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OUR WEEKLY BUDGET .

THE lamentable accident to the Mistletoe , -which we recorded last week , is still attracting public attention . An inquest , of course , followed , when the owner and crew of the unfortunate yatch , as well as Captain Prince Leiningen , Captain Welch , Commander Fullarton and other officers and men of the Alberta , and Victoria and Albert ,

appeared and gave evidence . At the request of the former , Captain Harris , one of the Board of Trade Assessors , appeared in Court , to give any assistance in his power . The result , after a long and searching investigation -will , in all probability , be known to our readers before this reaches

them . The sympathy of all classes with the relations of the deceased lady , the Captain , and the mate , lias been loudly expressed . The body of Miss Annie Peel was recovered the day following the accident , but that of the mate has been carried away . The Mistletoe herself has

been raised , but is reported to be utterly beyond repair , and the only purpose she can answer now is that of firewood . But to pass from a dismal subject to something lively . The event of the week has been the accomplishment by Captain Webb of his self-imposed task of swimming the

Channel—truly a Herculean task , and one that almost makes us believe that fabled hero , or demigod , to have been , after all , something more than a myth . Captain Webb , it will be remembered , like Bro . Captain Boyton in his lifesaving dress , failed at the first attempt , but the

Englishman , like the American , meant doing what he had undertaken , if possible . Of course , a comparison between the two feats is out of the question . Captain Boyton is known to be a practised and powerful swimmer , and he has more than once distinguished himself by his achievement in

longdistance swimming , but the object at which he aimed was to exhibit the value of the invention in which he so ably performs . On the other hand , Captain Webb , who has received the gold medal of the Eoyal Humane Society for the gallant attempt to save the life of a man

overboard in mid-Atlantic , somehow -worked himself into the belief that a swim across the Channel was possible , and he determined to make the effort . Accordingly , by way of testing his powers , he first of all swam from Blackwall to Gravesend , accomplishing

the distance in about 5 f hours . He next swam from Dover to Ramsgate , a distance of 18 miles , in 9 hours . After practice he set out to cross to the French coast , about a fortnight since , but the weather was too unfavourable 5 the sea was too rough , and after doing more than half the

distance , in nine hours , Webb felt obliged to give it up . On Tuesday , he set out a second time , a few minutes before one p . m ., and in 21 hours 45 minutes from the moment of starting he stood on the French coast , exhausted by his long and arduous efforts , but apparently none the worse . It

were needless to reconntthe progress hemade , or how roundly and heartily he was cheered on his return to Dover on Thursday . Nor need we enter into long historical sketches of former feats—by Leander , by Byron , by Brock of Great Yarmouth—the last named swam for seven hours , ancl so

saved himself , all his companions in the lifeboat being drowned . All this has been done to death by the specials Suffice it that the only long distance swimmer who has

outdone all persons , aud is not in turn outdone , is Captain Webb . The gallant sailor has surpassed his former feats as much as those had previously surpnssed all the greatest known swimming feats ever achieved since Anno Mundi 1 . It ia no slig ht satisfaction to feel that an Englishman has