The Sun. — London, England, 1861-07-15 00:00:00

THE NA P I'. 9 13 Marlborough has at present on board two 100-pounder Armstrong guns, eight 40-pounders and two 25-pounders. To-day (Monday) we under stand she will ship two 12-pounders and two 6- pounders, which come from Woolwich. Commander the Hon. Maurice Horatio Nelson, who has been appointed to the command of the Gannet, screw sloop, 11 guns, vice Lambert, pro moted, was lieutenant of her Majesty's ship Samp son, Captain Jones, 6 paddle sloop, in the Medi terranean and Black Sea, from August, 1852, to the commencement of 1854; served in the naval brigade before Sebastopol ; was lieutenant com mander of the Swinger, gun boat, in the Baltic, from June, 1855, to the close of the Russian war, and was afterwards second, and then first lieu tenant of the Conqueror, 101, Captain Yelverton, until promoted comma der, April, 1858. At Plymouth the first division of the steam re serve will consist of a line-of-battle ship, a frigate, a corvette, sloop, despatch vessel, and six gunboats, all to be equipped ready for the pendant when re quired. The other naval ports will possess zt simi lar reserve. The Orlando, 50, and Speedy, 4, are the first division at Plymouth; the Princess Royal, 91, is preparing for it. The Petrel, 11, will pro bably be prepared. The Ariel, 7, screw, Commander Alexander, ar rived at Mahe, Seychelle Islands, on the 19th of May, in company with her Majesty's ship Wasp, to whose assistance she was despatched from Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope, on the 18th of April. The Lyra, 9, screw, Commander It. B. Oldfield, was lying at Mahe on the Ariel and Wasp's arrival, having brought in 200 slaves captured in an Arab dhow near Zanzibar. The Lyra had recently taken 17 dhows, averaging 70 tons each. She would pro bably sail for England about the middle of June. The Ariel and Wasp sailed in company from Mahe for the Mauritius on the 30th of May. A considerable number of Bertram's patent welded beams have been landed during the last few days at Deptford and Woolwich Dockyards, for fitment as deck , beams on board the various ships now building, similar to those supplied to the Warrior, Black Prince, Resistance, Defence, and other ships of the same construction. It appears now t o be the decided opinion of most scientific men of iron shipbuilding and engineering profession that most of the disasters at sea and boiler explosions occur in consequence of the inherent defectiveness of the rivetting system, and the more so for ships, as the metal is more cut away, to obtain the countersink for the rivet-head, by which a smooth skin is obtained, thereby giving speed to the vessel which could not be attained if the heads projected outside. Another source of weakness in the rivetting system is the attaching the water tight bulkheads to the side of the vessel, by a row of rivet-holes, in a straight line, round the ship, which perforation weakens the vessel in a similar ratio to that of the separation on the postage stamp, thereby showing the desirability of bringing out the welding process, so that all sheet-iron structures, whether of ships, steam boilers, &c., might be made in one entire piece. According Co the official return recently published it appears that there are at present being built at the various dockyards for her Majesty's service 56 ves sels of war, of from 60 to 1,250-horse power, and carrying respectively from 1 to 89 guns each-viz., 11 at Portsmouth-the Dryad, 51 guns ; the Har lequin, 17 ; the Royal Alfred, 50 ; the Helicon and the Bramble, the Cherub, the Crown, the Min strel, the Netley, the Orwell, and the Protector gunboats ; nine at Pembroke-the Guernsey, 4, the Nassau, 4, the Newport, 5, the Perseus, 17, the Shearwater, 11, the Tartarus, 4, the Triumph, 50, the Tweed, 51, and the Zealous, 89 ; nine at Chatham-the Achilles, 50, the Belvidera, 51, the Bulwark, 89, the Ganymede, 22, the Menai, 22, the Myrmidon, 4, the Rattlesnake, 21, the Reindeer, 17, and the Royal Oak, 50 ; nine at Deptford-the Circassian, 17, the Columbine 11, the Endymion, 36, the Enterprise, 11, the Favourite, 22, the Jaseur, 5, the Portia, 5, the Rattler, I'7, and the Sappho, 17; eight at Woolwich-the Alligator, 22, the Caledonia, 60, the Dartmouth, 36, the Hyperion, 26, the Pegasus, 4, the Repulse, 89, the Sylvia, 4, and the Wolverine, 21 ; five at Devonport-the Africa, 11, the Cynthia, 11, the Ister, 36, the Ocean, 50, and the Robust, 89; at Glasgow the Hector, 32; at Yarrow, Newcastle-on-Tyne, the Defence, 18 ; at Sheerness the North Star, 22, at Mill wall the Va liant, 32 ; and at Newhaven the Tyrian gunboat. The following appointments were made on Satur day at the Admiralty; Commander M. R. Pechell, additional, to the Majestic ; Commander G.Durbin, additional, to the Russell ; Commander D. Herbert, additional, to the Cornwallis; Lieuts. the Hon. H. B. Hamilton, W. Clark, J. L. F. Paul, H. Berkeley, T. Stackhouse, and B. L. Lefroy, additional, to the Imperieuse, for disposal in China; Lieut. C. F. Walker, to the Pembroke, for service in the Magnet tender ; Lieuts. A. Young and R. Hoops to the Asia ; Lieuts. E. Barkley and H. Rogers, to the Cumber land; Lieuts. J. C. Snell and C. J. Didham, to the Indus; Lieut. H. J. Martin, to the Surprise; Lieut. A. It. Tinklar, to the Excellent ; C. Caffin, mid shipman, to the Doris ; E. Payne, naval cadet, to the Edgar ; W. T. Fry, promoted to the rank of en gineer ; A. Lawton, acting first-class assist.-engi neer in the Leopard, promoted; H. H. Symcock, acting second-class assist.-engineer in the Asia, for the Fire Queen ; A. Stewart, acting second-class assist.-engineer to the Asia, for the Wallace ; W. R. Abbott, acting second class assist.-engineer to the Asia, for the Traveller; A. Beattie and J. Stirling, acting second-class assist.-engineers to the Himalaya. TIIE ARMY, The following officers, who have recently obtained their commissions as Lieutenants in the Royal Artillery, ar e posted to batteries as under. Those who belon g to batteries serving at home stations are to join them on the Ist proximo and the remain der at Woolwich on the same date :—Lieut. Emilius Clayton, 4th Brigade, Bth battery, Aldershott ; Lieut. Fred. E. B. Loraine, 4th Brigade, 10th bat tery, Gosport; Lieut. Willoughby B. Hemans, 15th Brigade, ith battery, Guernsey ; Lieut. George E. Townsend, sth Brigade, 2d battery, Plymouth ; Lieut. Arch. James Anderson, 15th Brigade, 4th battery, Pembroke Dock; Lieut. Thos. de la C. Ir win, 10th Brigade, Ist battery, Isle of Wight; Lieut. Earnshaw Bradley, 10th Brigade, 4th bat tery, Portsmouth ; Lieut. Edgar Kensington,t 15th I Brigade, sth battery, Duncanno .o. n Fade, d Lieut. W. B Robert Molesworth, 15th rib V. S t battery,tt Pembroke Dock; Lieut. Edward ace, 15 Brigade, Bth battery, Guernsey ; Lieut. J. Sutton Rothwell, 10th Brigade, Bth battery, Portsmouth , • Lieut. Thomas Gaskell, depot, 6th battery, Wool wick ; Lieut. Alexander Campbell, 13th Brigade, 4th battery, Tien-tsin ; Lieut. William Ogle Carlisle, sth Brigade, sth battery, Woolwich ; Lieut. e Alfred Logan, 14th Brigade, 3d battery, on passage home; ; and Lieut. A. H. J. Des Barres, 10th Bri gade, 6th battery, Portsmouth. The details connected with the proposed changes contemplated in the present Depot Brigade of the Royal Artillery were announced on Saturday. In consequence of the Depot Brigade having of late been considerably augmented by the addition of several newly-formed batteries, it is intended to make a triplicate division of the brigade, and thereby relieve the present head-quarters of the heavy re sponsibility which at present attaches to the colonel' commanding the brigade in carrying on the official correspondence and regulating the changes Which have multiplied so rapidly since our Indian posses skirls have been garrisoned by the Royal Artillery. I : .P .e Plan of alt era ti on co ntemplat e d cons i sts i n t h e li"ibade being formed into three separate divisions or dePots, to be quartered at Woolwich, Sheerness, and Warley, each division being in charge of a separate commanding officer, who will be empowSred to communicate on all subjects connected with the interior economy and discipline of the brigade direct with the Deputy Ad jutant-General, at the Horse Guards, instead of as heretofore the officer command in g at Woolwich. The right division, in the event of the proposed alteration receiving the sanction of her Majesty, will be stationed at Woolwich, the centre division at Sheerness, and the left division at Warley. The number of batteries at present comprised in the Depot Brigade is 16, whi c h is about double the strength of that of a ny other bri gade in the Royal Artillery, with the exception of the 4th and 6th, which number ten batteries each. The right division at Woolwich will be placed under the command of Col. G, R. H. Kennedy, and that at Sheerness under the command of Lieut.-Col. R. Talbot, both of whom are energetic and most zea lous officers. The name of the officer who will com mand the left division at Warley has not yet been officially announced. The 22d (Captain Steward's) Company of Royal Engineers, which left head-quarters, Chatham, a few days since to be employed in completing the new barracks at Chelsea, the works of which have been until recently suspended, in consequence of the strike, has been augmented by an addition of 40 sappers, all experienced mechanics, from the com panies of Royal Engineers stationed at Aldershott and Woolwich. Already considerable progress has been made by the Royal Engineers in the comple tion of the works. The turn-outs are in the habit of assembling in some numbers to hiss the Engi neers while the latter are at work. _ The right wing of the 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment, consisting of companies Nos. 1,2, 3, 5 , and 7, 300 rank and file, including the head-quar ters, which landed at Gravesend from the transport Nimrod on Friday afternoon, left at five in the evening under temporary command of Capt. E. J. N. Burton, and, passing over the South-Western and South Devon lines, arrived at Plymouth about six on Saturday morning, and is now quartered, with the left wing in Raglan Barracks, Devonport. Both wings have just returned from India. The Indomitable sailing transport arrived at Spithead from the Thames on Saturday, and was towed into harbour, where she will embark the remainder of the 2d battalion of the 11th Regiment for the Cape of Good Hope. The ship is expected to sail on Tuesday morning. The depot is ordered to Fermoy. The Akbar sailing transport, hourly expected at Spithead from London, is ordered on arrival at the former port to embark Capt. Wood, 91st Foot, for conveyance to the Mauritius, and four men of the Royal Artillery; Captain Armstrong and wife and Lieutenant Stanley, for conveyance to Ceylon. The Akbar, after sailing from Portsmouth, calls in at Queenstown, where she will embark 4 subalterns, 187 men, 4 women, and 7 children of sundry regi ments. In the early part of last week a driver belonging to the 6th Battery, Depot Brigade, Royal Arsenal, at Woolwich, named Peter Masterton, having been picked up by the military police for absenting him• self from the garrison without leave, was brought in custody to the mainguard in the Royal Arsenal. The non-commissioned officer on duty, Sergeant Martin Murphy, was in the act of entering the charge when the prisoner suddenly rushed to the fire place, and, seizing the huge barrack poker, which he wielded double-handed, swore he would be revenged for a three months' confinement which he had suffered through a similar commitment by Sergeant Murphy, and struck him two fearful blows over the temple, felling him to the ground. The sergeant lingered in great pain until Saturday, when he expired. The prisoner has been handed over to the civil authorities, to be tried for wilful murder. A wrought-iron gun, made in the reign of Henry VI., was cut open in the Royal gun factories,Wool wich, last week, for the purpose of ascertaining the nature of its construction. The gun has proved to be similar to the ordnance designed a few years ago by Mr. Dundas, of Dundas Castle, North Briton, and consists of longitudinal staves, or bars, built up and hooped with a series of out rings, the inster stices being run in with lead. The process has un dergone considerable examination and much scien tific scrutiny. The officers of the Royal Engineer Department at Woolwich have made a survey during the past week of the ground in the rear of the Royal Military Academy, by order of Government, with a view of extending the premises of the establishment, so as to accommodate an additional number of gentlemen cadets to the amount of 300, each pupil to be allowed a separate sleeping chamber. The estimate is stated to amount to about £60,000, for which tenders will shortly be issued. Six extra batches of buildings are about to be commenced, in addition to the four just completed, at the back of the old hospital, be low Woolwich common, for the accommodation of 10 married Artillerymen and their families. By a general regimental order issued by Colonel Charles Bingham, Deputy Adjutant• General, the following transfers have been ordered :—viz., Lieut. Knollys from No. 7 Battery, 10th ,Brigade, to No. 7 Battery, 4th Brigade ; Lieut. Cuming from No. 3 Battery, 15th Brigade, to No. 9 battery, 4th Brigrade ; Lieut. Sartorius from the Depot Brigade, to No. 2 battery, 14th brigade; and Lieut. Harrison from the Depot Brigade, to No. 5 battery, 2d brigade. An exchange of batteries has been sanctioned between Capt. and Brevet-Major C. T. Du Plat, of the Bth brigade, and Capt. W. J. Wilson of the 10th brigade. Ensign King, 37th Regiment, has been appointed musketry instructor to the 9th depot battalion at the camp at Colchester, relieving Ensign Mitchell, appointed instructor to the 66th Foot. Draughts of the 34th, 54th, and 97th Regiments left the camp en route for India, in the course of the last week. THE VOLUNTEERS. A committee has been formed for the purpose of organising a corps of engineers in the City of Lon don. The undertaking is so far matured that the ser vices of the proposed corps have been tendered to her Majesty's Court of Lieutenancy. The first preliminary drill took place on Wednesday last at the drill ground pro tern, Victoria Dock London Warehouses, Minories. Effective members are admitted into the corps at an annual subscription of one guinea and an entrance fee of one guinea. Honorary members pay an annual subscription of two guineas, which may be commuted into a life payment of 10 guineas. Artisan members are ad mitted under advantageous arrangements. The Six-Foot Volunteer Guards, commanded by Capt. the Hon. T. C. Bruce, were inspected on Tuesday last by the Inspector-General, Colonel M'Murdo, at Burlington-house. The corps went through the manual and platoon exercise and vari ous battalion movements in a manner which elicited his full approbation. One of the members attended as an orderly in undress, with their large service pouch, Col. M'Murdo attaching great importance to the ability to carry 60 rounds. The corps were accompanied by the drums and fifes of the Cold streams. The Norfolk corps had an imp osing field-day on Mousehold-heath, near Norw i c h, Wednesday, at wh ich were present three battalions—in all 1,000 strong. Assembled on the ground and minutely disposed, the troops proceeded to engag e in a sham fight. The heath is very exte nsive, in a short time the complex man oeuvres ex ecuted carried the combatants quite out of sight of the 20,000 specta tors, who were somewhat chagrined in consequence. But, n'importe. The engagement was, however, carried to a successful conclusion, and. Lleut.-Col B a k er , calling the volunteer of f icers round him', complimented them on the steadiness and promp titude which their men had displayed. The volunteers of Sheffield and Rotherham w ere reviewed on Monday at Wardsend, near Sheffield, in conjunction with six companies of the 58th Re giment of regulars. The weather being favourable, the spectacle—the first of the kind at Sheffield — excited unusual interest in the locality, and attracted from 14,000 to 15,000 spectators, including mem bers of nearly all the principal families of the town. The force numbered about 1,200, upwards of 800 being volunteers. A fee de joie having been fired in honour of her Majesty's birthday, a number of movements were executed with much precision and steadiness. Lieutenant-Colonel Hood, of the 58th Regiment, who was the reviewing officer, afterwards complimented the Volunteers in the warmest terms on the admirable manner in which they had gone through the movements. Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. A. Thellusson reviewed the 3d Administrative Battalion at Beccles on Sa turday. A number of manoeuvres were creditably executed by the force, which was nearly 500 strong. The weather was beautifully fine, and the spectacle presented was extremely picturesque and animated. On the Queen's birthday the whole of the troops stationed in the garrison of Portsmouth were pa raded on Southsea-common. There were also on THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 15, 1861. the ground the 3d Hants Artillery Volunteers, and the 4th, sth, and 6th Hants Rifle Volunteers. The regular troops present comprised 12 field officers, 36 captains, 69 subalterns—in all 3,323 non-com missioned officers and men, with six 12-pounder Armstrong guns and 102 horses. Line was formed from north to south across the common, with the mounted Artillery on the extreme right and the di vision of Marine Artillery, with the Artillery and Rifle Volunteers, on the left. Major-General Lord W. Paulet, C. 8., Lieutenant-Governor of the garri son, and commanding the South-West district, was in command. His lordship was attended by Colonel Somerset, C. 8., Deputy-Quartermaster-General ; Colonel Thackwell, Deputy-Adjutant-General ; Col. Gordon, Royal Engineers ; Colonel Dunlop, C.B. ; Royal Engineers ; Colonel Anderson, Royal Marine Light Infantry; Captain Milligan, Aide-de-camp; Captain Breton, Town Major, &c. At noon the guns of her Majesty's ship Victory, and the ships of war in Portsmouth Harbour, together with the guns of the saluting battery of the town works, fired each a royal salute of 21 guns. At the close the mounted batteries took up the fire with seven guns, which was followed by a feu de joie along the line of troops. This, twice repeated, completed the firing, when three deafening cheers were given for the Queen, Lord Paulet acting as fugleman. The spectacle was over by 1.30 p.m. The Queen's birthday was celebrated at Wool wich-common by a review in which an amalgama- tion of the Volunteers with the regular army was effected on a large scale. The troops began to fall in about 11 a.m., and in about half an hour an un broken line, two deep, was stretched, east and west, from one extremity of the review ground to the other, comprising 3,000 men, flanked at each end by an Artillery battery of Armstrong guns. Gen. Sir R. Dacres and staff rode up at 12 o'clock, when the batteries commenced firing a royal salute, and, after being inspected front and rear, the General retired to the flag-staff, when a feu de joie passed through the line three times with admirable preci sion; after which " hats off!" was ordered, and three boisterous cheers resounded throughout the lines. The Volunteers present consisted of the Gravesend, Faversham, Blackheath, and Plumstead Volunteer Artillery, above 400 strong, in command of Lieut.-Col. Gladdish ; a portion of the Dockyard Artillery, about 200, in command of Major Thorn ton, commandant; the Royal Arsenal Volunteer Artillery, above 400, in command of Lieut.-Colonel Ellis; and a portion of the Ist and 2d Battalions, Royal Arsenal Rifles, about 600 strong, in command of Lieut.-Col. Parkyn. From the extreme fineness of the weather, and the peculiar and unusual dis play, a very large concourse of persons of all grades had assembled to witness the bearing of the Volun teers in so important a position, which all admitted they sustained with undoubted satisfaction. The united bands of the Royal Artillery and Marines performed during the marching past, and the bands of the respective corps played in succession during the inspection. Her Majesty's birthday was duly honoured at Plymouth. The troops, including the Volunteers, were reviewed at Devonport. _ On the Queen's birthday a detachment of the Tower Hamlets Artillery, under the command of Capt. Smith and Lieut. Marsh, met at their battery, Blackwall, and fired a Royal salute of 21 guns. as many of them were too modest to come for their prizes, which had in consequence to be taken back to store. A " dark gray man," who had come all the way from under " the Southern Cross," to luxu riate in the showers of Wimbledon, attracted the quick eye of his Royal Highness. This was Mr. M'Farlane, an Australian competitor, clad in the monotonous and peculiar uniform of his colony, who had won an engraving. His Royal High ness warmly complimented the Australian on his zeal and enthusiasm, and hoped that his good example would be generally followed by his bro ther colonists. Mr. Boss, the veteran deer-stalker, had also gracious notice; and Ensign Halliday, who won the iron safe, was offered every facility for carrying off his exceedingly portable prize in triumph. Considerable amusement was caused by this presentation, but it subsequently transpired that Mr. Halliday haul solved the difficulty by ex changing it for two silver cups. The lion of the day was of course M. Jopling, whose success the Duke good-humouredly exulted in, as redounding so much to the credit of the civil branch of his own department. After the presentation came the rain, and what was more agreeable, the luncheon, at which the British volunteers filly sustained the honour of their country. The majority rushed to Mr. M'Donald's refreshment booths, where they were fully satisfied with their treatment; but some corps, wise in their genera:ion, had brought their own commissariat m aggots, in which were stored the stout ale and warden pies immortalised in the Robin Hood ballads. Unhappily, they could not discuss them "under the greenwood tree," seeing that the Common is entirely innocent of arboricul tural furniture; but they enjoyed them nearly as much under capacious umbrellas, which were spread out in such numbers as to give quite a new character to the vast and desolate prairie. For a considerable interval no sounds were heard in the volunteer camp but those of jollity and temperate carousal, during which the mel snapped their fingers at the weather, and girt themselves up for the military manoeuvres of the evening. to attack and drive off a body of the enemy, sup posed to be in position, in great force, beyond the butts. As the preliminary to this step, the advanced body threw out skirmishing companies, consisting of the City Rifles and the Inns of Court. The rain had fallen heavily before the commencement of the proceedings, and the ground was very wet, but one half of the gallant sharpshooters took no heed of this trifling discomfort, and threw themselves down with the most perfect abandon, and with thorough regard to the orders that they were to form a re serve body. The advanced firing party pushed on over the uneven ground on which the butts and brushwood are situated, and soon the little puffs of white smoke and the sharp crack of the rifle told that they were carefully feeling the way for the main body to follow. The second line of skirmishers rose, evidently by no means unwillingly, from the soft and muddy position in which they had lain, pushed forward, and were followed by the main body. From this point the evolutions had for the spectators all the enchantment which the poet tells us is lent by distance to the view. The volunteers, with real ardour, followed their imaginary enemy into the distant furze, and the continued fusillade indicated the sharpness of the struggle, and the valour with which every inch of ground was contested. Now and then a boom from the great guns told how serious matters were getting, and a terrible rumour reached the Grand Stand that the advancing line of the volun teers had been broken through the ardour of the men, and that the latter were becoming dangerously " clubbed" in the distant furze. Then we herird the attack had failed, and had therefore, according to the Austrian manner, been changed into a recon naissance, and that the volunteer army, having found the enemy too strongly posted, were in full retreat upon the Grand Stand. A series of black lines, some of rather irregular formation, emerging from the smoke, soon confirmed our worst appre hensions. Then squares were formed and cavalry resisted ; much powder was expended, but in a dis cursive manner, until at last the whole body ap proached the stand in one long, waving, uncertain line. This was to be a grand charge along the whole line, a beautiful manoeuvre when performed by regular troops ; but the ardour of the volunteers was too great for the restraints of discipline, and one corps to the right of the line broke up into a perfect mob, rushing forward with frantic shouts, and causing terrible anguish to volunteer officers and military aides, who gallopped across the front of the wild crowd, and waved them back into line with frantic gestures. It is in these ambitious ma noeuvres that our volunteers stand most in need of practice, and—we must add—of better and more attentive officers. The general observation made by military men on Saturday was that the men were wonderfully perfect, but that the officers, with a few exceptions, were wholly unable properly to handle them. In the firing by sections the greatest difference was perceptible. In some cases the volley came, as it ought to do, in only one report, whilst in others it rattled in the most irregular and un professional manner. The public were not slow to ' perceive the difference, marking the good firing with loud applause and laughing cruelly at the less fortunate attempts. As usual, the day finished with the " march past," which the General Commanding in Chief watched with a most patient and scrutinising eye : to some he nodded his head approvingly, others made him slightly scratch his ear, with a dubious air, and in one or two cases his Royal Highness was quite audible in his com mendation. One slight manoeuvre, that of advanc ing arms, as each corps approached the flagstaff, was performed in the right place and at the right time by only one corps, the London Scottish, and this did not escape the quick eye of the Comman der-in-Chief, who by nods and a slight clap of the hands recognised the proficiency in drill of the Gaelic host. Bat all the corps were received with equal ovation by the public, which by this time densely fringed the whole common, and could not amount to less than 50,000 persons. The throng of private carriages was enormous, and their fair occupants clapped their hands or waved their hand kerchiefs, as various appropriate airs played by the band indicated the approach of the Devil's Own, or the London Irish or Scottish, or some other popular corps. None received more hearty cheering than the workmen's corps of the City of London, and the marching of this manly looking and well-disciplined body elicited the marked notice of the Commander in-Chief. The South Middlesex had special honours, in consequence of the success of Mr. Jopling, and, like Macduff's army, bore green boughs on their arms, to represent the laurel wreath of victory. The cheering of the spectators was hearty and encouraging throughout for every corps, and the marching such as fully to justify the com pliment. The hest was probably the London Rifles and the Artillery Company ; but it was all far above the average, and was pronounced by all the military authorities to be a great advance on previous dis plays. When the last corps had passed his Royal. Highness gallopped off the ground, and the volun teer army made the best of its way to the railway station, a task of no little difficulty, as every road leading from the common was nearly blOcked up by private carriages, of which probably so great a number was seldom seen at any spectacle in the neighbourhood of London. The ground was kept by the 46th Middlesex, commanded by Sir John Shelley, M.P., the 3d company of London (Working Men), and 6th Tower Hamlets. Two casualties occurred during the advance of the first line. Mr. Steadman, of Leighton, Essex, member of the sth Essex corps, had two of the middle fingers of his left hand shot off by the accidental discharge of his rifle, and a member of the City of London Brigade was wounded by the rifle of his rear rank man. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES AND VOLUNTEER FIELD DAY. Saturday last was a great day on our cockney Champ de Mars. There were the distribution of prizes for the rifle shooting of the previous fort night, and the subsequent volunteer muster and field day, and, besides, there was plenty of rain before, and after, and agreeably between, both im posing ceremonials. When is the watery feud be tween the volunteers and the weather to terminate ? The Wars of the Roses at last came to an end, and so did the Thirty Years War, but this terrible anta gonism between the rifles and the rain seems to I be " never ending, still beginning," every time our gallant civilian warriors turn out to show what they can do in case disagreeable visitors from abroad should intrude uninvited on our shores. The scenery of Wimbledon-common is never, under the most favourable circumstances, remarkable for picturesque variety. There is neither hill, nor dale, nor tree, nor shrub, nor grass, nor water—except, in case of the latter, in innumerable holes, in which the treacherous fluid, instead of gladding the eye, soaks the ankles; whilst the only object which art has supplied to break the monotony is the historic mill from which the miller of Wimbledon witnessed that terrific duello between a warlike peer and a sturdy civilian which subsequently became matter for a State trial in the House of Lords. But on a wet day Wimbledon-common is an English imitation of Mark Tapley's transatlantic Eden, wide, waste, humid, vaporous ; a place upon which the last man might take his station and reconcile himself to the proximate destruction of the world. We have a popular phrase for describing a particularly fine day, which we call" Queen's weather," and we must henceforth have another for the genuine volunteers' soak, and evendown teem. Wimbledon weather it shall be called from henceforth, and at the next whisper of the ominous words every man must unfold his Macintosh, and ascertain that no friend has borrowed his umbrella. Saturday's events developed some pleasing varie ties of the Wimbledon weather. The meteorological department had evidently had a hard struggle as to how it should preserve its traditional respect for royalty and at the same time give the volunteers their proper and accustomed seasoning. There was the distribution of prizes at which a royal duke was to preside, the sham battle in which the volun teers were to attack and drive away from " this fair realm of England" innumerable hosts of ima ginary invaders, and there was the final " march past," in which their proficiency in Marshal Saxe's well-known desideratum was again to bring royalty to the field. Under these circumstances the weather made an equitable compromise. It was fine whilst his Royal Highness the General Commanding-in• Chief was very gracefully, and with much dignity, distributing the prizes; there was abundance of rain in the interval between that time and the sham fight, so as to make the ground delightfully soft and splashy for the recumbent manoeuvres of the sharpshooters and skirmishers; a suspension of hostilities whilst his royal highness superintended the march past ; and finally, torrents of blinding rain for the refreshment of the volunteers as they defiled off the ground and made their way home to , their different headquarters in town or suburb. It is quite evident that if our noble defensive institu tion should ever crumble away, the weather does not mean that "dry rot" should be included amongst the causes of its dissolution. The first portion of the day's ceremonial, the dis tribution of prizes, came off at about three o'clock in the afternoon. The prizes were displayed on a platform in front of the grand stand, and there his royal highness stood, surrounded by his staff and the council of the association, to distribute the various objects for which the riflemen had been contesting so hardly during the previous fortnight. The band of the Coldstream Guards played appro. priate music at intervals, and Lord Elcho's fine corps attended as a guard of honour. The prizes were rather various in character, including engrav ings, iron safes, and various amounts of the circulating medium, Of this last named, perhaps most popular form of reward, Mr. Jopling carried away about £250, and the only regret was that he had not also won the iron safe, in order that he might have a suitable depository for his large acquisition of treasure. His Royal Highness opened the proceedings with a few judi cious and well chosen observations, delivered in a frank and soldierly manner, and which were received with acclamation by the select audience," fit though few," musthere which mention assisted ent a o t n this that day'soneu opening eas eo f h t business. e thin We asitotenntdoanthcee " be at the distrib u ti on w as that for admis sion could wa s s grand stand," from which alone a good ing room in a sort of p en which aiesh chargeddemanded a fee o flanked akne dd e idt forri f a hf n - hs a tt l td a : and guinea a head, whilst 5 left. This, and the arrangement which separated by so long an interval the distribution and the re view, must be taken as accountingforthethinat- at tendance at what is generally a great attraction. His Royal Highness congratulated the association on the success of their rifle match, hoped often to meet them again, and cautionedtheriflemen to keep their practice up, their rifles steady, and their co mmencement th of em th o e n their pro powder dry. theH co pro gress sinceHe congratulated volunteer movement, and hinted in a delicate way that if the association got more subscriptions, there was n o doubt but that next year their arrangements would be still more liberal and efficient than they were admitted to be in the present. The distribution was then proceeded with, with ti kind and encouraging word from the royal distributor to sr.q.eh recipient, and a cheer from all who could see the presentation, or hear his Royal Highness's observations. As we have already published the names of the successful competitors day - by day it will not be nees,ssary here to publish them in extolls°, the more especially ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—HERTFORD, JULY 13. (Before Mr. Justice Blackburn.) CROWN SIDE. James Smith, 25, a gipsy, was indicted for felo niously assaulting and ravishing Anne Hearn. Mr. Bushby conducted the prosecution. The pri soner was defended by Mr. Lysley. It appeared from the statement of the learned counsel for the prosecution, and the evidence ad duced to support it, that the offence of which the prisoner was accused was committed under most ag gravated circumstances. The prosecutrix, who gave her evidence in a very simple and artless manner, is a respectable young woman, the daughter of a la bourer, living near the village of Rickmansworth, and it appeared that about 6 o'clock on the evening of the 13th of May she went out for the purpose of purchasing some articles of grocery for the family, and she had to go through a field where there was a public footpath. As she was proceeding on her way she saw the prisoner and two other men sit ting on a gate, and as she approached them the prisoner jumped off the gate and went up to her and addressed her by saying, " Well, girl, where are you going to ?" She replied that it was no business of his, and was about to proceed, when the prisoner laid hold of her in an indecent manner and attempted to throw her down. She resisted, and a desperate struggle took place between them, during which her clothes were literally torn from her back, and she at length had nothing on but her chemise, and she be came so weak and exhausted that the prisoner suc ceeded in forcing her upon the ground and accom plishing his object. It appeared that while this was going on the prisoner's companions remained sitting on the gate, and did not attempt to render her the least assistance, and when she had an opportunity, the prosecutrix got up and attempted to go away. When she did so, the prisoner said he had not done with her yet, and ran after her, and threw a shawl round her face, and again endeavoured to throw her upon the ground. She struggled with him as well as her strength would permit, and one of the other men upon seeing this ran up, seized the prosecutrix, and assisted to force her down, and the prisonerthen again repeated the offence. It may be imagi ne d that the prosecutrix was at this time in a most piti able condition, but she endeovoured to get away as well as she could, and as she was leaving the pri soner called out to her and said that if she told any thing about him he would murder her the next time he saw her. The poor girl reached home with a great deal of difficulty, and immediately told her father what had happened, and after she had suffi ciently recovered they proceeded in search of the prisoner, and came up with him at no very great distance from the spot where the outrage had been committed, and the prosecutrix immediately pointed him out to her father, who asked him what he had been doing with his daughter. The reply was that he knew nothing about her, but upon the father saying that he was the man he wanted and he should secure him, the prisoner exclaimed, " Oh, if you mean that, you --, I shall give you leg bail," and he then ran off, and succeeded iu getting away. A police-constable, named Parker, was then applied to, and on the following day he accompanied the pro secutrix and her father to a place on the borders of the counties of Buckingham and Hertford, where there was a gang of gipsies, and the prisoner, who was among them, was again identified by the prosecutrix and given into custody. Upon the constable telling him what he was charged with, he at first declared he was entirely innocent, and had no knowledge whatever of the prose cutrix, but when the constable was conveying him to gaol he asked him whether he thought he should get twelve months; for what he had done, mid upon his replying that it was im possible for him to say what the result would 13 !;, the prisoner said that he should consider himself very lnelry if he " got off" fp i r thirec 1119 P d tha t prione}7, *llea befove the magistrates, declare he Wltanot tote mah that assaulted the prosecutrix, • and the only defence that was attempted to be set up for him by his learned counsel, was, that the prosecutrix might possibly be under a mistake as to his identity. The jury at once returned a verdict of guilty. Mr. Justice Blackburn, in passing sentence, said that the prisoner had been convicted of one of the most atrocious outrages that he ever remembered to have been committed during his judicial expe rience, and it appeared to him that there was nothing whatever in the conduct of the prosecu trix to give him the slightest justification. It was very necessary that the law should give its protec tion to women in country districts, who were ne cessarily liable to be the objects of violence of t, is description, and as a warning to others, the sen tence he should pass upon him was that he should be kept in penal servitude for the space of fifteen years. The learned judge added, that he had con siderable doubt whether he ought not to have in flicted a much more severe punishment, taking into consideration the very aggravated character of the offence of which the prisoner had been convicted. POLICE INTELLIGENCE-July 13. GUILDHALL.--CLEVER CAPTURE OF DR. JONES BY THE CITY POLICE.—David Griffith Jones, a diminutive, spare man, with a profusion of beard and moustache, described as a surgeon, of 43, Woburn-place, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Alderman Hale, charged with feloniously forg ing and uttering a certain document which pur ported to be the last will and testament of Sophia Bellis. Mr. Giffard, instructed by Messrs. Humphreys, Son, and Morgan, acting for the Solicitor to the Treasury, conducted the prosecution, which was directed by the Attorney-General. Mr. Giffard said—l appear before you to-day, sir, to proceed against the prisoner at the bar, under the order of her Majesty's Attorney-General upon charges of forgery and perjury. I do not, however, intend to go into the whole of the details on the present occasion, as my object is merely to adduce sufficient evidence for the purpose of a remand. The first charge will be for forging and uttering the will of Sophia Bellis, on or about the 14th Feb., 1861, which he sought to prove a few days ago, when the jury refused to believe his evidence and inter posed, the result of which was, that probate was refused. I shall show that the person whose will this document is alleged to be, was, at the time, totally unable to make a will, and physically in capable of signing it, and also that the signature has, been shown to her banker's, who declare it is not her handwriting. I now propose to give the officer's statement of the circumstances under which he succeeded in effecting the prisoner's apprehen sion, and to adduce proof of the order of the Attor ney-General for this prosecution, and then I shall ask for a remand. Sergeant Henry Webb, of the City Detective Corps, said—About a quarter-past eleven o'clock to-day I was in Woburn-place, with Ball, another City detective officer, when I saw a cab drive up to Dr. Jones' house, at 43. After watching it for some time, I saw a gentleman come out of the house and get into the cab. He waited there about six minutes, when the door of the house was sud denly opened and Dr. Jones and his assistant rushed out and immediately took their places—Dr. Jones by the side of the gentleman inside the cab, and the assistant, who was carrying a large carpet bag and a small paper parcel, on the box. The cab then turned round, and had proceeded about ten yards in the opposite direction to Russell-square, when I stopped the driver and tried to open the cab door, upon which the assistant struck at me. I told him I was an officer, but he said he did not " care a —." He then jumped down to prevent my getting into the cab, but Bull came to my assist ance and pushed him away, and drew his staff, and at the same time told him we were both police offi cers. I then opened the cab door and asked for Dr. Jones, and he replied to me. I told him I must take him into custody for forging and uttering a docu ment purporting to be the will of the late Sophia Bellis, and he said, "It is all nonsense. You have no right to take me into custody, as I am entitled to all the money under the will, and no one can keep me from it." He then wished me to send for Mr. Sleigh, and Mr. Fitch, his solicitor, after which he said, " Cannot this matter be settled ? You know there are such things done as you to re ceive something and let me go." I took possession of this carpet bag and parcel, and conveyed the prisoner to Fleet-street station, where he was searched. George Hook Rodman, a clerk in the principal registry of the Court of Probate, said—l produce the alleged original will of Sophia Bellis. Mr. C. Octavius Humphreys said—l am the soli citor for the prosecution acting in the matter for the Solicitor to the Treasury. I have exhibited the will produced to five persons in the banking esta blishment where I understand the late Sophia Bellis banked. It was at th© Argyll-street branch of the Union Bank of London, and if the prisoners be re manded I believe I shall be able to adduce evidence to show that the signature to this will is not in the handwriting of the late Sophia Bellis. Mr. Giffard—l now ask for a remand, sir. Mr. Sleigh—Although I oppose an adjournment, I do not wish it to go forth to the public that I do so for the purpose of avoiding investiga tion. On the contrary, my client courts the strictest inquiry, but I feel it my duty to oppose a remand unless upon evidence more pertinent to the serious charges at issue. It appears to me a gross hardship upon my client to deprive him of his liberty upon evidence of merely a hearsay character, and as those conducting this prosecu tion could, if they had thought fit, have brought forward the bank's clerks, I think it would be unjust to Dr. Jones to call on him, in their o.'o sence, to find bail for his reappearance. Mr. Giffard—l beg your pardon, Mr. Sleigh; no one has called on him to find bail, and you will find it something worse before the case is finished. Mr. Sleigh—The only point for the magistrate's consideration is that of the sufficiency of evidence to establish even a prima facie case for a remand. Now, there is no such evidence before the court, and I am in a position to prove that the will was duly executed, and I have the attesting witnesses present for that purpose. There is not a tittle of evidence in support of the charge of perjury or for gery, and although you have the power to remand, which even the Secretary of State cannot interfere with, I respectfully submit that there is nothing to justify suoh a course, and I trust you will not detain this gentleman in custody. Alderman Hale—You have made an eloquent speech, Mr. Sleigh, and, although I am always ex ceedingly pleased to hear you, your arguments have failed to convince me that I ought to liberate the prisoner at the bar. It is my determination to re mand him, and I may further inform you that I have not the slightest intention of taking bail for him. Mr. Sleigh—l have not made the application yet, sir, but surely, if I give you responsible bail, there can be no objection, as the law only requires the re-appearance of a person remanded on any charge. Alderman Hale—l will remand the prisoner for an early day, but I must decline to accept bail at present. After some further discussion, the prisoner was remanded until Monday. WORSHIP- STREET.—A REMARKABLE CASE OF AFFILIATION.—AIfred WM. Pull e n, soli c itor, residing at 17, Hydes•place, New North-road, and apparently about 50 years of age, attended before Mr. Leigh on a summons obtained against him by Eliza Harrison, a singularly pretty and modest featured girl, of 17, to show cause why he should not be adjudged tho father of an infant son. Mr. John Edward Palmer, barrister, instructed by Mr. W. Metcalf, of Tokenhouse-yard, defended, and Mr. W. Heritage supported the complaint. He said the girl's father had some time past gone abroad, and her step-mother, previously well ac quainted with defendant, took apartments in his house, he promising to look after the daughter's welfare and well doing. This occurred three years since. In September last it was discovered that the young creature was enciente, and in conse quence of what she then stated her step-mother gave up the lodging, and sent her to Gravesend. The accouchement occurred in December following, and the child was consequently seven months old. The Court, upon the evidence that would be ad duced, must decide whether Mr. Pullen was liable or otherwise. Complainant then upon oath described the al leged intimacies, which from her statement always occurred when defendant's wife and complainant's mother were out tog ether or separately, and the children sent from h ome. He never gave her any presents or met her out privately.• On one occasion herself and mother went with him to the theatre, but she was kept excessively close, and seldom left home. Had no acquaintance of the other sex whom she saw out of doors, and always slept with her mother. Complainant was then subjected to a cross-ex amination that lasted one hour and a half, in the course of which it was attempted to be elicited that she had grossly misconducted herself, that she gloves in had been charged by he r mother with stealing gloves and other trifling ar ticles, all of which sh e denied most indignantly , but explained that on one occasion she had taken her mother's pre ferencei‘ir.to Heritageher ow observed that to mak e . these foal aspersions upon the young girl's charac ter disg race f u l in a eross-examinati on ; it was any thing to do with the matter before had not any the Court: Mr. Palmer contended that h test her truthfulness. 0 had a right to Mrs. Elizabeth 'Luri a " 1 Vf then sworn, and said she frequently scolded her daughter for being so much in the defendant's rooms, and begged him to discountenance it, but the reply was, I shall not, for I like it." He frequently requested witness to accompany his wife out, and she did so, never suspecting treachery, for he had promised to look after the girl as a father. She was a very good girl when first under his roof, but he had taught her to tell lies for the purpose of hiding his disgrace. Other witnesses having testified to seeing de fendant and the girl frequently alone in various parts of his residence, and it being proved that after the birth of the child, she, accompanied by her relative, took it to the defendant's office. Mr. Palmer addressed the magistrate at great length. He contended that there was not the slightest corroborative testimony in favour of the complainant, who was a base, bad girl—dishonest and untruthful. In this case there was an absence of everything that could justify a decision in her favour, and if one should be given no married man would be safe. What intimacy had occurred was of a pure and friendly character, and this was the return. Defendant was then put upon his oath, and said —I never had any criminal intimacy with com plainant in my life. I never was alone with her at any time. Cross-examined—l have two children, one eleven and the other six years of age. Ido not say that the witnesses who swore we had been alone together have committed perjury. I simply repeat my asser tion. Mr. Leigh, in deciding upon the case, no wit nesses having been called to show the alleged bad character of the girl, said—The argument opened for the defence, which impugns the complainant's honesty and truthfulness, fails, and in this case there certainly are none of the ingredients usually found in others of the same class. The complainant, her mother, and the other witnesses appear to me all respectable persons, and taking all the circumstances into consideration, I feel justified in making an order upon the defendant. It will be the usual amount of 25. 6d. per week. He must also pay the attorney's fee and all costs attendant upon these proceedings. Of eourse he could appeal if it is deemed expedient to do so. MURDER OF AN ARTILLERY SERGEANT AT WOOLWICH. Sergeant Martin Murphy, of the Royal Artillery, expired at the Ordnance Hospital, Woolwich, at an early hour on Saturday morning last, from the effects of injuries inflicted upon him by a gunner of the regiment, named Peter Masterson, in the military guard-room, at the Royal Arsenal, a few nights since. It appeared that Masterson was brought to the guard-room by the military police, being found absent without a pass. The deceased was on duty at the guard-room, and it was his duty to enter the charge against the prisoner, who refused to give his name, saying to the deceased, " You knew my name, when you gave me three months." The prisoner afterwards gave his name to another sergeant, but watched his opportunity, and took from the coal box a bar of iron, 3ft. long, which had been used as a poker, and with this weapon he struck the de ceased on the back of the head, inflicting a frightful fracture of the skull. The deceased was taken to the hospital and placed under the care of Dr. Blake,. but gradually sank until his death. It is said that Masterson had been punished for assaulting the deceased on a former occasion. The event has caused much excitement in mili tary circles at Woolwich, the deceased being one of the non-commissioned officers selected, on account of his good character, by the commandant to carry out the system of military police. COUNTRY MARKETS. CAMBRIDGE-JULY 13. A moderate supply of wheat, with a fair demand, and prices were lower—white, from 54s to 6 5 ; red, 38s to 540. Barley in small supply, malting 28s to 30s, grinding 265 to 275. Oats varied from 20s to 30s. Beans were scarce and a dull sale, from 36s to 40s per qr. NORWICH. Ju At this market to-day wheat was in fair supply, with a reduction of about is on last week's rates, and rather more disposition to buy. The supply of barley middling, and little business doing. The same remarks will apply to oats, beans, and peas. White wheat. 56s to 60s I Red wheat 52s to 5,50 Malting barley....4ss to 47s I Chevalier barley 41s to 440 Distilling d0......31s to 34s I Oats.. 26s to 309 Flour, 38s 6d to 39s Od per sack from the miller. NORTHAMPTON—JULY 13; At this corn-market wheat was in limited supply. with a good business doing—prices ranging at 55s to 60s for old, and 40s to 54s for new. A small show of barley-:' malting 37s to 395, grinding 29s to 30s per qr. Oats in moderate show, and prices as before—quoted at 25s to 32 0 per 24 stone. Beans, old, 35s to 48s ; peas, 44s to 455. Rye, 37s to 425; malt, 68s to 72s ; flour, 33s to 34s per sack LEICESTER—JULY 13. The supply of wheat was short, and former prices were fully supported. White wheat, from 66s to 74 8 per qr —red, 48s to 68s per 36 stone; a rather slow demand for barley, grinding, 29s to 31s; malting, 36s to 40s per qr.; oats, 28s to 32s per 24 stone. Beans were searee—oldt 50s to Us ; new ; 40s to 51s per 38 stone. YORK---Jura 13. Wheat, red 4ss to 52s I Oats.... 2Bs to 300 White do .54s to 64s 1 Beans 48s to 540 Barley .32s to 34s 1 Peas ....—s to — 0 Malt, 70s to 72s per qr. ; rye, 36s per qr ; flour, 440 to 46s per sack. THI REVIEW. The number of men who were to muster being considerably over 10,000, the railway companies were called upon to wake liberal special arrange ments ; but whether from the suddenness of the call, or from a belief that the muster would not be so very numerous, suet arrangements as had been made did not give general satisfaction. The various corps commenced their arrival upon the ground shortly after four o'clock, the lead being taken by the Victoria Rifles, which consisted of six companies, !umbering about 350 men, under the command of Major Whitehead ; they formed in column, immediately facing the Grand Stand, and mere speedily followed by the 29th, or North Middesex Rifles, under the com mand of Lieutenant-Colonel Viscount Enfield, num bering eight companbs, and about 500 men—both these corps had reached the ground by means of a special train via the rforth London and Hampstead Junction Railways; the Inns of Court (Devil's Own), under the conmand of Lieutenant-Colonel Brewster, with six companies, amounting to 400 men ; the London Scottish, under the command of Sir David Baird, its najor, to the number of about 500 ; and 450 men cf the 19th. under Lieutenant- Colonel Bathurst, famed the first brigade, and on its arrival was immediately placed under the com mand of his Grace the Duke of Wellington as brigadier, and Major Nelson as brigade major. This brigade, therefore, numbered in the aggregate over 2,000 men. The second brigade was formed in line of con tiguous columns on ;he left of the first, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Montague Hicks, of the City of London Rifleßrigade ; Major Reilly, R.A., acting as his brigade major. This brigade con sisted of the London Rifle Brigade, numbering 12 companies and mustering about 700 of all ranks, the command of the regiment being entrusted to Major Rose and Captain and Adjutant Ewens ; the London Irish, under the command of the Marquis of Donegall as Lint-Colonel, assisted by Major Verner, six companies, and 350 strong, formed the second regiment ; the 12th Surrey, under Major Cochrane, four companies, comprising 170 men, and the St. George's, under the command of Lieut.- Colonel Lindsey, foar companies, 220 men, with whom were battalioned the Paddington, (36th Middlesex) under command of Lieut.-Colonel Wood, 150 men ; the sth Essex, under the command of Lieut.- Colonel Capper, eight companies, comprising 360 men ; the 40th Central (London) six companies, 300 men ; 7th Midlesex (Islington), under com mend of Captain Ebsworth, one company of 80 men, and the 4th Surrey, Captain Sy mes, one company of 54 men, making the aggregate strength of the second brigade reach 2,384 of all ranks. The third brigade, which eonstituted the re mainder of the first division, under the command of Major-General Sir Richard Airey, K.C.8., was composed of the following regiments :—The 37th Middlesex, commanded by Major Jeakes, four com panies, comprising 200 men ; the 20th Middlesex, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Bigge, num bering eight companies, and over 500 men; Lord Bury's Civil Service Regiment, six companiee of 450 rank and file, and two companies of the Artists' Corps, under the command of Captain Phillips, about 80 men to this may be added the two bat talions of the Queen's (Westminster); the first being under the command of Major Russell, and the second under that of Lord Gerald Fitzgerald ; this corps consisted of 17 companies, and including band and cadets, numbered 1,171 men. These regi ments formed together the third brigade, and num bered 2,400 men. It was placed under the com mand of Lord Colville as brigadier, and Captain Vigors, of the 19th Regiment, as brigade major ; this completing the First or Major-General Sir Richard Airey's Division. The first brigade of the second division, under the supreme command of Major-General Sir J. Yorke Scarlett, K.C.8., consisted of the Honourable Artillery Company, viz., two batteries of Horse Artillery with four guns, under the command of Captain Jay, and six companies of the regiment, under command of Major Robinson, comprising in the whole above 400 men ; the First Middlesex Engineers, under Co.. M'Leod of M'Leod, six com panies of about 300 rank and file ; to which were added one company of the 32d Middlesex (Six Foot Guards). under the Hon. T. C. Bruce, Captain Commandant, numbering 60 men ; the 7th Surrey, under Major Beresfard, six companies and 240 men ; the Ist Surrey, under command of Lieut.- Colonel Macdonald, six companies of 350 men ; with the 9th Essex, of two companies and 100, making together the strength of the fourth brigade reach 1,450 men. The brigadier of this brigade was Viscount Ranelagh, Major Hume, Assistant Inspector of Volunteers, acting as brigade major. The fifth brigade was under the command of Earl Grosvenor, and consisted of the let Middlesex Artillery, six companies, and about 300 strong ; the West Middlesex, 300, comprised in six com panies, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Radstock, and the South Middlesex (Lord Rane lagh's Regiment), ten companies, mustering be tween 600 and 700 men, together about 1,300 men. The sixth brigade was commanded by Lord Elcho as brigadier, and Major Walker acting as brigade major. It consisted of the 19th Surrey, six com panies and 300 men, under Major Roupell ; the 39th Middlesex (Finsbury), under Colonel Col ville, eight companies, and about 400 men ; the 26th Middlesex. Her Majesty's Customs, three companies under Major Grey. numbering about 160; the 2d City of London, Spottiswoode's, two companies, about 110 men ; the 2d Middlesex Administrative Battalion (Highgate, Hampstead, and Hornsey), under Major Wilkinson, four companies, about 160 men, and the 2d and 4th Tower Hamlets, 400 men, and the Ist Surrey Administrative Battalion, mustering also about 400 men, making this brigade amount to 1,930 rank and file. It will thus be seen that the approximate strength of the volunteer force upon the ground was about 11,500 men. This, it will be admitted, was a very formidable muster to be supplied exclusively by metropolitan corps : but when, having filed off, each body took its allotted station on the common, previous to the manoeuvres, they appeared to be only so many , little isolated squares on 931110 vast chess board. Wim bledon-common, which contains 1,800 statute acres, and is nearly twice the size of the dusty Champs de Mars, might with some little expense be made an admirable parade ground for 100,000 men. Lord Spencer, lord of the manor, is too good a volunteer to throw any difficulties in the way, and the sur rounding copy holders who claim common rights might be easily compounded with, as periodical gatherings sech as that of Saturday must greatly advance the value of the surrounding property. Wimbledon, which was once an aristocratic retreat, has latterly been completely opened up by the railroads. Buildings of various classes are rapidly springing up on every side, and the permanen t establishment of the common as a volunteer rifle match and parade ground would be as advan tageous to the " surroundings " as the erec tion of the Crystal Palace has been to Syden ham and Norwood. The common is tolerably level, and all that is required is draining to make it every thing that could be desired or expected so near London. completed th e f orces appeare d in two lines of con- When all th e p re li m inary preparations were con tiguoas quarter-distance columns facing the butts, having the Grand Stand on the right, at some dis ppoasniytinn were in on oatance, and th e roa d on t h e l e ft. Tno mou.uted Ar tillery czjd guns of th e Honourable Artillery Com pany e extremeleft, and occupi e d a leading from Wimbledon to Kingston and Combe Wood. The moverpents were commenced by the #rst line, f j ornaed' of three bri gado i and the object of Lilo poops appeared to bel THE MAILS. MAILS DUE. 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