The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-09 00:00:00

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TROTTING.

AQUATICS.

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ments of th yard from 44 offieiat" sources: • :The:
organisation of the present steam fitatorySystera is,
in fact, founded on the practice of the indit er4inbni. '
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and successful private establishments of poe kind at
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the time of its adoption, and herein it dilters egsen-t,
tially from other departments of the dockyard, and
is free from the blighting confusion which seems to
inevitably fall upon every scheme of the kind for
the organisation and government of large bodies of
men that may be issued from a Government-office.
The armour-plated screw steamship Caledonia,' 30,
Capt. the Hon. ' Fitzgerald A. C. Foley, flag of
Rear-Admiral llasting N. Yelverton, C. 8., left

Plymouth Sound on Thursday morning for the
eastward, probably Spithead.
Mr. William Ladd, master shipwright at Dept-
ford dockyard, has received the appointment of
master shipwright at Woolwich dockyard, vice Mr.
G. Turner, who retires on a superannuation allow-
ance of £5OO per annum, and Mr. Saunders, of
Keyham dockyard, succeeds Mr. Ladd at Deptford.
The Maori, sailing transport, arrived at Spithead
yesterday with the remainder of the 68th Regiment
from New Zealand. She has also brought to Eng-
land a number of time-expired and invalided sol-
diers. The 68th will disembark from the Maori
this morning, and join the regimental headquarters
now in garrison at Portsmouth. The troops on
board the Maori comprise Colonels Mould and
Carey, Major Fitzgerald, Captains Berners and
Blyth ; Lieuts. Cairns, Pearson, and Burke ; En-
sign Platt, Assist.-Surg Grant, 75 non-commis..
sioned officers and men 68th Regiment, 217 time-
expired men and invalided men, 19 women and 42
children.

The directors of the Royal Seamen and Marines
Orphans' Home at Portsmouth acknowledge, with
thanks, the donation of £2OO received from the
officers and men lately forming the battalion of
Royal Marine Light Infantry, under the command
of Colonel Suther, C. 8., in Japan.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Staff Commander Peter Loney,
to the Irresistible, for service in the Coastguard;
Lieut. Charles H. Taylor, to the Hector ; Lieut.
Westroup S. Morgan, to the Duncan, as additional ;
Lieut. Arthur G. Fullerton, to the Narcissus, as ad-
ditional; :Sub.-Lieut. John W. Sunderland to the
Wyvern; Sub-Lieut. F. G. Dundas, to the Victoria;
Edwin R. S. Sandys, assist.-paymaster to the
Tamar ; William Jennings, clerk, to the St. George ;
and Thomas T. D. Jefferson, nominated a naval
cadet.

The following appointment has been made in tho
Royal Naval Reserve :—To be Sub-Lieut., William
Cowie.

FASTEST WAGON TIME ON RECORD.

On Juno 14 a match came off on the Union Course, Now'
York, between George Wilkes and Lady Thorne, to trot
for $l,OOO a side, mile heats, the best three in five. In a
previous match for a similar amount, mile heats, in har-
ness, the Hambletonian stallion, with the odds of $lOO to
$4O against him, had beaten the slashing big mal.e, Lady
Thorne, in throe straight heats, in 2 min. 26 sec., 2 min.
27 sec., 2 min. 25 sec. In their present race, to wagons,
the betting fluctuated in a remarkable degree before the
day of the race, the mare up to that time having been the
favourite at $lOO to $6O ; but on the morning the stallion
came so steadily into favour that before the horses com-
menced scoring the odds became $lOO to $4O on his win-
ning the race. The owner of the mare openly declared
that she was far from being up to the mark in point of
condition, and that ho would neither back her nor advise
his friends to do so ; hence speculation was far from being
active. In scoring for the first heat, Wilkes broke up, and
this encouraged the friends of the mare so much that they
offered to bet $3OO against $5OO she beat him, without any
response being elicited. Both broke very badly soon after
they got the word, and lost several seconds in consequence,
but the last three-quarters of the mile from the quarter
pole home was trotted in the extraordinary time of 1 min.
48 sec, which is at the rate of 2 min. 24 sec. to the mile
Wilkes winning by eight lengths in 2 min. 27 sec. He won
the last heat by a length, in 2 min. 25 sec., and the third
by two lengths, in 2 min. 25i sec. Tho time made by the
fleet brown stallion is over two seconds faster than Flora
Temple's hitherto unprecedented mile record to wagon,
made in her memorable match against Ethan Allen on the
Union Course, L. 1., May 31, 1859, when she trotted the
first heat in 2 min. 25 sec., but the subsequent heats were
2 min. 27} sec., 2 min. 271 sec., which, in the aggregate, is
two seconds and a quarter more than the aggregate of the
above three heats of Wilkes's. In addition to this, Flora's
time was made on a beautiful clear day, with the track in
splendid condition for a fast race, whereas both track and
atmosphere were against the Hambletonian stallion.—New
York Clipper and Wilkes's Spirit of the Times.

IZOYAL LONDON YACHT CLUB.

Tho second regular match of the season, confined to
yachts of the second class, belonging to members of this
flourishing club, was sailed on Saturday, by the following :
Yachts. Tons. Owners.
Octoroon
Vampire

Satanella

The prizes were of the value of 30 guineas and 10 gaineas
The courso proposed was from Erith to the Noro Light and
back, but owing to its being dead low water on their arrival
at Southend, the distance out was completed there. There
was a time allowance of half a minute per ton.

The Queen of the Thames steamer was chartered by the
club to accompany the match, and, considering the un-
favourable state of the weather for the last few days, and
rival attractions on Saturday, was well attended.
Arrived at Erith, the yachts were found at their stations,
the Octoroon most to the southward, but the Satanolla with
the advantage of the tideway. At 11.201 the gun was
fired to start, under the direction of Mr. A. Arcedeckno,
the commodore, wind W.N.W., but very light. Octoroon
made the best start, Vampire second ; Satanolla slow in
getting under way, Octoroon set a yard topsail well before
any of the others. Tho wind being dead aft and paltry, the
Octoroon set ono of the nondescript sails recently used in
matches where canvas is unlimited, called by some a top-
mast stunsail, by others "a spinigar" (derivation unseen),
reaching from the topmost head to within a few feet of the
deck, and boomed out. Tho Satanella shortly afterwards
followed suit, the only difference in her "fly by night," as
the old yachtsman called it, being that hors was jib-headed
and therefore not set on a yard. The Vampire set an honest
balloon topsail and all wore balloon jib. Off the point at
Erith the Vampire got the lead by passing the Octoroon
to leeward. Shortly after this, when they came to jibe,
the boom of the nondescript sails was in the water, and
they wore struck, but resumed as the occasion presented
itself. The Vampire gradually went away from the others,
and after a great deal of jockeying between the other two,
the Satanella, which had a few minutes before obtained a
trifling advantage of the Octoroon, wont ahead of her just
below the Chapman, and in this order they proceeded to
Southend, where they rounded as follows :

:Tr. s.
Vampire 2 24 15
Satanella
Octoroon
They struck their topsails for working ones, and had to
turn all the way up to windward, with the exemption of
the Hope and St. Clement's, which they came through
close hauled. No change occurred, and the race finished
thus :

H. M. S.
Vampire ................................. 6 30 10
Satanella .............................. 6 45 0
Octoroon .............................. 6 53 0
Capt. Cook, the "old salt" who commands tho Queen of
tho Thames, afforded excellent views of the sport, and
Mr. Dorling, the steward, as usual, gave the greatest satis-
faction. The Vice-Commodores (Mr. E. w. Edwards)
beautiful screw yacht, the Stella, and one or two others,
accompanied the race.

The fifth meeting of this club took
Fo; CL"'"--
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, t the Trafalgar, Greenwich, on Saturday. There
wpresent—The Marquis of Norrnanby, the Earl of Dal-
housie, Viscount Eversley, Lord Llanover, Right Hon. Dr.
Lushington, Mr. Cotes, Mr. Hal. Vivian, M.P Lord Sayo
and Selo, Hon. P. Cadogan, Mr. G. Ridley, Mr. M. T.
Smith, Right lion. Sir W. G. Craig, Bart., Right Hon. Jas.
Moncrieffe, M.P., Hon. Fitzpatrick Vernon, Colonel Adair,
Lord Mostyn, Lord Carew, Earl of Dartroy, Mr. A. K.
Stephenson, lion. Edward Coke, Hon. R. H. Duncan, Mr.
Edward St. Aubyn, M.P., General Sir H. F. Davie, Bart.,
Colonel Custance, Sir M. J. Cholmeley, Bart., M.P., Mr.
Hugh Cholmeley, Colon©l Challonor, Sir Wm. Scott, Bart.,
M.P., Lord Suffield, the Hon. E. S. Russell, the Hon. Win.
Edwards,the Earl of Charlemont, &c.
A turtle lately found at Bloomfield, Connecticut,
had upon its shell two inscriptions, one cut in 1793, and
another in 1817. The veteran is probably a hundred
years old.

A number of • persons have left Toronto and
vicinity, for the purpose of proceeding to the newly dis-
covered gold mines at Vermilion Lake, in the northern
part of the State of Minnesota.
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