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Tho fourth race, a rowing match, open to all four id 
boats under tweuty-three-feet keel. The following boats 
stalled: — 
Samuel :: Bail i5 J 
Stranger Morrow 1 
The fifth race, a rowing match, open to all four-oared 
boats of eighteen-feet kdel, and under, when there started 
and came in ns follows : — 
iij n L Stevrart 1 
Jane Gallagher 2 
The sixth race, a rowing match, open to all two-oared 
boats of siiteeu-foct keel and under : — 
Plumber Plumber 1 
Green Boy *■ rn y 2 
Eliza Jeffrey* 3 
Extra race, open to the fishermen of the Lough : — 
Allen Murray 1 
Mary Anno Gallaglior 2 
David Wilson J 
Tho races woro succeeded with polo climbing, &c., which 
afforded much amusement, to which succeeded fire-works, 
firo-balloons, rockets, &c., &c., under the able management 
of Mr. John Wallace, secretary to tho regatta. 
SAILING MATCH AT GKEYPOINT. 
The sailing qualities of the two crack boats of the Bolfast 
Lough were again tested on Monday, a match having boon 
made between tho Anna and the Jenny, of Bangor, to decide 
which had tho claim to superiority. The course was from 
Groy point, round a llag-boat in Ballyholmo Bay, thence 
round Carrickfcrgus buoy, and winning round a llag-boat 
inside Greypoint. At half-past twelve o’clock the aignui for 
starting was given, when the Jenny got off with the load, 
but in a few minutes was passed by her rival, the Anna, 
who increased her distance every stretch, rounding the 
winning boat twolvo minutes before her competitor, and 
coming in as follows : — 
The Anna 4 hours, 20 minutes. 
The Jenny 1 .. 41 ,, 
Both bouts were beautifully handled throughout the race, 
and reflect, by their sailing qualities, much credit on their 
builder, Mr. Matthew Slianks. 
The Lille y Club.— M any of the loading members having 
laid up their yachts for the season, or determined not again, 
in 1854, to quit the waters of tho Thames, tho rooms of this 
,-luh are now well tilled every Wednesday evening, from 
eight till twelve o’clock. A good many candidates are on 
tho list for ballot, and among the other good signs of the 
prosperity of the club are tbo donations to the library, among 
the most recent of which are— “The Life and Voyages of 
Columbus," Captain Wilmot’s “Code of Signals, Captain 
Wichelo's MSS., “Hunt’s Yachting Magazine,” “A Yacht 
Voyage to Iceland,’’ “ Rules of the Thames, Liverpool, Wolsli, 
Cork, Western (England), and London Model Yacht Clubs," 
•• The Yachtsman's Annual,” “ Instructions relating to 11. M. 
Service at Sea," “Barker’s Mariners' Compass," “Turkish 
Vocabulary," “Section of a First-rate," &c. Ac. Arrange- 
ments are in progress for having the club-room open daily, 
for viembt rs only. There will be a ballot on Wednesday next 
Mn. Faiiley, the Model-Yacht Builder.— W e regret to 
have to record that this well-known model-builder is very 
dangerously ill at his house iu Fleet-street, opposite St. 
Duustan’a Church. When a man is thus struck down, there 
are always a few vultures ready to pounce upon him ; and 
some such are now harassing his family for very trifles, 
which, when ho regains his health, his own energies would 
soon discharge. Iu the meantime, for “ auld lang syne, 
yachtsmen are invited to take tickets in a raffle for a beauti- 
ful model, which lias been suddenly roturued upon Mr. 
Farley’s bunds, and tho sale of which will “ square the yards. 
T HE FIELD. 
This race was performed in eleven minutes, the second 
boat being only three boats' lengths behind. 
A Mutch by 23-feet four-oared jolly-boats. 
Dumbarton Youth (Dumbarton) 1 
Rover (Arroclinr) 2 
I will if I can (Gourock) 3 
Won by three boats’ lengths. 
A Match by 23-feet four-oared gigs. 
Little Wonder ( Dumbarton) 1 
Lennox Jjt tu (Levon) 2 
Won by three lengths. 
A Sculling Match. 
Four Brothers (Carilross) 1 
Elizabeth (CardroRi) • 2 
The competitors were father and son, named llae, the son 
being the winner by scarcely ft boat's length. 
A Match by 22-feet four-oared gigs. The match started, 
competed by the Mischief, Nymph, and Sylph, all of Leven, 
and proceeded with great iclit to a little below Sinollet 
Point. There one of the men, on board of the Sylph, missed 
his stroke, the boat proceeding at n rapid rate, and his oar 
in the back stroke caught the water and upset the gig. The 
rowers in tho competing gigs immediately halted, and threw 
their oars adrift, in tho hope that the sinking men would 
reach them. This anticipation was realised in the case of 
two of the crow of the Sylph, but we regret to state that 
two of the crow, named Kinloch and Walker, sank to rise no 
more. M ‘Intyre, the coxswain, was, with the utmost diffi- 
culty, rescued from the water, and gradually recovered 
under medical treatment. It is scarcely necessary to say 
that, on the announcement of this melancholy event at the 
commodore’s barge, the flag was immediately lowered, and 
the regatta was brought to a sudden conclusion about two 
o'clock, six of the intended matches being left unconcluded. 
For several hours afterwards every effort was made to 
recover the bodies of the two unfortunate men, but these 
were unattended with success. — Glasgow Herald. 
The Nblkus Club. — O n Monday next, the 25th instant, 
this club will row their second pair-oared match, at Mortlake, 
in heats, for silver challenge cups, with presentation and 
other prizes. The boats will start from the Parsonage, and 
round a buoy moored off Barker's rails, returning by the 
Surrey shore round a buoy moored off the Parsonage, and 
finish at Godfrey’s. First heat at two : H. Porter and J. 
Curling, white; D. Cairn and T. llaper, orange; A. Hamm 
and N. Swanson, pink. Second heat at three: H. Harris 
and T. Cavanagh, red ; J. Cairn and J. Roberts, green. The 
Inst boat in the first heat will row in the second, and the two 
first boats in each heat will row in the final heat at five, 
against tho present holders of the cups, J. Rorke and W. 
Bnuiscombe, blue. 
JFe thall feel obliged by the Secretaries of “ Rowing Clubs," ami others, 
fortearding their Appointments of Matches or Notices of Meetings to 
come, at their early convenience. 
~ MATCHES APPOINTED. 
September 25. — WonUdVs Annual Regatta at Larabeth. 
/September 25. — The Neleus Club will row their second pair-oared 
match, nt Mortlake, for silver challenge cups. 
September 25. — C. Childs and J. Allen, to row from the Ilalf-way House 
to Black wall Stairs, for £25 a side. 
September 26. — T. Searle and J. Newbold against R. Ware anti John 
Pindar, row u pair- oared mutch from Hammersmith to Battersea, for 
£6 a side. 
September 27. — Mortlake Regatta. Tradesmen’s prize, a pair of silver 
oars anil n silver rudder ; mechanics will row for money prizes. 
September 27. — G. Green, of Putney, and T. Coombs, of Millbank, to 
row from Putney Pier to the ship at Mortlake, for £10 a side. 
September 30.— Mr. J. B. M'Neil and Mr. It. lteid of Glasgow, to row 
two and a half or three miles, for £50 a side. 
October 2. — M'Carthy and Shean, to row from Putney to Mortlake, for 
£10 a side. 
October 1. — T. Pocock and P. Styles, to row from Putney to Mortlake, 
for £25 a side. 
October a — U. Wharf and J. Synnett, to row from Old Barge House. 
Woolwich, to Limchouse Hole, for £26 a side. 
October 19. — G. Robbins, ol Battle Bridge, and It. Savage, of Horsley - 
down, to row from Putney to Mortlake for £26 a side. 
October ‘2 'A. — W. Money, of Putney, and J. Rolls, of Christchurch, to 
row from the Pier at Putney to the ship at Mortlake, for 20 guineas 
a side. 
October 25. — G. Robins and It. Savage (bclow-bridgc men), to row from 
Putney to Mortlake, for £25 a side. 
November 20. — T. Cole (tho Champion of the Thames) and J. Mes- 
senger, of Teddlngton, to row from Putney to Mortlake, for £200 a 
side. 
♦- 
LOCHLOMOND REGATTA. 
TWO MEN DROWNED. 
This regatta was advertised to come off on Friday. Iu 
the morning large numbers of people availed themselves of 
the opportunity afforded by the numerous exclusion trams 
and steamers to witness the interesting contest. Promptly 
at twelve o’clock the yachts appeared alongside of the 
starting yacht, on board of which wore the acting commo- 
dore, Alex. SmoUet, Esq., M.P., and Joseph Turnbull, Esq., 
who acted as judge; but. iu consequence of the strong 
breeze that prevailed, their race (the first on the list) did not 
take place. The other races were as follows : 
A Match by 27 -feet four-oavod gigs. 
Wanderer (Dumbarton) J 
Nil Despermidum (Leven) 36 
PISCATORIAL PROLUSIONS. 
By the liAMrsHUiE Fly-Fusubb. 
(Continued from page 847.) 
It must not be forgotten that, in addition to the more 
active agencies to which I have already referred, fish, like the 
rest «f animated creation, are subject to a variety of diseases. 
The extremes of beat and cold alike exercise a destructive 
influence on them, particularly in shallow waters. Occa- 
sionally an epidemic mortality prevails among them. Inter- 
nal and external parasitic animals not only torment, but 
sometimes prove destructive to them. There is no one but 
at the beginning of the spring, after having hooked what is 
evidently a heavy fish, has found, to his great disappoint- 
ment, on lauding his prey after a leeble resistance, a long, 
lanky, stark, big-headed brute, the lower jaw probably 
curved upwards (as we see in a kipper salmon), and covered 
with a number of insects with heads like cloves. This is the 
Ltrnca Trance, or trout-lice. It is described by Blacke thus : 
“The leruea, fish-louse, or fish-biter tribe, are molluscous 
blood-worms, with a naked body, often oblong and cylrn- 
drical, having three or four tentacula with which they fix 
themselves to the skin and other parts of fishes. It may be 
perhaps a question whether these are so much the cause as 
the consequence of disease. Those who are curious on the 
subject, will do well to refer to that never sufficiently to be 
commended compendium of scientific sporting, the * Ency- 
clopedia of Rural Sporting.' ” Among other causes of the 
destruction of tho finny tribes, he enumerates two other 
classes of insects, tho Tania and Fascists. He has also not 
omitted to mention the affection of the eyes, recently referred 
to by our own correspondent, and which is variously attri- 
buted to tho effect of hybernation, or passing the wintry 
season in mud ; or, as Blacau is inclined to think, to an occa- 
sional decortication or shedding ot the scales, which, in fish, 
we know to be deciduous. For my own port, I am inclined 
to think that the effect of long-standing mud m ponds must 
he very injurious, and that the only remedy which can be 
really efficacious is the thorough cleansing of the various 
deposits and aquatic plants, many of which are highly 
poisonous, and laying down a good bottom of chalk or gravel. 
1 need not add that drains from bog lands, to say nothing 
of the offscouring of gas, paper-mills, and many other manu- 
factures, are so many active poisons, which not only destroy 
the fish themselves, but also render their flesh perfectly 
useless for food. I have sometimes thought, too, that diseases 
iu fish are infectious. I remember some three or four years 
back, in a particular part of the river Itclieu, catching several 
fish all of these presenting the same uniuistakeable appear- 
ances of disease, which I at first attributed to backward 
condition, and I threw one or two back. A very experienced 
fisherman, however, who was iu company with me, advised 
me to kill the rest, as he said (and his opinion was backed 
by that of the keeper) that they would only serve to spread 
the disease if they wore thrown back. That advice I 
followed, and tlie fish are now as healthy iu that part of the 
water as anywhere else. I ought to add, that their haunts 
were under the banks of a boggy meadow, which had been 
recently drained, and close at the mouth ot the dram. Ihe 
land has now become very much sweetened, and is good 
sound pasturage ; this probably may iu s«»me degree account 
for it. Be it as it may, whenever, after the month of May, 1 
find fish in such unseasonable state, and which cannot be 
attributed to mere backwardness of condition, I always kill 
them and throw them away. I was told, too, that some 
years back a disease appeared among the grayling m the river 
Itchen, of which hundreds died. The fish rose at the top of 
the water, as if poisoned by coculus indicut. I am happy to say 
that this has not recurred, and it was probably attributable 
to some cause which has now passed away. I have now I 
believe, glanced at the principal natural causes of the 
destruction of fish and the remedies which sugge3t them- 
selves : to keep the Bpawning-grounda as quiet as possible ; 
to keep down the coarse fish, not even sparing the grayling 
itself; to keep the rivers as reasonably may be from weeds ; 
and to prevent their being polluted, as far as can be, from 
any noxious foreign substance. And here let me remind all 
fish preservers that they must be almost invariably, in a good 
measure, at the mercy of others. A bushel or two of Inn - 
a pound or two of coculus indicut or nux vomica, Is easily 
procured, and it may be thrown into the stream at times, 
and in a manner to defy detection. It were an act, indeed, 
of such cold-blooded atrocity as none but a ruffian would be 
guilty of ; and yet we know to wliat lengths a jealous hatred 
may go, I have often said that fair anglers are the best 
keepers, and consequently the liberal proprietor will have his 
waters best watched. But if the rights of property are too 
severely insisted on — if men will, in a spirit of sordid cupidity 
or insolent exclusiveness debar every one, no matter how 
fair or honourable a sportsman, from the enjoyment of an 
innocent amusement, which so far from involving sacrifice on 
their part, would be beneficial to the very purpose they 
pretend to be anxious to promote — one would hardly grieve 
so far as they are concerned, if they were punished by the 
destruction of the object of then’ selfish jealousy — if their 
rivers were barren and their streams teuautless. Unfor- 
tunately I have known instances where the detected poacher 
has vented his malignity on kind and generous men, who 
have restricted none but unlawful practices and wilful tres- 
passers on their waters. In such a case one’s indignation is 
raised to the highest pitch, and the greatest regret we expe- 
rience is that such a scoundrel has evaded justice. As I said 
before, the consideration may not be unimportant to some. 
It will not indeed weigh with the generous and the good ; 
but all mankind are not alike, and the selfish mind will best 
appreciate those motives of action which have an immediate 
operation on his own interests. But this part of the subject 
is too important to be treated of thus cursorily. For the 
present, let me stick to my subject — the legitimate pre- 
servation and encouragement of our fisheries. 
(To be continued.) 
Illegal Netting in the River Thames. — Before the 
bench at Wandsworth, on the 7th Sept., James Gibson 
James Holder, and John Gibbs, all of Hammersmith, 
fishermen, were charged with obstructing the water- 
bailiffs, Ruff and Howard, in the execution of their 
duty on the river Thames, on the 3rd instant. The case 
being clearly proved, they were fined £1 each and costs. 
Before the Lord Mayor, on the 13th instant, George Pearce 
and Henry Pearce, both of Strand-on-the-Greeu, fishermen, 
were charged by Waterbailiff Howard with working an illegal 
net in the river at Richmond, on the lltli, and obstructing 
the officer iu the execution of his duty. Fined 10s. each. 
Committed fur fourteen days each, the fines not being paid. 
Before a full bench of magistrates, at Hampton, on the 8th 
Sept., Henry Purdue the elder, and Thomas Purdue, both of 
Shepperton, fishermen, were charged, upon the information 
of Thomas Rosewell, assistant water-bailiff, with using a 
poking net, and attempting to take fish iu the Lower Pre- 
serve, at Shepperton (set apart by the Lord Mayor for the 
preservation of the spawn and fry of fish in the river Thames), 
on the 6th instant. The case was fully proved, and they 
were convicted and fined 10s. each and costs. 
Angling Extraordinary. — A few days ago a party of 
anglers were amusing themselves with the rod by the river- 
side in Chelmsford, and having thrown a barbed bait on the 
ground behind them, they found soon after, on turning 
round, that they had hooked a very “ strange fish” — nothing 
less than a fine Cochin-China fowl belonging to Mrs. Myers. 
It appears that the unsophisticated foreigner, ignorant of the 
wiles and deceits of English anglers, espied the tempting 
bait, and regarding it as one of the unconsidered trifles that 
were lawful perquisites, seized upon and swallowed it with 
as much zest as one of its countrymen would a mouthful of 
worm broth, or bird’s-nest soup. The sad mistake was soon 
discovered by fisherman and fowl. The pilferer appeared iu 
great danger of being dished ; but as there was a reluctance 
to consign it to tlie spit, the patient was carried to the 
veterinary surgery of Mr. S. Baker, where that gentleman .■> 
sou, Mr. Conrad Baker, after calling iu the aid of chloroform 
to stop its cackling, skilfully opened the crop and extracted 
the murderous hook. Two days after the fowl was strutting 
hale and healthy amongst its fellows.— Chelmsford Chronicle. 
A Larue Bass. — Mr. James Adams, the keeper of the 
fish-market on the western side of Island Bridge, Saco, lately 
caught a bass which weighed sixty pounds, as we learn from 
the Biddcford (Maine) Union. » 
Ireland.— The salmon fishery is more productive tin- 
season in the West of Ireland than it has been within the 
memory of the oldest persons. Iu the Ballyskannou fishery 
alone upwards of a hundred tons of fish had been taken at 
the close of July, which, at an average price of 8d. per 
pound, would have realised about £6,000. 
RACKETS. 
PRESENTATION OF TESTIMONIALS TO MR. T. MORRIS AND 
M11. MATTHEW PITTMAN AT THE BELYIDERE COURT. 
Whatever improvements may have been introduced into 
education and social habits, certainly iu the educatmu of tho 
physical we are greatly inferior to our ancestors. PestaJoz - 
was the only man who, iu modem times, took a rational 
view of education in its relation to mind and body, making 
the development of the powers of the latter a mean- ■■ 
strengthening the faculties of the former. Catechisms am 
lesson-books have become the summum bunum — the alpha am 
the omega— of the training of youth. The system is to cul- 
tivate the intellect, or, perhaps, more properly speaking. 
memory, to the highest point : and to let the body, UW “ 
left 
j he 
trodden down by the foot of every passer-by. An intelE 
memory, to me ----- -- — - — - • m 
neglected foundling, be dragged up any how it can. ' 
one is carefully tended as a liot-house plant, the other > s *« ; 
to grow wild, like a weed by the road-side, liable to 
trodden down by the foot of every passer-by. An “ten 
tual asceticism, making the closet everything and tne w 
nothing, has come into fashion, which in reality is as destru 
tive of the mental powers it seeks to foster, as is that reUgi 
asceticism which so universally prevailed iu by-gone agjv 
prohibiting the exercise of reason as a mortal sin, 
imposing upon its devotees a blind faith in dogm * 
factured by other minds. Excessive devotion to 
ruin ating in premature death— instances, m tact, oi 
