The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-08 00:00:00

ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA.

The Royal Yacht Squadron brought their Regatta for
1864 to a close on Saturday with a match for a prize of 100
BOVB, to be given for all yachts under 200 tons, belonging to
any Royal Yacht Club. Thames measurement. Acker's
Scale. The yachts to start from their stations off the
Royal Yacht Squadron's Castle, round the Nab, back to
the southward of the Brambles, round a mark vessel off
Newtown, and outside all the buoys and marks on the
shoals, Peel included, except the ➢fiddle and Sturbridge.
Th 6 Nab light vessel and Newtown ➢lark Vessel to be left
on the starboard hand.

The following vessels entered and contested the prize :
The Vests schooner (Sir Bruce Chichester), 74 tons ; the
Alerte cutter (Lieut. J. Sladen, It N.), 56 tons; the Vo-
lante cutter (Mr. H. C. Maudslay), 59 tons; :the Mosquito
cutter (Mr I'. Holdsworth), 59 tons; the Vindex cutter
(Mr. A. Duncan), 45 tons
; the Albertine schooner (Lord
Londesborough), 153 tons; the Viking, schooner (Mr.
Inglis Jones), 131 tons ; the Flying Fish schooner (Mr. G.
Jessop), 40 tons; the Water Lily yawl (Lord Alfred Paget),
105 tons; the Amulet cutter (Mr. T. Vernon Tippinge),
48 tons. _

At 10 30 a.m. the start was effected in nearly a dead calm,
with occasional light puffs of wind from offshore. Volante,
Mosquito, Vindes, Alerte, and Vestal were the first to
get their sails up and slew their heads round to the eastward
with the aid of the east going tide. Vestal and Flying
Fish next followed, with Albertine next, and in company
with Viking, the Amulet bringing up the rear. The race
was a mere drifting match for some time, as at 11 30 all the
yachts, remained in sight from Cowes, the Alerte, Volante,
Mosquito, and Vindex leading nearly in line with each
other oft Osborne, making their way slowly with the tide,
and a few catspaws from W.N.W.
playing over the surface
of the Solent, the precursor of a smartish breeze that could
be seen coming up astern in the west channel. The breeze
soon overtook the yachts, moderate from 'V.N.W., and
Ryde-pier head was passed in the following order
It. AL S, ff. 3f. S.
Alerte
Albertino ...... 12 2 55 Flying Fish l2 4 0
Volante
upon the Flying 12 325
Vestal, Vindex, Amulet, and Viking followed immediately
Fish and all in close company. in run_
ning for the Sandhead buoy the Volante shot passed the
,
Albertine, by the help of a few friendly puffs from the
northward. and very soon afterwards took the lead from the
Alerte, the Flying Fish following in Volante's wake. The
schooners were running down for the Nab Light "goose-
wino," the Albertine setting a square sail, and showing
more canvass than the others. Before the Noinan was
reached, the light breeze had veered round to N.W., some-
times a fresh puff, and then nearly a calm. The Neiman
was passed thus :

11. AL S. I S.
Volanto
Alerte
Mosquito
Albertine •.... 12 35 5 t Vestal
Down to the Warner nothing particular occurred worthy
of note, for it was chiefly a drifting rather than sail •
ing, until the Warner had been passed and the Nab
rounded, which the Albertine accomplished at lh. 50m.,
followed by the others in a cluster, as they shared the light
light puffs of wind that came off from the land. A nice
breeze at length came in from the S.W., which the Alber-
tine was the first to feel at 2 5 p.m., and at once commenced
in earnest her work of beating back westward, standing in
for the island shore between the Noman and Warner, and
weathering the Tolante, which was standing on her reach
to the westward. Off Southsea pier the Volanto tacked and
stood in for the island, and cleverly weathered the Albertine.
The Amulet, Alerte, and Vindex went about nearly together
between the Noman and Sandhead, and as they reached
along the ItYde sands the vreatherly positions of the Nessels
were as follows, the Volanto, having a lead of nearly
a mile of the secono vessel, the All,ertine Volante, Alber-
tine, Vindex, Amulet, Alerte, Mot;quito, Flying Fish, Vik-
ing, and Vestal. It was 3 30 p.m... before any of the return-
in z craft were visiblo from the Clt.o37Lcuse of the squadron

at Cowes, when the Volante hove in sight, well to windward
under old Castle point, with the Albertine closely following.
The wind waa now just of sufficient strength to make the
vessel heel well over under their large suits of sails from
W.N. W. to W.S.W. At 3 35 the Mosquito and Amulet
opened to view close together, with the Mosquito slightly
ou the weather of her companion, Alert() following astern
and to leeward. Volante soon made a tack to the south-
ward, and shifted her topsail. The Albertine tacked also
in the same direction at 3 45, followed immediately by
Vindex, who was now sticking fast to Lord Londes-
borough's schooner. In the next board towards Lepe the
Vindex weathered fast on the schooner. Alerte fol-
lowed about 500 yards astern, with Amulet following
her at about the same distance. W hen the Volante was off
Egypt point the Mosquito was reaching to the southward
in among the yachts in Cowes roads, and shifted her top-
sail, which latter feat was only effected after a very consi-
derable delay and loss of time. The Mosquito was not,
in fact, doing so well as she had been expected to do in any
way. There was a want of liveliness, both in the boat's be-
haviour and her management, that was not compatible
with the high reputation which the famous iron clipper has
now enjoyed for some years. The wind was now a smart
breeze from WSW., and remained so to the end of the race;
The beat down to the mark boat off Newton was quickly
done under the influences of the fresh breeze and weather
tide, the leading vess3ls passing round as follows :

H. M. S. 1 H, M. S.
Volante.. ..... 458 0 I Alerte 447 0
Albertine
Yindex 4 43 40 Mosquito
With flowing sheets the beautiful craft bowled along be-
fore the breeze for the goal in Cowes roads, running up close
along shore to shun the tide as much as possible, and the
race was fini6ed as follows :

H. M. S
Volante
Albertine
Vindex ..
Alerte
Amulet

Jr. M. S.
Mosquito
Viking
Vestal
Flying Fish 6 0 0

The Volante was declared the winner of the prize by 2
minutes 40 seconds,

The Royal Victoria Yacht Club Regatta commences off
Ryde to-morrow (Tuesday).

THE MURDER OF MR BRIGGS.

The followine additional frets have been ascertained by
the police regarding the murder of Mr. Briggs:—On the
day of the murder Franz Muller worked at his employment
until 7 o'clock in the evening, after which ho went to the
house of Mr Repsch, Jewry-street, Minories. He was then
left in the company of Haffa, Mr and Mrs Repsch having
to go out. Haffa states that Muller left the house at eight
o'clock, and that he himself did not go out at all. Nothing
further is known of Muller's movements until the next
morning,when he got up and conducted himself in his usual
cheerful manner, and after breakfast he went out. He did
not return home, however, at his usual time, In fact, it is
not known when he did return, for all the other occupants
had retired to bed. On the Monday following the murder
Muller visited Mrs. Repsch, who at once saw he had got a
new hat which he said he had given 14s for. Mrs Repsch
also observed the ring he had got from Mr Death and took
it from his scarf and examined it. On the following Wed-
nesday, after some conversation, Muller and Haifa went to
the shop of Mr Annis, 121, Minories, where the former
pawned the gold chain received from Mr Death for
38s, and on corning out of the ship Haifa gave him 12s for
the ticket and advanced a further sum of Xl, in order that
Muller might get his own watch and guard, pawned for
£3, out of. pledge. When this was done they went to
Prince's-street, Leicester-square, where Muller pledged the
watch and guard for £l, and in consideration of a further
advance of 5s Muller gave Haifa the ticket. It has been
ascertained beyond doubt that on the morning of this day
Muller had no money, consequently when in the afternoon
at the London Docks he paid lof tba passage money and
went on board the Victoria, which he did immediately, he
had only 5s in his possession. From the information given
by ono of the agents of the owners of the vessel who did not
leave the ship until it reached Gravesend, it appears Muller
attracted the attention of several of the passengers being
without a change of clothing or other requisites for so
long a journey, and it was also noticed that
the wristband of one of the sleeves of his shirt was
torn off. This drew a remark from one of the pas-
sengers that Muller had on no shirt at all, on which Muller
said that en account of the edge of the wristband being
frayed he had torn it off. On the way :down the river the
passengers read the newspapers containing the account of
this murder, and commented freely upon it, but neither the
agent nor the pilot are able to .say whether Muller made
any remark on the subject. The police have ascertained
that the hat worn by Muller when he embarked is the same
that was worn by Mr Briggs on the night he was murdered.
Of such importance was this considered that at the request
of the Commissioners of Police, Mr Briggs, jun.. accom-
panied Inspector Kerressey by the second mail steamer, the
more effectively to complete the evidence necessary for the
extradition of Muller. The sleeve lining found in the
chimney in Muller's bedroom and the truncheon found in
the neighbourhood are now in the possession of Dr Taylor,
who has submitted them to analysis and found the sleeve
linen saturated with human blood, a portion of which he
thinks has been wiped from a boot ; as regards the trun-
cheon the doctor has as yet expressed no opinion. The
father of Muller, a gunsmith, lives at Kemmifz, in Saxony,
of which village Muller is a native.