The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-18 00:00:00

TUE GREAT VOLUNTEER INSPECTION.

The great volunteer inspection by her Majesty in
Hyde Park ilkxt Saturday, will not only be the most
brilliant sight of the season, but the most impressive
witnessed during the present generation. Thu arrange-
ments are in the hands of Colonel M‘Murdo, to
whose judgment and energy her Majesty and -the
public may look forward with the utmost confidence
for a successful spectacle, and about 25,000 volunteers
will be under arms on the occasion. The formations
and movements to be gone through will be of 'necessity
very simple, as the most experienced troops to the
number we have mentioned conid not hope to go
through any complicated or elaborate manoeuvres within
the available space in Hyde-park. There will be no
firing or marching past in slow time. The general
arrangements, as regards the position of the spectators,
will be exactly similar to those made at the first
presentation of the Victoria Cross by her Majesty.
The Volunteers will be drawn up facing Park-
lane, in a line of contiguous battalion columns, at
quarter distance, that is, within an interval of six
paces between each. Her Majesty will proceed along
the line, inspecting each corps in succession, and will
then take her place at a point about the centre of the
line of spectators facing the volunteers, who will then
march pa'st at quick pace in quarter distance column.
Having returned to their original position, the whole
force will advance in line to salute. This will complete
the ceremony. .
All branches of the volunteer service will be repre-
sentZd. The Duke of Manchester and Colonel Lloyd
Lindsay will each command a body of mounted rifle-
men, and the artillery will be formed into a brigade
under the command of Lord Colville, the Colonel of the
Honourable Artillery Company. The general arrange-
ments of the brigade must, to a certain extent, depend
upon the regiments likely to arrive from the provinces.
Should the weather be fine, the spectacle presented ill
Hyde-park will be one of which her Majesty, and her
volunteers, and her people may be mutually proud.

THE PRIZE MEETING OF THE NATIONAL

RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

The approaching cnntest in rifle shooting, to com-
mence on Monday, the 2nd of July, at Wimbledon,
under the management of the National Rifle Association,
is now looked forward to with great interest by the
various volunteer corps throughout the country.
The task which the council have set themselves "is to
give permanence to volunteer corps, and to promote
rifle shooting throughout Great Britain." With the
view of carrying out these very laudable objects, it
is proposed, among other things, to have in each year
a meeting, open to all enrolled volunteer corps, at
which a certain number of their members may
compete for prizes. The association offer; as prizes
twenty Whitworth rifles of the value of twenty-tivo-
gpineas each, fitted in oak cases complete ; a gold
and a silo medal; one prize of £lOO, and four of
£25 each. The Queen gives a prize of £250, the
Prince Consort one of £lOO, and the Duke of Cam-
bridge £5O. The whole value of the prizes will be
about £2,000. At the great triennial meeting, which takes
place in Switzerland, the money value of the prizes com-
peted for is not less than £lO,OOO. The meetings of the
Rifle Asssciation will be held each year in a different part
in the country, and every third year it will be held-in
'Scotland. The site selected by the association for this
year is Wimbleton Common, and on the report of
Sir John Burgoyne, showing the suitability of the
spot, the Government have consented ' to
grant the use of that range. For the' volunteer
prizes there will be six ranges, of 300, 500, GOO, 800,
900, and 1,000 yards. At the shortest. of these ranges the
shooting will be off the shoulder, but at the longer ones
it will be from the knee, according to the Hythe posi-
tion. The target at three hundred yards range will
be six feet by four feet, with an eight-inch bullseye,
and two feet centre. At the remaining distances the
target will be six feet square, with a two feet centre. At
the longest range of 1,000 yards the target six feet in
height will present a mark of little more than the
twelfth of an inch square, and the bullseye of two feet
will be the merest white speck. A musket-ball in. its course
falls about six inches for each 100 yards, so that to hit the
target, small as it appears, at 1,000 yards, the marks-
man will have to aim at least five feet above it. With
the old regulation musket it is said to be .necessary, in
order to strike a man at GOO yards, to aim I'3o feet ab9Te
him. General Hay, at the head of the School • hr
ketry at Hythe, can, it is said, to—
Mus-
-1,100 yards lodge a buli.4 •
The twenty
C••". , ...L. in the cenatreciniofektihye and at
uest shots at ranges of 300, 500, and
uuo yards will be entitled to the prize of a
I Whitworth rifle, and the competitors will be placed.

order of their -nittilleivt whets will be
the limit in point of number for each competitor,
and the prizes will be adjudged according to the,
aggregate. number of points made. The
,Government
have furnished the association 'with 1,000 rifles, :to be
sent to the different corps, to' be practised- with pre-
vious to the competition. With each rifle they, have
supplied 90 rounds of ammnnition. Many of tl+ rifle
corps have not 'been -furnished with arms, ands haVe
therefore had no. opportunity of practising with the
Enfield "rifle, but the majority of those who labeuramar
this disadvantage have requested to.have,sorne rifles sent
at once, so that those among them reported to be good
shots may have an-opportunity of practising, and !entet-
ing into the competition with other corps. ; The
Queen's prize and gold medal will be shot ror by the
twenty winners of the Enfield rifle and the. net best
.20 shots, and will be exclusively confined to volunteers,
the Whitworth rifle only being, used, 'the ranges! being
800, 900, and 1,000 yards. The gold medal will be given
to the one who is 'the best shot at each and all of these
ranges.-- Each competitor will fire ten shots at each of
the ranges, and the prize will be adjudged according to
the aggregate number of points made. For all comers,
of all nations; there will be five:prizes, one of £2O, £3O,
' £4O, and £5O, and the Prince Consort's -of £lOO. The
four smaller prizes will be distributed among the best
shots at the range of 200, 300, .500,'and 600 yards. The
-weight of the rifles in this contest is, therefore, limited
to ,10. pounds, and hair triggers, and magnifying sights
are prohibited. No artifieial'rest will be allowed: The
shooting at • the shorter range must be from the
shoulder, and at the remaining • five' ranges any
position may be adopted. The prize of the Duke of
Cambridge will .be shot for with breech-loading rifles
alone, at 800, 900, and 1,000 yards. Some additional
prizes have been placed at the disposal of the association
within the last .few days, among others one offered by
the ladies of Northamptonshire, another by Mr. !Crock-
ford, of the Volunteer Club, and a third by the
Honourable Artillery Company. The funds of the
association have also been considerably augmented-,
since the- time of holding the last meeting; and the
appeal made-by Lord Eleho on behalf of the council, to
the commanding officers and captains of voluntecirs; that
they should invite the members of their respective corps
to Subscribe the small sum of ono shilling per man per
year, has met with very general success. There are now
about 120,000 men enrolled as volunteers ; .and if each
of these were t6subscribe'pne shilling a year, the asso-
ciation would have from this source -alone a fund of
£6,000 available for these annual competitions.

THE RUBBERY AT THE INLAND

REVENUE OFFICE.

The public Will remember that, on the 16th of
Jtuniary last, a very daring robbery was committed
at the Inland Revenue-office, Gresham HOuie, Old
Broad-street, and that au iron safe, weighing nearly
.two hundred weight, and which contained over
a hundred sovereigns, checks, and bonds, the pro-
perty Of the . Government, was taken away. Two
men named Edgar . and Moore, were subsequently
tried at the Central Criminal Court for.the offence, and
they were convicted, and are now under sentence in
Holloway Prison. It was proved that the safe and its
contents were taken away from Old Broad-stieet in a
cab,, and conveyed to. a place called Montague Mews,.
where it was broken open and the money abstracted.
No trace of the safe could be-discovered, although
the most diligent inquiry was made; but a feri
ago Inspector Hamilton, one of the city detective
police, received information which led to its discovery
iu a very singular manner.. Having reason to believe.
that it had been thrown into the Surrey Canal, Mr.
Hamilton, accompanied by Brett and Legge, tivo other
City detectives,..weat to the spot indicated, near the
bridgeon the Kent road, and they employed persons to
drag the, canal, aril after some time the drags caught
on• something exceedingly heavy, which they had
no doubt. was the safe, . hut it was so embedded in
the mud' that at this time it was impossible to move_
;a', crowd had collecied, the officers con-
sidered it prudent to desist from further c:peratious
at that., time, but they of course: took every -pre-
caution to have the place watched.' On the following
morning early they again .proceeded to the spot, and
this time -their exertions were successful, and the long
.:missing iron.. safe was. brought once more to daylight;
aftbr being so many months buried in,the canal, which
at this spot is twelve feet deep. The safe, of course,
was nearly filled wtth mud; but upon it being examined
it was found to contain the whole of the bonds and
Other papers that were,in it when,it was abstracted from
the Board of Inland Revenue, and those documents
have since been handed over to. the proper authorities.

TREMENDOUS FIRE NEAR HULL-X 25,000
DAMAGES.

On. Friday morning one of the, largest fires that have
occurred in Beverley for very many years past took place
on the premises of Messrs.' Croskill's; trustees, on
the Burlington side of , the North,Eastern Railway
station, destroying buildings and property to the
value of nearly £25,000. As some of our readers may
be aware, NeSsrs. Oreskill are very extensive implement.
manufacturers, and their premises cover an area of about
four acres, and upwards of 300 men are employed in the
various departments. The fire appears to have origi-
nated in the wised department--a building which is
about 60 feet wide, and between 120 and 130 feet
in length. The roof fell in with a fearful crash. The
roof of the wheelwrights' shed—a building 190 feet
long—was cut off flue the other portion, and this
stopped . further progress iu that direction. A
similar precaution was also taken N‘ith regard to a
large saw mill at the other extremity of the premises.
The fire, after completely " gutting" the wheel
department, spread to the flaw mill, . which it
reached 'soon after four o'clock. In the 'mill were
nearly 300 quarters of corn; and
,not a single-grain
could be,'removed. ' About 100 sacks of flour were
secured, although a larger quantity was
,destroyed.
There was a great scarcity of water, and it was not until
after ten o'clock that the flames were got anything like
under control. The wheel department, the wheel shed,
and the flour mill are one heap of ruins, and,the whale
of' the very valuable machinery which they contained
has been hopelessly destroyed., The total Cost of the
damages is estimated at, £25,000, but we understand
the trustees'arelitstwed in two Yorkshire offices.. How
the fire originated is at present a mystery.

John Spencer, alias John Benedict Spencer, described
by the police as a Roman Catholic priest at •Liverpool,
but himself denying that he was so, and lately keeping
a school at Haclcn4,las been committed for trial, at
the Worship-street. (London) Police Court, on five
charges of making revolting attackinpon hispupils.
Some students were painting in the National Gallery,
in the room in which hangs the new Giulio Romano,
the' poetic and glowing " Infancy of Jupiter." A
veteran artist, snore celebrated for his feats. as . a
restorer than for original creation, or original inter-
pretation of nature, entered the room. "Do you
know this Giulio Romano ?" asked an. admiring student.
" Know it! why, out of every hundred touches in that pic-
ture ninety-nine are mine." A contributor to the Man-
chester Art Treasures Exhibition dine in one day when
the managers had before them an anonymotis medireval
picture, the property of an august personage,'which they.
had named after a Flemish master of the second class, little
known in this country. "That's not'by —7," said he.
"Oh yes : it's in his style ;it must be hisi" " I say
it's not." " Why not ?" " Well, I saw it being painted
After pause—" You are not going to print all that stuff
in the catalogue ?" " Oh! considering whose property
it is, we cannot do otherwise."
GREAT FRENCR CATTLE Snow.—A letter, from Paris
describes the cattle show which_ has been opened to the
public. The collection of live stock from the 8 de-
partments of !ranee is the most complete that was ever
seen. English farmers and graziers who managed to run
Over fo Paris will have a rich treat. The distinguishiact
feature of the present exhibition is the admission, to use
the language of the programme; :of the " chevaline,
asinine, 'et muline" species, as well as the "bovine,
ovine, and porcine." The horse show is to my fancy
the most interesting
_part of the exhibition.
Without wishing for a- moment
to question the
infinite superiority of the English' hunter and race-
horie, whielioEtenelinienare the first -to acknowledge,
,
I may safely say that the most fastidious judge of horse-
,flesh that ever-galloped in Leicesteriliire, may now see
in the .Champs Elysees types of hacks, unlike anything
commonly "seen in England which would delight his eye..
The interior of the building
.(the ground floor of it
at least) is entirely devoted to the bovine species. The
garden, fountains, and. miniature lake 'which, were made.
for the flower show, remain undistUrbed, but around
them are three double rows. of stalls, all Occupied by
bulls, cows, and calves, the total number of which can-
not be less than 1,000.
A itARED WlTNEis.—Witnesses are often exceed-'
ingly. stupid, :lin' t we don'.t4now whether this witness
aught to be called stupid ornot. He was before Baron
Martin, in the West country. jtwas desired ,to get from
"hini an exact account Of a certain conversation, with the
"says I" and "says-he," but the ,counsel could not.
make him comprehend the form in which he Was wanted
to make his statement, so the court took him in. hand.
"Now, my man, tell us exactly what passed." yes,
my lord, certainly. I said that I would not havethe
Pig."—"Vell, and what was his answer He
said
that he had been keeping the pig for me,, and that
he---"--",NO, no he did not say; that, be could not
have' said it; he spoke in the
,first:perSon.'__(/ No/
VMS the first person that spoke, my 10rd.4.--liadge << T
mean this Don't bring in the third .person;
rePieat his
exact words,"--" There was no third prEtm, my lord
only Jihr. and me.,"--" Look here, nip good fellow; lie
not say lie had been keeping the pig, hi said, /
have been keeping it.' "—" I assure yon, my lord, there
was no mention of your lordship, at all. We are on
two different stories, my lard, that's clear. There was
no third person, and if anythinghad been said about
your lordship must, have heard it."--Se the court
had to give it up, though the wituesa was. only too
ready • to' till all he ,Icae Vf.