The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-24 00:00:00

"GENCL. f OPENING 0.

TATTERSALLS'—YESTERDAY.
NORTHUMBERLAND ELATE.
3to 1 agst Paste (take 7to 2)
6to 1 agst Cape Flyaway (taken)
7to 1 agst Krratstord (taken)
Bto 1 egst Brighton (taken)
Bto 1 agst Wild Rose (offered)
12 to 1 agst Montebello (taken)
12 to 1 agst Neptunus (offered)
16 to 1 agst Beverley (taken)

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—MoNDAY.

For the Northumberland Plate, Paste, Cape Flyaway,
and Brighton are very steady. Knutsford did not seem to
be so very firm, but on 9 to 1 being offered it was taken.
Bto 1 was offered freely. Any advancs upon 10 to 1 was
readily taken about Wild Rose ; but the greatest amount
done was upon Montebello, who finished at 11 to 1 (►taken).
Closing prices :

NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
4to 1 apt Paste (taken and offered)
15 to 2 agst Cape Flyaway (taken)
15 to 2 agst Brighton (baleen)
Bto 1 agst Knutsford (offered)
10 to 1 agst Wild Rose (taken and offered)
11 to 1 agst Montebello (taken)
12 to 1 agst King of Kars (offered)
16 to 1 agst Beverley (taken)
16 to 1 agst Gardener (wanted)
25 to 1 agst Tiniandra (taken)
25 to 1 agst Pilot (offered)
25 to 1 agst Jackal (offered)
33 to 1 agst Joey Johes (offered)
66 to 1 agst Zuleika (taken and offered)

RACING FIXT

rRES FOR 1862.
'NB.
I Carlisle

Newcastle
Hampton

Odiham .... 1
Bibury Club
Newton
Stockbridge 3
Airdrie
Winchester
Newmarket
Cambridge .. 10
Worcester
Mansfield

Liverpool
Abingdon
Pontefract
llungerford . l7
Nottingham
Southampton 2l
Stamford 24
Knutsford
Marlborough 25
Goodwood

Radcliffe
Brighton 5
Brighton Club
Lewes 8
Hartlepool
Great Yarmouth
Wolverhampton
Reading

SEPTE:

Devon and Exeter 2
Derby .
Plymouth
Oxford 4
Warwick 9
Leicester ll
Doncaster

Edinburgh and L. C.... 1
Bedford
Royal Caledonian Hunt
and Kelso

NOVE]

Worcester 4
Lincoln Autumn
Hereford

Wenlock l5
York
Dover
Stockton 26
Egham .. 26
Lichfield 26
Bridgwater
Ludlow

Wordsley
Richmond
Walsall
Monmouth 25
Manchester
Newmarket F 0

Newmarket S 0 .. 13
Perth
Gloucester
Newmarket 11

Liverp00l
Shrewsbury

RISH RACING FIXTURES FOR 1862.

JliNB. •

Curragh June 24

JULY.

Bellewstown

SEPTEMBER.
Cnrragh
Carlow
Londonderry

AQUATICS.

ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB.—THE
SCHOONER RACE.
The annual schooner race of the above distinguished club
has long been the great yachting feature of the metropolitan
season, and that of yesterday was one of the most agreeable
and interesting races ever witnessed, the excitement being
kept up by repeated changes and spirit-stirring incidents ;
added to which, the weather was most delightful for visi•
tors, the sun after midday shedding its benign and cheering
influence over the scene. The Prince of Wales steamer,
chartered by the club, conveyed between four and five hun-
dred members of the club and their friends to view the race,
in addition to which there were two steamers from the
Woolwich Company and a large fleet of yachts accompany-
ing the match.
The following were the entries :
Shark .. 161
Galatea 131
Flying Cloud 75
Leonora 105
The first prize was value £lOO, the second £lO, and there
was a quarter of a minute time per ton alloavA for difference
of tonnage, but no time above 150 tons. The course was
from Gravesend to the Mouse Light and back.
The noble commodore, Lord Alfred Paget, ordered the
first gun to be fired for the boats' crews to be in readiness
at 91 minutes past 12, and the second to be off at 14 minutes
past 12.
At the time of the start there was a good breeze from the
north-west; but as the evening advanced the wind height-
ened and blew all round the compass. The Flying Cloud
made a beautiful start. She was first round and under
canvas; the Leonora was second. The Shark rather heavy,
but her position was the worst of the fleet; nor was the
Galatea's a good place. The Shark, from her superiority
of tonnage, was generally considered the favourite; but it
was whispered that the Flying Cloud, with her allowance
of tonnage, would be found a most formidable opponent,
anti so she turned out without reference to the time scale at
all. The Flying Cloud was hardly round before she set
her umintopsail, in which she was immediately followed by
the Leonora, who also got up her foretopsail. The Flying
Cloud entered the Hope first, and immediately greatly im-
proved her lead, and they all stood well down to below the
battery, where they had to go about, and made four or five
boards, during which the powers of the Flying Cloud to
- windward were proved to be admirable. The Shark,
though somewhat hampered at first, got the second place in
the Hope, and when she entered Sea Reach her superior
powers began to tell upon the Plying Cloud, and she was
gradually overhauling her. At the Chapman Head the
Flying Cloud led by about a hundred yards ; next to her
was the Shark, then the Leonora, and next the Galatea. 1
_ The latter drew upon her off Leigh, and after a very pretty
race, passed her into the third place. While this was
occurring an equally smart race was going on between
the Flying Cloud and the Shark, only a few hundred
yards a-head, which developed considerable nautical skill.
The Shark tried to pass her to windward, but the Captain
of the Flying Cloud resisted the operation, but in a few
minutes afterwards the Shark quickly passed under her lee
off Shoebury. The boats were close-hauled from this point
down to the Light, but the Shark standing too far over to
the southward, the Flying Cloud keeping a good course
and going very close to the wind, neared the Mouse in ad-
vance of her. There was also a fine race, and one of the
closest we ever saw between the Shark and the Galatea.
The latter had reached past the Leonora off Southend, and
not going anything like so far to the southward,came abreast
of the Shark at the moment of rounding, and they turned
together, the one literally covering the other, and forming
as beautiful a picture as could well be conceived, The
rounding was in the following time and order:—
h. m. s.
Flying Cloud
Galatea
Shark
Leonora
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The Galatea was closer to the Light than her opponent,o
and therefore possesses the preference. There was a light
breeze the next few minutes after rounding from the east-
ward, so that the course up looked favourable enough, but
it was • very shifty, and ever and anon abating, brought the
vessels altogether again, and gave admirable exerciseb for
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Flying Cloud
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The Flying Cloud won the fiist prize, and the Lenora
the second, and they were presented by Lord Alfred Paget
respectively to Count Batthany and Mr. Hesketh, with a
very well-merited compliment upon both for the sailing of
their yachts, and the victory of Count Batthany in so
small a vessel.

At 10 o'clock last night Prince Napoleon, accom-
panied by Count Flahault and two other gentlemen, entered
the gallery of the House of Commons in which foreign
Ministers usually sit when they attend its discussions.
The Prince remained until one o'clock, and during his stay
Mr, Disraeli, Mr. Cobden, and Lord IL Lennox went up
to the gallery and °gunned with him.

T' 711 E ROYAL AGRICUL-
TURAL SHOTV.

The annual show of the Royal Agricultural Society of,
England opened yesterday in Battersea-park, where the
preliminary arrangements have been for some time in pro-
gress, and, so far as the aspect of the ground is concerned,
apparently with complete success.

• The exhibition, as is usual, comprises agricultural im-
plements, machines, and other articles for farm purposes,
seeds, roots, manures, &e., for the inspection of which by
the public it will continue open until the 2d of July. It is
disided into three distinct compartments—viz., machinery,
machinery in motion, and cattle. The first two only were
thrown open yesterday; the opening of the last is
fixed for Wednesday. The whole cover an area of about
30 acres, of which some four acres are devoted to the ma-
chinery in motion, the other portion being about equally
eivided between machimry and cattle, the length of " shed-
ding" appropriated to the former being about 11 mile, and
that appropriated to the latter about 11 mile.
The grand entrance to the ground is on the south sie•c,
whet a visitors pass through a turnstile upon the " tell- t ile"

principle.
The sheds run in long ranges behind this open arca (on
which it, is proposed to have a military band), with an
ample space between for light, ventilation, and the passage
of spectators, and with a wide central opening of aisles sepa-
rating them into two great divisions. With the exception
of one shed, which is devoted to "seeds and roots," they are
filled with farming machines and implements of every con-
ceivable description, every department being carefully clas-
sified, and every class embracing a variety of develop-
ment and detail perfectly bewildering. Nothing is absent
that can by any possibility be connected with agriculture—
from the huge steam plough to the pitchfork, from the
patent metal pig-stye to the patent sausage-chopper.
Every exhibitor has his name conspicuously displayed at
his stand, and the eye successively rests on the well-known
names of Ransome, Tuxford, Crosskill, Clayton, Shuttle-
worth, Garrett, Fowler, and others, eminent as agricul-
tural machinists and engineers.
The arrangements of the various sheds was only finally
effected on Saturday night—in fact a few articles were ad-
mitted this morning ; and while this renders it im-
possible, in a hasty preliminary notice, to dwell upon the
particular merits of individual exhibitors, it is also impos-
sible to avoid doing justice to the all but absolute air of
completion which prevailed throughout the sheds when they
were thrown open to the public. In point of variety, and
perhaps of novelty, the present show is vastly superior to
any previous one ; and there can be no doubt that from the
ready access to its site, the number of visitors this year will
greatly exceed that of any former year.
The area appropriated to the "Machinery in Motion"
department, unlike that of the "Machinery," presented yr, s-

terday a rather rough and somewhat unready appearance.
There was no lack of huge machines upon the ground, and
hore and there the eye detected the rapid revolutons of a
fly wheel, or the ear the buzzing rush of a revolving strap ;
but generally the attendants seemed to be employed in get-
ting tap the steam, or turning the last screw, or putting in
the last pin. To-day, no doubt, everything will be in
due order, and the machinery in motion department per-
fect in its way, and more than sufficiently puzzling to the
non-practical eye.
It has been stated already that the cattle department will
not open till Wednesday. Into this department a novel

feature has been this year introduced, viz., the ex-
hibition of foreign stock (there is no foreign ma-
chinery), and although the quantity thus added
to the exhibition will not be very considerable, it
will certainly attract a considerable amount of attention
from British connoisseurs, as well as from those to whose
lot it falls to adjudicate the prizes. Most of the cattle ex-
pected from abroad have already arrived, but only a very
small proportion of the native contributions to this depart-
ment is at present on the grouod. This day was
be devoted to arrangement and classification ; to-morrow,
Wednesday, the prizes will be adjudged to the best speci
mens of each special and distinct class; and the cattle yard
will on that day be thrown open, the charge for admission
being one guinea.