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EVEN

ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB.

A most beautiful and exciting race took place yesterday,
with some of the fastest vessels of this distinguished club, for
two valuable pieces of plate. The distance contested was
from Erith, round the Nore Light and back, and although
there were but two boats of each class, they had attaineds*h
celebrity, and were so evenly matched, that the interest
created throughout was much greats than on many occasions
when there has been a larger number.
The following contended :

SECOND CLASS.
TOT.S. Owners.
25
, 25
THIRD CLASS.
Vesper .
Vampire
The Prince of Wales, belonging to the General -team Navi-
gation Company , capitally provisioned by Mr. Crawford, had
been chartered% for the club, and considering the very un-
favourable and threatening aspect of the weather early it. the
morning, was extremely well attended by visitors. The Mercy
Andrew, Gemini, and Petrel, were well favoured in the same
respect, and, with a vast number of gentlemen's yachts, ac-
companied the race throughout.
There was a fine white sail breeze from the south-west,
and the spectators looked with anxiety for the start. The
beautiful Phantom had the favouritism amongst some of the
old veterans aboard, but the closeness of her former contests
with the Thought, coupled with the circumstance of the latter
having been considerably altered and improved since last
season, induced many to speculate heavily upon her success.
In the other class, there was the same diversity of opinion
between the Vampire and the Vesper, also of equal measure-
ment with each other.
Mr. Richard Green, the vice-commodore, was the officer of
the club in command for the day, Lord Alfred I aget, the re-
spected commodore, being absent owing to the demise of his
gallant father, and everything being in readiness the signal
gun for the yachts to be off was fired at 11 hrs. 37 min.
30 sec.
They all swung round in a second, and soon their elegant
spars were covered with canvas. The Vesper took the lead,
followed by the Vampire, these two being positioned at their
stations a trifle lower down than the larger craft. Then came
the Thought, with her head a trifle in front of the Phantom,
and all stood close-hauled towards the Essex shore. They
next, with flowing sheet, pursued their way at a clipping
pace towards the goal, there being; nothing to do but
running and reaching. In the middle' of Long Reach the
Thought was a quarter of a mile a-head of the Phantom,
but her lead throughout was ever and anon jeopardised by the
Phantom, which was sometimes a less, sometimes a greater
distance astern all the way down to the Nore. While this was
go,ng on with the larger craft, a most animated struggle was
ensuing between the smaller, who never left each other, and
made the closest race conceivable. The Vampire at length
drew a few feet in advance of her rival, and it having been
determined that they should round a boat below Southend
they did so, the Vampire achieving it first at 1 hr. 47 mins.,
and the Vesper at 1 hr. 47 rain. 30 sec. The Thought and
Phantom, in the same positions as before, arrived at the Nore
Light in the following time :
Thought 1 hr. 58 min.
Phantom 2 hr. 0 min. 30 sec.
It wanted something like two hours to low water but the
wind, with the exception of six or seven boards, was favour-
able all the way up, and taking the Kent side they reached
the Lower Hope, where the little boating commenced. Here
and afterwards the vicinage of the Phantom to the Thought
became unpleasant. She waited upon her very closely, con-
tinued to gain as they neared Gravesend, and off Roshe rville
reached by her to windward. In the way up from there they
were close by the side of each other, and the greatest excite-
ment continued throughout the remainder of the distance, as
the slightest defect in nautical skill on the part of the one
must have given the other victory. The Phantom just coa-
-1 trived to keep a length or so ahead, and the four boats ulti-
mately came in as follows :--

Yachts.
Phantom....
Thought ...

hrs. min. sec.
Vampire (winner) 5 15 23
Vesper 5 20 10
Phantom (winner)
Thought
The winners were favoured with loud cheers, and Mr. Green,
in very appropriate speeches, presented the prizes to the
owners of the winning boats, who replied iu becoming terms.
The Prince of Wales, the finest and most fitting boat this club
ever had for their matches, then returned to London. Many
of the company present were most agreeably surprised at its
being a very beautiful day, there not being a drop of rain un-
til the return of the steamer to Blackwall, Too much cannot
be said for the attention of the officers a the club, and the
steward of the steamer.

STRANGE RECEPTACE FOR THE DEAD.-
DEPUTATION TO VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.

Yesterday afternoon a very numerous and influential depu-
tation from the inhabitants of Lambeth waited upon Vis-
count Palmerston, Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment, by appointment, at the Home-office, Whitehall, for the
purpose of soliciting his lordship's interference with regard to
the arrangements of Ihe promoters of the London Necropolis
and National Mausoleum Company, who had obtained pos-
session of nine of the arches of the London and South-Wes-
, tern Railway, between the Waterloo and Westminster-roads,
for the purpose of depositing the corpses prior to their re-
moval by the company by railway to their cemetery at Woking
Common ; those arches being situated iu the most thickly
populated part of Lambeth, and consequently having a great
tendency to endanger the public health.
The deputation, which consisted of Mr. William Williams,
M.P. for ambeth, Mr. Churchwarden Stratton, Mr. Church-
wardon Plews, Mr. Churchwarden Gray, Mr. R. Taylor, Mr.
Parsley, Mr Bryon, Mr. King, and about twenty other highly
respectable inhabitants, having been introduced to his lord-

ship,
Mr. WILLIAMS, M.P., said that the affair had created the ji
greatest alarm in the minds of the inhabitants for the health I
of themselves and families. The Necropolis Company had en-
gaged several arches under the South-western Railway for the
purpose of depositing the dead until they removed them to
Woking Common. It so happened, very unfortunately, that
those arches were situated in the most densely populated part
of Lambeth. Now the annoyance to the inhabitants of the bodies
• assing iu and out of the entrance tolthe ground occupied by the
Necropolis Company was certainly great enough, but there was
another thing of far more vital importance that must be taken
into consideration, and which had created the greatest amount
of alarm in the neighbourhood, and that was, that in conse-
quence of the gaseous vapours arising from the receptacle of
perhaps hundreds of human bodies, nothing could be
other
more
probable than to suppose that typhus, cholera, and all
pestilential disease would be the result, and nothing more or
less would follow than a recurrence of the awful and devas-
tating havoc committed by the virulence of that disease in
Lambeth a few years back. The lion. member added t hat he
had no doubt that his lordship would find, on reference to the
Act obtained by the Necropolis Company, and the Metropoli-
tan Burial Bill, that he (Lord Palmerston) had power to inter-
fere in. this matter, and, in conclusion,. trusted that his lord-
ship would exercise that interference, as it was never more
needed than on this occasion.
Mr. ROBERT TAYLOR then presented a memorial to his lord-
ship, detailing the grievance, and praying for his lordship's
interference.
Viscount PALMERSTON referred to the act obtained by the
Necropolis Company in 1852, and said that clause 24 of 15
and 16 Vic., cap. 149, gave the Secretary of State some power.
It gave the company power to erect buildings and stations on
the line, to be repaired by the engineer of the railway com-
pany, but all expenses to be paid by the Necropolis Company;
th- contract of any such contract to be sent to the Secretary
of State. His lordship thought the only remedy would be
under the Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Act,
but it must first of all be proved a nuisance. With regard
to the power his lordship had to interfere, he begged to re-
mind the deputation that one must only do what he was al-
,owed to do by law.
Mr. TAYLOR suggested that his lordship had power to in.

terfere.
Viscount PALMERSTON said that nothing that had been
shown him bad tended to convince him that he had any power

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whatever.
Mr. WILKINSON having referred to several acts of radiomen,
with reference to the question of jurisdiction,
Viscount PALMERSTON quoted the act of last session, having
jurisdiction in general over the whole country, and said that
that act showed him that ho had control over cemeteries out
of London, that were constituted under that
acttion to the
of session
Mr. TAYLOR begged to call his lordship's atten
difficulty and expense attending the indictment of any person
for such nuisances as had been referred to. The last case,
that of a boiler of the refuse of a soap-boiling establishment, was
attended with great expense in obtaining a conviction, and he
hoped his lordship would do something to save the parish
authorities that trouble and expense in this case.
Mr. WILLIAMS, M.P., also trusted his lordship would do his
best to assist them.
Mr. BRYON remarked that the company could not say as an
ex use, that they were stinted in ground.
Mr. Churchwarden STRATTON said the railway company had
said they should be glad if a short bill could be obtained to
The company had 2,000
remove the existing responsibility.
or :1,000 acres of land. He tlairusted his lordship saw that
parochial authori-
they bad just cause for compnt, for the
ties felt it their bounden duty to put a stop, or attempt to
do so, to such evils. .
Mr. Churchwarden 'GRAY begged to expresshis thanks to his
lordship for effecting the closing of the graveyards, and trusted
his lorsdhip would give the matter his serious consideration to
prevent the formation of this charnel house in their parish.
Mr. Tamon stated that there was a dissenting chapel and
school on one side of the railway, where the company's arches
would be situate, and on the o
otet her side was All Saint's Church,
and the schools attached ther.
After some further conversation,
Viscount PALMERSTON again expressed his inability to exer-
cise control where he had not the power to do so, as was
the case with regard to the matter brought before him by the
deputation. He would, however, confer with the authorities
of the South-Western Railway Company and see what could
be done in the matter, after hearing what they (the railway
company) had to say. His lordship promised that he would
give every consideration to the arguments of the various
members of the deputation.
The deputation, having thanked his lordship for his courtesy
in receiving them, and the patience with which he had listened
to them, then withdrew.

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THE ISLAND'OF ALAND, IN THE BALTIC SEA.—This
island, in the Baltic Sea, which assumes a most inte-
resting character to us just now, on account of the p
tion of our Baltic fleet, under the command of Admiral
Napier, has already occupied a prominent character in
the history of the country with which we are now at
war. It is situated about twelve leagues from the coast
of Sweden, between that country and Russia, and so
important did Peter the Great deem the possession of it,
in his struggles with the Swedes during the life of
Charles the Twelfth, that he resolved to make himself
master of it at all hazards,, and, though obliged to pass
full in view of the enemys fleet, yet he succeeded in
effecting this bold undertaking ; and as the coast around
Aland is almost surrounded with rocks, the Czar Peter
caused eighty small galleys to be transported by men
over a point of land, and launched into the sea at a
place called Hango Point, another spot to which public
attention is directed in connection with the achieve-
ments of the present Baltic fleet. Historians inform us
that this affair of the island of Aland was next to that
of the battle of Pultowa, the most glorious, that had
over befall= the eucolyiefu; &Fan of Peter the Great.

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