The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-23 00:00:00

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—This Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 18 11 19
Ditto 3 Months. 12 1i 12 i.
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 50 25 57
Brussels
Hamburg
Paris Short 25 22f 25 321
.
Ditto 3 Months. 25 50 25 55
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine 121 121 k
Vienna — 10 92* 11 0
Trieste "— 10 95 11 0
Petersburgh - 29 29
Berlin. — 629 6 29*
Madrid 464 461-
4
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Cadiz
4/
Leghorn
Milan -
Genoa — 25 624 25 67*
Naples — 25 624 25 674

LONDON GAZET LE—Last Evening.

CROWN-OFFICE, Mencit 19.
MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

County of Kerry—Henry Arthur Herbert, Esq., of
Muckross, in the said county, in the room of the Eight
Hon. Henry Arthur Herbert, deceased.
MARCH 21.

Borough of Tewkesbury—Sir Edmond Anthony Harley
Lechmere, Bart., of the Rhydd Court, in the county of
Worcester, in the room of William Edward Dowdeswell,
Esq., who has accepted the office of Steward of her Ma-
jesty's Chiltern Hundreds.
ADMIRALTY, MAncir 21.
Royal Marine Light Infantry.—Second Lieutenant Philip
Hare O'Brien Despard to ho First Lieutenant, vice Stir-
ling, to half-pay.
Joseph Boniface Doyle, Esq., has this dy been pro-
moted to the rank of Master in her Majesty's Fleet, with
seniority of 2d March, 1866.
Minot 22.

Mr. William J. Fellowes has this day been promoted to
the rank of First Class Assistant Engineer in her Majesty's
Fleet, with seniority of Jan. 12, 1866.
Royal Marine Light Infantry—Lieutenant-General John
Tatton Brown to be Colonel of the Portsmouth Division,
vice Ellis, doec,easd.

Noble Description of a Boat Race.

(From Chapter I. of Charles Reade's "Hard Cash," original%
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published in "All the Year Round.")

Few things in this vale of tears are more worthy a pen
of fire than an English boat-race is, as seen by the runners ;
and none else have ever seen one, or can paint one. But
I, unhappily, have nothing to do with this race, except as
it appeared to two ladies seated on the Henley side of the
Thames, nearly opposite the winning-post. These fair
novices then looked all down the river, and could just dis-
cern two whitish streaks on the water, one on each side the
little fairy isle ; and a great black patch on the Berkshire
bank. The threatening streaks were the two racing boats ;
the black patch was about a hundred Cambridge and Ox-
ford men, ready to run and hallo with the boats all the
way, or at least till the last puff of wind should be run plus
halloed out of their bodies. Others less fleet and enduring,
but equally clamorous, stood in knots at various distances,
ripe for a shorter yell and run when the boats should come
up to them. Of the natives and country visitors, those,
who were not nailed down by bounteous Fate, ebbed and
flowed up and down the bank with no settled idea, but of
getting in the way as much as possible, and of getting
knocked into the Thames as little as might be.
There was a long uneasy suspense.

At last a puff of smoke issued from a pistol down at the
island ; two oars seemed to splash into the water from each
white streak ; and the black patch was moving; so were
the threatening streaks. Presently was heard a faint, con-
tinuous, distant murmur, and the streaks began to get
larger, and larger, and larger; and the eight splashing
oars looked four instead of two.

Every head was now turned down the river. Group
hung craning over it like nodding bulrushes.

Next tho runners were swelled by the stragglers they
picked up ; so were their voices ; and on came the splash-
ing oars and roaring lungs.

Now the colours of the racing Jerseys peeped distinct.
The oarsmen's heads and bodies came swinging back like
one, and the oars seemed to lash the water savagely, like
a connected row of &words, and the spray squirted at each
vicious stroke. The boats leaped and darted side by side,
and, looking at them in front, nobody could say which was
ahead.* On they came nearer and nearer, with hundreds
of voices vociferating, "Go it Cambridge !" " Well pulled
Oxford !" "You are gaining, hurrah !" " Well pulled
Trinity !" " Hurrah !" " Oxford!" " Cambridge !" "Now
is your time, Hardie, pick her up !" " Oh, well pulled,
six !" " Well pulled, stroke !" " Up, up ! lift her a bit !'
" Cambridge !" Oxford !" " Hurrah !"

At this Julia turned red and pale by turns. " Oh,
mamma !" said she, clasping her hands and colouring high,
" would it be very wrong if I was to proY for Oxford to

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win ?"
; it was on her left
Mrs. Dodd had a monitory
longer, shot out to
a signal, the boats, foreshortenedhitherto,
and came broad--
treble the length they had lookedthe
elastic rowers stretched
hand ; she raised it ; and, that mfionmgeneornt, as if she had given
side past our palpitatingh fair,darting
forward at each stroke
like grey-hounds in a o
flyingsse,
out of the boats, and surging
so boldly, they seamed.
ansommghetfold human wave : their nostrils
pale and glutinous ; their white
all open, their young eyes all
all clenched grimly, glowing,
teeth
i bodies swelling, the muscles writhing beneath
their suPP.°
and the sinews starting on each bare arm ;
back as suthpeerlbipsly,of
their Terser,
little shrill coxswains shouting imperiously at the
jy oco their
young gy a a a
giants, and working to and fro with them, like
t finish ; nine souls and bodies flung into each
magnificent effort ; water foaming and flying, row-locks
ringing, crowds running, tumbling, and howling like
mad ; and Cambridge a boat's nose ahead.
They had scarcely passed our two spectators, when
Oxford put on a furious spurt, and got fully
over from the
leading boat. There was a louder roar thstnua
and stole
bank. Cambridge spurted desperatelYninh . g
4, , to, every inch
those few feet back ; and so they even with the
of water. Bang ! A cannon weez"bl'ik sent its smoke
on the
a moment, and the
over both competitors ; " dis"elt.oswerds the bridge, Cam--
boats were seen pulling slowlyw
ti,
six,
as if that gun had
bridge with four oars, Oxford with
winged them both.

The race was over.
But who had won our part could not see, and y must
wait to learn.

description given previously by Charles
rowers at work just before the race
n d Soon after, the Exeter glided down the
beforerei°rniemeee their eyes, with the beloved one rowing quietly
R e*a eolie
-a- •rt , his Jersey revealed not only the working power
oneisheef
the
oi f hie arms, as sunburnt below the elbow as a gipsey's, and
as corded above as a blacksmith's, but also the play of the
great muscles across his broad and deeply indented chest :
his oar entered the water smoothly, gripped it severely,
then came out clean, and feathered clear and tunably on
the ringing rowlock, the boat jumped, and then glided, at
each neat, easy, powerful stroke.