The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-14 00:00:00

those concave folds hugging the wind and making the
least of it within tbeir-rrees3es. No hollowed bowl
swelbree out in a felt bread beam which melted into
yiehitng ruin were visible, but in place of such a
well-
proved style of naval architecture we had the Sim
straight angular bow, the narrow beam, and the lanky
thin run which our clipper builders rejoice in. The
wind was light, the tide was strong, and the little fellows
bowled along merrily through the mist, the lead being
taken by t::e Mouse, which was closely followed by the
Kitten. Tne race was not one of great interest, partly
because the Volante very soon shook off all competitor?,
and partly because the weather was nearly as bud in
the day as in the morning.
Off Holehaven the match was divided into two
squadrons. In the first was the Volante, half a
mile ahead of the Musquito, which in turn heeded
the Cygnet by another half mile ; the Pauline,
Phantom, and Secret following. The rear division was
composed of the Zuleike, Whisper, Vesper, Mouse. and
Vampire, with the Kitten at a great distance behind.
About a mile below Chapman's [lead Light the Coca-
medoee directed a small boat to be anchored, which the
third class boats rounded and re tureed to Eritb. The
other boats rounded the Nore Light in the following
order t

FIRST CLASS, SECOND CLASS.
h. m. s. h. m. g;
Volante ... 3 1 15 Secret ... 3 1 31
Musquito ... 3 4 36 Phantom 3 13 0
Cygnet .., ... 3 10 32 Zuleika
... 3 16 50
Pauline . 311 6 Whisper 3 20 10
At the Nore the wind freshened and hauled a little
round to the north, so that the yachts had to beat 11P
to Erith. Had the weather been fine it would have been
a very interesting sight, but as they made their long
legs they soon ran out of sight in the fog, though it:wag
quite certain the Volante had done her work so well,
and was so excellently handled, that there was no chance
of her rivals picking up the water she had made when
going free, and that her wesrherly qualities would en-
able her to b, at them in tacking, as she had done when
sailing be fore the wind. The yachts were obliged to get
in balloon jibs and gaff topsails and set their ordinary
sailing canvas; but there was no close race that we
could see except between the Musquito and Secret. the
latter of which, however, soon beat to windward of
" the big'un," and weathered her in beautiful style.
The Ruby ran up to Erith, where she arrived about
half-past six o'clock, and then lay to while the yachts
rounded the buoy and flag-staff, which, as the wind
fell nearly dead away, was a very tedious and uninter-
esting operation. Amid the booming of guns and the
chi ers of the victors the yachts came round the buoy us
follows, the race being by this time a mere drift of Fagg
on the water :

h. m. s.
Vampire (winner of third class) „, 6 42 30
V, spec „„.
~, 7 0 30
Kitten
,„
„, 7 12 41
Volante (winner first class) „, 7 40 19
Cygnet
..„ „, 7 50 33
MuBquito ••• ••• • • 7 59 20
Secret
Phantom (winner second class) „.. 821 30
Zuleika „,
„, 8 28 0
By the foregoing it will be seen that the Volante was
the winner of toe first class. The Secret being obliged
to allow the Phantom 2i minutes for difference of to!n'
nage, lost by no more than 21 seconds. The Vampire
was the winner of the third class.
Lord A. Pager, delivered the prizes—To Mr. Wheeler,
third class, Vampire; Mr. Lane, sccond class, Phantom'
and Mr. Craigie, first class, the Volante; and the day 5
sports were concluded in an even down pour of rain,
which gave the company its fullest benefit as they landed
at eleven o'clock at night at London-bridge.