The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-15 00:00:00

BABB Pp.IZE..

Result of the Elgtio-TiaAr for Tiiird Fourth Prima
Private Milne, ter ahize, third prise, U.
Private Babies, let Tower Hamlet*, fourth prise, LS.
The Queen's Prize, with its ultimate guerdon of
2501., besides the honorary reward which winning
it secures, goes through its first stage to-morrow.
This' event is so important that before it all
other competitions fail. Even the first stage of
victory gives the winner a couple of silver badges
and 601. in money ; and from all parts of the camp
prophecies, hopes, and anticipations are heard
concerning the coming prowess of the several
heroes of a province, a corps, or a clique. The
Alexandra, the Daily Telegraph, the Enfield Asso-
ciation Cup, the Military Breech-loaders, the
Eley prizes, are continued, and the " Martin's"
Cup is begun. The weather is lovely, and the com-
petitors in the Queen's Prize seem certain of an
auspicious commencement to their struggle.
A new prize has been announced for compe-
tition, and it is one which wall, no doubt, be the
subject of severe competition. It is a beautiful
silver cup, formed after the model of the thistle,
and is offered u an appropriate prize to members
of Scottish volunteer corps who during the pre-
sent meeting may be the successful competitors
for any prizes offered. The bowl of the cup re-
presents the flower of the thistle, and its support
consists of the stalk and leaves of the plant, which
are entwined in a tasteful and artistic fashion.
The cup has been specially designed and manu-
factured for the present meeting. The conditions
of the competition are to be fixed by the council
of the National Rifle Association.

We have received the following notification from
the War-office with respect to the Wimbledon Review on
the 26th July:—" To enable the necessary arrange-
ments to be made, it is requested that the officers com-
manding the metropolitan volunteer corps who intend to
be present at the review will send in the usual applies-
don for pepniasion to attend, through the lords-lieutenant
of their respective counties, before the 21st instant,
stating at the same time by what route the corps will pro-
ceed to Wimbledon.—War-office, 14th July, 1868."
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY l.—The Queen has been
graciously pleased to appoint Keith Edward Abbott, Esq.,
now her Majesty's Consul-General at Takes; to be her
Majest's Consul-General for the Russian ports in the
Black Sea and Sea of Asa. The Queen has also been
graciously pleased to appoint Henry Michael Jones, Esq.,
now her Majesty's Consul for the Feejee and Tongs
Islands, to be her Majesty's Cousul-General at Tebreez.—
&retie.

WHITEHALL, JULY 11.—The Queen has been
plerucd to direct letters patent to be passed under the
gnat ceal, granting the dignity of a baron of the United
Kingdom of Glatt Britain and Ireland unto Lieutenant-
General Sir Robert Cornelis Napier, G.C.8., G.C.S.L,
commander-in-chief of the army of Bombay, and the
ii heirs male of his body lawfully begot by the name,
style, and title cf Baron Napier, of X in Abys-
Niue, and of Caryngton, in the malty ' of Cheater.
—Gault,.

The Times thinks the above bill, although thirty
clauses were settled yesterday, will require one more sit-
ting after to-morrow afternoon before it has passed
through committee. The agreement to limit the operation
of the measure to three years will do muca to reprises fur-
ther vexatious delay. Of the remaining new clauses the
most practical are those in the name of Sir Francis
Goldsmid and Yr. Fawcett. Sir Francis Goldsmid, borrow-
ing a proposal first made by the government, would turn
the tables on any one guilty of bribery by declaring votes
given to him thrown away. Mr. Fawcett would relieve
parliamentary candidates, as municipal and other local
candidates are relieved, of the cost of providing tho ma-
chinery of election, while exacting t .e deposit of caution-
money as a security against vexatious contests. The
weight of principle and of expediency appears to be strongly
in favour of both clauses, and in the presort tamper of the
house it rests with Mr. Disraeli whether they shall become
law.

The bill is an experiment, but the Doily News believes
that three years of working will bring out many imperfec-
tions iu it, the result of its having been hastily paled at
the fag end of a se lion and of a parliament, but at the
end of that period the new parliament will be able to re-
enact a law based on a similar principle, but more perfect
in its details.