The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-20 00:00:00

ing looking than ever. It was a few minutes after 5
o'clock, and the sun was setting with glorious au-
tumnal tints, when the riflemen, marching round
by the square in which stands the statue of Rubens,
came full upon the grand cathedral. Involuntarily
they stopped, and looking up at its glorious spire
gave utterance to their. admiration in a subdued
buzz. Just then its bells chimed forth the vesper
hymn, and all the other bells in the city tolled in
melodious chorus. The effect on riflemen and spec-
tators was marvellous. The voices of thousands were
raised in one wild hurrah, and amid the music of
church bells and cheering of men, women, and chil-
dren, the Volunteers arrived at the steps of the mag-
nificent Hotel de Vile. The Pompiers of the city,
with their brass helmets, made still more fierce-look-
ing by crests of black horsehair, formed a guard of
11,,:nitu• at the eutrancr. l'asfin,g np a noble eair-

case, the. riflemen entered a very ancient-look-
ing apartment, with chimney-piece of colossal pro-
portions and fine pictures covering the walls. Ilere,
under an antique wooden ceiling and araid the mel-
low light of numerous oil lamps, stood the Bourg-
mestre and the municipal council waiting to receive
their visitors. Amid shouts which awakened the
echoes of the ancient building from the base to
the summit the chief magistrate, in speeches deli-
vered in the French, the English, and the Flemish
languages, bid welcome to the riflemen, M. De-
herpe, Colonel Loyd Lindsay, and the commandant
of the Dutch officers returned thanks. The yin
trhonneur was then plentifully distributed. The
officers of the Garde Civique subsequently enter-
tained the officers of the foreign rifle corps at a din-
ner in the Hotel St. Antoine. A more magnificent
feast than this, both as regards the decorations of
the table and the' viands, has rarely been given even
in any capital city. Afterwards there were recep-
tions and balls at the Reunion Lyrique, the Grande
Harmonic, and the Theatre des Varietes, each of
these places being still grander than the other. All

are concert and dancing rooms, yet such is the diver-
sity in their elegance that each possesses a charm.and
brilliancy peculiarly its own. In London we have
nothing at all of the kind to compare with the Salle
of the Grande llarmonie or the Theatre des Varietes.
The Volunteers were delighted with their visit to
Antwerp, and only regretted that they had not set
out earlier in the day. They were escorted back to
the railway by a torchlight procession of the citizens,
and amid the loudest acclamations took their de-
parture for Brussels in trains which brought them
here in the small hours of the morning.
The follow big is a return of the long-range scoring
as far as it had been ascertained up to yesterday :
Hooper, Queen's Westminster, 35 ; Dawson, 4th West
York, 35 ; Sterkie, Queen's Westminster, 35 ; Peaks, Gth
Lancashire, 35 ; Gibbs, let Glocester, 31; Gould, 37th Mid-
dlesex, 33 ; Marriner, West Middlesex, 33 ; Syme, Ist
Lanark, 33 ; Black, Queen's Westminster, 33; Sprott, sth
Lancashire, 32 ; Cooper, sth Lancashire, 31; Montgomery,
30th Middlesex, 31 ; Colette, Liege, 31; Arrowsmith
Bristol, 31; Harms, 23th Kent, 31; Sharman, 4th West
York, 31; Hopkins, 41st Middlesex, 31; Hewett, 22d
Essex, 30; Hodgkinson, 321 Suffolk, 30; Russell,
Kent, 30; Saw, Ist London, 30.