The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-23 00:00:00

THE COWES REGATTA.

COWES, AUGUST 22.
On Friday, the town regatta took place here,
aided by prises to the value of 501, presented by the mem-
bers of tie Royal yacht squadron, and honoured by the
presence of her Majesty. About 4 o'clock the Fairy left
her moorings and steamei over to East Cowes. Hof Majesty,
his Royal Highness l'rinoe Albert, with some of the Royal
chiblren, left Trinity wharf at half put 4, and steamed
into the roads where the Fairy was anchored, close along-
side the vessel containing the committee conducting the
sports. The races, which were conlised entirely to rowing
match.,, were eight is number. Three had been
finighed at the time of her Majesty's arrival. Immediately
afterwards the sports were proceeded with. It tO regretted
that her Majesty's condescension was abused on the cow
awn ; fur no sooner had the Fairy east anchor than the
was surrounded by crowds of boats, the people in them
keeping up an incessant stare, besides which the persons
taking part to the match conducted themselves in so nem
strained a meaner that it could not fail to be exeeediagly
annnyiag to the royal party on board. Her Majesty seemed
highly amused at the proceedings, notwithstanding the un-
seemly conduct of these concerned, and remained till ten
minutes past six, when the Fairy steamed away to Trinity
Wharf and landed the royal party.
Yesterday was flied on for the them tee the Squadzea Cup,
value 1001, the course fur whist' is rem' the island. •
start was made, and several roans meshed the Seadowa
Buoy, when it was necessary Is resell them, the lighten'
of the wind leaving se rem toe the hope that they could
get round the island.

SMUGGLING ON BOARD THE QUEEN'S
YACHTS.

Her Majesty's trip to Antwerp les molted ha the
seizure of • meriatrable quantity of esalrebiad Wee"
on booed her wira yaria, the Ifiseteit led Albert. mad the
other rye of the agenda hiewedwi bed beat mat
to the London sad Peraweath Custom Mown sill* of
the pereleme of vat of wham of all Wear at
Antwerp, by the OM, royal apadroe, sad, esa-
selvages*, seamen ware Whoa to ad rra • leisure. 0a the
arrival of the Viands end Albert, 's Task, bet, et Oa
borne, the melee alms west se Weed, eel erammased
• strict seoreh, is Thigh May seised shwa Mika of
bet which wee wet se mesh as wee wester=
be fated. The soar dip of the royal
were also aserelied, era • eseeiderahle quantity of
wee also seined ea herd thew Meet wee breewee se
/wetly stowed away that It area set he heed by the
Moen ; two or three mimes have, howeww, slue twee
made. Oa Saturday a waterataa's heat
_eweshi trey the
&an Pamela*! !wheel, wee hetthedl nod_
w of Maas Ipsinkt Mame was heed la bee, what*
• lriseseer dist haJeiadud hem ewe d the aired boa
was she dissevesed to hare • hap lewdly Meat MIL
Thew la when pewerries tho abases was heed brie beta
tabs babes the beech of werristratet, sad roaraded fee
further ediasse.

[The following letter, which we transfer to en:
esimmis from diem of the Portiama Vows and Need
Genette, is smiled tbe Wane to be " autimadodeLl
flir,—Undo the land of "dmagyflag," you Ism oleo
had to rased the aseenseisa of demi paw eakettaosto
"tidier
lam, liaises elibeihod.baskii: ee two et Is-
aerr beaky in ~_ palms, as Acne
ef or MI mess bet whet ma be mit ekes such konsso-
times on a sane entsesive scale en thelievared ea beard—
ed a transport sr beep ship—bat Is So fleadag pekoe of
the Queen of Masked
The royal yacht Victoria and Albert was on her snivel
from the Dutch coast subjected to the gaud enmlnaties
other ships Annie, from e lonic& port, and the wean
proves it was ma ts vain, about 70 lbs. of tobacco hawk',
hems kind bot Menus, tssisaging to as
Now mold k Ism bras, dr, had suet a mostitypress. hese
diamond k the obis or berth of • mots or seaman of •
merchant vessel? some sorerise bee bass strmgly empresso&
at what is calsidesd sash unwenneleide sad -issed epee
endings as the part of the Customoseiberitiesim
to search a neyel yacht for mom" I but,
fairly to be aegasil, that the semisu men employed is
her Ism pet of the British seep, mad mob. to be saysot
le the daypervsio• ems is Mbar imia of ear, sea-
eight te be dried to Wee adwastege of dio
=if esemptios hem seise dodos am articles of tbdr
own made ea boss* tellikik tiny ham so kind
solayed. usels* inmetagNiss ye take pine.
• semil *o
was ako Mae Ibis wish, of abed
Ms. of Moms ibis s mas employed ia sae sift boats
=illebe bar Majesty's deskyard, wbidi be bed Just
from, it le believed, edam royal moba. The to
hes by tads isignsiont glop pissed Mani( is a psdilet to
sale sot Italy mesthe immkommial. era Mae of M.,
hat to deprival et • masks to wad& be is sodded foe
43 years' terriers. I bear this lads. 'ashamed hes
bees very obdurate, sad refried to pin op the was of
bit employers, who have told him to stead dem sod ma to
court ; they will pay his dm, to. hash are dee fade Maki
quantities seised, but of these whisk haws be bees dir
covered it is impossible to form sees as idea, but it is re-
ported the amount samagoled "Meads to two tom
It is known that a cart walk Masse, medeoll seer with
Chip., paned out of the dockyard as die the. a. warbmes
wen Saving, and that the polleemem reported a kaki•
dual, whom he thought we ea stMear ofn make a
measure of it (not being swam be mad base demised it
himself until he seat for amiellamee). Thus at In redo&
in the day did • cart, with babasso, aims *ma out of she
Portsmouth dockyard, yes die Ouse= Seem end pit to
its destination without diettiosig. Seth things Igoe Ike
themselves, and prove Het SON employed by, nal paid
to protect the government, me by for the wane the
revenue olleers have to deal with, and retain a
much keener watch hope over their actions, this a
poor sailor in a iambus vessel, who would wish to brie
on shore, openly, a single lb. of tobacco, era quart of @pi.
rd., but who is often punished for having such is hit
kos.ession.
So herefaced was the act of smuggling on board the Vic-
toria and Albert, that "dead" information of the shipments
of the tobacco was rent direct from Antwerp to 11. M. Cus-
tom. in London, and as °Seer came to this port hem Len-
don, who, with the Comptroller of Custom' of Portsmouth,
went to Cowes on Thursday, and foetid the tobacco in the
plans described in the informatioe. Lent Adolphus Fite-
clammy was immediately •
and matopiaiated with the trans-
actions, sad is not a little Mealiest at the
beteny taken by those who bad us covertl converted the
sovereign's yacht into a smuggling vssetl. hoping to sees
fair sod impartial en re of these nefarious tranuetioes,
I sehecnbe myself,
Your faithful Tats mart,
Junin.

CONVICTION OF NORE WRECKERS,

SOUTHIND, SATUZDAY, 7 P.M.
An investigation into the recent attack of the
Southend boatmen upon the wreck of the Renown, has
jest been brought to • elate, after • duration of three
day.. The pet:needier were opened on Thunday last,
in the magistrates' rum at Bechtold, three miles di.-
tent, whets the leaden of the alleged winker+ were brought
up on a summons, which had been issued at the iastance
of the owner and underwriters of the wrecked schooner.
Their 114/1111 are Henry Childs, master of the New Dart;
John inane, master of the Williams, of Southend ; Wil
liars Frost, master of the Assistance; Abraham Robin-
son, master of the Hamburg; George LfysU, of the New
Dart ; William Rvbinsos, master of the Bissennah ;
and William ltobiawn, master of the Four Brothers, and
they were severally chergod with committing the doable
offence of " Wroogtully carrying away certain large quan-
tities of stores an; property from a stranded ship, called the
Renown, tnen lying wrecked on the Nur. Sand;" and
" forcibly entering on board the vessel Renown, without
leave or tetanal of the person in charge thereof.
The bench comprised the Rev. T. 8. Scraton, chairman
the Rev. 1)r. Eden, Bishop of Moray and Ross, in Scot-
land ; Daniel &Teton. Esq., deputy.lieutenant of the
county; the Rev. Calcutta White and Mr. Jones Tabor.
Commander Henry, of the coast guard ; Lieut. Christopher.,
of the Wiliitire war steamer; Lieut. Bullock, of the
African ; and Lieet. St. Aubyn, of the Shoeburyness, were
present.
Mr. Henry flora, of the Home Circuit, conducted the
prosecution ; and Mr. l'elhens, of London, appeared for
the defendants.

Mr. Horn, in opening the cue, said—This proceeding is
instituted under the 4ith ...ciao of the Wreck and Salvage
Act, 9 @ 10 Vic. e. 99, which enacts " that every person
guilty cat the charges laid shell forfeit any sum not exceed-
ing 501., and I must tell these defendants that they are
much beholden to the clemency of the prosecutors in this
that they are not charged with the offence, not many years
ago a capital one, of piratically plundering a stranded ves-
sel. The facts lam sbcut to prove are of en astounding
nature, and such as 1 should not have supposed could have
occurred in a county so civilised as EISPI, and one that
borders soclosely upon the metropolis of this country. The
prosecutors are actuated by no vindictive feeling ; they
disclaim any desire that a ruinous penalty should
be inflicted. They only hope that if the defendants
are convicted, each a ficemay be imposed as may stamp the
offence with its true character, and deter the defendants and
others from similar seta of outrage. The objects of the de-
fendants were evidently twofold. To purloin, under colour
of being salvors such articles es could be conveniently se-
creted and carried away, and, secondly, to obtain mileage
for such things as wets- too bulky to be concealed. Tho ob-
ject of the Wreck and Salvage Act was, as the preamble
states, to prevent " frauds and depredations on shipowners,"
committed under pretence of selvage, and the legislature
hove therefore advisedly used in the 4-sth section the words
" wrongfully carry," meaning thereby that any act which
amounts to a treepase in taking goods sheen fall within
she penalties of the statute. Here the defendants, for
the space of at least half an hour, contrary to the
desire of the mate, removed the stores and goods,
and although it may be contended on their behalf
that et the end of that period the mate, by enlisting in
saving the sail referred to, sanctioned the femoral of the
stores, the obvious answer is, first, that he assisted merely
to prevent damage to the stores ; secondly, that at least his
interference cannot have the retrospective effect of legalis-
ing a removal effected daring one half-hour at the least, the
whole of which time he was earnestly protesting against the
removal of the goods and the entry of the defendants into
the vessel. The learned counsel then called a number of
whatnots.

ft;;;videnc• adduced in support of the information was
to the effect that the schooner Renown was bound from
Altos to London with a cargo of pig iron and glue bottles,
and on the night of the 24th of July struck on the Nore
Sand, and shortly filled. The crew left her at 2 o'clock on
the following morning, and proceeded in a boat to Sheer.
nets, which they reached at four o'clock. There they were
referred to Mr. Edgeconitio, a shipping agent in the town,
who advised the master to send the mate and two bends back
to the ship, which he acceded to, and the mate sad two
Sheerness boatmen went off to the wreck. Previously to
their leaving, they were informed that • barge, with suffi-
cient assistance, would be sent off to save the cargo,
stores, and, if possible, the vessel. They got to her about
half-past seven, and found her in charge of Lieutenant
St. Aubyn, of the Shoeboryness Coast Guard station,
and that gentleman, satisfying himself u to the authority
a the mats, surrendered to him the posserma of the
mod. He, however, tendered his services if required,
hut they were declined on the ground that the mate
expected aid from Sheerness. The schooner's deck was
then udder water. The mate and men unbent some sails,
and wero proceeding with their work, when, at about
half past nine, their attention was drawn to the appear-
aim of ten univalve boats, sailing from Southend. As
seen as they bad arrived elsoe to the wreck a boat from
ono of them ease algae*, sad one of the &tandems,
Chalk ewes law the mein and, beide. the
mem, who was then ups the Meart ushalleg the
inaiosoile isquired if the mai was Insured. The mate
replied thst she wee but be di" not want thole h*, as
there was a best Mmiing from Sheeran*. AnrAire at the
defeatists Mowed Childs, sod they Memel ad as the
vessel was inured they should go Is work heft benalit of
the andarnadere, as there was se time to be IPA= she was
sag dews k the send. The sane answered that it was all
amines shoot la dews the sand, awl dial he did
met w their y tellies them net to
roue en horde ter ion is the beetacrere joia
into the *Oft Ha a swam of been" Nonvithetaa‘
ing his reigines the ma senimmeed with halves sad
hatches Is MIS tho vessel of bee dapiag, mite, and every-
thing whet meld be reashod, sod le deposit what they ob-
tained in their beats. The mate, Wing himself over-
by the menu whim ambers ainnanted to about
Mom boa the haw of the hisas sad
sad
mitatively& le use eta fleelbsed eel et W
as hear k meld ass that hoot
itil
at:he
welba boalnesn, as averred, informed them as to t
la the hold when the storm and cargo wen E
seekted itimg a sail hate the beat. Abase
Sauk • ibele beat, asatainiag Mr. Mipersabo, whit
the sailtoret the SIIISSIISS, and sense Illemer
mused,mad the spat eel muter addemed tho
mm, ead hid *ea that they wee. wag wag wram.
Ism wen is the sigaleg mad aka es the Mk up
le their taller in wwale., Illirsombe Aloha am
to imam es dY the ram They apiled.tha they knee
whet they ewe abuse, weeiimlsed Mt Edge-
globe shed& see" maim
Meets ad=let her." The
=high* Mules ids part would heed
eZett
mad perhaps to bloodshed. left the abeam', awl, with
the mom Merest to Ilboeraeo• and they applied to the
admdeal of the pert, Admiral Percy, with a view of *da-
ft tie ream ery of the weal. The Mama summer, well
mesa end anted, =Mr the smamat of Liesastaat
hmaah, R.N., was Mies* seat sug, and as she semi the
samer, at about halt pest two, the Ma Mad mil, mad
dad, with the senaNd palpitates. le limuthad. The
arease, with the Masse of ber bah, seesseded is sap-
Misr five a the dampest meta Two mases were
ien board eadi mem' weed, mad the cargo
sms Mr. Hap the swim of the abode.
. bar Oho madalssehmeOmmesaler
Hamm a the ilseaseel oast past. The teitarames weft
ermesmiest by Ms ream at seakhapk, and bees
Mr. hipenhe it was tailed thet the eakisi the Apollo
eluded is ha gimes gam Me ego. It as they of • mai
shish me Mended i the asighbouthemil. mad the
de-
fndasa et Ms desire, teak what was mat from her lets
tharsess. Tat is.. mom mei aresd, the
mom were asst paseseated fir ask eirelsom; bewever,
gee W may. bad dm • gnatdadbeam
awash wracks. Hs held avers! sppelsamiles sat
amwas He • sha ag hs ent awl ildrodellsk
baled she moseyma. eat the ammo t
isdiem auf Nerisatik Ossetic
Mr. Paha the addressed the bask Ise M. Ada
ash, airapreseed hie estaidaset st the WINSMsr
hosed gesamess, she amend the
mossalmse_bed =aped mholusia Mop. lio
tradil be ells Is Mow tat, Mama of big am she.
names arelbed, ably when • bap a bow" hard-
wooldslaslos• Mouphote their Mves had bees ea-
• Meat saa meadess occupation, sad
CA% bad soma he then the map* of al who re.
sided sear Sea The am bad UMW varied ben the
ststonaiat Milk timbal at let gads, sad what they bed
won as k • dederatioa Wan ass et the beach. Hs
shied the seat M bar la mat what asp hadg=
messed, sal So at whether is was sot the met r
est sahib' awry. He Imiweror antholati Ant the
ewe mat 114 as the ad of mama pm poem to
ahem es 'Was savage smile wilt er 1111111111 S,
the 1911 i as*. was peel desideelly ma a or of
energesey as this, est It seat seal be onimpleied
that the Nth sestion wee Intended =est whop
morass brigradetei while the wit
it. bet he maid 1W the an ana rY is the
possoll. si Se dtAsemar woes astheriesd by Ohs n-
ether ef Arai atlleatiesd, ie p to the tes est to
mist fa saes prepmety ben the mat ; sad maa der im-
portant fast in link da -mit was, thial the mato holl autualy
eestengod the ass, by math, thus is swig Se pas,
mad Maw She. away la the lima Me Shinslosimi the
premsesties as • vile sad readowe presesdies up by •
rival salvor, Idseenabit, whop bang set all- Miumna, on
W south side at the rim, looking oat hr gulls and jobs,
MIMS to these irgeramw=shes et the Ohmel.
His sham me hard home pees % eke
had Mega wi hiepeawty whisk Ma led roma hen
wreak, sad led Alt fa deposal it with the rasher
there, at Illsalesd. The real MON and eagle of the yee-
senties was the eery Mr. gasmahts bare to the deastb-
end possie. They, by their adog sal main settee, ma
is the ma drat, sad had hem me snoaseetal Is Isaias the
large protity of geode they had. They had hated sadly
into %beheads of the receiver afdrolte w Me data pa-
sses a amigo, besides ails ad rigging, sot est mad bodied
aset, es had been repressated, bat le a semi tiedition,
bather than any that bed over been lauded than Mire.
That bed seeesasel aserasee be Mr. likpasslss. ate had
hid them that le hos W• pea dad of balsam
wit! wreellem sad ball oak a deal of messy by them.
If aleamerate add have leased as sea to have takes
the gads Imle Sheassee lama of issasad, they would
not have beard araphlse of the wesehmrs at the Non. The
men acted eSiserss :apposed Mg of saving all they pee.
Maly could mob strata ea the shoals in the 'le-
aky of Ms What they had done was done
boldly, kasleeiy. and honestly, never supposing that
they IMO vi.iJL the law Is net obtaining permis-
sion, although they wan mad via the authority of the
receiver of belts, sad of these wbe were on the wreck,
to eater es bard. It was a very serious Ratter. He

hoped the &melt wield take a merelfel madderation adi
the ems, if they thought the evidenenjustiged a orsiviction,
for he was apprehensive that it might have t►e •Beet of I
damping the anions of the boatmen along the tout in oaring
lit. and property.
Mr. Wood then made an appeal on behalf of some other
of the defendant.
Witnesses for the defence wets then examioed.

Mr. Hay, the receiver of droits, deposed to having given
authority to ate of the defendants to po to the teasel to
reader assistance, us he had doom on previous occasions when
vessels were stranded in the neighbourhood. lie knew all
the defendants, and gave them an excellent character.
A large number of boatmen, who had gone out in the
vassals belonging to the defendants were examined at con-
siderable length, sad they positively contradicted, with one
exception, the statement made by the mate, to the effect
that they had hesa forbidden to go on board; on the con-
trary, the mate permitted them to go on board, and misted
them in saving the property.
This having closed the evidence, the tout was cleared,
and, after some deliberation,
The Rev. Mr. Serattan (the chairman), in 'brief address,
acquitted the defendants of the first charge—that they had
wrongfully carried away cargo. On the second complaint,
however, the bench were unanimously of opinion that
it had been proved, and that they had entered on board the
veered without the leave or permission of the person in
charge. They took the position of the river into c maulers-
tion in imposing the amount of penalty, and they there-
fore sentenced each of them to pay a fine of M., or be
imprisoned one month. He traded that the lenient course
the bench had taken would not be lost sight of, and that it
would act as a warning to the men to be more cautious for
the (stare in boarding teases against the will of those in
charg.
Thee protracted proceedings were then terminated.