The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-29 00:00:00

THIS DAY'S SILIPPING.

Lo'DoN, June 29.—Wind this day at noon, North-
Westerly ; strong breeze, and fine.
OFF PORTSMOUTH, June 28.—Arrive3—Victoria, from
London, for New York.
PLYMOUTH, June 28.—Wind W.—Arrived—Princess
Royal, from Quebec; Eliza, ditto ; Superior, from San •
tander ; Countess of Yarborough, and Fuller, from Cape of
Good Hope. Sailed—Kent, for Melbourne.
SWANSEA, June 28.—Wind S.S.W.—Sailed—Trio, for
Cequimbo ; Jhelum, for Valparaiso.
Louou FOYLE, June 27.—Arrived—Yered, from Phila-
delphia.
HOLYHEAD, June 27.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—
Northumberland, from Miramichi, for Liverpool.
SUNDERLAND, June 28.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Lord
Raglan, from Kurrachee.
MILFORD, June 28.—The Crystal Palace, from the
Clyde, to Marseilles, nhich put in here on the 26th of June,
leaky, has been surveyed and commenced discharging.

(ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES).
SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday Morning.
Arrived--Havre, steamer, from Havre ; Ounetta, from
Cork.

Sailed—Parsee, for Poti ; frigate Bird, for Kurracheee.

(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived—Thought, from Antwerp; Peri, from Eluthera;
Wycliffe, from Colombo; Competitor, from Montreal;
Paradise, from Mazagan ; Moldavia, from Colombo ;
Coravia, from Alexandria ; William Burkill, from Doordt ;
Joseph Fish, from St. John's, N.B.
Sailed, June 29—Bland, steamer, for Ostend ; Esk,
steamer, for Guernsey ; Aurora, for Altona ; Ann Lane,
for Archangel ; Jason, for Sydney ; Iceni, for Madras ;
Bengal, for Simon's Bay; Malmo, for Gothenburg.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.

Passed—Ann Lucy, from St. Lucia ; Erromanga and
Atlas, from Mantansas ; Amazon, from New York—all for
London; H.M.S. bee, from west, for Woolwich; Lama-
chiel, from Odessa, for Dunkirk.
Anchored—Spheroid, from St. Vincent, for London ;
Henrietta, for Trinidad ; Lord Londesborough, for Port
Natal ; Daniel Williams, for Bangor—all from Landon.

THE WEATHER.

METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS.

This Day, 1
Letween 8 and ,B. E. M. D. F. C. I. S.
9 a.m.
-- — --
Nairn 2975 58 56 W. 5 6 a. 3
Aberdeen
Leith. 2971 61 57 N. 3 8I o. 2
Berwick 29137 62 58 N.W. 2 6 C. 2
Ardrossan
Forth/eh
Shields
Galway 30103 62 57 N. 4 5 c. 2
Scarborough 29 69 61 58 N.W. 2 7 c. 2
Liverpool
Valentia
Queenstown 30'02 60 58 N.W. 4 3I c. 2
1 armouth
London
Cover 29/3 62 61 N.W. 2 8i 0. 1
I 'ortsmouth
Portland
Plymouth
Penzance

EXPLANATION.—B. Barometer, corrected and reduced
to 32 deg at mean sea level; each 10 feet of vertical rise
causing about 1-100th of an inch diminution, and each 10
deg above 32 deg causing nearly 3-100ths increase. E.
Exposed thermometer in shade. M. Moistened bulb (for
evaporation and dew-point). D. Direction of wind (true—
not magnetic). F. Force (1 to 12—estimated). C. Cloud
(1 to 9). I. Initials :—b,, blue sky; c., clouds (detached) ;
f., fog. ' • h., hail ; 1., lightning ; m., misty (hazy) ; 0.,
overcast ; r., rain ; s., snow ; t., thunder. A letter
repeated augments—thus, r.r., much rain. S. Sea disturb.
:ince (1 to 9).

THE NEW ATTORNEY-GENERAL.—Mr. Itoundell
Palmer, Q.C., the new Attorney-General, is the second
son of the Rev. William Jocelyn Palmer, late Rector of
Mexbury in Oxfordshire, by a daughter of the Rev. William
Gladstone, of Yorkshire. He was born at Mexbury in
1812, and married in 1848, Lady Laura, daughter of the
Earl of Waldegrave, and sister to the present Bishop of
Carlisle. Mr. Palmer was educated at Magdalene College,
Oxford, where he graduate 3 in 1834, when he took a first
class in classics.
AN UNMATCHED ScoRE.--As a fitting conclusion
to a rifle shooting competition which took place en Mon lay-
among the Netherley and Portlethen Volunteers at Nether-
ley House, by Aberdeen, the seat of Mr. Horatio Ross, the
"old deer-stalker" himself, and his son, Mr. Edward Ross,
" the champion shot," had a quiet trial of skill at lono.b
dis-
tances on Tuesday morning, when the following extraordi-
nary scores were made :—" The Old Deer-stalker" (Mr. H
Ross)-800 yards, 10 shots, 13 points; 900 yards,
shots, lO shots,
2
10 points ; 1,000 yards, 10 shots, 11 points • 3
points. The Champion Shot (Mr. E. Ross) 800 y aortdss, , 3140
shots, 15 points; 900 yards, 10 shots,
pos,li4nt. There were
points; 1,000
yards, 10 shots, 14 points; 30 shots,
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strongn
no trial shots, and the champion's miss at th s
beginning—
he fired first—may be accounted for by thee
wind
which blew throughout the trial.
ti
Speoor shooting
having yet been seen in any of the cOmupeti n returns,
the Om score of i 3 way be set dm as unmatchixi,