The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-11 00:00:00

THE GREAT NATIONAL RIFLE CONTEST.

The eyelets for &Maim yesterday sore : The Prises of
Welea's prim of 1001., cup or money; the Albert pito of
100 f., cup Or prosy, given by the council ; the Doke of
Cambridge's prize of 56i., cop or ; the Doke of Wel-
liegtoes prim of 5111., cup or mom ;j the All Camera' ties ;
the Ainotiation Cup, value MC • the Saks Priam, Mr.
'Henry's pita of two rake, value'llBl. min& esspeettesty,
shot for at the Running Deer ; the BUM Derby, entrances
21., and the sweepstakes (25 per oent. to Associate* with
coatroom at 10a, Tie., and 2s. 6d.
Besides them there was the decision of the match between
the selected eight of Eogland sod the selected eight of
Soothed (headed respectively by Lord Bury and Captain
Rees) which bad been left in an unfinished state on Wed-
needstL when the firing at 800 yards sad 900 yards was
owe led, leaving the English considerably ahead of their
sort ern competitors ; sod with a bare possibility, and
hardly that, that the latter might recover themselves, and
assert the supremacy of the Scottish Lion, in
the mooed half of the firing at 1,000 yards,
which was left ever till yesterday moprocernZ.
But instead of doiag so they lost ground as they
sod at the close of the conteati retired from the firing
posts, 0011160111 that for mice they bad met their match,
their score being 166 below that of their opponents., the
te scores being EneAnd, 890. Scotland, 724 ; the
jority being 48 at the 800 yard. range, at the 900
yards 34, end at the 1,000 yards 84 respectively. The best
mans on the English side were, at 800 yards, those of Lord
Bury, who made 49, and Major Halloo!, who made 46 ;at
yards, those of Private Beasley, who made 42, and
Lord Ducie, who made 39 ; and at 1,000 yards those of Qv-
taro Heaton and Major Belford, who made 38 each. On
the Scotch side Captain Rose at 800 yards oared 52, Major
Muir scoring 46 ; at 900 yards Captaia Bees scored 41, as did
also the Master of Lovas.; at 1,000 yards he lost his luck,
seoring only 20, while Major Muir made 33, and Mr. C.
Rom *O. With regard to Lard Bury, at the font and
second ranges his lordship was peculiarly unfortunate, firing
nine shots in succession without once hitting the target.
Upon inspecting his rifle it was dim:mend to be "leaded,
which means (so says his lordship) that a small Mom of
Lad had got into the breech, whereupon Lord
Bury borrowed Mr. Beasley's rifle, and
afterwards, although one of his shots was a ricochet,
which, although it did not miss, might just as well have
gone a mils wide, since ricochet. do not count in the score.
We should do injustice to the international match betwcen
Ragland and Scotland if we did not add that while the
lloglith eight were modest in their hour of triumph, the
Scotch eight accepted their defeat with a cheerful
; and that that defeat, at all events, is not likely to
rank as a Scottish grievance.
For the Duke of Wellington's Prise, Fix*, of the
Victorian, who carried off the Quer'. Prise, Lord Vernon,
end Earl Grosvenor tied, making five bull's eyes, or, a score
of 20, each, at 1,000 yards, seven shots, firing from a fixed
rest. Upoo shooting off the ties,
The Priem of Wales's Prize was won by A. Smith, 17th
Edinburgh, who made 15 point, at 201) yards, 15 at 1100
yards, and 10 at 600 yards ; being a total sear, hits in-
eluded, of 50.
The Albert Prize was won by Major Raiford, lit teleme-
ter, who at the three ranges of WO, 900, and 1,000 yards,
made a total score of 64 ; the next highest score being owof 57, made by Young, of the Ist Stirling. The principal
scores ware as follow, hits and points iacluded, via, :
800 900 1,009
YARDS. YARDS. 2A1139. 40261..
Belford se II 64
lborobary.
Potter
Field l6 21 7 44
Basra • 19 21 14 66
Joplin l2 13 23 48
•
lawtsy
14 19 16 48
17 22 16 64
Rowland
Thomas l4 19 16 47
Young
W mute Or Aneocurxer Cur.—Major Moir, 12th Stir-
Duling. Soore already published. Total, 55.
Duca or Cameroun's Parrs--001quboun, 4th Dragoon

Gam& :
600 Yards. 800 Yards. 1,000 Yards. Total.
P. S. P. U. P. H. P. lf. Total.
17 7 .. 16 7 . 10 6 . . 41 10 81
Doss OF WILLOW/Olen Pl4=—Formbl, Liverpool Rifle
Brigade, moored the highest number of point', 22, but a pro-
test ea the question 01 the use at the rest having &ring the
decisicia will be gives to-morrow.
To-day's programme is ratber shadowy. &viral geed
siatehee axe expected. but the principal !eaten k the win-
tart kr Sari Dadley's prise among the winuers of other
prima, at which a clues competition and splendid prang°,
may be expected.

The National Choral Society will give an open
air choral performance is Use prds of the Royal Horti-
cultural Society, Death Kinengeoe, temionew (Saturday)
aftenteee. Medd, sill umber 1,000 mime, and will be
ender the direstion olio! 14:daW. Rutin The owes' of
the Natimal Choral a aim* at Use convercerieue
the Society of Aram W y, at the Smith Komminglon
Kvaema, has mush haereamil the Waren Mhos in Um pro-
posed open air performance.
At Use International Exhibition, inane& 2, there
L *own by Kr. Wain, of 2. Calloc*-***
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the lona air wine. Dr. lasson, as In* is Qs "larost wow
yam mat Web* ei amita.6o6 111108,01.1 WOW
sad elber Icilicomici rimrdel Zic%
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Imulaiwa.—Uldverliconsolj

A deputation from this oompany waited o Sir
George Grey, the Home Prearetazy,_yesterdly, in one of the
committee rooms of the House of Common. Amongst the
deputation were the Duke of Sutherland, the Earl of (helli-
ons, Lord (tiro Fitzgerald, Lord 0. Hanaltos, M.P., Mr
W. Jolliffe, Bart., M.P., OS imps Oariniehael, Bart., Mr.
John Penn (of Mare Jobs Pena sad Sous), Mr. Field (of
Men. Ma Welty, Sou, sod FN. Chaplin (of Mess.
Alex. Chaplin sad Co.), Mr. Ph' (of Mecca. Philippe,
Middletoe, and Co.). Mr. H. D. vies, Mr. C. Osborn,
Captain Oresorille Wells, direstsis ; Mr. D. I. Clark, C. E.,
• sad Mr. B. H. Lomita. eeasi.ry of the company.
W. James, istroduoed the deputation to
Mr
air D. Dante (the chairman of the company) stated
that its object was to seals a ressorieratien of the order
' weed in the London Goodie of the 11th Am& lest, which
as it sew Made amounts to almost • palled= ol the sue
of these enema He mid that the Kim built heretofore
by the *many were of peat sire and power. with the
view of taking the heavimtloeds, and that perhaps from
their appearance, and the noise of the exhaust steams, there
might suet an objection to their s. be a slight degree, on
the ground of frighteoiog horses. engines. however,
were the first built, bet new am were about being cuo-
Mraeted which would be rendered entirely mbjectionable
oa time grounds, What was sought at prom we. an an-
tonic's of the bouts of working from 6 p.m to
in the metropolis, While is the animals there
should be no limit ; also that the amines
should be named to oad and unload throughout
Si. day at the dads, sailway Westions, ho., or at the Ex-
hibition, when the time arrived for from
-the kidding. Thp mg* whisk raemaiiesed'awl of the
order in gumbos gas set one dill* omen e but as sid-
e/edema win eatmles Mao' ire the Me eie
way to the ExkliaM. is minutiae raid that the
engem of lid, order interfered with the cam ey's pros.
peels, fratmeit as though it sdleeted Landes *Sly moat
from sot nedemtanding this clearly failed te.sepport the
oompsay, tie they otherwise would, by Mang 12•110110110iL
The Fed of Cameras said that he bad Ma with oete
of the company's megrims on one occasion when it was draw-
ing a load of forty tons to the Exhibition. He west with
it tinvogh Parliament-street, Bridge-street, Victoria-street,
ho., in the busy part of the day, and no horse we, frightened
by or noticed it.
Ms. Pm and Mr. PIRLD stated that their firms
had seed these snipes from their first introduction with
' greatiedvanterSeoonomy. They bad drawn Si. heaviest
machinery,• ha., which would have required 30
bores, with ea
bores, of action, taming the sharpest
mum without difficulty, and they had never Maga in the
isighbourboods el their works (Grassi& and Lambeth),
may accident or inconvenience.
Mr. Pismires said that his firm bad a number at boo-
motive, to send to the Exhibition far the Austrian and
Pranks oonernissioriers, which they had ieteaded to have
seat there by mesas of Bray's 4astios wpm, but the
order Mg bud at that Mu, they were usable to de ace,
and were obliged to employ horses at three Mee the rest.
' sad they bad the greatest difficalty la_ getting their loads
to the destinadoe by their means. The suds* took lees
than one-sixth of the room of such a number it home, and
travelled faster.

Sir Groacr Gan promised to take tee Natter into con-
sideration' alter oonaultsug with air Billiard Mayne. He
should bey,led to me treaties maim mad d they Gould be
so with safety, ford their and value he bad no
doubt ; and se the employ having engines
which should be noobjectionatis so as noise or -
Ince were concerned, if that Nash were oceomptiah hose.
would be no occasion for the order be bed issued remising
in force.
The deputation, after thaiildeg A r &Grp Grey, than
withdrew.