechanics'
Magazine there is a notice of a new plan, invented by Mr.
W. H. James, for the rapid transmission of letters and light
dispatches through tubular passages, at certain intervals, m
which he proposes to place air-exhausting machines, which
will establish a perpetual aurrent of artificial hurricane, by
means of which spherically-shaped elastic vehicles, or bags,
will be blown from station to station. The first cost is esti-
mated by Mr. James at 2,000/. per mile, and the working ex-
penses at from 3001. to 5001. per annum for every 50 miles.
This system would enable us to transmit documentary intel-
ligence at the rate of 7,200 miles a day ! Instead of one ex-
change of letters per day between Liverpool and London,
there might be twelve exchanges.
Mr. Walter Long, M.P., for North Wiltshire, con-
tinues so much indisposed as to disable the Hon. Member
from attending to his Parliamentary duties.
WILL OF PROFESSOR DANIELL.—Probate of the
will of the late John Frederick Daniell, formerly residing in
Gower-street, Bedford. square, but late of Norwood, in the
county of Surrey, Esq., professor of chemistry at King's Col-
lege, and Foreign Secretary to the Royal Society, has just
been granted to his son, the Rev. George Freaeric Daniell,
clerk, one of the executors, a power being reserved to Edmund
Robert Daniell, Esq., the brother of the deceased, to prove
the will hereafter; they are also appointed trustees of the
estate, and guardians to the minors. The personal property
sworn under 9,000/. He directs that the whole of his estate,
real and personal, may be invested in good securities for the
benefit of his children. The will is dated November 4, 1842.
Professor Daniell, it may be remembered, died suddenly in
the council-room of the Royal Society on the 13th of March
last, in a fit of apoplexy, aged 55.
DEATHS BY ACCIDENT COMPENSATION.—The fol-
lowing are the Peers who have been nominated by the House
of Lords to constitute the Select Committee to whom has
been referred the consideration of the Death by Accident
Compensation Bill, that was recently introduced into their
Lordships' House :—The Lord Chancellor, the Lord President,
Duke of Richmond, Marquis of Lansdowne, Marquis of
Salisbury, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of Devon, Earl of
Lonsdale, Earl Lovelace, Earl Ellenborough, Lord Stanley,
Lord Lyttelton, Lord Redesdale, Lord Prudhoe, Lord Col-
chester, Lord Brougham, Lord Denman, Lord Cottenham,
Lord Langdale, Lord Portman, and Lord Campbell. The
Committee will meet on Monday, at four o'clock, for the first
time, when a chairman will be appointed.
THE BISHOP OF EXETER'S VISITATION. —A resident
of Plymouth has called our attention to the rather singular
fact, that although the Bishop has fixed upon a day for
visiting all the other places in the diocese, he has not named
one for his visit either to Plymouth or Totnes. The circum-
stance is the more remarkable, from the Bishop's well known
antipathies—we hope his Lordship is not going to deprive
us of the honour of his company, even for a day.—Plymouth
Journal.

4i V.
= .
Week Last E, Ad
..i.,
ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. t
e,a el
-
6 g
X X
April 19 Arbroath and Forfar ••• • • • ••••• .. • . 168 152
18 Birmingham and Gloucester. •••• • • • • 3,799 2,144
18 Chester and Birkenhead .•••••. • . • . • • 490 415
17 Dublin and Drogheda• • • 714 -
22 Dublin and Kingstown - 968
20 Dundee and Arbroath .••••.•• • • • • • • • 330 258
19 Durham and Sunderland .•••••• • • • • • • 413 366
19 Edinburgh and Glasgow .••••• • • - • • • 2,439 2,092
20 Eastern Counties and North Eastern. • 4,560 4,475
19 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ••• • • • 1,616 1,180
19 Glasgow and Greenock..
19 Grand Junction .
19 Gravesend and Rochester .... ........ 108 -
19 Great North of England
20 Great Western .• •
- Hull and Selby ..
18 Liverpool and Manchester 5,049 4,141
19 London and Birmingham .•••• • • - - • 19,002 19,095
20 London and Blackwell •••• • • • • ..... 1,020 1,104
19 London and Brighton .•.
22 London and Croydon 1,170 299
24 London and Greenwich ...... ..... .. 1,167 895
19 London and South Western .••- • • - 5,537 5,692
20 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ...... 973 777
18 Manchester and Birmingham •-•• .• • • 3,868 3,343
19 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc- 5,637 5,274
19 Midland Counties. 10,845 808
19 Newcastle and Darlington ••••. • .• • • 1,165 469
19 Newcastle and Carlisle.... .. ... ••• .. 1,440 1,356
20 Newcastle and North Shields- - .... 365 303
- North Union and Bolton and Preston - 1,190
21 Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans.. .. _ 5,688 5,535
- Paris •and Rouen ••• •••• 4,353
19 Preston and Wyre ..
19 Sheffield and Manche5ter............ 647 523
24 South Eastern •• • • .
919 859
- Ulster. •.•.••••• • • • • • • • • • .... . ..... - 697
19 Yarmouth and Norwich ............ 212 -
19 York and North Mid1and........... 2,481 2,168

COMMISSION OF LUNACY.—Wednesday, the inquiry
on the commission of lunacy instituted against Mr. Nelson was re.
slimed. After hearing many witnesses, among whom was Dr.
Munro (who was examined in Dalmas's case), and who gave it as
his decided opinion that Mr. Nelson was of unsound mind, as well
as others who were as positive that he was perfectly sane, the
Learned Commissioner summed up, and the jury having retired
for about twenty minutes, returned a verdict—" That Mr. Nelson
was of sound mind, and perfectly capable of taking care both of
himself and his property."
ARMY MOVEMENTS.—The lot Dragoon Guards
(King's Own) are to march in the early part of May from Canter.
bury to Exeter ; at the same time of the year the 3d Dragoon
Guards are to march from Ballincollig to Longford ; the 4th
(Royal Irish) from Cahir to Glasgow ; the 6th Dragoon Guards do
not sail this year for the Cape, but they positively will the next;
Ist Dragoons (Royals) from Dublin to Ballincollig ; the Sth
Hussars remain in Dublin until October ; the 11th from Dundall'
to Cahir ; the 16th sail in May for Gibraltar ; the 44th have sailed
for Dublin ; the depdts of the 33d and 92d move from Cork to
Michelatown and Youghal ; the 61st for India; but the 60th
(Rifles), as we hear, do not leave England this spring.
DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT MURDER AND ROB-
-Imm—information of the following daring attemp atmurder and
robbery has been distributed throughout the City and Metropolitan
Police districts :—On the night of Monday last on Mrs. Meredith,
the wife of a gentleman residing at No. 196, Upper Thames.street,
going into her bed.room, between twelve and one o'clock, she was
much alarmed at finding a strange man standing in the room. Al.
though much alarmed, Mrs. Meredith with great presence of mind
was withdrawing from the room, when the villain rushed on her,
and attempted to stab her in her neck with a knife. On seeing him
raising the knife she seized his arm, and in the scuffle her hand
was cut, and the ruffian, extricating himself from her grasp, ran
down stairs from the second floor, and effected his escape by the
front door before any person could come to her assistance. The
perpetrator of the outrage is described as being about forty years of
age, rather tall, dark complexion and dark whiskers, dressed in
dark clothes. His coat is supposed to have been torn up the back,
and the front of his shirt to be stained with blood from his having
been seized there during Mrs. Meredith's endeavours to detain him.
MEDITERRANEAN AND EAST INDIA MAILS.—
Mails for the Mediterranean, Egypt, Ceylon, India, and China,
via Marseilles, in connexion with the packet which sailed from
Seuthainpton on the 20th, will be dispatched this evening. The
next mails for Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, India,
and Cihnign
of
via Southampton, will he dispatched hence on the
ni
the 3d of May; and those for the same destinations,
via o
Marseilles,
on the evening of the 7th of May. The George
morning
will take out the mails for Sydney, New South Wales, on the 30th
inst. (Wednesday next) ; the Severn is appointed to take out the
West India mails of the morning of the 2d of May, the Britannia
for the American mails of the 3d of May.
RUNNING MATCll.—Wednesday morning a second
match for 51. a-side (the previous one having taken place on the
Bth inst.), came off in the Kensington.road, between James Lees,
of Knightsbridge, and George Brady, of London. Shortly after
seven o'clock the men were at their post, and every necessary ar-
rangement having been made, they started, Brady leading and
maintaining his advantage, from which Lees was never able to dis-
place him, and ultimately finished as he liked, his antagonist hay.
iag given up some time before the completion of the distance.
Brady evidently, from the commencement, had the advantage, his
speed being far greater than his opponent. Both men were in
I excellent condition; the distance was one milk