The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-05 00:00:00

GALWAY

A great meeting of the peOple of Galway took place en
FridaS,, in front of the Rev. 8..1. Roche's Chapel, Boherbeg.
The Galway rindicator contains the following f—
" RINGING or Joy BEI.I.S—ALAIIMINU EXCITEMENT:
About half an hour after the arrival of the mail in town, on
Friday, bringing the news of the Liberator's incarceration,
the joy-bells of the church of St. Nicholas (Galway) were
heard to ring out in the merriest. strain, though at the mo-
ment the popular excitement was raised to the highest pitch
of indignation by the intelligence received. Francis Moore,
Esq., and Mr. Michael Winter at once ray up to the sexton's
apartment, over the vestibule of the church, to put a stop to
the'. ringing, but_the sexton was not there, being engaged in
the belfry. They immediately returned, and a crowd having
gathered, labouring under the most terrific excitement, the
church door was burst in by the gentlemen we have named
—the crowd remaining outside the railings at their
earnest entreaty. The ringing continued, and a fair
being held at the same time, at the green, the
multitude abandoned their avocations, and swept down the
main street, towards the church, with almost lightning
speed. The moment was an awful one; but, fortunately,
while Messrs. Winter and Moore were hastening to the
belfry, the Rev. Thomas Rush, P.l'., and the Rev. L. Leonard,
C.C., arrived before the church door, and kept the people, by
their appeals to O'Connell's solemn demands of them for the
preservation of the peace, from wreaking immediate .ven•
geance by an attack on the church. All this time the Rev.
Gentlemen to whom we have referred, as well as Mr. T.
Murray, and other gentlemen, who subsequently arrived,
were scarcely able to control the passions of the multitude—
aroused as they were by the unexampled wrong inflicted on
the illustrious advocate of their liberties, and this apparent
rejoicing at his incarceration. Caddy, the sexton, at length
appeared, and stated that it was for no political purpose the
bells were rung, but in honour of Mr. Kirwan, of Castle-
hacket, on his first arrival in town after his late marriage.
This explanation did not, however, appear well-founded=
for Mr. Kirwan arrived in town on the previous evening, and
the bells could have been rung at an earlier hour than the
coming in of the mail, if that were the purpose. Not a single
respectable Protestant was apprised of the affair.
ARCHBISHOP 'WHALE.
The following letter of Dr. M'Hale has been published:—
"St. Jarlath's, May 31, 184.1.
"Dear Sir—ln forwarding the O'Connell Compensation
Fund no time should be lost. I beg to send you five pounds
towards indemnifying that great benefactor of his country,
whose services no money can requite, and whose energies no
persecution can subdue. His temporary confinement will, no
doubt, be a source of temporary triumph to his enemies. But
in the hands of a gracious Providence it will become the in-
strument of accelerating, peacefully and without crime, the
legislative emancipation of our country, which it was intended
to crush or retard.—l am, yours faithfully,

" Win. Moran, Esq., Sec4rektaij,;,ll&Nc':tA, rictausirop or T1i.131,

FULHAM REGATTA.-

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A very spirited and excellent race took place yesterday
amongst the watermen plying at Fulham-bridge, • many of
whom have acquired some celbrity, and have distinguished
themselves as scullers in picked matches upon the Mathes.
The contest was with ten pair of sculls, in three heats, for a
purse of sovereigns, given by the ladies and gentlemen resi-
dent at Fulham, and drew a very large assemblage of per-
sons. At three o'clock the following took their station for the
first heat :

W. Phelps, green ; J. Kelly, sen., yellow ; W. Hill, stripes;
J. Hawkins, plaid ; -and J. Powel, sen., white.
The distance contested was from Fulham-bridge, up the
river, round a boat moored off the Crab Tree, down round a
boat moored oil' the -Broom House, up through the centre
arch of Fulham-bridge.
Yellow took the lead, followed by plaid and white, the two --
latter being scull and scull, and making a most excellent race
all the way up. The three boats rounded the distance buoy
on each others quarter, and maintained their position down
to the Broom House and back to the bridge. Yellow won by
two lengths, plaid was second, white third, and stripes
fourth.

immediately after the dose of this heat, W. Snell, pink
J. Kelly, junior, blue; J. Powell, red; S. Knight, light blue;
and J. Johnson, purple, went off for the nexcheat, rowing
the same distance as before.

It was a very even start, the lead being taken by purple,
closely followed by red and blue, and light blue well up.
()tithe Vice -Chancellor's rod and blue passed purple, but the
three boats turned round within a length of each other.
In earning down blue took the lead, closely followed by red,
which latter shortly afterwards regained his place, and won
the heat ; blue was second, purple third, and light blue fourth.
At half-past six the three first men of each`of the two
preceding heats started for the grand heat. Yellow and red
took the lead, waited upon by purple and plaid. In rounding
the distance boats blue and red got together, allowing purple
to cut them off. In this way they continued some time, when
red rowed by blue and purple at the same moment. In-this
way they continued rom.d the boat, and although each tried
his utmost, no change took place. Yellow won by about 150
yards; red was second, blue third, purple fourth, and plaid
and white on his quarter. The race was very excellently
conducted by John Phelps and John Freeman, both of whoin
are well known to the public.

A MocroriG BIRD.-7--A few days ago the inhabi-
tants of Gloucester were not a little pleased to see the
announcement made that Mr. Wilson, the celebrated
Scotch vocalist, was about to pay them a visit and give
his popular entertainment of the adventures of Prince
Charles, with the Jacobite songs. It was sown discovered,
however, that the announcer was not the real Mr.
Wilson, but an impostor, who had assumed his name as
%yell as the title of his most popular entertainment,
thereby going a little further than Mr. Wilson's other
imitators. The impostor had contrived to secure the
patronage of the mayor, and fleeced his worship out of .
the'price of a • goodly number of tickets. From the
mayor he went to several other persons, and mentioning
the mayor's name, was equally successful in duping
them, till at last he came to a gentleman who had seen
and heard frequently the veritable Mr. Wilson, and Upon
his telling the fellow he was not Mr. Wilson, he admitted
that he was nut the Mr. Wilson, but his nephew. He--
made his escape with the prize-money he had secured,
and it was found that he had not engaged the room, but
merely had some bills printed, which enabled . him to..
carry on his nefarious scheme. The police hare been on
the search for him ever since, but we have not heard
whether they have yet succeeded in caging the mock-
ing-bird. The public in the provinces cannot too well
know the titles of Mr. Wilson's most popular entertain-
ments—they are, " The Adventures of Prince Charles"
" A Nicht wi' Burns," " Anither Nicht wi' Burns," -
" Mary Queen of Scots," " Jacobite Relics," besides`
several selections that he gives of the songs of Scothrad, .
without definite titles. The GlouceSter folks should
have known that no respectable professor would have
gone about selling tickets, and might have been assured
it could not be the real John Wilson, the Scottish'
vocalist.
REMOVAL OF DALMAS TO NEWOATE.—Yesterday
Augustus Dahnas, charged with the murder of Frances-
APFarlane, on Battersea-bridge, was removed, in the custody
of two of the principal turnkeys of Horsemonger-lane gaol Co
New-gate, preparatory to his trial at the next sessions at the.
Central Criminal Court, which commences on Monday next.
During his incarceration in Horsemonger-lane, Dalmas has'
conducted himself with great propriety, lie has only alluded
to the murder of the unfortunate woman once or twice, and
that in general terms. In a conversation with a fellow-
prisoner, Dalmas once alluded to the anode of execution• in
England and France, and observed that the guillotine Was
a more merciful manner of putting a criminal to death than
the English custom of strangulation.
BETHNAL-GREEN CHURCHES.—Yesterday morning'
the Lord Bishop of London consecrated a new church at,
Bethnal-green, in the presence of several of the parochial'
clergy and a numerous congregation. The church., which is.
dedicated to St. James the Less, is a neat and convenient
structure, capable of accommodating 2,500 people, a large
number of the seats being free and unappropriated. Sunday:
and infant schools are attached. Another church in this
populous district has been completed, and will be consecrated
by the Bishop on Saturday next. Pour churches are yet to-
be erected in the parish of Bethnal-green, the estimated cost.
of which is 30,0001. •

•
The following notices • appeared yesterday at the
General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand :—" The next mails
for Malta, Greece, the Jonian Islands, via Southampton, will
be dispatched from hence on the 13th inst., and for Egypt and
India on the 3d July. The next mail for India, &c., mu Mar-
seilles, will be dispatched from hence on the 7th
THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA.—A vast concourse of
the nobility and gentry inserted their names in the visiting
book at the Russian Embsssy yesterday. The list of those
persons who were anxious to pay their respects to the -Em-
peror of Russia is far too voluminous for publication in- (Air
columns ; but amongst the names were those of the Dukes
of Marlborough, Sutherland, and Buckingham and Chandos,:
the Marquises of Salisbury, Winchester, Anglesey, the Mar-
ehioness of Blandford, the Earls of Sondes, Lousdale, Powis,
Oxford,'Mansfield, Shannon, Mauvers, Eldon, Candor, the.
Countesses of Powis„ Shannon, Ashburnham (Dowager);
Cadogan, Eldon, Manners, Somers, Count Friedrich
Von Erlach, Viscounts Chelsea, Hood, Pollington, Torringz
ton, Melville, Viscountesses Pungarvon, Pollington, Newry,
Hood Ac.
KILMARNOCR, ELECTIOti.,--The formal declaration
of the poll in connexion with the election contest' in these
burghs, took place on• Thursday, at -the Town-hall, Kilmar-
nock, when Sheriff Bell declined Mr. BOuverie the successful
.candidate. Mr. Prinsep's agent protested against the return
_of Mr. Bouverie, in the name: of 111 r .Prinsep, on the ground
of undue influences and bribery being' made use of to secure
Mr. Bouverie's .return; and Mr. Vincent protested against
either Mr. Prinsep or. Mr. Bouyerie being returned, because
of an informality at the fionfination—nt poll haViti been tle-
inanded from the SheriflfOr any of the candidatcS.