The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-28 00:00:00

SAILING MATCH FOR 751.

A private match for twenty-five guineas aside having
been made between Captain Gordon, of the cutter
Whim, 62 tons; W. H. Broadwood, Ell., of the hired
yacht Alarm, 40 tons, Grenham master; and W. H.
Woodhouse, Esq., of the Royal Yacht Squadron's yacht
Surprise, 16 tons, to sail round the Isle of Wight, with-
out regard to buoys or other marks, the match came
off on Friday, and resulted in the Alarm being declared
the winner. In consequence of the difference of ton-
nage between the respective yachts, the Whim was to
allow the Surprise a minute per ton, and to the Alarm
half a minute, but nothing between the Surprise and
Alarm, their rate of sailing being judged to be about
equal, notwithstanding the disparity in tonnage. At ten
♦.sm. the yachts started together, from off Rvde pier, and
proceeded out at the east end with the wind from the
eastward, and passed Bembridge ledge in the following
order:—

11. M.
Alarm ... 11 15
Surprise... ... ... 11 25
Whim ... 11 26
From thence the wind became light, and they contrived
to reach as far as the South point of the Island, where
they arrived in a cluster. The wind had now shifted
to the N.W., their course to the Needles rocks, which
was rounded between six and seven o'clock, the Alarm
about a mile and a half in advance of the Surprise.
The latter, however, in running up the Solent ran the
Alarm five minutes, but when off Lepe the wind flew
into the N.E., and the Alarm being to windward con-
trived to reach the goal at 38 minutes past 11; the
Whim 51 minutes past 11; and the Surprise at about
half-past 12. The wind was very light throughout, and
the race may be considered to have been a partial drift-
ing match.

COURT CIRCULAR.
OSBORNE, SATURDAY.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
walked and drove in the grounds at Osborne yesterday.
The Royal Children also took their usual exercise.
Mr. Birch had the honour of joking the Royal party
at dinner.

SUNDAY.
The Queen and Prince, with the younger branches of
the Royal Family, took their usual early walk yesterday
morning.

Her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and
the Prince of Wales, rode in the afternoon in the grounds
at Osborne.
The Duchess of Kent remains on a visit to her Ms-
jesty.
Earl Granville arrived from London, and had the
honour of dining with her Majesty and his Royal High-
ness.

A deputation, consisting of the Earl of Stafford, Lieu-
tenant-General Sir Howard Douglas, Lieut.-Colonel
Lindsay, and Mr. Towne, Secretary of the United Ser-
vice Institution, had an interview on Saturday with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, at his official residence in
Downing-street.

The Earl of Clarendon has arrived in town from
Dublin.

Mr. Arthur Petre had an interview with Earl Grey
on Saturday, at the Colonial-office.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland
Revenue, had an interview, on Saturday, with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer.

HUNGERFORD HALL, BAZAAR, AND THEA-
TRES OF OPTICAL ILLUSIONS AND DIO-
RAMA, &e.

For some months past numerous workmen have been
engaged in converting the centre avenue of the Hunger-
ford Arcade and galleries above, as also the lower area,
which was originally appropriated as the wholesale fish-
market, into a central entrep6l of Arts, Sciences, and
Industry of all Nations; a general reading-room for the
manufacturers and merchants of every country; a theatre
for the exhibition of optical illusions, by Professor Wal-
deck; and a theatre for a novel and interesting diorama,
by Monsr. Bouton. The operations have at length so
far approached completion as to enable the proprietors to
announce the opening of this establishment on Monday
next, the 4th of August; and it,is confidently anticipated
that from its central position, and the great pains and
la'bour bestowed upon the arrangement and decoration,
that the whole will become an object of attraction to the
public, and source of profit to the proprietors. Among
the chief objects for establishing the bazaars have been
the reception of the produce of the Arts, Sciences, and
Industry of all Nations, in a similar manner to the Ex-
hibition in Ilyde-park, including particularly those
which have been unable to obtain admission therein, and
for which purpose 10,000 square feet have been ap-
propriated. With regard to the alterations and im-
provements necessary for the above purposes, some few
observations may at this period prove not wholly unac-
ceptable, and in commencing it may be necessary to state
that it has required the utmost .care and ingenuity on
the part of the architect to design the new works, so as
to comport with the architectural outline of the original
building. The plans have been faithfully carried out,
and the whole of the works most ably executed by
Messrs. T. and W. Piper, the builders, of Bishopsgate.
Along each side of the centre avenue of the upper area
are ranges of elegant stalls, and the whole of this will be
tastefully illuminated with gas, ingeniously constructed
to shade the glare from the visitor. In the galleries
above is the theatre for Professor Waldeck's optical illu-
sions, the preparation of which has cost nearly 30 years;
this has been elegantly fitted up for the accommodation
of 200 spectators. In the centre of the lower area is a
similar theatre for Bouton's diorama, also calculated for
about 200 spectators. On either side, well lighted from
a roof covered with large plates of glass, are extensive
ranges of stalls. The granite steps leading thereto have,
for preservation as well as decoration, been covered with
Orsi and Armani's patent metallic lava ; the same ma-
terial has been applied to other portions, the ornamental
kind particularly to a large slab which is displayed in a
variety of elegant floral and other designs in brilliant
colours. As the bazaars will be so arranged as to form
not only an agreeable promenade, but absolutely the
main, because the most direct, thoroughfare to and from
the uspension-bridge, the greater portion of the stalls
have been long since let.

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Saturday fir'
' MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On ,
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Carter held an inquest at the Red Lion Inn, Buckrla a near
Reigate, on the bodies of Richard Allen and Edwagd
circum-
nLisney,
who were drowned in a pond under the folioalcii o
'been clean-
stances :—The deceased men and five others
ehn
B janain Brodie,
ing out a fish-pond on the premises of Sirday afternoon they
at Betchworth. After their work on Tuesday persons, when
proceeded to a pond to wash the mud Into
the water first;
two men, named Rose and Allen, went
a strokes, sunk. Rose
the latter dived in, and,
whenafteArci
came fee
estoiztehde holdof him, and
went to his assistance,but Allen
they both disappeared. Rose then surface,jumped in with a
was not seen alive again.a,,d dived after the missing man,
portion of his clothes on,
and both were drowned. The jury
when a verdict of " Accidentally
hut likewise disappeared,
remarked on the case,
drowned" was returned _
—At the close of the market on Satur.
CARDIGAN. . _
amusement
• considerable and sensation was
day evening,
occasioned by the appearance of three men, father and two
son in the public stocks; the names of the parties are
Davids Jeremiah, and David and William, his sons. They
had been convicted and find ss. each last week for getting
drunk and being disorderly, and in default of payment were
ordered to be placed in the stocks for four hours. This
punishment has created some alarm in the minds of the
habitual drunkards, for the magistrates have publicly de-
clared their intention to punish every case of the kind, which
may henceforward be brought before their notice, by impri-
sonment in the stocks, as they find other modes of punish-
Meat arelllarfall:lgs to check the grewiug evil.— Weishma&