The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-30 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

BAL3IOItAL, Aug. 28.
The Qeeen, attended by the Hon. Emily Cath-
cart, went out yesterday morning.
In the afternoon her Majesty, went up Cl
ag
Cluney with Princess Louise, attended by the Son'
Emily Cathcart.
Princess Louise, attended by Lady
Churchill,
rode to Abergeldie in the morning.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII.

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MR. J. L. TOOLE'S BENEFIT.
The annual benefit of Mr. J. L. Toole took pig!
last evening, and, as on former similar occasions/ it
was quite an ovation, the house being, as we were
informed, the largest ever known at this theatre.
Hundreds of persons were turned away before
seven o'clock. The performances commenced with
the favourite comedy of " Paul Pry,,, which Os
admirably put on the stage, all the characters being
well sustained. The moment Mr. Toole appeared
as Paul Pry there was along-continued burst of sl3:
plause. Colonel Hardy was well delineated by Mr.
H. Stephenson. The Mrs. Subtle of Mrs. Billington
and the Phoebe of Mrs. A. Mellon were charminglY rd
presented, and the more subordinate characters were
very well played. We remember the original Paul I'l'l
of Liston and the Mrs. Subtle of Mrs. Glover, ell,
the highest praise we can award to Mr. Toole an
Mrs. Billington is to say that their working out the
two characters bears a favourable comparison Nvitli
the performance of those highly-gifted artists °f
former days. In Mr. Toole's Paul Pry there::
much originality in the conception of a part winch
requires much judgment. Mr. Toole's success was,
a brilliant one. A new farce (never acted) followea'
entitled " Keep Your Door Locked," in which 3-11.1;
Toole took the chief character. The story turns upon
the fact of an old miser inhabiting an apartment
which, as a rule, he allows no one to enter; but th,.
door is a ccidentally left unlocked, and the raiser,wluls
boasting that he never gives money to anYb°4:
that he returns or destroys all begging letters from
:
poor relations, is regularly stormed by various ret
latives, who wheedle him out of £6O under the
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extraordinary circumstances. Mr. Sowerberri,
miser, was most humorously played by Mr. T°ole
Matilda (Mrs. Billington), the chief plotter to el
•
tort money under false pretences from Sowerberri.'
deserves much praise ; and the united efforts of P.:
Toole and Mrs. Billington kept the house in a c°,1,1
tinuous roar of laughter. The piece is writteu.
Matheson, who has recently gone to Amer'`'',,,.c
The performances concluded with the grand 13`1..
lesque opera of Helen ; or, Taken from the Ole 13',
in which Mr. Toole played Menelaus. Up t°
close of the evening's entertainment Mr. TOO.-
friends repeated their tumultuous applause.

Drowning of Four Schoolboys at Bright°l/1

A lamentable accident happened at Brighton 9e'Sti;
terday morning, resulting in the drowning
young gentlemen, under circumstances peci,;l
painful. They were pupils at the boarding-selll3
of Mr. Frederick Taylor, Stafford-house, Bnekjijoivf!
;
ham-place, Brighton. Mr. Taylor is a member of of
Society of Friends, and the four boys were so
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parents of the same persuasion. The bathing regni ish
tions in force at Brighton, and in the adjoining Par,„ce
of Hove, direct that •no bathing is to take PA',
from the open beach after eight o'clock in the morns
ing, and up to that hour only from bathing Plaol,
appointed by the authorities. One of those bat,
ing places in Hove is opposite the Sussex Coin'oli
Cricket Ground. It is said that the bett°
there is of a rather dangerous character, liable to
.
shift and change with the weather, and bavi:
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rocks protruding through the sand. In cert3,iv
conditions of the sea the sand is washed
Mart the melcs, leaving holes and gulleys that
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extremely dangerous to persons who cannot swini.;
At low water there is a bank of sand some dista:L'_,
out, and if persons wade to it during the
the.tide they are liable to be overtaken by the W3t,Chle
so that they cannot return to the shore across Tic
intermediate channel without assistance. Ab%
half-past 7 yesterday morning Mr. Taylor tool
lo
number of his scholars to this place to bathe. .0g
himself went into the water, and there was netitio
to indicate that special caution was required. Se'"-th
of the lads.made their way to the bank of sand wic,lo
" turn
other bathers, and were there enjoying thenise:'or
as lads are wont to do, when suddenly an ell'eej
was made, and it was discovered that a lad naLuits
Clark, who was in the water at the eastern 11'
of
of the bathing place, was in imminent danger
drowning. Mr. Taylor had just previouslY
era
them his lads in from the water, and most of th "
on the beach. At first he thought that Clark
one of the boys he had brought down, and ran gwi;
all the assistance he could. Ultimately, Clarkl ;95
got out in an insensible state, or nearly so, ann-ef
taken in a fly to the residence of Dr.
at
Western-road, Hove, where he was soon place- oat
of danger. Meanwhile, Mr. Taylor had returilna
to the part of the beach where his clothes were/ tlhg
saw that four of his boys were missing. Some Yellat
were on the beach where Clark had been brell'ere
ashore, and Mr. Taylor, thinking his boys het
amongst them, sent thither. Further search cluic••cl
elicited that the four lads, whose clothing was
or
on the beach, had neither returned to the shore 11.0
were afloat in the water. Every -means wl/lati
suggested itself was used to find them, but it Ass
not until an hour later that one of the bodies
discovered on the edge of the sand-bank. It
is
that of William Bottomley, aged 12, whose par7o...
reside at Birmingham. It had drifted a cenai"ncl.
able distance to the east of the bathing gr°llos-
It was immediately brought to shore and
after
mined by Dr. Bacon Phillips, yawl sel-
using, for half-an-hour, proper means of resil
ter
tation, pronounced life to be perfectly extinct. L's t.
another body was recovered, still further to the e
ward. It was that of a boy named Samuel pti
whose parents reside at Reigate. He was abeutiliot
years old. An elder brother came down with for,
to bathe (both being pupils at Mr. Taylor's)'
he, too, is one of the drowned. The fourth tint 14
tunate boy was named Samuel Kidd, aged ilb°uthe
years. His friends reside at Bristol. As to o
precise circumstances under which the poor Y°'be
lost their lives nothing is at present known.
.o.b.
attention of every person in the immediate Del tbo
bourhood was so taken up with the danger of iity
boy Clark, who was saved, that this shocking fa.t,sto
appears to have been entirely unobserved until
ries
late. Even if the lads shouted for help, theirde
must have been lost in the confusion cause cor-
Clark's risk, for no one, so far as can yet be as. 0- •
dire
tained, heard a cry or saw a struggle in that,,,no-
tion. The bodies recovered were taken to the Proit
wick Tavern, Holland-road, Hove, where they atais..
an inquest. Up to dusk last evening the tvi:boats
sing bodies had not been recovered, thou,",
had been dragging all the afternoon.

CHATHAM CONVICT PRISON. —A spirit of insubro;
dination having of late been manifested among sev,er„3
the mere daring of the convicts at the St. Mary's 1-I°ic
t
iPrison, Chatham, consequent on the recent change eer, ecl
a-
o the diet of the prisoners, the dissatisfaction of tho°
triets found vent, during their dinner-hour, a daY al
r
since, in several open acts of insubordination, which Mori©
time, it was feared, would lead to a repetition of 01° ti
arS
tu rbances enacted at the same convict prison a felit''
since, which then resulted in the assistance of them r
being called in. On this occasion, however, the g°Vel,:- 19(.1
and other officials of the establishment were well lirer,i:o
for any contingency of the kind that might arise, 3111-ipg-
the mutinous spirit developing itself several of th° -foto
leaders were at once seized, placed in irons, and soirit;; 0-
solitary confinement to await instructions from the 'll",oecs
tor-General. The whole of the circumstances have sv-icto
been investigated, the result being that 12 of the Oil: at-
who were proved to have taken a leading part in tho tle
ened disturbances were each ordered to undergo 00°4,
punishment, which was inflicted yesterday within the.ac'ea
son, in addition to which the convicts flogged will be Plio
in separate cells for some time, be reduced to a 10701;00
and forfeit all the privileges they formerly enjoYed's itber
this decisive action on the part of the officials, ne
attempt at insubordination has manifested itself.