The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-06 00:00:00

THE ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA.

The annual gathering of the squadron and their
friend, commenced, u usual, on the Saturday after Good-
wood, from whew. • great number of the fiehiosable world
came direct immediately on the termination of the nein
festival in Suess. The weather on Sunday was fine, and,
glen* promise of a fine breeze, the Duke of Rutland and
Lord Vane resolved to open the ball the next morning with
a match between their respective schooners, the Resolution
and the Lotus, which should decide their nisi* as lest
year, when they sailed, owing to the lightss of the wind,
it was • moot point which bad the best of the contest :
and it was considered that it would be more satisfactory
if they met when their speed sod sea qualities could be
better tested. On the present occasion the weather was
in every way adapted for • trial, as there was • strong
breeze from the westward, which lasted throughout the
match. The course was once round the Warner and
Leep buoys, and about 25 miles long. At starting, the
Resolution, which was allowed two minutes and • quer.
r.ter by her opponent, took the lead, and gaining on the
i Lotus every mile, ultimately won by thirteen minutes
and a quarter. In the evening the annual dinner of the
member@ of the squadron took place at the clubhouse,
when a very large muster sat down to a banquet which
quite came up to the form of its predecessors. The Earl
of Wilton, as commodore, preeided with his customary
urbanity. Main excellent and patriotic speeches
were made, and a very pleasant evening was spent.
Among the company pressed were—the Marquis of
Conyngham, the Duke and Marquis of Ikons's, the
Earl of Londethorough, the Earl Vane, Lord H.
G. Lennox, Lord Ponsonby, Lord Stanhope, Lord Grey de
Wilton, the Hon. F. Cbarteris, Hon. Colonel Cast, Hoe.
Captain Edgecumbe, Hon. H. Denison, Mr John Bayley,
Sir Henry Edwards, Sir John Cann, Sir A. Sterling,
Major-General Smith, Mears. Henry and Charles Baring,
Reginald Knightley, Thomas Chamberlayne, J. E. Archers,
Charles Brett, A. Tennyson, George Lane Fox, Charles
Sykes, Henry Cacraft, and Herr de Schimmelpenninck
Towards midnight the breeze subsided, and the dead
calm which eosued was accompanied by some heavy
rain, which, however, wee only the prelude to • lovely
morning. Unfortunately for the yachtsmen, who were
early etirriog, there wee not • breath of vied ; and
those who were anticipating • spirited and else race be-
tween the seven schoenen that bad been entered looked
rather blank as the starting hour approached. Various
were the conjectures as to whether the race would cons
off, nod groups of members might be seen on the club.
hones promenade discussing the question with all the
gravity of Greenwich penaioners beside the Trafalgar.
The scene, however, to the stranger and the
bluld Londoner was sufficiently attractive to
compensate for • delay which to the professional
visitor would be otherwise annoying; for the Solent
was as smooth as • mirror and studded with a number of the
finest yachts that the naval architects of this country could
produce, and which proved, u it were, • guard of honour to
the Victoria and Albert, which laid at her moorings at the
entrance of the Medina. In the background the charming
seenen of East Cowes, and Norris Castle, with its green
slopes reaching to the beech, filled up the picture, which was
not • little enhanced by the groups of ladies in those sea-
side costumes which the pencil of Leech has made familiar
to the world. Just as we are pennitg these remarks, a
sips] has been made from the club-house to the owners
of the contending vessels that, owing to the dead calm
that prevails, the Schooner Handicap race is postponed. Of
the season of Cowes we may state that it bids fair to
be a good one, but the town is not so full as in some pre-
vious years. This is doubtless owing to the length mad
brilliancy of the Leaden season, which has left the fashion-
able world but little time to devote to Cows before emi-
grating to the German epee or the Highlands of Scotland.
For the sake of thus who may be interested in the regatta,
we may state the entries for the schooner race comprise
Lord Londeeborough's Alberti's, 156; Count Edmund
Bettbyany'e Flying Cloud, 75 ; Caplan Charles Tbellausoe'a
Aline, 216; Lead Oolville's Volga, 404; Count Felix der
Monesang's Intrepid, 75 ; Mr. Philip Percival's Intrepid, 64 ;
and Colonel Markham's Sultana, 150.

Among the yacht. is the roadstead are : Mons, Mr.
Weld ; Zonave, Colosel Michell ; Koh.l-Noon, Captain
Layard ; Zara, Earl of Wilton (commodore); Panther, Lord
Southampton; Caprice, Colonel Baring; Gipsy, Hon.
Colonel that ; Eugenia, Mr. Frankland ; Pearl, the Mar-
quis of Coayngham (vice-oommodore); Titan* Lord Rome;
Coquette, Liant.-Colonel Armytage ; Diana, Mr. Dumas;
lone, Sir W. Sterling ; Rocha:Arms, Sir T. Whichcote ;
Resolution, Duke of Rutland ; Lotus, Lord Vane ;
Mr. H. Johnstone; Fernando, Doc de Pious; Dorset, Mr.
Moss ; Medina, Mr. Rideout ; Flying Cloud, Coast Bat-
thyauy ; Vole's, Lord Colville ; Petrel, Mr. Percival ;
Albertina, Lord Londeshovough ; Intrepid, (bunt Felix de
Morava= ; Sultana, Colonel Markham ; Aline, Captain
Tbellumen ; am-vise, Captain T. L. Cromer; Rattlinnaks,
Lieut..Colooel Diegineom ; Shark, Mr. Block ; Lulworth,
Mr. J. Weld ; Plover, Oolonel H. Browse ; Nymph, air J.
Bailey ; %dine, Mr. Morris ; Galatea, Mr. T. Broadwood ;
Wizard, Sir G. Last; Dream, Mr. Jerks.

New LIPZIOAT 101 HAsnwas.—Yesterday
harbour trial was nude at Lirnebouse with a new lifeboat
belongieg to the Walker! Lifeboat Institution. Sbe is 96
feet log and 8 feet wide, and rows 12 oars, double banked.
The lifeboat will be met by the institution to [helium this
day, to replace eanieller one which was deemed lees suitable
for the locality. The boat setisfaetorily underwent the
usual testa of stability and self-righting, and speedily self-
ejected the water shim id in the latter process. A free
conrimence is, as ammL kindly promised to the old and new
lifeboats, and their tramportieg carriages, by the Loudon,
Brighten, and South Ooast Railway Company over their
lima The Ifsetisis lifeboat was instrumeetal leM May in
race* the mew of fear an of a (labium smack, which was
taunt wrecked at the reeks off Hastings, in a heavy gale of

OHTNTAL PALAOll.—Fiva SHILLING DAT,—
WEDIIISIHAT, ACHIM 5. cm psylassb, 2,011
ditto b 7 moot Valuta, 3,764 ; 5,805.