SQUARE-RIGGED SCHOONERS.-Mainsail, foresail, staysail, jib, flying jib, fore topsail, topgallant sail, royal and skysail, main gaff topsail, and main staysail. BRIGS AND SHIPS.-Courses, topsails, top gallant sails, royals and skysails, all staysails (or trysails), jib, flying jib, spanker (or mizen), or boom mainsail. YAWLS.-As cutters, with the addition of the mizen. LUGGERS.-Three lugs, jib, and main topsail. Fore-and-Aft Schooners, when sailing in their respective classes, may carry either a fore gaff topsail or square fore topsail, but not both, or to change from one to the other during the race. No booming out allowed, or bearing out. 5. All yachts to keep their platforms down and bulk heads standing. No starting or taking in water or ballast permitted after the preparation gun has been fired, nor any trimming by dead weight allowed. 6. Yachts on the port tack must invariably give way to those on the starboard tack; and in all cases where a doubt of the possibility of the yacht on the port tack weathering the one on the starboard tack shall exist, the yacht on the port tack shall give way; or, if the other yacht keep her course and run into her, the owner of the yacht on the port tack shall be compelled to pay all damages that may occur, and forfeit his claim to the prize. 7. Any yacht bearing away, or altering her course to leeward, and thereby compelling another yacht to bear away to avoid collision, shall forfeit all claim to the prize, and pay all damage that may ensue. 8. When rounding a mark, boat, or buoy, the yacht nearest thereto is to be considered the headmost yacht; and should any other yacht in the race compel the yacht which is nearest to any mark, boat, or buoy, to touch such mark, boat, or buoy, the yacht so compelling her shall forfeit all claim to the prize, her owner shall pay for all damage that may occur, and the yacht so compelled to touch a mark, boat, or buoy, shall not in this case suffer any penalty for such contact. 9. Yachts going free must invariably give way for those by the wind on either tack. 10. When two yachts (by the wind) are approaching the shore together, and so close to each other that the leewardmost cannot tack clear of the weathermost, and by standing further on would be in danger of running on shore, such weathermost yacht, on being requested to put about, is immediately to comply, and will forfeit all claim for not doing so. The leewardmost yacht must, however, in this case, tack at the same time as the one she hails. 11. Nothing but the hand-lead and line to be used in sounding. 12. If any objection be made with regard to the sailing of any yacht in a race, such objection must be made to the stewards within one hour after the yacht making the objection shall arrive at the winning-post. Should any objection be made to the tonnage of a yacht, such objection must be given in writing to the stewards before the yacht has started. The register shall be considered sufficient proof of her tonnage. The tonnage to be reckoned according to the old measurement. 13. Every yacht under 50 tons shall carry a boat not less than eight feet in length; and yachts of 50, and under 100 tons, shall carry a boat not less than ten feet in length; and all yachts of 100 tons and above shall carry a boat not less than fourteen feet in length. 14. There shall be either a member or honorary member on board cach yacht sailing for a prize. 15. In all disputed sailing cases, two persons only, who shall be selected by the stewards, from each yacht, shall appear before them for examination. 16. That a competent person be placed by the stewards on board each stationvessel to make observations, and who, in the event of further information being required, may be examined by the stewards for that purpose. 17. A yacht touching any mark, boat, buoy, or flag used to mark out the course, shall forfeit all claim to the prize. 18. On the 14th of May, 1842, it was decided that, in future, all yachts sailing for a prize should be restricted to their complement of men; viz., one man for every ten tons, with the addition of the sailing-master, and one other person as pilot: thus, a yacht of 50 tons would have seven hands on board, and a yacht above above 50, and not exceeding 60 tons, eight hands, exclusive of the owner or his representative. 19. No anchoring during the race. 20. Stewards for regattas and races are to be chosen from the members and honorary members; and there shall be no appeal from their decision. MR. ACKER'S GRADUATED SCALE OF TIME ACCORDING TO TONNAGE. On Saturday, the 29th, a splendid cup, given by Earl Fitzhardinge, was sailed for within the Wight. The course was from a boat moored off West Cowes round the Nab light, the buoys of the Brambles, the Light-ship off Calshot, round a flag-boat off Newtoun Bay, back to Cowes Roads. The undermentioned yachts were entered, and took up their stations a little before twelve o'clock. Their stations were deter mined by lot; No. 1 being nearest the island, and No. 7 the outer All the yachts were handicapped by the noble giver of the cup. The Belvedere to give the Sea-Flower 25 minutes. The Sea-Flower to give Anne and Julia 6 minutes. The Anne and Julia to give The Zephyr and St. Margaret 9 minutes. The Zephyr and St. Margaret to give Albacore 12 min. The Belvedere to sail without a topsail; all the rest under any sails their owners pleased. Each owner to steer his own vessel. In the case of Lord Aifred Paget having two yachts in the match, he was allowed to select a member of the Thames or Royal Yacht Squadron to steer one of his vessels. At noon the vessels took up their stations; and at 12..9 (as the railway bills say) a preparatory gun was fired from The Imogine, Lord Fitzhardinge's yacht. The yachts then got their mainsails up, riding at their moorings with their heads to the westward; and at 12 . . 20 the starting-gun was fired, when the whole of them luffed to the northward, and jibbed on the opposite tack. The St. Margaret and The Julia were the first to get off, closely followed by the rest. On passing The Imogine, The Julia had a slight lead to leeward; and in passing the roads set her jib topsail. The remaining yachts nearly abreast proceeded to the Nab light, which they rounded; the first vessel being only three minutes a-head of the sternmost off Ryde; and before rounding the Nab, The Julia carried away her topmast, and bore up for Cowes Roads. Upon rounding the flag-boat off Newtoun Bay, there was only a period of six minutes between the first and the last vessel, and finally passed the winning vessel in the following order : The latter vessel having touched one of the boats in rounding, lost her chance of the prize according to the eighth rule of the Royal Yacht Squadron laws, and hauled her flag down. The Albacore winning, with twenty minutes to spare. Our readers will perceive, by the above time-table, that this match was one of the most closely contested for that ever took place between so large a number of vessels, and it reflects the greatest credit upon the nautical knowledge of the noble earl. The Sea-Flower, Julia, Anne, Zephyr, and St. Margaret, were well known to his lordship, who had had repeated opportunities of seeing them under canvass; but the Albacore and Belvidere were to the spirited handicapper" dark vessels." Had the two latter, then, been out of the match, The Anne would have won by one minute, The Sea-Flower second; while The Zephyr would only have been beat by the winner by four minutes and fifteen seconds, and by The Sea-Flower by three minutes and fifteen seconds. Had The Julia and The St. Margaret remained in the race, we firmly believe that (to use a turf expression) a sheet would have covered them all coming in. This is the ninth cup Lord Fitzhardinge has given; seven at Cowes, one at Ryde, and one in the Thames. The first prize was won by a Ryde wherryman; but his lordship having liberally compensated the winner in cash, made a present of the cup to the Hon. Augustus Berkeley, who then owned and sailed for it in The Violet. The next cup was won at Cowes, by Lord William Lennox, in The Helena; and in the following year The Teazer, Hon. Grantley Berkeley, bore off the prize. In 1844 Captain Claxton, R.N., gained the two cups which his lordship presented upon this occasion: the first he contended for was in The Fanny, all the other yachts having given in ; the gallant captain persevered to the end, and, after a spell of nearly twenty hours at the helm, arrived at the winning vessel; but, having been compelled to drop his kedge, lost the prize. The noble earl immediately rewarded him with the cup for his zeal and patience. Upon the following day he was again fortunate in The Amphion; as he was in 1845, when he carried off the cup in The Jilt: three prizes in a little more than twelve months! bravo, Captain Claxton. The second cup that year was won by the present Vice-President of the Board of Trade, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, in The Sea-Flower; and the third one was contested for in the Thames, and won by Lord Alfred Paget, in the Belvedere. A peculiarity attended this latter match, namely, that one of the stipulations was, that each vessel should be manned exclusively by members of the Royal Thames Yacht Club; and certainly the amateurs did their duty as well as the choicest "blue jackets" could have done it. In the present year, as we have already stated, Lord Alfred Paget was successful in The Albacore. Before we conclude, we cannot refrain from offering our testimony of praise to the noble earl, for his liberality in thus encouraging a national sport. With a princely fortune, Lord Fitzhardinge has ever proved himself one of the warmest patrons of every manly amusement, as the splendid pack of hounds, of which he is master, the well stocked preserves of Berkeley Castle, and the Imogene yacht-where open house is kept (if such a term can be applied to the wooden walls) each and all bear testimony to. May The Imogine and its noble commander flourish, is the fervent wish of every blue-jacket, and of no one more than of your well-wisher and contributor, H. H. PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS OF THE METROPOLIS. "Taste, that eternal wanderer, that flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes."-POPE. How applicable the poet's words we have quoted are to the present day, when we are moving in an age anything but famous for its intellectuality of taste!-an era when the more monstrous the exhibition, the greater the proba bility of its success. At such a time right glad are we to record the detection of such gross humbug as that attempted to be perpetrated on a late occasion at |