The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-21 00:00:00

GREENWICH GRAND REGATTA.

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Yesterday, being the day appointed for tl:c Greenwich
Reg Ata, in honour of his Majesty's Coronation, the Parade
opposite the Hospital, the whole front of the town, the
river, ti:e shipping, and, in fact, every spot where even a
bird's eye view of the interesting scene on the Thames could
he obtained, was thronged witl► spectators, amounting in
number to several thousands, a considerable part of whom
consisted of the most opulent inhabitants of Greenwich and
its vicinity. The contest was between six young free water-
men of Greenwich, fir a new wherry and other prizes,
given by the Ladies and Gentlemen of Greenwich, to be
decided in five heats. Ti►e following were the men and
their respective colours :
Charles Anderson... Red

Samuel Week P.... Pink

John Bowen Orange John Fisher YI How
Wiliam Chatter ... Green George Cook Sky Blue
Anderson, Bowen, and Chatten, started from the Royal
Hospital Stairs and rowed twice round (the rare extending
the whole front of the town), for the first heat, which was
won by Bowen end Anderson. Weeks, Fisher, and Cook
contested the same dirt tore for the second heat, when Fisher
and Weeks were dectated the winners. Anderson, Weeks,
Cook, and Chatten, as second and third men in the two
first heats, rowed for the third, which was decided in favour
of Anderson and Weeks, Cook being third and Chime() last.
Bowen and Anderson, as winners of the first, anti Fisher
and Weeks, as winners of the second heat, contested for the
fourth heat; and, after a good match between Weeks and
Fisher, in rounding the boat off the Salutation Stairs, the
men came in as follow: —Fisher, first; Weeks, second;
Bowen, third; and Anderson, who did not row his distance,
last. For the fifth and grand heat, Fisher and Weeks took
their stations at half-past seven o'clock, and after a severe
struggle. for the lead, Fisher came in before his antagonist
by a considerable distance, Weeks nttimately taking it easy;
after the above heat the men were towed past the town
successively as they won their prizes. The following were
the prizes :—First man, a new wherry, valued at 231. :
second, cash N. ; third, 21. 10s.; fourth, 2/. ; fifth, 11. 10s. ;
and the sixth 11.

It appears by a letter from Dublin, that Prince
EVEN, the Russian Atnhassador, on his visit to Ireland,
was placed in a rather ludicrous 'state of embarrassment,
in consequence of travelling under en assumed name. He
took the very English name of Mr. ADAMS, and his com-
panion, a Mission officer of distinction, that of Mr. NE-
viLLE. On board of the packet it was noticed by the
other passengers, that though they bore English names,
they spoke with a foreign accent, and the circumstance con-
sequently being reported to the Custom-house officer on
landing, the two travellers were asked for their passports,
and subjected to an examination, the more embarrassing as
it had never occurred to them to prepare themselves for
such an emergency, and they were thrown consequently
into a good deal of confusion by it. Oa stating whit
their travelling names were, the officers remarked, that
such names could hardly belong to foreigners, as they
evidently were ; to which it was replied, that they had
lived in Quebec, awl, front association with French re-
sidents, had lost, in some measure, the use of their native
language; but this being received with an incredulous
look by the examining officer, the Prince, alias " Mr.
Anams," confessed they were foreigners, but attached to
the Russian Embassy, therefore in no need of passports,
and travelling for their amusement. This declaration was
received with all due respect by the officer, who desisted
from further enquiries, and wished the gentlemen an agree-
able journey. Their true rank was soon after butted
about, and their persons recognised. When the Prince
returned shortly after, to re-embark for England, a man,
who met him on the pier, made him a low bow, and re-
marked, " Your Excellency has paid us but a short visit."
The travellers afterwards enjoyed many a hearty laugh,
without doubt, at the ludicrous novelty of their situation.

FROAI LLOYD'S.

DEAL, JULY 20.—Wind W. to W.N.W.—Ar'
rived tl;e Caledonia, Hadnett, and Thomas and
Alfred, Hadnett, from St. Vincent's; Thomas,
Powell, from the Mediterranean ; Leslie Ogilvie,
Hart, from Laguna. Put back the Surrey, Kern!),
for New South Wales.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY 20.—Wind
N.N.W.--Ar-
rived the Prince Regent, Scott, from Drontheim.
PLYMOUTH, JULY W.—Wind N.W.—Arrived
the Thomas Ritchie, Alexander, from Sierra Leone
in 50 das—four men died. Arrived from London
the Fame, Harris, for Newfoundland. :3ailed the
Jane, Bullock, for Oporto.
FALMOUTH, JULY. W.—Wind W. to
Off port the Cochrane, Broad, from Quebec. Ar-
rived the Bolin; Matches, from Memel. Sailed the
Morven, Brown, for Hamburg; and Howard, Den*
nipg, for New York.

BRfiTOL, JULY 20.—Arrived the Lochiel, Soper,
from Newfound!and ; Hugh Johnston, --, from
New Brunswick; and Briton, Dixon, from Quebec•

GREENOCK, JULY 18.—Arrived the llalyards►
Simpson, from Demerara ; and Elizabeth, Pentin,
from Trinidad,

CORK, JULY 18.—Arrived the Pearson, Jackson,
from Qiebee.

HARWICH, JULY 20.—The Hope, Cett, of and
for Rye, from Goole, was assisted into this port bY
the crew of two smack=, leaky, having been on the
Ship Wash Sand.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF CHANCERY.

A CHANCERY BREEZE.

When the Registrar called on the case of Wil-
ford v. Bulkely,
Sir CHARLES WETHERELL stated that the minutes
had been prepared, and he believed it was a matter
of course that they should now be handed in to the
Registrar, and that his Lordship should afterwards
make his order.

The SOLICITOR GENERAL could by no means as'
sent to this. lie was prepared to proceed with the

Sir CHARLES WETIIERELL said, if there was to be
further argument, the thing would have to stand
over, for he bad no idea of any such course being
thought of.
Mr. HORNE, on the same side, observed, that it
stood in the paper to-day for further directions; and
no one could have supposed, from what had passed
a day or two ago, that there was now to be a nett
argument.
The SOLICITOR GENERAL—Why was this not
mentioned to me? Do you mean to say that you
ever made such a statement to me?
Mr. llousE—l made such a statement neither !0
you nor any one else; but it was mentioned In
Court that the miritnes were to be prepared by the
Juniors, and that the case was to come on to-dal
for further directions as a matter of course.
The SOLICITOR GENERAL—I beg your pardon--
I cannot allow any such thing passed or was under-
' stood, otherwise I should have treated such a pro'
position with the disrespect it merited.
The LORD -CHANCELLOR—WiII you permit me--
S r CHARLES WETHERELL—Then there was a
misunderstanding.
The SOLICITOR GENERAL--Not on our part. I
have read my brief, and it's impossible for any
Counsel to get through his business, if day after
day he reads his papers in cases that he is told are
to come on on certain days, and that when they are
called, he is to be informed they must stand over,
and others to be taken, in which he has not looked
at a line in his briefs.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—Win you allow ate to
sta!e---

Sir CHARLES WETHERELL—I am not ready I°
go on with another argument.
The SOLICITOR GENERAL— But why are you
not?

The LORD CHANCELLOR (elevat►ng his voice coo'
siderably)— You are addressing each other—not met
and so unruly, that I really don't know what yOO
are contending about. My impression was this, at
the close of the arguments I refused a new trial,
and was about to dispose of the case on further di-
rections, but it was suggested there were some
ficulties in the way, and therefore it would be better
to postpone it to another day. It is now conse-
quently regularly in the paper for further directions•
The SOLICITOR GENERAL—Well then, it is inr
possible for me to get through my cases, unless I am
permitted to go on when I have read my briefs,
and the cases are regularly in the paper.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—WeII Mr. Horne, aro
you ready to proceed ?
Mr. HoRNE—My Lord, I did not lead the case•
The LORD CHANCELLOR—Are you ready, Sir
Chas. Wetherell ?
Sir CHARLES WETHERELL—I am not ready. I
had not the slightest conception there was to be s
new argument.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—What is the difficulty ?
Sir CHARLES WETHERELL.--I really do not know'•
The LORD CHANCELLOR—Whet are the difficul'
ties on the further directions Mr. Solicitor General?
Tue SOLICITOR GENERAL—The whole question,
both in I.lw and equity is to be considered.
Sir CHARLES WETIIERELL—I will new, the,
tell your Lordship what the difficulty is—that there
is to be a re-argument of the whole of what yod
have already decided.
•I'lie SOLICITOR GENERAL—There is to he no SOCh
thing on my parr, and you have no right to say so•
If the case is not to go on now it will be harder oo
me than on any body else.
Sir CHARLES WETHERELLHOW can that be ?
Mr. HORNE—It will be no harder on you than on
others.
The SOLICITOR GENERAL: Yes, it will.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—WeII, if it stands 07Tr
it must be as a matter of personal convenience to
Counsel.
The SOLICITOR GENERAL-4 entirely agree with
that, hut I have a right to call on them to go on.
Mr. HORNE—A right to call on us !
Sir CHARLES WETHERELL—Mr. SOlicitor-Gene
ral, you have no more right at this bar than other
persons. Right imports authority, and what autho-
rity have you over us, I beg to know ?
The SOLICITOR GENERAL—None on earth.
Sir CHARLES WETHERELL—SO I say.
The SOLICITOR GENERAL—And I never assumed.
ally._

The LORD CHANCELLOR—The case being me'
larly in the paper, the Solicitor General means that it
will be regular now to proceed with it; but where it
is inconvenient to Counsel to proceed with a cage
regularly in the paper, it is not unusual for that case
to stand over.
The SmAccroß GENERAL—Certainly not. But
this ease was adjourned at their own request, and
now that we are ready, they wo'nt proceed with it.
No person is more willing than I am to yield to the
convenience of Counsel.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—WeII, as a matter of
accommodation, let it be postponed till to-morrow.
Mr. IJoßNE—Personal accommodation is all We
put it upon.
The SOLICITOR GENERAL—That accommoda-
tion has been asked in rather a singular tone.
Ml'. HORNE—I can only say it was refused in a
much more singular and unusual a tone.
Tl.ie SOLICITOR GENERAL—Then I can more
von it was not meant to be so.
Mr. HoßNE—That might be.
SANDFORD V. IRBY.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, in judgment, coating('
the decree of the Master of the Rolls, upon a quer

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ROLLS COURT,
A HINT TO AN INTENDED CHANCERY REPORTER.
The MASTER of the ROLLS, in the course of the
hearing urn cause of " Mutter and Fox," interrupted
Counsel by observing, that he thought it his duty to
Make a kw observations upon a matter which
Was of great interest to the profession, and also
to the public. A gentleman had been for some
time reporter to this Court—Mr. Russell,
P Whose reports Were exceedingly useful to the
b üblic and extremely accurate. His Honour bad
een and
that another gentleman had an idca
uf publishing a second report, he must say that he
could itt no manner encourage or countenance a
second report. After some further remarks on this
Sottiect, his Honour went on to hear the cause of
Alutter v. Fox, which had not concluded when.we
Went to press.

VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT.
Mr. ROUPEL said he bad been instructed yester-
day to move for the committal of an aged female for
livtnempr, in not putting in an answer. The lady
ed considerable distance from London, and he
L'°ieved the rular mode was to pray the Court to
'end the Seijeant at Arms to take her into custody.
h' trot being able to make this motion yesterday he
might say he was fortunate, as he should now be
.LPured the pain, for it had teen ascertained
tufa she -
Was a person of very weak mind,
unit totally incapable of understandin what
1" rides of that Court required. Hig s clients had therefore consented, if the Court would give
Permission, to enter au appearance for her and
put
3n an answerbeingonly a nominal defendant.
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CllANCELLOß—Certattily Mr. Roupel.
the pair,
urt is always happy when it can be spared
of making an order of committal.
wilTshie part heard -cause of Appenshaw v. Fenton,
re
then called on, and not concluded when our
Porter lett,

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.
aELECT VESTRIES.--ROGERS v. TYLER, CLERK.
Mr. CAMPBELL stated that this was an action for
van
St, aGiles ssault upon the plaintiff, at the Vestry-room of
the ,on the 4th .Tune, in-the-Fields I 182 S by
defendant, who is rector of that parish. The
Reti°o, however, was not in fact brought so much to
recover compensation for the assault as to try
Whether a select Vestry had existed from time im-
memorial in that parish. He was aware of the in-
Ftuetions given to oppose him to his Learned
tiond (Sir J. Scarlett), but he believed that ulti-
!timely he should clearly convince them that a right
of such a select vestry had never existed. To prove
such a right it would be imperative on his
Learned Friend to show, either that such a vestry
hild an immemorial existence, or that it had been
established by Act of Parliament. The defendant
hTd no doubt acted advisedly in the present instance,
he plaintiff was a respectable parishioner, who
Paid scot and lot, and who was, at the time of the
assault, filling the office of churahwarden. He had
Clear conviction that no select vestry existed in
parish, and that every parishioner who paid scot
arrid lot had a right to be present at any of the ves-
tt
4'y meetings. Knowing that it was intended to
tiff a vestry on the before-mentioned day, the plain-
ff, With several other parishioners, entered the
vestry-room. The defendant was presiding, and or-
dered the plaintiff to withdraw. He refused, and
Was by the direction of the defendant turned out of
the room. The defendant now pleaded a ju.tifira-
tion, on the ground that a sel vestry had txi ste from time immemorial. He mustect admit that if his
client was unlawfully present be must expect to be
turned out. The common law of England un-
doubtedly gave a right to any parishioner paying
scot and lot, and deprived any man of the power
of voting away another man's money without his
having a voice in it. The duties of the ancient
vestry were those of assessment of rates and the
election of churchwardens, lecturers, beadl sex-
tons, and other officers of the parih. Thees, rates
consisted of church and highway rates, and in later
periods of poor rates. The iehabitants i open
Vestry assembled had always performed thesen duties.
As far back as the reign of Elizabeth all parishioners
had aright to be present who paid scot and lot, not
only for the purpose of assessing the rates, but also
to see that the money was not misapplied, as the
Parties who received their orders to appropriate it,
The
answerable for theirconduct to the parishioners.
„lite Learned Counsel contended that Mr. Sturges
;uourne's Act did not apply to this vestry, and there
lad been only two instances where the Legislature
had interfered to establish a select vestry by acts of
their own. If he were able to prove that at any
Period since the reign of Richard 1. there had been
idio such select body, that the inhabitants had done
'lonAull p
og such period, the duties that would have been
then e by that select body,
.had it been in existence,
his learned friend's case must fail, as on this evi-
(.Bence the select vestries of St. O!ave's and
Saviour's, Southwark, had been dissolved.
,here
was a more recent instance in the case of St.
e 4.1.13, Covent-garden, where a select vestry had
cxkiljted fora great many years ; but upon an appli-
, "1 to the Legislature the inhabitants had been
aeasattliired t.o their rights. To establish the present
anan cient vestry, it must be proved that it was.
wolltilcient parish, that the vestry elected itself, or it
Aft: illereiy be a committee of the parishioners.
sei some further observations, the Learned Coon-
whe,end several extracts from the parish books,
Point
'e the Parishioners, in open vestry, had ap-
ed churet vardens, lecturers,
411 d audit. " , beadles, sextons,
-rs to the parish accounts.
itnese„
entries Were called to produce the books, the
left. of which were being read when our Reporter

f The state of the weather was extremely un-
vourable to the rusgnificent display of fireworks at the
Marquis of Ilirwrroan's fete, one-half of which would not go 011;
8101 members of the Headache family as
Weie admitted to the Marquis of HERTFORD'S fete complain
bitterly of the unnecessary noise and shake of the nerves
°tsioned by the firing of 100 pieces of artillery, merely
t° announce that breakfast was ready.
A ludicrous dispute has lately taken place in
Committee of Aldermen, on the subject of a change in
ac dress of the City Marshals. Alderman WOOD pro-
P4ed that they should be dressed like parish beadles,
Ithich, after some discussion, was lost by a considerable
inajority• They are to be curtailed only of the shoulder-
-4104.
The steam-boat from Rotterdam has brought
Btilttfre from St. Petersburgh to the 9th inst. The Ex-
i is quoted at 10i, being a shade in advance of that
'llea in the advices one post earlier. Trade in Russian
;I:duce was rather brisk, and Tallow is quoted at 101
Ica) Hemp at 105 to 108 ru!sles. The Wheat trade
at,
orr, rather dull ; 26,700 casks of Tallow had been weighed
preparatory to being shipped.
t,LXTRAORDINARY SWIMMING FEAT.—Dr.
44 whom most of our readers will have he ird as
having
accomplished several difficult feats of smitnnting,
linden
300 04 ya7(l-4 Thursday l tat, for a wager of 201., to swim
60 strokes, in a pond at Holt Town. Before
tir:ll MenebT his swimming feat, the Doctor had his feet
,tle,,iogether, and a stick four feet long, with a flag at one
bo`; put into each hand. In this state he was rowed in a
Into the middle of the pond, and thrown into the
nu" put
where he floated. A weight of four pounds was
nu " Put upon his chest, and he bad intended to have
oraitied,s to the shore in that way, but the necessary motion
wei arms to propel him to the shore dislodged the
„login, and it sunk. It had remained, however, long
it, ugh to convince the spectators that he could have borne
tewit After he had floated to the shore, he commenced his
e,n;fi‘wialloing 300 yards in 60 strokes ; and to the
4114"ornent of the spectators, who loudly cheered him
tae Caine in, he accomplished it with great ease in 51
vieat notwithstanding the disadvantage of very shallow
--"."--Atauchtster Guardian.