Star.
London, England, 1821-09-05 00:00:00

MILLBANK REGATTA.

Yesterday the amateurs of aquatic sports were highly grati-
fied by an exhibition upon Old Thames, which, notwithstanding
St. Bartholomew's Fair, attracted a vast concourse of spectator:.
It was a subscription purse, given by the Gentlemen in the vici-
nity of the klomeferry-road, to be rowed fur by young Water-
men who had just served their apprenticeship. Their names
were as follow :

Daniel Adams and John Healy Orange.
George Rust and John \Villiams Green.
John Harris and Thomas Trott lied.
Charles Newman and IL Croney White.
J. Chandler and J. Heath... ..... Light Blue.
James Sullivan and Edward Clarke Dark Blue.
Edward Golf and William Barrett ... Pink.
Thomas Blunt and J. Harrison Yellow.

The two first heats were highly contested. The terms were,
that they (the first four) were to start from the Horse Ferry,
round a boat moored off the Spread Eagle, down the Middlesex
shore to a boat at the Horse Ferry, up the river to a boat at the
Spread Eagle, and down again to the Horse Ferry-stairs, hi
two pair of sculls.—Second I leat—The distance to be the same;
only to start from Vauxhall Bridge up the river, and to finish
at Vauxhall-bridge.---Third Heat—To start front the Horse
Ferry, to go twice round the distant boats, and finish the heat
at Vauxhall-hridge. The orange, blue, and pink, were the
successful competitors. They started for the grand or
sive heat at seven o'clock, and for a considerable time the vic-
tory was doubtful; they were so close together that it was found
necessary for the umpires to keep close up, and there was great
clamour that they were fouling each other. After some alter-
cation' they proceeded, and orange came in first. They re-
paired to the Tavern close to Vauxhall-bridge, where their
friends were in waiting, and they being provided with a fiddler,
kept up the merry dance till a late hour.

RENFREW, Sear. I.—Thursday the Eaglesham Au-
tumn fair was held with great spirit. The residenters
in that town pride themselves in maintaining their
genuine Scottish independence and hospitality, and
social usages in general. At four o'clock the feuars
mounted on horseback, and, preceded by a band of
music, met at the house of Mr. MONTGOMERY, Cross-
keys. They then moved off on their way through the
town ; stopping at evei y change-house door, as one
of themselves said, 6, the landlord came out smiling
with his bonnie black hen in his oxter, and gaed a'
the lairds a caulker of his best mountain dew."—
When the lairds had completed this fraternal tour,
they concluded the ceremony, and acknowledged the
kindness of the landlords, by taking off their bonnets
and giving three hearty cheers,; accompanying each
with a shower of half-pence among the children. Next
came the laird's horse race for the bonnet. The bonnet
is always genuine Stewarton, red ring, or blue ring,
according to the taste of the purchaser, and it is gar-
nished with a large bunch of party-coloured ribands.
The race this year afforded great satisfaction, and it
was followed by a subscription race. -The people
aftewards spent the evening in their usual happy and
social manner.

Saturday evening, a little before eight o'clock, as
a poor man, assistant to a laundress at Islington,
was delivering a basket of linen from a little cart,
which was drawn up for the purpose close to the
kirb-stone, at Messrs. Howes and Hart's, in fleet-
street, he observed a coal-waggon in his rear ap-
proaching, which from its closeness also to the kirb,
he saw inevitably would run against him, unless the
carman paid proper attention, for which purpose he
called to him to hold his horses off. At this mo-
ment a mail-coach passed at a gentle pace outside the
waggon, when the carman should have stopped his
horses; but neglecting this, the waggon caught hold
of the poor man's cart, which threw the horse round
on the pavement, and at length lifted him and the
shafts into the air, pitching the poor fellow back-
wards under the fore and hind wheels of the waggon,
which by this time was stopped. At this critical mo-
ment, when the carman should have been at his
horses' heads to prevent farther mischief, he aban-
doned them, when they again went on, and the poor
fellow was seen half in his own cart and half in the
road, struggling with the wheel, which at length
passed over his chest. He was taken up and carried
to Bartholomew's Hospital, where it was discovered
his collar bone was broken in two places and cracked
across in a third, and he now lies in a hopeless state,
having a wife and two children to deplore this sad
event. No blame whatever is attributable either to
the mail or anything else, but solely to the scanda-
lous neglect of the carman of the coal-waggon.

RIGHT !ROM WRONO...—A case was tried at Dur-
ham last week, in which idiotcy was set up as a de-
fence. The COMMON SENJEANT, who made the state-
ment for the prosecution, mentioned a cause which
had been tried before a very Learned Judge, with his
opinion respecting a knowledge of right from wrong.
Two little female children were playing together in
a wood, when they quarrelled, and one of them,
only eight years of age, killed her companion. On
her committing the deed she became friellitened, and
hid herself. In consequence of this hiding being
proved, the Judge gave it as his opinion, that it was
a manifest knowledge of having done a crime ; and
the child was executed accordingly.
An Inquest was held at the Six Bells, Chelsea, on
the body of Stephen Coggle, who was found dead on
his beat, at the back of the workhouse, on Sunday
night. A Surgeon deposed, that there were no marks
of violence, and that the deceased appeared to have
died from the pressure of extravasated blood on the
brain. Verdict—Died by the Visitation of Gov.