The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-22 00:00:00

AQUATICS.

ROYAL YACHT SQUA,DIOSI REGATTA.
*Dwaine/LT.—The second of the matches ot the Co
took
place yesterday, and, as regards sport, was productive of
Toy little more iutenan than that of Monday. The morn-
pe
oned with light westerly winds, but as the appear-
on -e of the horizon denoted a chum:. it was hoped the
brae might freshen. The match wee for his Royal Mich.
Print: Alberta Cup, by large class sehoomrs of the
Jt.,yal Yartit Squadron (lin tons and upcards). The
course the OliAlll.li Queen's Cup Course. The following
were at their station', u the time for starting arrived.
The Duke of Alargrausigh's Wyvern we' tittered, but as
she !mild not get up in time against the wind she did not

Ma.*
Teat. lowa. Owners.
Pie W. P. O.reer, Dart.
Owastasee . . 21s
caption, .. 313
Gipsy Wei,
The start took place at ball-pact ten, when the Beatrice
was the first to get away, followed by the Constance, the
Capricorn lying astern. The Beatrice kept the lead till
sounding the point, where the Coirdance drew slightly
ahead, the lkutrice ia her wake. On the return up trom
the Nab, a great change had taken place: in their positions,
the Uypacy Queen was heat made out, followed by the
lk.drice, the Capricorn .01111 e distance astern, and the ton-
stance last. In enter they paws! the Squadron House
aboat half-past three, the fiyiwey Queen haying a lead or
uowarols of II minutes. lu muuding the hoot at Yarmouth
the tilypsey Queen had slightly Increased her lead. The
time stood thus:--

b. m.
3 _1
.0

Crpsey Quern .............
le ail ice
Capricorn
0
oissumee
A good breeze from the westward enabled theta to heat up
wo 11 against the tide, and as the Gipsy Queen held right
tin, she increased her lead well. The Capricorn, iii bugging
the north shore, got &ground near Spit's Bay. The Beatrice
and Coordanee, to avoid the tide, kept wider the land in
flurnet Hay, ; hut a, they did not catch the breeze there,
they made little way. The tiipay Queen arrived first at
Cowes at 21 minute* past 7, and the second vessel, the
Constance, did nut reach that point till three quarters of an
hour after. This morning the Canals-oil is still Atom and
means have been adopted to lighten her. A very pretty
little match started at a few minutes past .1 ven, between
the Phantom, Secret, and Blonde. Die pray wa, en-
tered, hut did not b--eve her mooring,. The course Ia three
time, round the Brambles. The Secret led, closely fol-
lowed by therliaatom.
'rug eilAhl.E.SifiE or VIE AMERICAN CLIPrEP.
At evert:is—Mr. Robert Steplienaon, han accepted
the challenge of the owners of the schooner America. The
following are the term, prommed by Mr. Stephenson : " In
reply to the proposition math by l'onienodore Stevens, Mr.
Stilihenson nen., a to .ail ht. whianer yacht Titania against
the New York yacht America, for the hum of lOW. each.
The course to lie from the Nab Light to a station 20 miles
Vessel. has rut run rue ClekVll to windward, us the case
zu ly be, from the starting point to the station vessel, that
point of superiority will be decided, and: u. awarded. The
eimmuslore, Lord Wilton, will then start the yachts again
to return to the Nab, when the other point of sailing, and
the remaining portion of the stakes, will he awarded. The
stokes before starting to he ludefal with the Earl of Wilton.
It is thi• wish of the owners of the two vessels that the Earl
of Wilton's decision shall be final. Both vesseb. to be
sailed in every respect to the best advantage. The Earl of
W iltua will start the ves...la on the earlieat day hu conaidera
suitable for the purls«, Royal Yacht Squadron Club-
house, August 19, Pia."

A letter from Cowen, dated, Thursday, says :
About I o'cleek, a fillip was given to the saunterers and
idlers by the America showing signs that she was panto/
under weigh. She hoisted lit r mainsail, then her fore and
aft tort/sail, and when her prodigious foresail was up and
tilled Idiot from her moorings like an arrow towards the
Needles, greatly to the discomfiture of a little Sett of
artists around who were busily engaged in taking her
portrait. I had a gent opportunity of seeing how dm
was handled, as 1 was close alongside at the time speaking
to Mr. Stoplienr, and I must say that, though her men
were smart, in that respect we have nothing to fear from her,
the start luring made only in a fair average way. This is
no criterion, to In star, of what she can do. as there was no
occasion fur haste, the comnoslore merely wishing to have •
Isla in her ; hut it did not strike me that her crew, ondoubts
(idly flue, üb'a,builied young men, were at a:1 superior MI
our ordinary sailors. Tier exterior is so finely smoothed
I might say polished—that it I. difficult to believu till you
touch her sides that she is not mule of iron, turd 1 again ob-
served the curious way in which the water fizzed up from
her bows —it to MA 404 raised up in ram breaking away before
tll4. 14011 a. with our cutters, but started up in thin little
jets, and 6,11 away under the bows just in the same way that
water spurts up before a knife-blade moved rapidly through
it. Anuttor peculiarity, and one I think which it would be
well of our yachtsmen copied, is that her sails are laced to
the booms and Musts, SO that nut the slightest partifle of
wind ran escape the sail,. Long as her musts seem, she
stands rem trkahly welCunder cansass. Judging from her
iOttro• 1,,-.1.1y, she steers tartly. and is very manageable.
ith all sail set, she is not so handsome to our eyes as our
own craft, mainly on amount of the cut of her main and
fore turd aft foresails, whieh art more in the shape of length-
ened obtuse-angled parallelograms than our own, and have
not grit so great a different, between the length at the boom
and at the gall Just as lam writing this the people are
running down to the piers and to the beach. It is nearly
3 o'clock, and tire America is sailing bock from the Needle',
mat Cowes, with a flotilla of yacht' around her. She has
torew.l. tore and aft foresail. and mainsail set (her new jib
not in tog used), and goer, almost as softly, lightly, and
quickly through the sea as u swallow skims over 4 meadow.
About twenty cutters. schooners ;and yawls are after her,
moot of them with every sail they can set, hut she shoots
away from them with the gnat. se case. Several yachts
which have been cruising alunt alter their course, and drop
in before her, hut the America gains on the hest of them, as
id they were not moving at all, and before she hail pawed
the Isola which shuts out my view of the Solent. just off the
entrance to Cowes front the Portsmouth side, she had left
them all hopelessly in the rear, the work of about ten
minutes?'

Mt art %Itlt Ount.ti. t:.—Last evening, at the Water-
too Terminus of the South Western Railway. a larg, mums
her of peaceable travellers. including a considerable
lion of females, were subjected to alarm and %Jolts/Ma
body of soldia n of the ith (Queen's) Light Dragoons. •
number of these had been permitted to kale llonmlow in
the morning to see the raki, ition, but must have visited
some place where intoxicating liquors were not forbidden,
for on taking their places in the evening on the platform
they exhibited all the symptoms of riotous inebriety, abus-
ing the passengers, and, upon remonstrance, threatening
bodily mischief. Upon the approach of the police they
is OW to kill any sew who should touch them. As they
were Rushing violently to and fro, exposing the passengers
to injury while trains were in motion. a polico.constable,
named Lamb, was called in to render assistance, when he
attempted to seise one of the soldiers ; the man
threw him down so near a train that was emerg-
ing front the termiuus, that the wheels of the locomotive
knocked off his hat, and but for his presence of mind in
turning away his head a little on one side, he must have
been decapitated. The instant the train had cleared the
platform, Lamb rushed upon the soldier, who, however,
again broke loose, and contrived to rush amongst the pas-
sengers, causing the females to scream most violently, and
they were'sit the same time most fearfully alarmed by a tre-
mendous smash of lamps standing on the platform, which
one of the riotersdi& either designedly or by accidentally
falling upon them. The porters and others on the platform
being unable to arrest the rioters, sent to Tower-street
station for the aid of the police, and it was at length found
necessary to resort to violent measures to capture the men.
Two were very fearfully cut by some means, either from
falling on the line, or being struck ; and when the female
passengers witnessed the blood streaming from their per-
sons, they called loudly for help. Mr. Brooks, surgeon
of the Waterloo-road, was sent for to attend the wounded
men, but on his arrival he found the place in such a state of
confusion, and the soldiers rummg over the line, that he
deemed it advisable to return home until they were
apprehended. At length the two principal rioters were
secured, but it took six constables to convey them to the
station.koomi ; and one became so violent on being locked
up, that he tried to gain possession of the poker in the
reserve room. His legs, were, however, strapped together,
and he was prevented from doing any further mischief.
Such • diogracehil occurrence has nava before taken place
at this station.
THE TELEGRAPH IN Mutton Amenics..—At the
commencement of the month the telegraphic wire from
Quebec was thrown stress the (hand F alls, and thence to
Woodstock, establishing instantaneous communication
between Quebec and the chief Canadian :towns, sit the
valley of the river Bt. John, and consequently expediting
the transmission of intolligsmar between the Canadian pm-
*gm dad NaglaviL