The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-01 00:00:00

THE ARTILLERY COMPANY IN ALEXANDRA

PARK.

A field day of the Honourable Artillery Company,
afforded yesterday a very favourable opportunity for
testing the capabilities of Abixendra-park for military
evolutions to the extent which our existing volunteer
fortes may require to practise them either regimentally
in brigade, or in the more formidable proportions of
a regularly appointed and fully equipped army. There
was no very large force inanommid, but what there was
comprised cavalry, infantry, and artillery—in fact, a minia-
ture army, and the movements comprised all the usual ad-
venom, Mots, attacks, and retreats which usually cha-
racterise field operations when conducted cm peaceable
pound. The attacking face, which numbered nearly the
entire rank and file, sabre' and guns, wen under the chid
command of Captain Blockley, having under him Captain
Davis in command of the idantry, and Lieutenant
Meese and Captain Potts in command of the
Artillery, with Ensign Bowman u field adjutant
The enemy was represented by a few skirmishers marking
out his position and two guns, under the command of Capt.
Jay. The programme of operatioos, which was carried out
with the usual precision of this highly disciplined and efficient
corm opined with an advance upon an enemy strongly
posted upon tkrs brow of a hill, defended in front and on
either flank by natural works in thiishape of ditches, hedges,
and thick-growing timber. The attacking party being
numerically the stronger, and having the advantage of
cavalry, with an artillery force double the strength of that
of their opponents, gradually surmounted all ob-
tacks, drove their opponents from cover to cover,
and ultimately forced them to surrender. As proving the
adaptability of Alexandra-park for such displays, the ex-
mimeo% was eminently successful, and when the rifle range
of 1,000 yards—which the directors propose to form by the
ensuing spring—is completed, It will be difficult to find any
site within a radius of seven miles from the cadre of
London, and posessing equal facilities of acmes, offering
in anything like the same dune the necessary conveni-
ence" for volunteer reviews, either upon a large or a small
scale. It is stated by the manager of the park that arrange-
ment. or in progress for holding a grand volunteer meet-
iog in the grounds sometime in the mouth of October, in
which most of the metropolitan corps are expected to take
park

NAVAL SHAM FIGHT AND FATAL ACCIDENT.

On Tuesday immense crowds came from all parts
of the prionipality to Holyhead to witness the sham-fight
between the naval force of her Majesty's ship Majestic, corn"
married by Captain Ingoldaby, and the Anglesey and Car-
nervooshire Volunteers, under theirrespective officers. The
scene of edam) was the beach at the new harbour. On the
heights above batteries of heavy guns had been previously
erected ; also a large number of field • placed at dif-
ferent points. These guns were served mostly by the An.
glossy artillerists under Major the Hon. W. 0. Stanley and
Captain Commandant Rigby, who hit/educed a novelty in
warfare—namely, a 24-pounder mounted on a railway track
Amens by a locomotive, which did good service. The action
commenced about 4 o'clock by a salvo from the heavy Fund
the f4tte, after which the Goshawk tends drew close in and
opened Are. This was answered from the forte on shore. The
boats crowded withmen were then seen to advance, and, Dot-
withstanding the most determined eppereet resistance,
gained the beach and commenced to attack the batteries.
In the mean time the Marines were lauded at a point near
Portludyllin, and commenced an attack on the left flank of
the volunteers. Though stubbornly resisted, they were
obliged to give way, when the naval forces took poseesrion
of the batteries, and, hauling down the fiag, hoisted their
own. Their triumph, however, was ebortlived, for, rein.
forcemeat& coming up, the volunteers gallantly made a se-
cond attack, and subsequently to a tremendous struggle
regained the forte and drove the enemy into the boom. A
struggle between naval and military forces is very exciting.
There is much more dash in an onslaught by the
bluejackets than in the steady precision with which
soldiers go to work, so that a combined attack of this
nature imparts more pleasure than • sham-fight of far
greater pretensions. On this occasion there were nearly
500 volunteers, and the naval fore* wad not much lees in.
ferilr in point of numbers. There was, we regret to add,
one serious drawback to the pleasure of the scene. One of
the guns of the Majestic having hung fire. a seaman rammed
down the charge, when it exploded, and the poor fellow was
instantly killed, and his body terribly mutilated by the
powder, the wadding, and the ramrod. Another gunner,
who was misting him, was blown into the sea by the same
explosion, and being probably dead before be reached the
water, sank instantly. The proceedings of the day created
great interest throughout the entire of North Wales, the
Lord Bishop of Bangor, Lord Newborougb, Coloael
Douglass, Sir R. Buckley, Bart, aDd numerous members of
the nobility and gentry of the county, attending. In the
evening all the volunteers were entertained at the Market
Hall at a substantial dinner, • public ball closing the day.

FATAL ALTERCATION.—Last evening Dr. Lan-
kester resumed an iaquiry respecting the death of Mr.
Robert John Rine, aired 63 yes" Mr. Joseph Sadler, of 9.
Red Lice-yard, said that he was a coach smith. He had
formerly been a tenant of deceased's. Dammed having lost
through a fire the lease of other premises, wile. took them
on a lease of 21 peso. The result was that, on the sth
September, deceased ordered one of witness's men to re-
move some carriage wheels from a dead wall of deceseed's
premises, and maid that be would chop them up, sad verve
witness with • writ. Witness met deceased in Red Lion-
yard, and an altercation maned. Deceased struck witness
thrice, and kicked a piece of flesh oat of his leg. It was
only then that wine= defended himself. Deceased was a
heavy man, and weighed 19 stone. He rushed at witness,
but being knocked back against • wall, he fell, and became
insensible. Witness got water to revive bim. Dr. Morgan
said that deceased died from effusion of blood on the brain.
The injuries he had received had not been the caused death,
but the excitement of the quarrel had brought on the
elf usioe, which was fatal. Deceased had bad a slight apo-
plectic attack a year before. The Coroner said that the mi.
dance clearly proved that deceased wee the aggressor, and
not Mr. Sadler. The jury, after deliberating in private, re-
turned a verdict, " That deceased died from effusion of blood
on the brain, and that his death was accelerated by the
ex-
citement of a quarrel with another man, in Red Lion-yard,
on the sth September." The proceedings, which lasted
several boars, thee terminated.

FATAL MACHINERY ACCIDENT NEAR BLAPILBURN.
—A girl aged Mae years, the daughter of Gabriel Thompson.
factory operative, of Lower Darwen, Dear Blackburn, met
with a fearful death on Monday afternoon, in the ;atm
mills of Mews. Shorrook and Co., Over Damen. The
deceased, whose name was Jane Alioe, was a abort timer,
and after leaving school in the forenoon, ran into the mill,
aui soon afterwards was found by a boy, William Haworth,
suspended by her head, which was caught between the hoist
and the ceiling. He rained an alarm, and easiatame coining
op. efforts were made to extricate the poor creature. Mean-
while, however, her heed bad been severely crushed, sod
the lower portion of bar fans was frightfully mangled. When
the body wee extricated life was quite extinct. It is not
known bow the accident was occasioned. but it is presumed
that she wee playing with the hoist, set it in motion, and
could not recover herself nor loose her hold of it until too