The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-30 00:00:00

THE COURT AND TABLE TALK. .

OSBORNE, SATURDAY, Jyt.T. 2tB.—The annual rural
fete and dinner given by the Queen and Prince Consort
to the labourers and workmen employed on the Osborne
estate took place yesterday. A large tent was erected
on the lawn, in which the dinner was served. In
addition to the workmen and labourers, the seamen of
the royal yachtsi the soldiers composing the detachment
of infantry at East Cowes, the members of the Coast
Guard, and Trinity House men, were iAyited, the whole
amounting to about 550. After they bad partaken of
the dinner, rural games and rural sports followed in the
grounds until the evening. Her Majesty ani the Prince
Consort, with the members of the royal family and
suite, passed through the tents, and were afterwards
spectators of the sports, with a limited circle of visitors.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston arrived in the
afternoon on a visit to her Majesty.

VOLUNTEER REVIEW IN THE ISLE OF WionT.---Her
Majesty lias signified her intention of reviewing the
whole of the volunteer corps in the island some day
next week on one of the downs.

Prince at the
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H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF W ALF.S.—Cambridge is to be
honoured
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begins
the seat of, the Cotton family,
and we believe
Cambridge, has been engaged.
situate
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fall,lhe Rst
early in the morning of Thursday," s,ays the Gimdfner's,
Chronicle, " the thermometer in the garden of the Hpr-
ticul.ural Society, at Chiswick, sank to 3t deg. Fahr.
I,tl the same place a radiating thertnometer inflled 3,
&kJ live we any authenticated parallel to thls in,
••S • • .
tile dog days ?"‘ •

PUBLICATIONS.

THE ROYAL RIFLE MArcs on Wimbledon Com-
men. By John Scoffern, M. 8., Author of
"Projectiles," &T., late Professor of Chemistry
at the Aldersgate College of Medicine. Lon-
don : Ward and Lock.
This is a little paper:backed volume, on a sub-
ject of more than passing interest, but which has
been suddenly got up to publisher's order, and is
intended, of course, for extensive circulation. It
is more, ho'wever, than a mere dry report on the
late " Tir National." The author is an expert on
the .subject of which he treats, and enters 1.14
extenso into some of the specialities of rifles and
' rifle ammunition, giving at the same time an
account of what has been done in competitive
rifle shooting ; what is doing throughout the
nation ; and his own idea of what should be done
in future. He gives an amusing sketch of the
Swiss style of rifle shooting, and enters at length,
we are afraid with some prejudice, into the rela-
tive merits of different rifles,:discussing, at the
same time, the best form of bullets, &e. Bearing
in mind that lir. Scoffern is himself the author
of an invention with respect to cartridges, which
is being pressed upon the attention of the Govern-
ment, he writes with great candour and apparent
fairness; and we have no doubt that professional
riflemen (and every Volunteer is one,) will be able
to pick valuable hints out of this little volume.