The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-22 00:00:00

offered by Capt. Waterhome, of the 2nd York Yeo-
manry, was well won by Private Berry. There was
keen competition for the Borough Members' Prize (a
£lO rifle), given by Sir Charles Wood, Bart., and Mr.
Stansfield, the members for the borough ; indeed the
shooting yesterday was all good. Lieut. Holroyde was
was once more successful, the second being Sergeant
Hill. As both these gentlemen had already won prizes,
they gave up the prize to Private Emmet.
PORTSMOUTH.—Practice with solid shot was com-
menced on Wednesday at Portsmouth, by the 2nd
Hampshire Artillery.
DINNER TO THE 9TH SUFFOLK RIFLES.—,On Satur-
day last the 9th Suffolk Volunteer Rifles, numbering
100 men, were entertained at dinner by Richard Gar-
rett, Esq., at his seat, Carlton-hall.
REVIEW OF BURTON-UPON-TRENT VOLUNTEERS.

On Wednesday afternoon Lord Hatherton, Lord-Lieu-

tenant of the county of Stafford, inspected the two com-
panies of Rifle Volunteers organised, at Burton-upon-
Trent.

NonroLK.—Twelve hundred volunteers of Norfolk
were reviewed on Tuesday afternoon, on Mousehold-
heath, a large open undulating plain near Norwich.
Major-General Wood, commandant of the camp at
Colchester, was the reviewing officer.
REVIEW *AT BENT.—The 4th battalion of the Kent
Volunteer Rifles, comprising two companies formed at
Canterbury, Ashford, Sittingbourne, Ash, and Wing-
ham, were inspected yesterday in the St. Lawrence
Cricket-ground at Canterbury, by Viscount Sydney, the
Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Kent.
GRAVESEND ARTILLERY.—About ninety members of
the Gravesend Artillery Volunteer Corps, with several
of their officers and band, in aommand of Captain Com-
mandant Rasher, visited Sheerness on Thursday for the
purpose of practice at heavy gun drill, this being the
first time they have had the opportunity of firing with
shot and shell.

THE LONDON LIGHT HORSE VOLUNTEER CORPS.
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A public meeting, for the purpose of forming a corps of
mounted volunteers, was held on Thursday afternoon,
at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's, Maio;
Richardson, of the Bth Bengal Irregular Cavalry, pre-
siding. Some thirty or forty gentlemen were present.
A paper, drawn up by the chairman, was signed by all
who were present, and some signed it for their friends.
It pledged those who signed it to join a corps of mounted
volunteers, which was to be simply but efficiently
equipped. The men were to ride in hunting saddles.
The uniform was to be determined on by the committee ;
and the officers, at starting, were to be military men ;
and the vacancies were to be filled up at the recommen-
dation of the commander of the regiment. A com-
mittee was then appointed to make all necessary
arrangements.
THE BISHOP OF OXFORD ON THE VOLUNTEER MOVE-
MENT.—At a grand entertainment given by Sir J.
Morrell on Thursday, the Bishop of Oxford 'delivered
the following eloquent speech on the volunteer naeve-
meat :—Sir, I thank you very heartily for the way in
which you have proposed my health in this great com-
pany, and I thank the guests around your table for the
kind manner in which they responded to it. There
may be some disposed at first sight to say that at such
a gathering as this—a warlike gathering—we men of
peace are a little out of place; but I think that that
would be a very shallow view, for I believe it is in the
interest of peace itself that every well constituted mili-
tary armament is equipped, and, that above all, such a
movement as this is most distinctly a movement on
behalf of peace. (Cheers.) I may say that there ought
to be nothing which is manly, which is English, which
is brave, which should be a stranger to them as ministers
of religion, for I maintain that there is no body of men
on earth who uphold and maintain bravery and manli-
ness and old English feeling more than the English
Church. (Cheers.) Well, then, if this applies to every
department of a well constituted military movement, it
must especially apply to such a movement as this, because
this is prominently a defensive movement, and cannot
be made an aggressive one. Above all, it is one in
which, tinder no conceivable state of circumstances
could we begin by fighting for an idea and end in the
annexation of a province. (Loud and long continued
cheering.) Though this is sk peace movement I believe
it is one which is fraught with blessings in many ways
to the people of this land. If it did nothing else than
bring the young men of our cities, our counties, our uni-
versities, under military discipline and accustom them to
the ordinary athletic exercises which belong to that
calling, I believe that this of itself would be a great
blessing to the land. (Cheers.) We have, please God,
a will and strength which any enemy would find im-
pregnable if he dared to try. (Cheers.) Furthermore,
I believe that the very rise of this great movement among ,
us ;has been one of the greatest possible securities for the
peace of Europe, not only because we have taught the
babblers who held that we were an extinct and effete
people that they were talking the most arrant. non-
sense, not only because it has convinced men that
there would be a direct and most energetic physical op-
position to any attack on this land such as they had little
counted on, but because this movement tended to show
permanently throughout the whole civilised world how
entirely and absolutely we were an united people.
(Cheers.) Because we have our comparatively tritting
home discords, other nations think we ara a divided
people : but our quarrels are but as lavers' quarrels,
which lead only to closer embraces mad to, stricter amity.
(Cheers.) This movement has done, more than anything
which could be conoeiased to convince Europe, watching
it with eager and some portions with alarmed eyes,
that if an enemy of this kind ventured upon the dan-
gerous experiment of au invasion he would find that the
first ring of a hostile rifle on the virgin shore of Britain
would rouse the whole nation—men, boys, and eye!,
women, who would soon teach their foe, with r):itee
which would echo throughout the kingdom, that Tpna
land would suffer no hostile foreign foot to treed
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its sacred shores. (Loud cheese.)

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THE SECONDS.

GRAVESEND, Sept. 21.
At the sitting of the magistrates this morning, Mr.
Superintendent White, of the borough police, communi-
cated to the bench that -Robert Brettle, who fought with
Mace yesterday; for the middle-weight championship, his
second, Harry Crutchley, and two other pugilists, Daniel
Crutebley and Richard Longmore, had been placed in his
charge on the previous evening charged with assaulting
and resisting the Kent constabulary at the fight yes-
terday. It appeared that the combatants, with a large
number of their friends and others who wished to see
the contest, numbering in all more than 1,000. after
leaving the train at Southend; proceeded in two tugs to
Yanntlet Creek, near the month of the Medway. Here
the ring was formed, and Brettle and Mace commenced
the contest. Previous to this, Mr. Superintendent
White, of the police, of the town, had telegraphed
to. the Kent authorities of the movements of the
pugilists, and on Superintendent Everist, of the
county force, hearing of the landing of the party,
he at once ordered a body of his men to the spat,
There was some difficulty in getting to the place, and by
the time the officer had got to the ring the battle be-
tween Mace and Brettle had ceased, and another contest
was going on between Daniel Crutebley, the brother of
Harry Crutchley, and:Richard Longman. The constabha
made several ineffectual attempts to enter the ring,
but at last they succeeded, and captured Daniel
Cratehley, Longman having meanwhile jumped over
the ropes. The ruob, then called upon the officers to
liberate Cratelaley, and swore that they would do them
serious mischief if they did not do so. The constables asked
Viat they
,would Wait until their superintendent, Mr.
Everist, came up. The mob, however, would hear of
no delay, and commenced throwing brickbats and other
missiles at the officers. The attack at length became so
formidable, many being much hurt, that Crutchley was
let go, and the whole party then took to the hoati, and
got back to the steamtugs. On Mr. Everiat coming up,
and hearing that his men had been so seriously assailed,
he determined upon doing his best to capture any of
the parties who took a prominent part in the affair. A
coast-guard clatter was procured, and the officers landed
at Leigh at Southend, and as the combatants and their
friends were on their way to the train the above parties
were recognised and arrested. Brettle, who appeared
to have been much punished, was taken into custody
for committing a breach of the. peace. The prisoners
were brought on to Tilbury by train, and removed to
the Gravesend Police Station. Brettle was attended by
Dr. Russell during the night, and this morning, acorn.
pained by Harry Crutchley, his second, was taken to
Rochester, having to appear before the magistrates. The
other two had been previously reraaved. Mace escaped,
and got back by the train to London.