The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-03 00:00:00

THAMES GRAND REGATTA.

Patron, his Royal Highness Prince Albert; Vice-Presi-
dents, his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, his Grace the
Duke of Buccleuch, the Right Hon. the Earl of Ripon, Lord
Viscount Castlereagh, Lord Viscount Grimston, the Vice-
Chancellor of England.
Yesterday the committee, composed of the leading mem-
bers of the great aquatic clubs, to whose spirited exertions
and liberal patronage the public are indebted for the esta-
blishment of this great aquatic banquet, met at the British
Coffee-house, in order to put the subscribers and others in
possession of the result of their labours of the last few months
with reference to the forthcoming great aquatic banquet.
J. D. Bisnor, Esq., of the Leander Club, having taken the
chair, adverted to the great influence and weight added to
the committee by the condescension of Li ,rd Castlereagh and
the Lord Mayor, who had consented to be President and Vice-
Patron • and then proceeded to point out some difficulties
which the committee had met with, and under which they still
laboured with respect to the time at which the regatta should
take place. Being most solicitous of avoiding any difficulty
with the stewards of the Henley Regatta, they had been in
correspondence with them, and learned that they had ap-
pointed the 18th and 19th instant for their races, and after
the most mature and anxious consideration, they had felt
that they could not incur the risk of failure by deferring the
Thames Grand Regatta to a later period than the 20th, 21st,
and 22d. Since this another communication had been re-
ceived from Henley, in which they had nominated the 20th
and 21st, and as this would be most inconvenient to gentle-
men desirous of contending at both places, and must neces-
sarily prevent many entering for the prizes at Henley, the
period at which the regatta should come off was still under
consideration, and the result would be duly announced at a
fur mszece.ting, as also the amount of prizes, the heats, dis-
CHAMAN then annnounced the following races for
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eeensuing Thames Regatta :—Pair-oared race by gentle-
men, four-oared by gentlemen, sculler's match with water •
men, pair-oared match with watermen, eight-oared race
with gentlemen, four-oared race with landsmen, double scul-
ler's race by watermen, with a match for 100/. with water-
men from all parts, and the addition of a race for 501. amongst
provincial watermen exclusively.
The CHAIRMAN having read over a list of subscriptions re-
cently received, to the amount of about 100/., amongst which
was 10/. from the Royal Thames Yacht Chub; 10/. from the
Leander ; 51, with a very pretty note from the Thetis (a new
club), impressed upon the committee and the public the
necessity of their utmost influence and support in order to
afford them an opportunity of putting before the public such
a listTh eofmpereizteinsgastiiise-onubldrobkee mu-opr.
We are happy to say that the balance in hand from lastthy of competition.
year amounts to 135/. 19s. 3d.

DEATH OF THE REV. W. CHAPLIN.—We have to
announce the decease of our venerable and universally
honoured friend. the Rev. W. Chaplin, of Bishop's
Stortford, for nearly half a century the pastor of the In-
dependent
in thetChu rchinthat town, and one of the oldest
ministers denomination.
Mr. Chaplin was for a
short time associated, as co-pastor, with his aged prede-
cessor, the Rev. Mr. Angus ; so that it is, we believe, a
century since the pulpit, which they successively occu-
pied, was vacant. Mr. Chaplin was distinguished by the
soundness of his theological views, by his exemplary and
unaffected piety, and by the firmness and consistency of his
political opinions, united to singular amenity of manners.
He retained to the last a lively concern in all the trans-
actions of the denomination to which he belonged, and in
all the public proceedings affecting the interests of evan-
gelical religion, or the principles of religious freedom.—
Patriot,