The Express.
London, England, 1860-07-09 00:00:00

(StiAnped, Additipual.) , .

NATIeSAL 1171.1 ASSOCIATION.

Saturday lest torldatird the first year's oonten-
tioa et the bates, indee the mapies of the National Rifle
emaciation, and, thin mn ho no doubt but that, as a
bglianing, tb"lado WIWI helium! has been most satisfac-
tory and siscooesepl,... •
&Omni's], although • long way short of the crowd of the
first city, was still Wes • revival, after; the apathy of its
more soimediate predecessor" The contest for the Queen's
loam to be sustained by the /elated shots of the previous
trials, no doubt exalted eossidirable interest, but, in
edlltien„ there was splendid weather, the Saturday
• halfdwiliday, and, late in the clay, a theineodous
inveaten of the metropolitan corps, who niarched, ma-
nce:mod, set their bands playing, and made repeated &-
amt. on Yr. Strange 'd excellent quarters in the refresh-
meat booth. Amongst the corps who this aned-na-
*redly dime In Wimbledon to Aileen the preessasp trent
the Queen's Westminster in pent fusee, the 2111 Neat, the
19th Sauey, the 14 London Bide *Wade; Lowleashoth-
tith, St. Geary'', ail Las qf Coot- Many of *eat Mips
bad their bands, and nearly all practised ip dral Wirth*
and platoon ?wing. The Duchess of Cambridge and the
Princess Mary occapied the royal tent, and there was a
good sprinkling of *alternate ailetoorney in their irtuffeliate
astaiManalhoed. Slit itahe piastal crowd there was a gin-
40Iar assimay uf-lennfen sad d the Maas, the Ml**
;tyres volunteers is uniform artheir immediate Meads. A
dfsw conaoimears armed with powerful glasses stood round
eaarlidatea„ and watched the effect on the target, but
on the whole the affair was as quiet and business-like as
possible.
Thu fallowistars the exact details of the day's shooting :
—Thogneunte Prise of 250/. and the gold medal of the
imethdien teem shot for by the 20 beet shots at ranges op to
400 mods, and the second beet iota at that der
them babble= to these twenty bed shots, mak el whom
OIN/10 lathiedite • Whitworth AIM, Ye*, 20 Venous
IM sazt twenty feed salon wen *Mod *compete for this
,sraet prise. The blip esnumensd at sop yank. and each
competitor baviesiked he made at this sage, peat shot
at iffb yards, skits* at 1,003 yards. The following is
the result d
Ydota
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Rose
7th North York ..... .. 24
Viscount Melding 4th natal** 21
Williams Berkshire • ... 9O
Tynley Bed Laecesture . . ... .....4.,..a...... 18
Heaton 3rd Manchester

Jenkins
Blackburn
Biker
Henry Edinburgh. l5
Cowan lama
_ 14
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Mamba ........—. 2140iiikom 14
Pease _
513:0. 134
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t3andford
'•
• ft. ft
Goanald 'au ..Work,— 18
CoUnice ~ en, Nati Yak. 12
Lawley
1%7?....t. .., ..,..
Wylie ll
Philbps
kanrkt . -. 41k Witt Yak ... ...... -.... 10
Sid Glatimegut
Marshall
Burg ' • 70th Olonseder 7
Jackson .......,. MA Lot . , .. 7
Fenton .II laidlosix. • • 7
Pant • ' Mb Kant' ' 6
HAW
Mena :Victoria RAN.-- ............... ... 6
Empard , -

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May " rith;;lttx
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=13.4." fa earn
Ilis rummy_ - 5
Weal " P#4'l*

ltandl ....... . I 1
Edifibmilk

'he rumatain four voholtiors

The Duke of Wellington?' pin et OK vas shoo dipped
of, end file woe adjudged M t Arehibald, 33rd
SBONINIA. bminicher at newilbeiry, limb three points.
fd lambi, a ertm, also mph three • and on the Oa
being dirt elf Archibald wee. Knead was awarded the
meread pries, namely, a watch, given by Mr. BOMA, of the
value 0130 guineas. The prise given by the Duke of Wel-1
Hugh= was for the beet abets at five rounds, at 1,000 yards,
end from a rest.

The Swims deputation offered a prise of • Swim ride to be
shot for by any volutteert who were not included in the 40
modified to shoot for the Queen's prize sod the gold medal
of the association. The contest melted great interest, end
the prize was won, after a sharp struggle, by Dear, of the
9th Middlesex, who made seven points.

With respect to the " little bill "which must follow every
grand entertainment, we were informed that the contract
price for erecting the butts was little more than 6001; sod,
including the whole cost for draining, palings, and all other
expenditure connected with the preparation of the ground,
1,2001., it bee been stated, will cover all the expenses.
The receipts from admission for each &Thieve been : Mon-
day, 1,3661. 6s. 10d. ; Tuesday, 631. 18s. ; Wednesday,
761. 4a. ; Thursday, 96/. 10s. ; Friday, 681. 8.. ; Saturday,
3201. 7s. ; total, 1,9801.135.
If, as appears by the above account, the expenses bare been
1,1001.. and the receipts 1,980 i., the rifle match may be set
down as successful, even as a commercial speculation ; but
we were informed by members of the council that the ex-
penses had ociadderably exceeded the receipts, and th►t in
this, the first year's match, the association would have
to bear considerable pecuniary loss. One thing which
strikes us as mod extraordinary is the smallness of the sum
set down for the first day's receipts. Taking an average of
the prices, it would only represent an audience of 10,000
within the inclosures, and we are certain, from actual ob-
servation, that it numbered much more nearly five times
that amount. The private carriages alone, if properly
charged for, ought to h►ve produced the amount set down
se the whole receipts. The throng of poisons on foot at the
pay table, also wee incessant daring the morning, but we
were informed that the council bad forgotten to pro-
vide any cheque ce mode of emertaining the actual money
received. However, beginnings are proverbially said to
be weak. Next year, no doubt, the eremeil will aka
more to detail', and in the mesa time they may calculate
oa having produced results which oughtpowerfally to stimu-
late them to further exertion. They have 11011riaiDed that
even already we have some Englishmen who can compete
with the Swiss, and it will be our own fault if we don't ex-
tend this proficiency of a few &mom* the people generally.
They have ascertained that a " rile match" is an excellent
" draw" es an out-of-door festival, and they can next year
throw in those little aimemories, the want of which was so
mach felt is this. Their arrangements have been so far
successful that there has not been • sink accident, and
altogether they may congratulate themselves on at least
having sows a good seed, which, with canned perseverance,
may yet roams • frail of great national value and im-
portance.

The pedigree and training of all great winners is
interesting, and we (Poet) belie►e the following account of
the antecedests et the youthful champion at Wimbledon
are correct. Although put down in the list as beleaglag to
the Teesdale Rifles, he is sot en Fogliahroaa : he is penning
his studies under a tutor in Yorkshire, and joined smarm of
volunteers in that neighbourhood. He was born andhrought
up amongst the mountains of Ross-shire, where for many
years his father, Captain Ross, has resided. His training
to the use of the rifle began when he was almost • child,
and long before be had reached that age when, in the
south, boys are permitted to go beyond a playground, he
had been the daily companion his father in the deer
forests, and had brought down mores of the antlered
monarch, of the hills with his rifle. He has for some years
been considered the bed shot at deer in the Highlands, but
shooting at targets is to him quite a novelty, and he never
fired • shot with the victorious Me before Saturday morn-
ing. The old war-oryol " /Weeders, shoulder to shoulder,"
does not appear to be altogether forgotten, for we noticed
that he was attended and supported during the whole ordeal
by the representatives of some el the greatest and most
ancient cliirttales of the Higldanda.

CITY or Loop Hoartzt3( soh DIDIFAMM or =IC
CLINT, VlCient-rAsc.—The somber of patients relieved
at this institution durkig the k►et week was 1,002, of whisk
IN were new area
0111VDTLL PALACL-EAIJ-A-CLOWN DAY.-
SATURDAY, JITLII 7.—Adutiniess ou paystest, 4,361 ; ditto
by seamen MAW, Mfg ; 7.753; total visitors for
week ending Saturday, 40,060. 'fetal Tisiton since opening
of the Pekoe, Jose 10, 1854, 8,864,961.

Aoalcui.ruzAL socarr or
ZNOLAND.-MEETING AT CANTIRBURY.

CANTERBURY, Saerauer.
The implement yard is crammed with articlge of
every' conceivable size and shape, displaying an amolipt of
enterprite and ingenuity that reflects credit on the entire
coanky. The cattle are fast arriving, and all the &rouge-
manta are assuming a completeness that shows that the
exhhitien will be in every respect worthy of the royal
society and the county of Kent.
The great feature of interest in the ploughing will be the
local trial of the tunnies, plough and the turnme principle.
There Will be three prises given—the highest ammo* for
years past. The first prise of 30/. is to be awarded to the
on the tumrise principle, or otherwise, best adapted
etuut the furrow slice, according to the Kentish system of
ploughing, the depth of the furrow not to be less than eight
inches. Now, it is pretty generally ssisidtted that the Kent,
or turnrise plough, is little (nown, or
. understood beyond
' the limits of the county in wliieb it is used.
There are two leading points O dirimihuity between the
over old Kent one turns its Lurrows
over and • up, while the modern
ves the . funny . Miff and rigid and on-
'=. The great unplesessg Aquino have shown their
modactices in surto' parted Me sweaty of Kent, at the
different legil enesoingt, bet have nu* not with any
degree of wuppert, so wedded .sea the lanillarffite of the
district *sent old Kent pbsioi. Air plinffill Wednesday
neat is fixed for the public coated in tide depriosat of
the show. . Lt..flY C_.l
Os the Nisi_ iota telly; Asliby and . fltandord,
Litwin) exhibited a new invention in the form le • hori-
nontel revolting harrow, erehiseieg a horizontal rotatory
motions each tuirrowbeingationtapW and& half indmatater.
It is made of a circular form, agllmbie of lodett worked
in pairs. They wereldown steglt todtn. otuplet Prom
• veatitai dais in the maim of NW Olgtoessit it fined an
iron bar or lever, to whisk is appended a sliding weight,
which regulates the velocity, more lem, of the rotenone.
This was considered a most efficient mass of bri
motion, it is stated, more th y than by
'
mush and weeds to. the surface. The clods are
by the rotary
d=thintimuTZ
any other barrow in use, and that the tis less for
the home, while by the rotary motion the teeth are conti-
nually clearing themselves from choking. For light soils
the implement is a very useful one. But how it would act
on a hNvy soil we cannot say, as it is new in this country,
baying Dana premed by health and Ashby so recently as
August of Jog year.
Of the reMpleg we may now speak, the trials having been
Omen to a 411111114. me pound was divided into eight
cents. Flynt muss Burgos and Key, with their improved
llVermicies self-delivering Diaper ; then Wood's cosibined
reining and mowing machine ; and neat in order, Prentice's
smailimilmapang and mowing machine (invented and im-
by Harwood, of Heasilesham) ; then %Ward', side-
ri7vuedry reaping and mowing machine; William Dray's
ppaatent reaper ,• Cuthbert's improved Hussey's reaper ;
Teotim's flexible reaper ; sad Thomson's champion temper.
Burgess and Keys commenced their work indifferently
half-way round ; but finished much better. The corn cut
was thrown so badly that it could not be gathered into
sheaves.
Wood's—The crop was far too light to show this imple-
meat efficiently. The delivery being by mechanical agency
the sheaves were so very mall that many of thrals=
have to be put together to form an ordinary sheaf. Pat in
crops so thin as the one selected the capabilities of &simple-
sweat mild not be fairly tested.
Preatioe's.—This machine broke down sow after starting,
and left no results.

DrWsiinplenient presented • splendid piece of work.
Tbarewas not a stray straw to be seen between the well-
preen and sheaves which were singularly well gathered for
binding by Imod•reLke delivery. In all deliveries by the
head much depends upon the dexterity of the man in
attendance; yet there is some advantage in handdelivery,
for when the crops are thin, or very irregular, a man is
enabled to accomplish what cannot be expected of a set
machine.

Cuthbert's reaper also did very good work ; but the other
two reapers gave up before the end of the trial.
Another trial afterwards took plans, three of the
competing implements being selected for this purpose, upon
• portion of the same crop, that had been rolled, in some
instances one way, and in others two ways. The reapers
were directed to follow the Ilse of the Ten as well as they
could. These trials were not very satidnetory—indeed, rt
would be difficult to say which of the three was entitled to
the prize. The judges appeared to be of the ewe opinion,
for they deferred giving their awards until they have seen
the implements at work upon • proper mop in the harvest
time. It is to be regretted that the Royal Society should
have selected such a crop as the one in question, it being
totally unfitted for the purpose of testing the merits of so
unportaot an instrument as the reaper.
The implement awards have not yet been made public,
but we see in • position to state that the first prize of 90/.
for the clue of applications of steam powerto the cultiva-
tion of the soil has been awarded to John Fowler, jun., of
London, for his 12-horse set of steam cnltivating apparatus.
In threshing machiaea worked by horse-point (not exceed-
ing six), Wallis sad Ilaslam, of Butingstoke, Harty ,have
and the prize of 20f.• In chaff-cutters, Hugh Carson, of
the Wilshire Foundery, Warminster, carries off the first
for his chaff-cutting engine for steam power. T. W.
.Aahliv and Co., of Stamford, Lincoln, take the lint prize
fa mills for their 4-horse portable flour mill with French
stapes, while E. R. F. Turner, of Ipswich, is awarded
the first prize for hie crushing nA for bruising oats
Ihnoed, malt, and barley. This is -the fifth show of the
Royal Society at which this crusher has been selected for
• prise.
Among the local prises awarded, it may,be earned that
BargessXnd Key carry off the W. prise ffer their grass
mowing invented by J., A. AIL" la KW York,
and improved by the exhibitor'. For the best help pruning
machine (in cloth), for the home market, Wm. Weeks, of
Maidstone, has been awarded tbe prize, for his Kent pattern
hop pressing machine. In hem the first prise, of 101.,, for
the bed sample of golding hops, has been assigned to
Robert Berriman, of ' Languish Manor Farii; Peterilick‘
Heats ; and for the hest sample of any dlioet bind of hope,
Matthew Bell, J. P., of Bourns Fut, pMKCantyrbAq,ls
awarded the first unie for his " golden papa"
The city is beginning to fill, and the'itrbets are gaily de-
corated with triumphal etches, hornets, flags, ht. .The
Royal Society will meet with • cordial reception, and their
exhibition must prove a success. On Monday the implement
yard opens at 7 ro the morning, and the rattle yard at
case, at an admissiou fee of is. Oa Tuesday the-general
show yard will open at 6 o'clock, admission 2s. 6d. ; end on
Wednesday end Thursday at the acme hour, at Is. each
pence. In addition to the exhibition there are se he pro-
menade concerts, a public dinner in the Musiohall, • wird
ball, the Cathedral is to be thrown open free to the public,
sad Mr. Rarely is coming. So that Tinton will not lack
amassment or entertainment, if that be the object of their

pilgrimage to our fine old city.