The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-29 00:00:00

ROWING MATCH.

The watermen plying at Westminster-bridge on Monday con-
tended for a purse of sovereigns, given by theladies and gentle-
men inhabitants of St. Margaret's and St. John's Westmin-
ster. The wager was amongst ten free watermen (five double
pairs of sculls, in two heats), the whole of the party starting
away for the trial heat, and the four first in being entitled to
run for the second or grand heat.
At half-past four the following took their stations for the
first heat :—James Howell and John Ellis, green ; Edward
Howell and J. Jones, jun., yellow ; William Campbell and
George Campbell, pink ; William Spratt and J. Jones, sen.,
white ; and William Windsor and Joseph Kennett, blue. The
distance allotted in this heat was from Westminster-bridge tip
round a boat moored off Sawyer's, Millbank, return down the
Middlesex shore round a boat moored off Hungerford, and
back to Westminster-bridle, The heat was rowed without
much change. Pita; (the brother of the champion of the
Thames) took the load, and kept it ; and after a sharp race be-
tween yellow and blue the former came in second, the latter
third, White being fourth, and green fifth.
At half-past six, the combatants having refreshed, yellow,
pink, white, and blue started for the grand heat—to row from
Westminster-bridge down round the pollee-brig, off Strand-
lane, up to Vauxhall-bridge, and back to Westminster. Yel-
low took the lead for a few yards, when pink came up, and,
after a sharp conflict, passed them ; blue and white got scull
and scull, but the leading boats drew gradually away. Pink
retained the lead throughout, and won by four or five-lengths
yellow was second.

,
ARMY ANDINAVY.-1.1103 July Nallkb;'T 1)f COMitrit'B
United Service Magazine and Naval and Uilitary Jour n fit,
contains, among other inteveating par-erg—Naval Improve-
ments in the 18th cgtxtury—British. arms as they were and as
they are, compared with the ottlnions of Foreigners—Military
Law,Admirals Mathews and Lestock—Scenes in America,
from a Tyro's Note 800k--.A Day in Calabria: a Military
Reminiscence, by an Olt Soldier—Encounter with Bush Ran-
gere,inlVan Dieman'; tand,!by
a sketch of an Officer—ln Portafter Action,
(VA 'lees. Transport in other Days, by a
late Geneyal Offwer—..Memoir of the late Sir N. Nimbly—
NolioA '''indicated from Vanity in his last moments, by Capt.
W 1-1. smyth, R.N.—Belgian Notions of the Battle of Water-
loe=Vilidleation of General Elphinstone—Affairs of India,
with the whole of the Dispatches—Personal Narrative of a
Native Havildar—Examinations at Addiscombe—with the Dis-
tribution of the Navy and Army, and all the Nagai and Mili-
tary intelligence of the month, &e.
On the 17th of the last month a young man, named
Combez, of Sallit Amami, in the Nord,killed. was
lled .
No e
bitten by
symp.
as little
Ogg ttttpituseci to be mad, and which was .e .
indisposed,
oNnc,ailpeared until the 15th inst., when n became
and the medical men who were called in immediatelyrecognisedti lsnieotni:. state till
Sunday last, when be expire
:he indications of hydrophobia. The patient showed no dispo-
sition to violence, hut remained in indreaadn
dreadful
consous re

GLOBE.—The endeavour to be all things to all men
is apt to end, as Sir Robert Peel may possibly find, in
being nothing to anybody. A Minister who clearly shows
that he sets no more value-on the principles and inte-
rests of his own party than of his opponents,may flatter
himself with winning the loose fish of those opponents
—but must lose his party. Now, where can a Minister
hope for a permanent majority t—in his own party, or
in the party opposite to his own ?—or in some party yet
in embryo, which is to be neither the one nor the other?
At every critical epoch, when the question has bees(
between progress and no progress in the particular
direction in which progress has been especially called
for, Sir Robert Peel's tactic has been to declare. in
the first -instance, for no progress, at the same time
that he has always taken very good care never to pledge
himself, under other circumstances, with sufficient
securities, or on points of detail, to resist the particular
measure in question, if it should hereafter suit him to
promote it. Any one who will turn back to Mr.
Peel's earlier statements of his views (about the year
1812, for instance) on the Catholic question, will find that
he took care to disclaim pledging himself against the
future concession of Emancipation. There was something
less than his usual caution, in 1827, in making that
question his pretext for secession from Canning's side.
On the whole, however, both as regarded that question
—the repeal of the Test Act, the reform of the Criminal
Laws,.and Reform in Parliament—we find him playing
the same game. Always taking advantage of the MIT,
prise and struggles of alarmed prejudice, or threatened
interests, and, so soon as their efforts have placed him in
power—ready to renounce those prejudices, and sm'.
render those interests, as a sacrifice to epinion.
Sir Robert Peel has played the same game with re-
gard
to the tariff, compromise and bribery, &e. lie
had taken advantage of the panic at the Whig budget,
and the election practices of his friends,. to seat himself
in power, with a commanding majority at his back,
1 This accomplished, he sees no farther occasion for the
ladders he climbed by. Down they go, therefore, to
accommodate public opinion with materials for a bon-
fire. There are many good people who see no particular
harm in this species of statesmanship, and who are as
. well content to take progressive measures from Peel as
as from his predecessors. We shall not attempt to argue
with this sort of political optimists by insisting on the
dishonesty of these tactics for gaining and keeping power.
It may be thought that
" the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated, as to cheat ;"
And if the Tory party, after all their reasons for dis-
trusting Peel, chose to be cheated by him, that. the
public have nothing but cause for congratulation in the
general result. It seldom, however. happens that seal),
a genius as Sir Robert cheats only one party. Those
who chuckle most at the Tory disappointment are, in
0 some degree, duped themselves.
STANDARD.—In the House of Lords, last night,
Lord Denman introduced a Bill enabling all persona
1 who might object to taking oaths in Courts of Justice
to substitute an affirmation. The Bill was opposed by
the Bishop of London, the Earl of Wicklow, the
Earl of Galloway, and Lord Abinger, who testified
from his own experience that Quakers are the most
unmanageable and unsatisfactory witnesses. Lord
Campbell supported the Bill, and Lord Broughs.m
defended the Quakers, who he said were persons, re-
markable for their respect for truth. The Bill was, by
leave, withdrawn. The effect of Lord Demuan's
measure would be to put an end to oaths in Courts of
Justice. Every conscientious man will decline an unne-
cessary oath, and others are sure rot to be slow in
imitating their example ; but an oath would become
strictly unnecessary if a witness was at liberty to substitute
an affirmation. At present all who are not misled by an
erroneous reading of the Scriptures feel that society is
entitled to their evidence under the highest sanction,
which is an appeal to the Almighty ; and respecting
society as an institution of that Divine Behrg, they have,
no scruple in submitting to its command. But let the
State say that it will be content with less than the
highest sanction, and it will be a plain profanation to
resort to oaths. As to Lord Brougham's defence of
the Quakers, we admit its validity so far as wards are
concerned, but we deny that in the truth of things Quakers
are more remarkable for veracity than other persons.
We do not say that they regard truth less. Between.
cautiousness in the use of words, however, and the spirit:
of truth there is a wide differeuce ; and, putting Quakers
out of question, we do not find generally that the Inca
most guarded in their language are by any means the
most ingenuous ; indeed, excessive rigour on the point.
is for the most part a sign of a disingenuous person, and.
it generally characterises that class of " fencers". whom
judges find it least pleasant to deal with, and jurors
most difficult to believe.

GREENWICH HOSPITAL.
PAINTED lIALL AND CHAPEL.

We have the satisfaction to inform our readm.b
that Sir Robert Stopford, the Governor, has attended
to the recommendation of the Select Committee On
National Monuments, of 1841, of which Mr. Hume
was Chairman, to admit the public . free on two days.
in the week. The following is an.extract flsom the
Report of the Committee :

"The attention of your Committee has been di-
rected to the Painted flail and Chapel at Greenwich
Hospital, which are exhibited on week-day, from
seven in the morning to sunset, and on Sunday after-
noon after one o'clock, to the public, on the payment .11*
3(1. by each person for admission to each place. ",,11,3
Painted. Hall, decorated by Sir J. Thornhill, cor,fains
a collection of paintings consisting of representations
of naval actions, and portraits of Admirals and
flaw., men, some sculpture, and other objects inte-
resting- to the public, and chiefly to persons in the
naval service. Soldiers have been admitted to see
the Hall free of charge for many years ; and, sin
the Committee began their inquiry, the Lieuterant.
Governor, by order dated 7th May, 1841, has ilirected
that seamen shall also in future be ad:nitted free of
ehargea measure which your Cetnmittee highly ap-
prove of. The behaviour of the visitors is praised by
the attendants.
The annual number of visitors to the Painted
Hall is on an average about 100,000, and produces
1,300/. a-year. The money received for admission of
visitors is applied to the general funds of the, Hos-
pital. Considering that all the pictures contained in
the Painted Hall are the free gift of individuals,,
foreign as well as British, and that they contri-
bute to illustrate the naval history of the country,
and to perpetuate the memory of those dis'tinguishe'd
officers who have been thought worthy of a place in
this collection, your Committee strongly recommend
that, for the gyatification and instruciiion of the people,
the Painted Hall should he Opened to the public for
some hours every day, feee of charge, in the same
manner as the Nation:ti Gallery and Hampton Court
Palace, under suds regulations as may be requisite.
"As it appars from the evidence, that the admi%-
sion of the public to the apartments, galleries. tnd
gardens at Hampton Court, and also to the tgalnted
Hall at Greenwich, on Sunday afternoon, is not
attended with any inconvenience or impropriety,
the evidence of several witnesses tends to show that
much advantage would be derived from similar op-
portunities being afforded, under proper regulations,
at the British Museum and the National Gallery,
with beneficiP.l. results."
Sir B'obert Stopford has given orders that the
Painted Hall and Chapel shall be open, free of charge,
on Mondays and Fridays, from ten to seven o'clock in
summer, and from ten to three in winter; and we
trust the public will show by their conduct a. just
value of the boon thus given them, which will place
Greenwich Hospital on the same liberal footing as the
National Gallery and Hampton Court are now placed.
We view the conduct of Sir Robert Stopfbrd as
highly honourable to him as a gentleman and a sailor,
and we trust his example will be followed by those
who have charge of public buildings and collections
of the works of art that would be invaluable to the
mass of the people, as a means of education r.nd
ac-
quiring a knowledge of the fine arts, which tend to
soften the ruder manners of the ignorant.
The Select Committee also recommended cheap
catalogues of the pictures, &c. in the public collec-
tions, and we. have had sent us copies of a -Catalogue
of the National Gallery, containining, a list of all 'the
Pictures in that collection at H. and 3d. each, 14hich
are sold at the door of the Gallery, and at" 66, Old
Bailey, where they are printed, instead of 6d. and Is.
at which the official Catalogues were sold. The en-
terpr',sing individual who prints these we trust will
meet with encouragement from the public, and we+
hope to see him prepare Catalogues of the Paintings
in Greenwich Hall at the same prices.

A LEAP FOR LIFE.—One day during the last week
a party of gentlemen went on a nesting excursion to the
Heughs, near Slains Castle, and approaching " Dunbuy," aw
insulated precipitous rock, well known as a favourite resort for
sea fowl, one of the boldest of the party, enamoured of its rich
treasures, ventured to ascend its rugged and almost perpendi-
cular crags, amidst the vetoing cries of its reclaiming occu
pants, which hovered about the enemy," seemingly disposed.to enter their dissents, in the shape of sundry Itouneesna, hi 4
face and hands; but heedless of all the darilyt, intruder clam-
bered up to the alarming height of SO or !if) fee ;,when accidentally
laying hold of a piece of loose rock, whit°, aave way with him,
he lost his balance, but had the preserxe of mind to make a
sudden leap from the face of the rock much to the satisfaction
of his winged neighbours, who rel, aced at his exit. He fell
into the water, and to the great
,jo,y and surprise of his friends,
escaped unhurt.— Glasgow Cotwier.
The General Steam Nuvi...ation Company's new
Steam-ship Trident (the Jaime)) of which vessel from Messrs.
Green and Wigram's yard, P.lackwall, we noticed above six
months since), left the Company's wharf at Poplar on Saturday
evening for Edinburgh, with upwards of 100 passengers and a
full cargo. During the Om she presented a very gay appear-
ance, dressed out flags of all nations ; and notwith-
wevaserlnfsapeeiclaaittifihie:o;y:ipnsreeaeviesormefalrolferi
standing the unfavourable weather, numbers of persons visited
her during the day by permission of the Directors, who, as
eminent
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usual en such occs.sions, had been very liberal in affording
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of
ftqcere afloat.
cri"eteul ter from Lille states that the Chamber of Com-
merce town, being uneasy at the delay of the promised
omialrrotherli
nuance,
relative to the linen manutacture, waited in a body
on the Prefect of the Nord on the 20th inst., to express to hills
their dissatisfaction. The Prefect, in reply, addressed a let-
ter to the President of the Chamber of Commerce, stating that
the delay was caused simply by the difficulties attending an ar-
rangement in course of negotiation with Belgium, and by which,
several important manufacturing interests were to obtain con-
cessions. These diffieulties are, he says, on the point of being
removed, and nothing will prevent the ordonnanee from appear.-
jug before the end of the month.