The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-16 00:00:00

RAILWAY AND OTHER BILLS BEFORE PARLIAMENT.

—The only business transacted yesterday in the commit-
tees upon railway and other private bills was in the
House of Lords. In room D their lordships proceeded with
the further consideration of tho Midland and Glasgow and
South-Western Railway Companies' Bill, and the Midland
Railway Bill, and at their rising a further adjournment
until this day (Tuesday) was ordered. The bill of the
London, Brighton, and South-Coast Railway having passed
their lordships' committee, was reported to the house. In
room B the select committee on the Railway Companies
Bill and the Railway Companies (Scotland) Bill pro-
ceeded with their consideration, and adjourned until this
day (Tuesday).
SWIMMING MATCHES IN THE SERPENTINE.—On
Monday the great match between Harry Gurr (the cham-
pion swimmer of England), and David Pamplin, of the
London Swimming Club, the aspirant to the championship
honours, took place in the Serpentine, the distance being
1,000 yards. Mr. 11. H. Smith, of the Sportsman, was
referee, Mr. Woodstock, of Bell's Life, taking the time. The
start was wonderfully even, and, after swimming about
100 yards together, each man got ahead alternately until
they wore opposite the Humane Society's Boathouse, about
half-way. About 80 yards from the bridge Pamplin gave
in, his opponent being at the time at least a dozen lengths
ahead, and Gurr, amidst the applauding shouts of his
friends, was declared the winner. There were at least
5,000 persons present. The race was tremendously fast,
the winner achieving it in 17 minutes one second. Just
before the above match a competition for medals presented
by the German Gymnastic Society took place—three prizes
There were 21 entries, but only 17 came to the starting

place. W. Coton, of Brompton, camp in first; W. Smith,
of the City-road, second ; W. Hooper, of the National
Swimming Club, third; and J. Palmer fourth. Tho first
man was objected to as having previously won a race, and
he was not therefore eligible for this, and so the matter, as
far as could be ascertained, remains in abeyance. Mr.
Vizo was starter ; Mr. Elliott, the hon. secretary to the
society, referee. The distance was about 500 yards.
ROYAL ARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT
BITAIN AND IRELAND.—The annual meeting is tO
be held this year at Hull, commencing on the 30th inst.
The Archbishop of York will be the president, and the
grand jury-room at the Town-hall is to be the reception
room, and a temporary museum is arranging for the exhi-
bition of numerous contributions of great interest. After
the inaugural meeting in the Town-hall, the objects of
antiquarian interest in Hull are to be visited, and in the even
ing the full dress soiree will be given by the Mayor of Hull.
After the business of the various sections the arrangements
for the week include excursions to Beverley, Minster
lledon, Patrington, Flamborough Hoad, the Dane's Dykes,
Driflield Church, Malton gravel beds (where a stone axe
has just been found nine feet deep), Howden, Wressel
Castle, Selby Church, Bridlington, and other objects of in-
terest in the county. The visitors will be conducted to the
various objects of interest by gentlemen of the neighbour
hood, who will act as honorary guides.
A YOUNG LADY DROWNED.—On Friday even-
ing an inquest was held at Christchurch, Hampshire, on
the body of a young lady, 17 years of ago, the daughter of
Mr. Robert Paris, of Sopley, who was accidentally
drowned while bathing on Mudeford Beach. • It appeared
that the deceased and an elder sister wont to the above-
named place to bathe, as they were in the constant prac-
tice of doing, when the former, having gone beyond the
f
usual bathing ground, was suddenly seen to make signs 0'
being in danger. The bathing attendant, perceiving that
the young lady had gone out of her depth, requested be,r
to float, as she was a good swimmer. The deceased
have been aware of her danger and lost her self-possession,
for she made no attempt to float. She sank, and being
carried out rapidly by the current, was beyond the role,
of help. The elder sister was completely paralysed, anus
ran considerable risk of losing her own life. The body
the unfortunate young lady As recovered in about half tot
hour, and every means were used to restore animation, bug
without effect. The beach, from the shifting nature, o'o
I the sands, was stated to be decidedly dangerous. 14
jury returned a verdict Accidentally droned."

Two:o'CLoCK.
This being the last day of the settlement in the
market for Foreign Stocks, railway and other
tu4reg, very little business is reported, and prices
444 Y be considered almost nominal. Still there is
annaiderable firmness, the changes in prices being
°j the smallest fractional importance. Consols are
'l3l at 941 for money, and at 941 95 for the
account.
The New Threes are 94f 94 ; Reduced Annuities
91i
2 ; Exchequer Bills 265. prem. for March, and
5
preen. for June ; India Stock 218 216 ; ditto
IPer Cents. 1111 ; ditto Enfaced 5 per Cents. 103/ ;
ulttc Bonds 16s. prem.
11 Scarcely any dealings are reported in the Foreign
-
ti,,arka• Spanish Certificates have advanced 11,
sec 5i ; Russian Scrip to prem. ; Chilian
lvp, 4, to 1i prem. ; but Greek remain at 14k ;
i'e4can at 16i ; Italian at 49i ; and Spanish
assqve at 221.
Business in the Railway Share Market continued
rather inactive, but in a few instances prices exhi-
Iskiltel an upward movement. South Eastern ad-
iranand Great 'Western 1, South 'Western
--Letropolitan 1, and Midland ; while Lancashire
and 'Yorkshire have declined I.
ttkiscellaneous and Finance Shares are neglected.
ldson's Bay Company, however, have improved
•h.lq ; Credit Foncier of England, to 31 ; National
'-'lBcount Company, to 14 ; Peninsular and
urlental Steam, to 42.
außank shares are flat. Alliance have receded to
i 14, Chartered Mercantile of India, London,
t. 4 China to 27 27i, and London and Westminster
remain steady at 105.
chin the Foreign and Colonial lines there is no
ange of importance, Great Luxemburg having
..eacbl au 104 ; South Austriau and Lombardo-
elatare marked 154 ; Great W astern of
L'aaada 14iIndian 1074 ; and Great
'''l4ll Peninsula 1064 1074.

MINING MARKET.
TUESDAY AFTERNOON.
the has has again been an absence of animation in
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We had a heavy gale of wind from E.S.E. last
night states Mr. G. P. H. Rowell. As two of the
fishing boats were out the lifeboat crew watched all
night at the boat-house, with everything in readi-
ness to render assistance; their services, however,
were not required. One of the fishing boats made
for Torbay, and the other, after shipping some
heavy seas, got safely into harbour.
Naval and Military Intelligence.

A telegram was received yesterday at noon at
Woolwich announcing the intention of the Sultan
to visit the military and naval departments there
to-day. His Imperial Majesty, according to present
arrangements, will arrive in the garrison at half-
past 1 p.m., and will proceed to the review ground
on the common, where every available man in the
various corps and divisions in garrison not otherwise
absolutely engaged will be brigaded at 1 o'clock,
after an early dinner, and will be prepared to march
past in slow and quick time. This will probably
occupy about half an hour. The troops will then
return to quarters, when tho Sultan and his attend-
ants, about 100 in number, will be escorted to the
mess quarters of the Royal Artillery. Arrange-
ments have been made there to entertain the dis-
tinguished guests according to their custom and
rank, in three distinct rooms, to a suitable dejeuner.
They will then proceed to the Royal Arsenal and
dockyard. The orders for the Royal Artillery
band, engaged to play at the Crystal Palace at 2
o'clock to-day, have been countermanded. Major-
Gen. Ward was engaged yesterday afternoon at the
Horse Guards in reference to the reception, and
issued a supplementary garrison order later in the
evening to the colonels and adjutants arid Staff for
their guidance as to the regulations come to, but
which may differ in some slight degree to suit his
Imperial Majesty's convenience. This, it is stated,
will in no way interfere with the Sultan's arrange-
ments to dine at the Crystal Palace in the evening.
The testing of the Government Snider rifle and
Boxer ammunition at the Wimbledon meetings, as
announced yesterday at Woolwich, has been most
satisfactory. At the 200 yards' range, in the com-
petition for militia breech-loaders, for rapidity and
accuracy combined, the Snider rifle headed the list
up to the end of last week with the scores of 75, 75,
and 72, the next highest score obtained being with
the Henry rifle, 71. At 500 yards the Joslyn rifle
headed the list with a score of 93. The Snider was
second with a score of 86, but the arm is capable
of doing better things even than this, having in a
recent trial scored 95 at the same range. In the
competition for " any breechloader" at 200 yards
the Snider has made the highest score—namely 70.
Thus, in two out of the three breechloader compe-
titions, the Snider is first, and in the third it holds a
second place. The arms have been used at Wim-
bledon by Volunteers of the Royal Arsenal batta-
lions, who had had but little previous practice with
them. The ammunition has given great satisfac-
tion, and the excellent performances of the arm at
Wimbledon have raised its reputation in the eyes of
those who have witnessed them.

GARRICK AND BETTERTON.—It is hard, almost
impossible, to decide now whether Garrick was the
greatest actor that had appeared up to his own time.
Quin was too heavy and deliberate to be compared
with him. But Betterton must have been a groat
genius to have so fascinated Steele, and to have won the
highest eulogies of a clever and sagacious observer of
such experience as Gibber. His agony as Othello, his grace-
ful energy in the speech to the senate, the reverential
love with which as Hamlet he addressed the Ghost,
seemed to have almost transcended any effort of Gar-
rick's ; but then Betterton was probably as mdch
too oratorical and conventional as Kemble seemed
to be beside Edmund Kean, or as Quim him-
self beside Garrick. The man, too, who used to play
Macbeth in a brown velvet court-dress must have had a
different ideal to our own more naturalistic school, or
ho would have felt the outrageousness of such a con-
vention. Perhaps, after all, it is by a résumé of Gar-
rick anecdotes that we got the best idea of the
groat actor. Ono of his most extraordinary powers
seemed to have been the instantaneous quickness with
which he could assume any character, or pass from
tears to laughter. Betterton, when dressed for Lear,
remained Lear, and took his wine at the side-scenes
with the gravity of a monarch. Garrick would rise
from the side of dead Cordelia, skip into the green-
room, and gobble like a turkey-cock to amuse Peg
Woffington or Mrs, Clive. Ho played the dagger scene in
ordinary dress to please Grimm, and the room, full of
German critics, burst into involuntary shouts of ap-
plause. The next moment he was giving them a
paslryoook's boy who has let a tray of tartlets
fall in the gutter, and is at first stupified, then
noisy in his blubbering. We all know the story of the Gar-
rick fever, a fresh epidemic that he caused by his crowded
houses. The proverb still extant, of "clever as Garrick,"
speaks loudly too for his genius and his fame. He astonished
Hogarth by assuming the face of Fielding, of whom
no portrait existed. In Paris once, he nearly frightened
the driver of a fiacre into fits by getting in at ono door in
the dusk, getting out at the other, and returning to get in
each time with a new face and walk.—Dickens's " All the
Year Round."

The Westchester Cup was won on the 20th of
June, at the s.cond day's race, by Loadstone. Tho dis-
tance was two miles and a quarter, and Loadstono won by
a neck.