The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-02 00:00:00

THE GRAND NATIONAL RIFLE CONTEST.

The third grand national rifle contest held under
the auspices of the National Rifle Amociatioo, ocianiericod
yesterday very quietly sad without ceremony of a kind at all
likely to attract a very large *umbra of people as Wimble-
don-common.

The shooting yesterday did not begin till two o'clock, and
was for the most part simply preliminary ; being confined
principally to " pool forgets" and "Eghting targets," which
were freely patronise]. But that which afforded the most
ainusemeut was the "running deer target,' the novel
feature of the year so far an this coated is concerned, and
which consists of • target in the shape of a deer, of about
life-size, which travels along • sort of tramway, de-
railed in the middle and rising at each end. The deer
is pushed from out • covered way at one end of the tram,
cisoceeds the incline, with increasing velocity sa it proceeds,
and rim up the opposite incline by its own momentum.
While on its way it is fired at by those who contribute to
the peel
_aad is the leakiest deer thatever ran. for eurelyno
living animal was ever so often fired at and so often mimed.
Th=ifeach shot is 2• one half of which goes to the
and the other half to make up • pool, which is,
or is to be, divided at the close of each day among those of
the competitors who have been fortunate enough to
sake " bull's-eyes." The bull'eey itself is eight lushes
in diameter and bobbed the shoulder. lie who hits
this is lucky, but, on the contrary, he who bits the haunch,
bee at once to par down • which goes to the sine
dation. There were plenty of haunch"-hits yesterday,
but only • few bull's-eyes ; in fact, nearly an hour elapsed
from the comment, Wore the first was made, and
. .

singularly enough, the luCky marksman immediately mads •
" haunch," and paid his shilling amid the laughter of the
spectators. It was probably owing to a desire to
avoid the ridicule which awaited those who
hit the haunch, which led competitors to aim
rather in front of the bull's-eye than behind it,
and no doubt it was a desire to have as steady • mark as
peasible, which led them to reserve their fire until the deer
was nearly at the top of the rise, and close in to his lair,
when his speed had considerably decreased. This was done
almost every instance, and yet few hits were made,
proving apparently that, however good our volunteers may
be as marksmen with stationary target., with movable
objects they are at present, to use • sporting phrase, no-
where.

Amusing u it wan, this practice was brought to an
abrupt termieato for the day by the occurrence of
two accidents. A bullet, glancing from the " run•
ning deer," struck the soldier who was on duty in
the "lair" at one end of its range, ou the forehead, and
then glancing thence on the leg, injuring him in a way
which, although not very serious, rendered it n at
once to remove him to the hospital tent, where be reoeired
=opt attention. His place was taken by a comrade, who
however, hardly entered upon bill duty of securing
tbe deer and turning and starting him afresh, when another
bullet, glancing in the same manner, struck him on the
arm, and, although he made light of his wound, it was
judged prudent to discontinue the practice at the running.
deer target—which was accordingly done.

The leading features in yesterdays programme were the
"Middlesex Competition for Notional Rifle Association
Breeze Medal," and the " Lancashire v. Middlesex Competi-
tioa," each of. which pre rise to a spirited contest. The
following are the result. of the competition :
200 yards. 500 yards. 600 yards.
Pointe. lilts. Points. Hit.. Pointe. Rita. Tots/.
Mackenrte,lsth Lea-
don (Scottish 7 6 4 3 9 5 33
Beret. Cunningham,
18th Middlesex. 11 6 9 4 9 1 32
' Lieut. Hooper, Wit
Middlesex
Ensign Osborne, 20th
Middlesex
Senn. Hamilton, 31st
Middlesex .... . 6 4 6 4 9 6 31
Private Porter,
Middlesex . 8 6 8 5 8 5 39
Corporal Herrita,
SBrd Middlesex.
Captain salter, 39th
Middlesex
Sergeant Erhigrnan,
West Middlesex
The tie between Sergeant Bridgman and rrivate Porter
was shot off at 600 yards, aad decided in favour of the
former, who made a point at his first shot, while the latter
failed to do so.

LANCASHIRE AND MIDDLESEX.
Ten rounds at SOO, 800, and 800 yards.

Lancashire.
Beaton
gilt=
Blond
Lothbnry
Turrey
Doug= .
Wood ..
Sprott ..
hem^

Told loose. Middlesex
las Hawker
83 Mariner
83 Pell

Total wore.
88
80

beightes_
Thernesry
Simmers&
Fellows
Brookes ..

etemp
Tormby

Lancashire winning by eight points.

The shooting did not terminate until 8115' a strong desire
having been expound by the competitors in the above
match to determine the competition, in preference to its
being postponed till Wednesday, which was contemplated.
The shooting to-day will embrace The Queen's Prize (first
stage), The All-comers of All Nations, The AssocistionCup,
andd several minor "extra • prizes.

VOLUNTEER Mutiesnur INenetrenow.—The fol-
lowing circular has been issued from the War-otdoe :
"Cloves for the musketry instruction of ride volusteers,
under the provisions of article 171 of the volunteer
regula-
tions, will be formed at the School of Musketry at Fleet-
wood on the 15th instant, and at the School of Musketry at
Hythe on the 29th instant. Officers commanding rifle
volunteer corps in Scotland or in any of the following
counties, viz., Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmore-
land, Durham, Yorkshire, and Lancashire, who may wish
to send a member to the class at Fleetwood, may lead in
their applications for permission to do so to the War-odice
on or before the Bth instant, and officers commanding rifle
volunteer corps in the remaining portion of Great Britain
may apply for permission to send a member of their corps
to the class at Myths on or before the 22nd instant. The
commanding officer's application should in each case be ac-
companied by a certificate in the form given in appendix 5
of the volunteer regulations.—M. uaDo, War-offioe,
July 1, 1862."

THE SUNDAY BANDS DF 213 PAIN& —Unpro-
mising as the weather appeared bat Sunday evening, Large
audiences amminablei. I. the Vickwia-park a financial state-
ment was given, showing that the mason so far has been a
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