The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-24 00:00:00

HUNGERFORD REGATTA.

The annual oars wager amongst the watermen plying at
Hungerford Stairs took place on Thursday. The attendance of
spectators at the first part of the contest was very indifferent,
but towards its conclusion they increased wonderfully ; and,
considering the unsettled state of the weather, quite as many
had collected as could reasonably have been expected. The
match was for a purse of sovereigns and other prizes, as the
bills expressed it, given by the inhabitants of St. Martin-in-the-
Fields and its vicinity, to be rowed for by six pair of oars, in
three heats. At two o'clock, the umpires having taken their
station in the starting cutter, James Dodd and Thomas Wortley
(red), George Baneraft and Alex. Tough (blue), and James
Fagan and Charles Hill (white), started for the first heat.
The distance was to start from buoys moored off Hungerford-
stairs, up round a boat moored off the Ship, Milbank-row,
down the Middlesex shore round the Thames Police ship off
Arundel stairs, up round the boat at Milbank, and down to
Hungerford. White, soon after the start, toek the lead and
kept it, blue and red made a bustling sharp match, and blue
came in second. Immediately after the termination of this
heat, Wi!liam Diamond and Francis Braithwaite, (yellow),
Thomas Moody and John Becket (green), and Thomas
Williams and David Eld (black), went away for
the second heat, to row the same distance as be-
fore. It was won by yellow and green. The winners
of the two preceding heats, white, blue, yellow, and green,
at seven o'clock were at their stations for the grand
heat, the route being reversed, and the start downwards to the
police ship, and twice round to the Ship at Milbank. They all
started away together at a first-rate pace, green slightly taking
the lead ; but on the return up against the tide, the labour was
very severe, in consequence of the men having to row outside
the waterman's pier at the Adelphi, and that at Hungerford.
The great power of Charles Hill, who is known as a first-rate
wagerman, gave him the advance, and he soon took the lead,
and maintained it throughout, winning by a hundred yards.
They came in thus : white, first ; blue, second ; green, third.

PRELIMINARY RADICAL
MEETING.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
BATH, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—A meeting of the leading
Radicals and Chartists took place this evening, in the Room,
10, Galloway-buildings, for the purpose of taking steps to se-
cure the better organization of the Radicals of Bath.

Mr. Henry Vincent, W. P. Roberts. Esq., and Mr. R. R.
Phelp, addressed the meeting, showing the necessity of uniting
in thousands for the furtherance of the Charter, and for the
annihilation of the Conservative party.
Mr. VINCENT said if he had been opposed to the Whigs and
suffered under their legislation, he was none the less deter-
mined to give the Tories his strenuous opposition. But he would
not unite with any party unless they were prepared to confer
upon the people their political rights.
A very enthusiastic feeling was displayed, and it is anticipated
that a powerful out-door meeting will be held in a few days.
A general feeling prevails amongst all classes of Reformers
that no good can be effected by Parliament till the people are
properly represented.

BYRON'S LAST FRlEND.—William Parry,
Major of Lord Byron's Brigade, commanding officer of
artillery and engineers in the service of the Greeks,
whose confidental friend he was, and whose hand he
held when its last pulse grew slow until it ceased to
throb, and whose eyes he closed when that mysterious
spirit deserted its clay tenement, is now in the city of
Halifax in a state of total destitution. Numerous and
rapid were the reverses which fell to the lot of Major
Parry in his latter days ; and, haying recovered his li-
berty, after being taken prisoner while in the service of
the Turkish Government, he returned to England, and
learned that his eldest son was in Philadelphia, when,
gathering together all that he possessed, he procured a
passage in the ship Sampson, bound to New York. That
vessel was wrecked at Whitehead, in this province, and
now, in the 77th year of his age, he is here in a state of
mental and physical weakness, and suffering from actual
want. The infant city of Halifax has now an oppor-
tunity afforded it for acquiring an enviable name, by
' ex-
tendinr, relief to the last and most confidential friend
of Lord George Gordon Byron.—Halifax Morning He-
ald.—[A subscription has been commenced in Parry's
,ehalf.l
The widow of a grocer at Mont de Marsan (Ain)
lately gained a prize in the lottery, amounting to 35,000 f., but
her joy was so excessive that she died in the office on going to
receive the money.