THE FIELD. 
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competing yachts only for the grand heat, when it is par- 
ticularly requested that no other yacht may he started to 
mve the chance of fouling, aud consequently depriving any 
one yacht of the beuefit of such hoard. A quarter of au 
hour's rest, if demanded by a majority of the grand heat 
competitors. The chequered flag (blue and white) will he 
hoisted for grand heat, when, should a “ foul ” occur, the flag 
for the flual start will he hoisted again in a few minutes, no 
intermediate sailing being permitted. 
The following entries are made for tho match ; — 
First Heat. 
No. Name. 
1 Pearl cutter 
2 Eloa, schooner 
3 Scud, cutter 
4 Water Kelpie, schooner 
Plying Cloud, cutter 
Weather Guage, cutter 
Levnnt, cutter 
Fairy Queen, schoonor 
Atalonta, cutter 
Colour. Owner. 
White, red diamond fly John Purnell. 
White James Perrilt. 
White, blue ccntro Fred. Escudicr. 
White, red and white 
horizontally William uittin. 
6 Anne, lugger Blue, orange stripe George Kcrridge. 
The first two Yachts to be taken for grand heat. 
Second Heat. 
Dark blue, red border Samuel Cullen. 
Red border, white centre, 
red cross James Bertram. 
White, red cross, blue 
square Wm. Bundoek, 
Red border, light blue 
centre T. G. Lyne. 
Light blue Joseph Gibson. 
The first two Yachts to be taken for grand heat. 
Third Heat. 
11 Blue Bell, cutter Blue, with white plume J. P. Gordon. 
12 Little Wonder, sehooucr White, pierced blue, silver 
wreath in centre Robert Harrison. 
13 Nil Dcsperandum, lugger White, blue border Richard Hunt. 
1-1 Arrow, lugger i 
15 Gaiuict, schooner Blue, with name on W. L. Hood. 
Tho first two Yachts to be taken for grand heat. 
Fourth Heat. 
By the losing Yachts in the above heats. 
Tho first Yacht only to be admitted to the grand heat. 
Grand Heat. 
Seven Yachts, as above. 
Tho officers of the club will attend the match in the cutter- 
yacht Ripple. The Vice-Commodore and tho Secretary will 
be in the umpire’s boat. 
HIGHGATE MODEL YACHT CLUB. 
The annual regatta of this club was held on the 4th of 
August instant, on the reservoir of the • Hampstead 
Waterworks, in the valley between Hampstead and 
Highgate. The club contains more than a score of models. 
By and by we hope to print its rules. The two prizes of- 
fered on the 4th were a gold seal for models not exceeding 
three feet in length, and a silver cup for the longer ones. 
The Musquito (under a white flag) and the Flying Cloud 
(blue, white, red, aud white cross) were the winners. 
Match for the Gold Seal. 
Musquito O. Lodge. 
Titaiiia E. Atkinson. 
I Swallow A. Rivington; 
| Rover R. Lodge. 
Flying Cloud ... .A. Gardiner. 
Black Eagle C. 1’. Wilmer. 
Antelope C. Rivington. 
Match for the Silver Cup. 
Lady of the Lake. .L. Yulliamy. 
Salamander L. L. Vulliamy. 
Wildfire H. P. Vulliamy. 
The course was twice up and down the reservoir. There 
is some talk of starting n sister society, to be called the 
“ Hampstead Model Yacht Club." 
The prizes are two silver cups, one of sixteen ounces, 
valued at 6 or 7 guineas, the second of nine or ten ounces, 
valued at 34 guineas. 
ROYAL LONDON YACHT CLUB. 
The monthly meeting of this club will be held at the 
Caledonian-liotel, Adel phi-terrace, ou Monday next, the 21st 
instant, at eight o’clock p.m. The prize of £15 for yachts 
not exceeding 7 tons, and £5 for the second yacht, open to 
yachts belonging to any club, will be sailed for on Saturday, 
tho 16th of September next. The yachts will start from 
Erith at eleven o’clock a.m., aud sail down round a boat 
moored off Rosherville, and up to North Woolwich. The 
last day for entering yachts Is Wednesday, the 6th of Sep- 
tember, when the secretary will attend at the club-house to 
receive them, from eight until nine o’clock p.m., or they may 
be sent any time previously by letter. Members wishing to 
dine at the club dinner at six o'clock on the evening of the 
meeting of the 21st are to give notice of their intention to 
Mr. Elder before two o’clock on that day. Each member 
may introduce one friend, upon giving such notice. Yachts 
for sale : Diavolo, 15 tons, price £210 ; Rambler, 7 tons, £70 ; 
Comet, 28 tons, £320 ; Wave, 6 tons, £40 ; Water Witch, 
8 tons, £90 ; Georgiana, 18 tons, £120. For particulars 
apply to tho secretary. The following gentlemen are pro- 
posed for election on Monday : Sir Wm. Bowyer Smijth, 
Bart., M.P., Mr. John Betts, Mr. Charles Lucas, Mr. M. A. 
Bortliwick, Mr. B. I*. Stockman, Mr. John B. Buckstone, 
Mr. Samuel Taylor, Mr. E. Drury Butts, Mr. John Chapman, 
and Mr. J. Sloman, of Hull. The last gentleman is owner of 
the Kingston yacht, 40 tons. 
Malta. — The Sapphire, schooner-yacht, belonging to Mr. 
Bluydes, sailed for Genoa and England on the 5th inst. 
Copenhagen. August 7. — The King is out in his yacht. 
He travels incognito, under the name of the Count of Dannar. 
He will visit the estate of Ellaholm, near Carlshamm, iu 
Bloking, Sweden, and perhaps other places. English trans- 
ports keep passing. 
Royal Northern Yacht Club Reoattas.— The sports 
will commence at Largs, on Thursday, the 24th of August. 
First prize — A prize value seventy pounds. Open to yachts of 
royal yacht clubs of twenty-five tons and upwards. Time 
race ; to start at eleven o’clock. Entrance fee twenty-one 
shillings. Second prize — A prize, value thirty pounds. 
Open to yachts of royal yacht clubs not exceeding twenty- 
five tons. Time race ; to start at twelve o’clock. Entrance 
ten shillings and sixpence. Third prize — A match by skiffs, 
with one lugsail, employed in fishing, and not exceeding 
nineteen feet keel. First boat, three pounds ; second boat, 
one pound. Entrance, one shilling. Friday, 25th August. — 
First prize — A prize, value thirty pounds. Open to yachts 
of royal yacht clubs, of ten tons and upwards, Time race ; 
to start at eleven o’clock. Entrance, ten shillings and six- 
pence. Second Prize — A prize, value ten pounds, for plea- 
sure boats not exceeding ten tons. Time race ; to start at 
twelve o’clock. Entrance, five shillings. Ou each of the 
above days there will be various rowing-matches, &c. The 
yacht matches are to be sailed in terms of the regulations 
of the club ; and the tonnage is to be computed by the old 
register measurement. Yachts intending to compete, must 
be entered with the secretary, on board the club yacht, 
Orion, at latest by seven o'clock the evening before tho race 
for wiiich they enter takes place. 
Penzance Regatta. — This nautical affair, says tho Corn- 
wall Gazette, camo off ou Wednesday. Tho weather was fine, 
and it attracted in the course of tho day a vast number of 
persons. There was a gentle breeze, but not sufficient for the 
lug-sail fisliing-boats, which sail best aud are seen to best 
advantage when there is half a gale of wiud. It was a 
pleasing sight to see a good number of these barked-sail boats 
setting out from the sea, approaching the esplanade ou the 
Western-green, just opposite the bathing establishment. 
The committee ship was moored there, so that there were 
three divisions of spectators, many on the Quay, others on 
the battery rocks, and the rest on the esplanade. Early in 
the afternoon the quay and battery wore idmost deserted, 
and the esplanade became the scene of attraction. Tho coast 
from Lariggau -bridge to Sandy-bauk was crowded like a 
fair, there being bands of music, 6ho\v-booths, firing-tables, 
fruit-sellers, and all the etceteras of a fair. The secretary and 
committee, with then - friends, mot at a late dinner at tho 
Dolphin tavern, on the quay, aud spent a pleasant evening. 
The following were the awards of prizes — Fishing boats, 
not exceeding 30 feet keel : 1st, Why-not, James Bond, 
Newlyn; 2nd, Kate, Nicholas James, Newlyn; 3rd, Non- 
pareil, Thomas James, Newlyn. 15-feet sailing boats, ama- 
teurs : 1st, Electric Flash ; 2nd, Fly, Thomas Edmonds. 
6-oared gigs, amateurs, (no skiffs) one prize : Ranger, Mr. \\ . 
D. Matthews. 19-feet sailing boats : 1st, Ocean Queen, Mr. 
W. Nicholas; 2ud aud 3rd withheld. 4-oared gigs (youths 
under seventeen years of age) : not contended for. 16-feet 
sailing boats: 1st, Wasp, Edward Nicholls ; 2nd, Lion, — 
Thomas; 3rd, Fly, Thomas Edmonds. 2-oared boats, ama- 
teurs : not contended for. 4-oared gigs, amateurs, one prize : 
Wave, Mr. John Nicholas. 6-oared gigs (free for all England) : 
1st, Fly, Thomas Ford ; 2nd, not given, only one boat start- 
ing. Punts, one prize : Topsy, Mr. Frederick Curnow. Gig 
and punt chase : Fly, Thomas Ford. 4-oared skiffs, amateurs : 
not contended for ; only two entered. 
Poole Regatta. — The subscriptions received during 
the past week towards the annual regatta have exceeded 
tho expectations of its best friends, and the committee 
have fixed the sport for two days, viz., the 29th and 30th 
inst. On the latter day a sailing-mntcli for schooner -yachts 
will take place outside the harbour; the first day tho sport 
will be confined within its limits. 
Medway Yacht Club. — Tho first regatta under the 
auspices of this club is announced to take place on Monday, 
the 4th September. The classes, we understand, will be 
eight to fifteen tons for yachtB, with time for tonnnge, and 
open to all clubs. The Julia, Prince of Wales, Idas, and a 
dozen other yachts of the P. W. Y. C., will oertointly be pre- 
sent. The Commodore, with his usual liberality, subscribes 
ten guineas. Thomas Bartlett, Esq., of Holly-hill, Erith, aud 
several other yachtsmen, have also expressed their intention 
of supporting the regatta, and we feel well assured that the inha- 
bitants of Rochester and Chatham will require no persuasion to 
come forward liberally on the occasion. The yachts already 
entered are Albatross, Julia, Prince of Wales, Musquito, 
Gnat, Blue-eyed Maid, aud Alicia.— The regatta will he re- 
ported in The Field. 
The Lii.ley Club. — A very interesting meeting took place 
at the Nell Owynue, on Wednesday evening, when the new 
book-case presented by the respected president was found in 
its allotted place in the club-room, and several volumes were 
presented by members, chiefly of a naval nature. It was 
carried unanimously that the return visit to the president 
take place at Limehouse, on Tuesday week, the 29th inst., at 
the Artichoke, if that evening prove convenient to tho chair- 
man. Members intending to be present will be so good as to 
leave their names at The Field Office, that all may travel 
thither together. 
•„* TTc shall feel obliged by the Secretaries of " Roicing Clubs," and others, 
' foricarding their Apjtoinfments of Matches or Notices of Meetings to 
come, at their early convenience. 
MATCHES APPOINTED. 
August 20. — Amateur Regatta, at Richmond. 
August 22 and 23. — Tyne Regatta. 
August 2C.— Glasgow Annual Regatta. 
August 2 8. — Regatta at Limehouse and Poplur. 
August 29. — Regatta at Chester 
August 29. — Manchester and Salford Regatta. 
August 29. — Regatta at Richmond. 
Sept 9 — Paisley Regatta. 
Sept. 30. — Mr. J. B, M-Nell and Mr. R. Reid of Glasgow — to row 
two and a half or three miles, for £60 a side. 
PISCATORIAL PROLUSIONS. 
Br TUI HAMPSfltBB Flt-Fuiibb. 
FISH-PRESERVING 
I was fishing some ten days back near Aleaford, by the 
permission of a kind friend, to whom 1 can uover be suffi- 
ciently grateful, and found my sport very much embarrassed 
by the quantity of weeds with which the river was overgrown ; 
and not only so, but the fish themselves seemed very back- 
ward in comparison with the advanced state of tho season. 
And this was particularly evident in those spots where tho 
weeds were thickest. The object of encouraging tho growth 
of these water-plants was, I understood, to protect tho fish 
from marauding poachers. I question, however, whether, to 
use a French phrase, “ Le jcu taut la thandclle, ’ or rather, 
indeed, whether any advantage gained iu this respect is not 
more than counterbalanced by other and inseparable incon- 
veniences. It is true, indeed, that the use of drug-nets is 
thereby rendered almost impracticable. But they would 
not afford the game security against hoop-nets or shoe-nots, 
which, I believe, are the most commonly used by poachers, 
while, on the other hand, they afford facilities to the still 
more destructive ticklers. At all events, if it l>e desirable to 
guard against the use of drng-neta by these nat ural proteotivee, 
tho purpose would bo equally served by leaving the weeds 
uncut m ports, and cleansing thu channel in other placed, and 
thus giving the fish tho opportunity of gaining tluit brightness 
of colour and firmness of flesh which indicate their perfect 
condition, and which can only bo hud in perfection in clear 
and open water. 'While making these observations, I was 
led into thought ou the complaint so generally made of tho 
decrease of fish iu England generally. I speak not indeed now 
so much of the salmon as of trout. That wretched spirit of 
cupidity which destroys tho goose for the sake of the golden 
egg has indeed so persecuted tho monarch of English rivers 
with weirs, causeways, and all sorts of engines of destruction, 
that tho only wonder is that so many yet survive. But with 
trout it would seem to be otherwise, and yet it is notorious 
to every fisherman that tho produeo of tho rivers in England 
has for somo years past gradually diminished, and that too 
iu despite of strenuous, but I fear, in many instances, ill- 
directed endeavours to check the growing evil. Somo 
streams, indeed, which used to bo famous for their trout, 
huvo become almost barren. Thus, the little river Hoomore, 
iu Derbyshire, which, in the days of Cotton attracted tho 
attention of the stranger as a pretty river, having in it both 
trout and grayling, is now, according to Ephemera Ede, in a 
note to his late edition of “ Tho Complete Angler,” a mere 
brook, called Shoe Brook, without a trout or grayling in it — 
a mere ditch of running water, in which the little boys of 
Ashboum commence their angling career by fishing for min- 
nows. In an early number, too, of “The Field" (Fob. 26, 
1853), a correspondent, “ D. G.,” pathetically laments tho state 
of Dollico Brook, some forty years back a favourite resort of 
London anglers. Tho Brent, too, haa experienced a similar 
fate ; and, in fact, there is scarcely any brother of the angle 
who has seen thirty Bummers pass over his head, but can 
recall somo spot, thu bccuo of his boyish amusements, tho 
waters of which havo become tenantless, if they have not 
ceased to exist. Now, no doubt a great deal of this is to bo 
attributed to other causes than tho ravages of poachers. It 
is a sad truth, that the works of man are strangely destruc- 
tive of tho nobler works of God ; and civilization, with itH train 
of manufactures, arts, and sciences, haa wrought more evil 
on the natural and beautiful than tho tempest, tho flood, or 
tho earthquake. Paper-mills, gas- work h, calico-factories, havo 
poisoned tho bright waters of Lancashire and Shropshire, and 
polluted tho lochs aud burns of Northumberland and Soot- 
land. SeWcrs and steam-boats, anil the ton thousuud abomi- 
nations which pollute tho silver Thames, havo depopulated 
her waters, till tho existence there of the salmon and sturgeon 
has become a raero myth. Roach, and dace, and lloundors 
have sought tho purer stream nearer tho fountain head. And 
who shall say, with the march of scienco progressing as it 
does day by day, how long these may remain untainted t To 
a lover of uature, and still more to a follower of tho gentlo 
craft, these are gloomy anticipations. But this is neither 
time nor place to indulge iu them, still less to enter into tho 
oft-disputed question of tho relative good or evil resulting 
from the advancement of modern science. Tho great object 
which I have iu view is to see if something may not bo done 
which may bo advuutageous both to the utilitarian and to 
the naturalist ; if our beautiful streams may not still he pre- 
served, without at all interfering with tho progress and culti- 
vation of arts and manufactures. Independently, too, of 
the foreign substances which havo been uud duily are thrown 
into our rivers from towns, manufactures, and mills, I buliovo 
that tho decrease of trout in many waters is attributable to 
the drainage of lauds. About four years back I was staving 
in Ireland, ou tho const of Roscommon, aud had a day’s 
fishing ou Lough Iti, ou tho Shannon. Wo caught nothing 
I but some perch aud jack, though wo heard of largo trout, 
hut the season wus too far advanced to do anything with 
I them. I made inquiries about Bolmon, Tho wliolo world 
knows that tho Shannon is famous for them, and this was 
formerly one of the most favoured spots ; but since the con- 
struction of the enormous draiiiB for tho reclamation of thu 
bog lauds, tho old fishermen told me that they had nil 
deserted their ancient haunts, and gone upwards many 
miles to Lanesborough, where formerly they were compara- 
tively unknown. Again, I believe, too, it has been found by 
experience that few things have a greater effect on fish than 
the sudden risiug and lowering of wutor. Tho stopping tho 
flow of water, indeed, has the effect of instantaneously putting 
a stop to their feeding, whilo what id called u iresli, especially 
after a long drought, lias tho contrary effect, and seems to 
give a wonderful stimulus to their appetites. I will mention 
an instance of each which occurred to mysolf. I was fisliing 
on the Itchen one evening this summer below Winchester, 
with a friend, and in that part of tho river where the navi 
gation runs into tho old river through a sort of sluice. The 
fish were rising rapidly in the rough water, tho hatch being 
open. I lmd hooked a largo fish about two feet and a half in 
the navigation, aud he made his rush for tho hatch, no doubt 
with the intention of dashing through, and of necessity 
smashing me, for nothing could hold him if ho had onco got 
there. Fortunately 1 had a man with me who .dint tho hutch 
down, and I succeeded in landing my prize. But tho effect 
ou tho fish below was extraordinary. In an instant they 
ceased to rise, as if by magic, and nothing would tempt them. 
Whether, if tho hatch had been reopened, they would havo 
recommenced feeding, is a problem I cannot solve, though 
I am strongly inclined to think they would ; but wo had not 
the means of doing so. The other instance occurred to inn 
in thu Thames, near .Staines. I had been barbel-fishing with 
Fletcher, the well known fisherman, in tho mouth of August, 
for several duys without success. Tho weather wan intensely 
hot and the water very low, aud the very gudgeons refused 
to bite. Patience, hope, and a cigar, were our only remedy. 
About five o'clock iu the evening there come what is technically 
called a flash of water, and while it lusted wo cuught oil the 
ledger line five perch, which weighed iu the aggregate eleven 
pounds and a half. The largest was an ounce under three 
pounds ; tho smallest, a pound and a quarter. Such a basket 
had not been been for many a long day. The flash passed 
away and everything became, and continued to be, as dull 
and inert us it previously bad been. Now, it is not difficult to 
conceive that any oft- repeated change ol this kind would 
have tho effect of driving fish away in search ot spots where 
they may remain iu comparative quiet. And hence I attri- 
bute no little importance to tho cfl'ect produced by the 
irrigation of lamb), artificial dams and sluices, and such line. 
{To be continued.) 
Sir RiciIard Sutton returned to Aberdeen on Sunday last 
from fishing in Norway. 
