The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-09 00:00:00

PRINCE OF WALES YACHT CLUB.

The members of this club concluded their season
yesterday
.with • most exciting match. We are wy, how-
ever, to give so small an entry hat, and cannot but meet
the falling off in this respect this year. The prise was
silver gilt cup. value 21/., and the follow* meets entered
and started, viz. :

Veal& Tone. Owners.
Beide 9 I.E. H Taq.
°defame
Violet l9 3tpt Hon. Lord de Boa
The Onrd, Oaptala Wheeler, secempueied the race with
a tolerably Yule cy on board. conveying the commodore,
Hebert Hewett, ~ as onion for the day. The vessels
started cm a W.N. . wind at Oh. lim., the Violet hew*
• little the best of the lead. The Beanie, however, when
fairly adder way, soon wont into the front rank, followed
! by the Oatoreee, the distance Wag from Erith to the Chap-
man Head and back. In a roils or so the Violet bad taken
mooed place, which her noble and spirited owner maim
tallied till passing Grasseesd, when she fell astern. Bemis
meanwhile lecreased by lead foot by foot, and rounded the
steamer at the Chapman apwarde tam minutes a-heed
• of the Oatoreou. The wind bad now mouthed, aid she
beating up brought out the qualities of the two first boats,
who bad a very bay no tbroogbeai, lA* by little AI

Naturally the attendance at Wimbledon yesterday
was Imp, than on Monday ; but at the wee time it was
lON numerous than might here hem expesid cot so fine •
day, or than one nay sapper it would ham hem, hat for
the description of " miry," which has applied almost
uniformly slam the opening of the mutest. Still everything
wore a gay and pleasant septet ; the prairies was geed, and
the wind just brisk mooch I. stir the aanimpions, and cool
enough to temper the hest of what would, without it, have
been a sultry July day.
The very tudsvouroble Warms of the weather upon the
inclination of persons not directly interested in the prioress
of the ennteet in shown by the fast that ou hisesiny the
number of wideness onpayment was only ltoZ dist
1 ..„3015 on Saturday 624 on Friday. The
mail., at 2a. per Wit, was
WOw ' ; Mwder , and on /Way, Yeetemilay
theprice d a shot at the Rano* Deer was nom* to L.
' The sport here biome in cooesquesci ?other mon fleshy
than oe the previous days. The number of pool shoo et ie.,
was 3,809 on Monday, 4,838 en Saturday. sad 6,31? *a
; while the number of sighting, oe trial thole, was
2.799 on Monday, 3,121 on Saturday, and 4,737 en Prtday.
end io order to give an idea of the aggregate expesditare
of immunities on the ground, we may state that the
quantities sold at the government tent, on the reeputioe
days, from the commencement, have been as follows, via. "
Tuesday (July 1), 15,360 rounds; Wednesday, 12,20
rounds ; Thursday. 12.480 rounds ; Friday, 18,240 womb;
Saturday, 17,2A0 roun& ; and Monday, 9,120 rounds ; or •
total of 90,720 hall cartridge..
The tent provided for the exhibition of prises, although
opened last week, was not fully occupied till Monday, awl
could not be seen to &devotees till )esterday. when it was
brillisot with the glitter of gold sad silver plat. Among
the leading firms represented there are Messrs.
Hancock, Hunt sad Haskell, Angell, hippie, end
°Wisher sad Tarry, end Harvey or, also tiles, with •
choice collection of rifles ; and Steward, of the Shrewd, hash
very extensive assortment of field-glasses, which appears to
summand very general Mistime
The Yolusteen camped upon the ground continue to
enjoy their life under canvas. They comply willingly with
' the regulations, and give every indioatioe of profiting, phy-
-1 gully at all everts, by their novel experiences. As $
maths &dissipating an tedium to which they may be
subject after the active of the day is over, it was
yesterday anoeuseed that there would be an evening
• artaesaarneet being rade in these words :—. Gip-
tan Drake will read Pickwick' this evening, it the Scotch
Teat. Orchestra, apt.'s Whimsy. To commewee at 8.15
p.m. Valais. us requested to bring their own cheers
and lanterns'
The of shooting yesterday embraced the
QQoo se's mooed stage, Lord Vernon's prime, Memo.
illey's prise, the Rifle Oaks, the All Comers, the Amor-
Um Cup, the second series of extra prizes, Running Deer,
Pool, mid Sighting Target..
The exespelitiou for the Queen's was of mune the most
infonaut of these, not only from XOO value of the prise,
tie alto from the fact that it was limited to the forty beet
shot" on the first Wage, at which there were upwards of
1,100 sennistion. The previous shooting among these fusty
had bees of a rather close character, sod it is a little re-
markable that included in the first 20 of the 40
were three members of the Vitoria Rifles—the chemise
of such a result at the outset being nearly 400 to me. 'Ph*
gold medal of the association goes with this pries. The
was at three lunges of 800, 900. and 1,000 yards
respectively, with seven shots per man at each. As was
inevitable, from the fact that 40 of the best shots in Eng-
land were engaged is an arduous mutest for the honour
of warring al the honour sad profit titbit peat pin of the
Annual National Rifle contest for 180, the practice was good
at all the ranges, and some excellent scores were made
at each; every shot adding to the excitement, as it Wereued
or decreased the hope of ultimate triumph on the of
individual marksmen. The anticipations of the Victories
went from the first of the brisfiest hue, and with pod war-
rant, alter their mouse in the first stage of the unwell
How and narrowly and with jealous eyes was the program
of the sure watched, more emeailly after the emelumon
of ths firing at the 800 yards magi. Dwing the 900 yards
ering the excitement increased, and when that at 1,000
yards was entered upon every shot was eagerly watched,
sad the target weaned with telescopic Wakes, as bullet
after bullet flaw to its destination. It was sot till nearly 7
o'clock that the lucky shot was fired by Pixley, of the
Victoria', which decided the fate of the struggle, sad told
that crack metropolitan corps that the honour el victory
rested with them. Pixley, before firing his last shot, was
two points behind the leading score, and as it was held to be
impoenble that he should make a miss, or its equivalent, a
ricochet, hie triumph was regarded by most as almost a
matter of certainty, and so it proved. Hu bullet went straight
to the target, • red and white flag announoed that he had
made a belle-eye, which added four to his sours, and
loud were the cheers around him. Word was
speedily carried to the camp, whence the Victories
rushed out to • man, making their way to the
firing post ; ewe there they seised their clumpion, raised
him upon their &boulders, sod bore him to the council tent,
before which they halted, to giu a long and lusty cheer,
after which they set off at fall trot to the camp, through
which they mode their way at double quick time, cheering
louder and louder, sod receiving cheers responsive as they
proceeded, until they reached their own tents. There they
set their hero down upon his feet, sod surrounding
him en masse shook hands with him till he had
hardly breath enough left to say. " Upon my word,
I thank you, gentlemen, and hope you'll all win the
Queen's prize next year." No doubt the Victoria were in
a state of extreme excitement, but this is not to be won-
dered at, since there was a general desire that the prise
should be woo by • member of some metropolitan corps—mit
was won last year by Jopling, of the South Riddles's—mid
them was some chum, almost up to the closed the firing,
that it would fall to the lot of Fortnum, the wiener of the
St. George's vase, who in that case would have carried off
the two leading prizes of the meeting
FIRST Swim, EXTRA Planta, 600.Yeeza.—Itiemrs or
TIE Suomi:No. —Noeworthy. Ist Oxford, gross total, 18;
tie shooting, 0 ; winner of Smith rifle. Salt, 2nd Derby,
gems total, 18 ; about ; winner of Army and Gazette
prig. 'Markle, Queen's Westminster, gross toal, 16 ; tie
shooting, 3 i winner of C.alisher sod Terry's ride. Fraser,
7th hwerness, game total, 16 ; tie shooting, 2 ; winner of
field rims. Harker lit Lincoln, puss total, 16; tie 'boot-
ie, 1,1; winner of Adams's revolver. Dillon, School of
Musketry, pees total, 16 ; tie shooting, 1, 0 ; wiener of en-
graving. Cooper, Riot. Middlesex, gross total, 16 ; tie
shooting, 0 ; wiener of engraving.