The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-16 00:00:00

GRAND ROWING MATCH.

Yesterday being the day appointed for the very inte-
resting contest between Mitchell andPaiish and Campbell
and Noulton, four celebrated watermen, for 401., from
Westminster-bridge to Putney-bridge with the tide, the
amateurs, &e. of the river assembled numerously at West-
minster. About half-past three the men appeared at their
stations, and shortly after the signal was given. Campbell
and Noulton shortly went a-head, and at Vauxhall-bridge
were six or eight boats length in advance. Their opponents
strained every nerve, and although they once or twice drew
upon them, they never could come well up; and on Camp-
bell and Noulton reaching Putney-bridge the others were
IS or 20 boats length in the rear.

We understand Mr. MACFARLANE'S valu-
able work " Constantinople in 1828," has been already
translated in Paris, so that the high opinion entertained of
it in this country will no doubt speedily be extended
throughout the Continent.

The Rev. Dr. GODDARD, who for many
years filled the important situation of Heal Master of Win-
chester College, with the highest honour to himself, and
lasting benefit to the school, has been nominated to suc-
ceed to the Prebendal Stall vacant in Salisbury Cathedral
by the death of the late Rev. THOMAS WICKHAM.

AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.--Yesterday
forenoon the family of Mr. WINCHES, the landlord of the
Orange Tree, Fieldgate-street, \Vhitechapel, was plunged
into the deepest:distress by the awfully sudden death of his
eldest daughter. The deceased was 14 years of age, and
was latterly in the habit of assisting her father in his btuti-
ness. Yesterday morning, while behind the bar, without
uttering a syllable of complaint, or giving the slightest in-
dication of illness, she suddenly fell down and instantane-
ously expired.

An old woman named PIERCE, who had been
a pauper for 17 years of Ilosham parish, lately died, and
under her pillow was found 2,000/.—Brighton Gazette.
On the Gth i►tst. the Star coach, when on the
other side of Huntley, on its way to Aberdeen, was thrown
over a small precipice at the side of the road, and though
overturned twice in the course of its descent, the whole of
the passengers, fourteen in number, escaped with their
lives, and most of them without being seriously injured.
One woman has had her thigh broke,.and must, it is said,
have been killed on the spot, as the coach fell upon her,
had it not been, as it providentially was, sandy ground.
There is now living at Winterborne, in this
county, a labourer by the name of RICHARD COX, aged
92, who has a wife aged 93, in the full possession of their
faculties : they have been married 62 years, and have bad
16 children.— Cheltenham Chronicle.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

This Theatre closed a very prosperous season last
night with the following Address :

" LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,_ As the performances of
this evening are the last for the season, lam deputed by
the Proprietors of this establishment, to return you their
respectful acknowledgements for the patronage you have
bestowed upon their efforts fur your amusement. Thea-
trical success is subject to so many fluctuations, and de-
pends so much upon contingencies, that under the most
favourable auspices it cannot always be. commanded. The
strenuous endeavour, however, to deserve it, seldom fails
in obtaining in part its object. It is, therefore, a source
of gratification to the management of this theatre, that
not only the novelties submitted to your judgment, but the
revivals also, have, without a single exception, been
honoured and rewarded with the most sterling and une-
quivocal marks of our approbation—such powerful stimu-
lants to continued exertion will not be without effect ; and
the Proprietors, on bidding you farewell for the present
season, venture to cherish the hope that their efforts for
the next will entitle them to the same flattering reward at
its close. In behalf of the performers, Ladies and Gen-
tlemen, I am charged with the strongest expressions of
gratitude for the kindness they have received at your hands
—it has encouraged the timid, and confirmed the efforts of
the more experienced. Their best return fur it will be
found in a renewal of their zeal, and the respectful hope,
at the next commencement of their duties, of meeting you
in perfect health and increasing prosperity."