The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-03 00:00:00

sailor's instinct and the luck of the weather than the effect
of the qualities of the yachts themselves. As to the first
two problems, to wit, the qualities of the yachts and the
probabilities of the tournament, we do not think it advis-
able to speak at this period. The public are already
pretty well acquainted wish their respective merits
through their frequent races, and it is by all means better
that they should get their final opinions from the winner,
unless, indeed, they want to lay a wager, and then the first
one they take for the favourite the ',better, for they will
save time at least, as all are of equal reputation. The ques-
tion whether their owners will sail with thorn will not be
settled till the vessels start : but we regard this as a matter
of indifference, it being purely a question of convenience
for the gentlemen concerned, and not entering at all into
the merits of the problem under judgment. We can in-
form our readers, however, that the race will be sailed un-
der Club rules, and that its conditions require that a cer-
tain longitude or meridian shall be followed, so as to keep
the competitors, if not within sight of one another, at least
as nearly within the same wind and water as possible, in
order that the result may be, as little as possible, deter-
mined by mere accident. It is thought by many, that even
with these regulations and precautions, such aro the capri-
ces of the sea that there will be a week or 10 days' distance
of time between the first and last of the competitors at
Cowes, a calculation, however, in which we are hardly in-
clined to agree, particularly with the example before us of
the late great clipper-ship race from India to Liverpool, in
which the voyages of the two flyers terminated within
three hours of each other.

The question of most interest, however, which now pre-
vails in connection with this yacht-race has recently
been raised by the application of the owner of L'Hiron-
delle, to be admitted into the contest by putting up an
equal stake with the three already in. The only objection
to the application is that the latter yacht is larger than
the others by some 40 or 50 tons, a diffewitee which is
usually thought to give her considerable advantage in or-
dinary oast and harbour sailing, but which we think
would not prevail much, if any{ in her favour in the big
offing of the turbulent Atlantic. We should like, there-
fore, to see the lists thrown open, any yacht being ad-
mitted that is willing to put up its stake. The larger the
fleet that thus gallantly vindicates American pluck by
facing the rage of winter on the troubled deep, the more
will it be to the credit of the country, and the more likely
will it be that the yacht squadrons of the other side
will furnish competitors to accept the friendly wager
of one hundred thousand dollars, which will be pro-
posed, to try conclusions with us, and make a match
covering the voyage back. We hope, therefore, to hear
that the lists have been thrown open, and that the beauti-
ful L'Hirondelle is entered with the rest.

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.

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CAISTER, NEAR GREAT YARMOUTH.

A vessel was observed to strike on the Caister
Shoal, or Inner . Barber Sands, yesterday evening
(reports the Rev. G. W. Steward) during a fresh
breeze from S.E. by E. The beachmen went off in
their yawl on the vessel showing large signal lights,
but found they could not reach her with the yawl,
and they therefore returned for the Birmingham
No. 2 lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution,
which was then launched. The vessel, which was
the schooner Coronation, of London, bound to the
north in ballast, was found to be lying fast on the
sand in the midst of the breakers, and from her
position the lifeboat was unable to get nearer than
within GO or 70 yards, the water being very shallow
on the lee side of the vessel. After great difficulty
the lifeboat effected a communication with the
schooner. Having secured a warp from the vessel
the lifeboatmen directed the crew to get into their
small boat, which was then hauled alongside the
lifeboat, and three men taken out of her into the
latter. These men stated that the master was left
on the vessel, which he refused to leave. The life-
boatmen, however, nobly refused to leave the
schooner without him, and after waiting for up-
wards of two hours the tide flowed, and they were
enabled to get close to the wreck. They then, after
much ditliculty, persuaded the master to fasten a
rope round his body, and then throw himself into
the sea on the lee side. lie was rescued from his
perilous position, awl the lifeboat returned to shore
with the shipwrecked men, arriving there about one
o'clock this morning. The schooner has since be-
come a total wreck.

DUNDEE, Nov. 30.

During a strong gale from the S.S.E. (reports
James Hunter, jun., Esq., of the Trinity House)
intelligence reached Broughty Ferry that a vessel
was ashore on the Gaa Sands at the mouth of the
Tay. The lifeboat Mary Hartley, of the National
Lifeboat Institution, was thereupon immediately
launched, manned, and taken in tow by the steamer
Auld Reekie, one of the railway passenger boats
between Broughty Ferry and Tayport, which took
her to the edge of the bank. After great difficulty,
there being a considerable sea on the Sands, the
lifeboat succeeded in rescuing the crew, numbering
five men, of the stranded vessel, which proved to be
the schooner Tay, of Dundee, bound here from
Blyth, with a cargo of coals. It appeared that the
hazy weather deceived the captain as to his position,
and in attempting to change his course the vessel
missed stays, and went ashore. She is likely to
become a total wreck.
The committee of the Sandringham Estate Cottage
Horticultural Society, of which the Prince and
Princess of Wales are the patrons, have, through
the Rev. Willoughby W. Dickinson, forwarded to
the National Lifeboat Institution £5, being part of
the proceeds of their last show, in aid of the eleven
lifeboat stations of the institution on the Norfolk
coast.

Systematic Embezzlement at the Haymarke
Theatre.

money-taker at the Theatre Royal,
Haymarket,
Chetwynd,
t,ana James Swift, check-taker, were charged
before Mr. Knox, at Marlborough police court, on Satur-
dayllze z, theling lessee. money
em-
ployer, last, t3,lr withßu
Bucks
„CC
Chetwyndknging to their
was further
charged with stealing five e• e o
Mr. Edward Lewis DT rCu
appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Boyle for the prisoners.
11r. E. Lewis said Mr. Buckstono charged
with embezzling the respective
sums of 30s. and 255. by a
system of fraud through which there was every reason to
believe that Mr. Buckstone for
some time past had been a
serious sufferer.
Mr. Charles Wright, the treasurer of the Haymarket, said
the prisoners had both been employed at the theatre for
some years. It was witness's duty to issue checks to the
money-takers. About 161 checks wore daily issued to
Chetwynd, the money-taker at the dress circle. Every ap-
plicant for a seat on payment of the money received one of
the metal checks such as those now produced. From some-
thing which transpired my suspicions were raised, and I
marked the metal tickets and gave them. to the prisoner
Chetwynd. In the regular course of business the checks
given by Chetwynd would be handed to Swift, who would
place them in the check-box, and the box would be given
up to me the same evening. When the box was brought
to me by Swift I discovered six c hec b
ks in the box without
marks. On Saturday, November 29, Weirs 112 C, marked
more checks, and I gave them to Chetwynd. Oto me.n examin-
ing the box the same evening, when brought by '
Swift,- I found five checks without any mark on them. I
then gave the prisoners into custody.
Police-constable Webb, 112 C, said on Friday evening
he was sent for to search hetwynd, and he found five
checks in his possession, which he (witness) had marked
the previous afternoon, and three half-price checks wrapped
in an envelope. lie also found three fulloriced checks
having
the mark placed on them the previous Saturday;
three half-price checks, two paper passes, bearing the word
box" on them; two receipts of the Union Bank of London
for £2O and £130; an I 0 U for £lOO, and £9 15s in
money. Chetwynd, when told the charge, said he did not
steal the checks; they wore given to him.
Police-sergeant Burne, 5 C, said he took Swift into cus-
tody in the green-room at the theatre. On stating the
charge ho said, "I am very sorry. I never was in such a
position before." When searched, £3 in gold was found
on him. Re went with Webb to Swift's lodgings, and in
a drawer found five crosses similar to those used in trans-
ferring persons from one part of the theatre to another, and
seven valuable opera-glasses, which Swift stated
had been
left behind in the theatre.

Mr. E. Lewis said on this evidence he should ask to
have the prisoners fully committed, but brought up again
with the view of bringing forward other charges.
Mr. Knox agreed to remand the prisoners.

Stepney Garrett, an enterprising freedman, of
Cherokee county, Alabama, has this year made two
bales of cotton, one of which, weighing 589 pounds,
ha took to Rome, a4cl Aoki g 34 cents per pound.