The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-14 00:00:00

THE MIN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 14, 1864.

Volunteers at Wimbledon, was yesterday visited
at the dinner hour, when his white-jacketed waiters
were in the fullest activity, by a distinguished
party, including several ladies, who expressed
themselves much pleased with the order, attention,
and abundance of every department.
The band of the London Scottish performed for
some hours in the course of the afternoon, adding
much to the pleasure of the visitors. Daring the
day, so far as could be learnt, there was only one
contretemps. Ensign Starkie, of the 22d (Queen's
Westminsters) an excellent shot, and one of the re-
presentative 20 in the International Rifle Match,
having fired at one of the ranges, was turning to
leave the spot when his foot caught in some in.
equality of the ground, and he unfortunately suf.
fered a severe sprain, which will cause him to be
absent from the further stages of the present
meeting.
The following are the principal scores made
throughout the day :

DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE'S PRIZE.
Highest Scores.

500 yds 800 pits. Total•
Adjutant Cash, Ist Rosshire 18 15 33
H Evans, Ist Derby
Private Lambert, Robin Hood
Lieutenant Burt, Ist Warwick l7 11 28
Ensign Pixley, Victories 18 9 27
Captain Suter, Ist Hereford
FIRST SERIES—EXTE,A PRIZES (500 YARDS),
Points.

Private Chapman, 18th Devon
Colour Sergeant Graham, 2nd Wilts
Captain Pattishall, Bth Hereford
Private Walliker, Ist East York
Private Grieve, 3d Cambridge
Private Phillips, 3d Cheshire
Captain Smith, Ist Edinburgh
Private Avis, Ist Devon .. l6
Sergeant Bond, lat Devon
Private Porcher, 10th Gloucester l6
Captain Wisdom, Ist Inverness
Lieutenant Walmaley, 7th Kent
Sergeant Boynton, sth East York l6
Lieutenant Dutton, Ist Stafford ,... 16
FIRST STAGE—ALEXANDRA.
Highest Scores at 200 yards.

Points.

Captain Astley, School of Musketry l7
Private Parsons, Hon. Artillery Company
Sergeant Sparrall, 12th Kent l6
Captain Hancocks, Ist Worcester
Private Cranwell, London Rifle Brigade
Lieutenant Punshon, Ist Newcastle
Hon. Member Evans, Ist Derby l6
Ensign Cunliffe, 26th Cheshire
Highest Scores at 500 yards.

Ensign Thomas, 4th West York
Lieutenant Marriner, West Middlesex lB
Private Dawson, 4th West York
Sergeant Knox, 2d Middlesex l7
Corporal Blanks, Hon. Artillery Company l7
Private M'Crom, Ist Surrey
'WINNER OF PRINCE OF WALES' PRIZE,
200 yds, 500 yds. 600 yds. Total
Sergeant Dodd, 2d Hereford..ls 16 15 43

FIRST STAGE—QUEEN'S.
Highest Scores, 200 yards, 16 points and upwards.
Points.

Sergeant Chuter, 25th Surrey lB
Sergeant Allen, 25th Somerset
Colour Sergeant Munro, 6th Ross-shire 18
Colour Sergeant Ford, 26th Stafford lB
Private M'Kinnon, Ist Edinburgh
Sergeant W. Heep, 6th Lancashire
Private S. Chivers. sth Wilts
Jos. Ryder, 12th West York
Sergeant E. B. Pitchford, 38th Middlesex
Sergeant D. Miller, 10th Berks
Private Heiser, 2d Tower Hamlets l7
Lieut. Railton, 27th Cheshire
Private Atkins, 12th Essex
Private Bradley, Bth Notts
Private Parkinson, 22d Middlesex
Private Clark, Bth Oxford
Private Corfield, 13th Middlesex
Private Hangton, sth Norfolk
Sergeant Matthews, 6th:Suffolk l7
Private Rhead, 3d Gloucester Rifles ..... 17
Colour Sergeant Harrison, 15th Lincoln
Lieutenant Puckle, 15th Middlesex
Private Frere, Ist London
Sergeant Guttridge, 34th Stafford l7
Sergeant Wyles, 19th Kent l7
Private J. Adams, Ist Herts
Corporal J. Wells, 3d Herts
Quartermaster Sergeant R. Pearson, Ist Kest 17
Lance Corporal Jankowsky, 39th Middlesex 16
Captain A. J. Lewis, 38th Middlesex
Colour Sergeant White, 10th Middlesex
Lieutenant IL. J. Hodder, let Lancashire l6
Private R. Formby, sth Lancashire l6
Sergeant J. Holmes, 6th Lancashire l6
Sergeant Edwards, 6th Stafford
Sergeant Muat, 3d Ayrshire
Quartermaster Sergeant Ruddock, Ist Berks 16
Colour Sergeant J. R. Ross, Ist Elgin l6
Lieutenant Benson, 15th Durham .. 16
Private Crickmay, sth Dorset
H Robson, 7th Dorset
Private Yatman, 9th West Middlesex
Ensign Crooks, 11th Middlesex
Private Blanks, Hon. Artillery Company
Private Rook, Hon. Artillery Company 16
Private Parsons, Hon. Artillery Company
Private Gore, 21st Lancashire
Ensign Taylor, 33d Lancashire
Private Hall, 33d Lancashire
Lieutenant Brougham, 13th Staffordshire
Private Wood, 20th Staffordshire
Sergeant Palmer, 36th Staffordshire l6
Private Kelsall, 38th Staffordshire
Corporal Foster, 39th Staffordshire
Lieutenant Fuller, Ist Cambridge .
Corporal Barker, Ist Cambridge . 16
Private Hodson, Ist Cambridge
Corporal Riches, sth Essex
Private Hamman, 14th Kent'
Private Ralph, 18th Kent
Sergeant Kimble, 25th Kent l6
Private M'Kenzie, 29th Middlesex . . l6
Sergeant Reynolds, 36th Middlesex .. 16
Private Banes, 22d Middlesex
Ensign Chattock, 28th Middlesex
Corporal Noverre, Ist Norfolk
Sergeant Davidson, Ist Roxburgh.... l6
Colour Sergeant Smith, 4th Ross•shire 16
Private W. Green, 10th Northumberland
Sergeant Callett, 2d Sussex l6
Private E. Jones, Ist Warwick
Private Butler, Ist Warwick
Corporal Worth, Bth Warwick
Sergeant Wallis, Ist Surrey
Sergeant Harrison, 4th Westmoreland l6
Private Burton, Bth Derby.. l6
Private Blackmore, 2d Devon
Lieut Wright, 23d Devon .. l6
Lance Corporal Read, Isle of Wight .. 16
Private T. Cook, 7th Isle of Wight
Capt Hon the Master of Lovat, 7th Inverness 16
Sergt Major Netherrole, 3d Flamorganshire 16
Corporal Tippett, Ist Gloucester
Private Lane, Ist Gloucester
Dr W. Hutchinson, Ist Gloucester
Lieut Chapman, 12th North York l6
Corporal Thorney, Ist East York
Ensign Thomas, 4th West York
Corporal Collier, 4th West York
Private S. Neale, Ist Herts
Ensign Wilcox, 7th Wilts •• 15
Corporal Allen, 14th Wilts
Private Trewolla, Gth Worcester
Sergeant Robinson, 16th Middlesex ...s
Colour Sergeant Baylis, 16th Middlesex
Private Warren, 21st Middlesex l6
Private Walmisley, 22d Middlesex
Private Leete, 22d Middlesex l6
Lance Corporal Oswin, 4th Northampton
Sergeant Deacon, sth Northampton
Sergeant Peasland, 2d Northampton l6
Private Scott, 4th Renfrew
Sergeant Pratt, 12th Surrey ....
Corporal Macroshie, 12th Surrey .. l6
Corporal Willoughby, 23d Surrey l6
Sergeant Hiddel, 22d Surrey
Private Creed, 25th Somerset l6
Private Beech, Ist Warwick
Private Allport, Ist Warwick l6
Quartermaster Sergeant Larmer, sth Surrey 16
Private Elsonore, 7th Sump .. 16
Sergeant Carrick, Ist Cumberland
Lance Corporal Doo, 224 Cheshire l6
Private Bishopp, 4th Cinque Ports
Ensign Rimington, sth Cumberland l6
Captain Seward, 12th Hants
Sergeant Muir, 3d Kirkcudbright
Colour Sergeant Redfarm, 4th Lanark l6
Not the least interesting feature at 'Wimbledon is
the Post-office, which is now under the charge of
Sergeant Russell, of the A division ; and it is really
surprising to know the amount of correspondence
which passes through his hands, he having the
care of upwards of 2,000 letters, which are distri-
buted to those to whom they are directed all over
the camp. There are two despatches and four deli-
veries every day.

Persons in debt may obtain instant protection against
Imprisonment or seizure of their goods, and an entire release
from all debts andiliaLilities without publicity, by application
to Messrs. Marshall, solicitors of the Court of Bankruptcy,
(lames under £5 payable by easy instalments. Offices—
(established 1830), 12, Hatton-garden. City branch -6, xtgor-
gate-street, Bank—ADYT.

The Late General (Bishop) Polk,

A writer in a contemporary says :—Saving had
the pleasure of intimate acquaintance with the late
respected and excellent General Polk, from whose
lips I have heard the interesting story of a life so
prematurely cut off by the fortunes of war, perhaps
you will allow me to trespass upon your columns by
the insertion of the following brief memoir of the I
venerable and patriotic soldier-bishv.
Leonidas Polk, cousin to the President of that
name, was born in North Carolina in 1812, so that
he was little above 50 years of age. He was of Irish
origin, his grandfather having taken part in the
famous siege of Derry. In his person he combined
all the warmth of feeling, the noble attributes, and
the generous impulses which in a peculiar degree
are characteristic of the Irish gentleman. General
Polk possessed a stately and well-proportioned
physique. His countenance was open and intellec-
tual, his features classical and expressive, while his
expansive and strongly marked forehead indicated
great intellectual capacity. His fine manly appear-
ance was even thrown into the shade by the suavity
and urbanity of his manners and the vivacity and
perspicacity of his conversational powers.
Having graduated and duly taken his degree in

the university of his native city, Mr Polk was ap-
pointed cadet at West Point Military Academy,
where he remained during four years. When ho had
completed the regular curriculum of his professional
studies, he received a commission as second lieute-
nant in an artillery company. While residing at
the college he received serious impressions, and
became a communicant of the Episcopal Church,
under the impressive preaching of the chaplain, Dr.
M'llvaine, since the Bishop of Ohio. After an asso-
ciation of a few months with the army, he retired
from the service, and offered himself as a candidata
for holy orders. Upon completing his ecclesiastical
studies, and passing through the diaconate, he was
ordained priest, when he became the assistant to
Bishop Moore, of Virginia, and rector of the Monu-

mental Church in Richmond. Mr Polk's health at
length failing, he journeyed to England, where he

remained for some time, and where he received very
favourable and, indeed, indelible impressions of
English institutions and manners.
On his return to his native country, eind being in

possession, by marriage and inheritance, of a large
number of slaves, he took up his abode with his
family in Tennessee. He erected a beautiful chapel
upon his estate for the spiritual edification of his
slaves, for whom he regularly performed daily reli-
gious ministrations. From this work, however, he
was called by the Convention of the United States

Episcopal Church tc the honourable position 01
missionary bishop. This episcopate, he assured me,

comprehended 6,000 miles of territory, including
Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Texas,
and the Southern Indian States, the periodical
visitation of which usually occupied him 6 months.
Bishop Polk was consecrated at Christ Church,
Cincinnati, in 1838. On that important and inter-
esting occasion Dr M'llvaine delivered the conse-
cration sermon, a discourse replete with impressive-
ness and power. One striking passage in the
discourse, with reference to the "chaplain and the
student," created so deep a sensation at the time as
to be deemed worthy of reproduction in the English
leading journals.
Iu 1841 Bishop Polk was elected to the episcopate
of Louisiana (which he retained up to the hour of
his untimely death), when he retired from an ardu-
ous office that sorely taxed and tried his energy
and his health. He belonged to what is termed

the moderate or sound school of theology, and held
neither High Church noc Low Church opinions
or predilections. In evidence of his unflagging
zeal in the service of his Divine Master I may men-
tion, on his own Eutherity, that since his appoint-
ment to the episcopate of Louisiana he built 50
churches, and collected and expended 750,000
dollars in the work of church extension.

Bishop Polk possessed considerable military
knowledge, a circumstance of which President
Davis (his classmate at West Point) appeared to
be cognisant. This fact, coupled with the moral
influence attached to the bishop's name and cha-
racter, induced the President. to urge his accept-
ance of a command in the provisional army of the
Confederate States. Bishop Polk did not enter
hastily upon a change of calling. After much
deliberation and consuitaticn with his brother
bishops, he was induced to imitate the chivalric
spirit manifested by the ecclesiastics of the Middle
Ages, when the cowl of the priest was combined
with the armour of tho warrior, end the hand that
held the crosier did not disdain to wield the sword.
In undertaking the direction of an army Bishop
Polk was influenced by the strongest, purest, and
most patriotic of motives. "If our cause be holy,
he observed to me just before taking the field, " to
become a soldier is an obligation not less religious

than civil. We must not wait for the enemy to
violate our hearths and despoil our altars before we
enter upon self-defence—we must go against them
to guard against such profanation."
General Polk was no less loved by his " com-
mand" than by the people of his dioceee ; and his
brief but arduous military career has shown that

ho fulfilled as honourably and as nobly the position
of a soldier and patriot es that of a Christian
bishop. Few personages in the Southern States
could have more mourners, anti to none could be
applied with stricter truth the language of Holy
Writ—" A perfect man, in whom there was no
guile." As one who knew and esteemed the
lamented general, I feel a sort of sorrowful satis.
faction in penning this memoir. Requiescat in pace.

The Student's Suicide,

HEIDELBERG, July 9.

Passing through Heidelberg, I saw one of the
saddest and most striking sights—the funeral pro-
cession by torchlight of the unfortunate student
who, about a month ago, was found in broad day-
light, desperately wounded by a pistol shot and
bleeding
to death, in one of the public thorough-
fares of the town. He was at once carried to the
hospital, 4nd on searching his papers there was no
doubt that the wound was inflicted by himself, in
consequence of a quarrel with another:student there.
A challenge had been the result, but the other de-
clining to
fight with swords, to prove that he was
not a coward, had insisted that they should draw
lots, and that the one on whom the lot fell should
kill himself with a pistol. The victim was a native
of Wurtemberg, in the Croatian band of students;
and, knowing that his father was dangerously ill,
he had begged for a reprieve of a fortnight, but this
had been refused, and he was bound to kill himself
before a certain hour on the following
day. Uni-
versal indignation has been felt, and every effort has
been made to discover the author of the murderous
challenge, as foul play is strongly suspected, but
beyond that he is a Polo nothing is known, as the
Croatian would not give up his name. Each of the
chiefs of the different corps have bound themselves
by a solemn oath to kill the murderer, and one of
them never left the bedside of the wounded man,
hoping that, in his delirium, he might divulge the
name. When taken to the hospital, and told that
he would probably recover, he declared that as soon
as he was well he would kill himself, as he was
bound to do so. The different chiefs of the corps of
students came and assured him that he had amply
redeemed his honour, but to no purpose. His
parents then arrived, and it was hoped that, being
an only son, he would relent. The doctors had
hopes of his recovery until two days ago, when
bad symptoms set in, and ho died on Wednesday,
the sth of July. On the following evening a
procession of students, each bearing a torch, ac-
companied his hearse drawn by six horses to the
railway station, where he was taken to be buried in
his native village, his broken-hearted parents alone
accompanying his remains. Nothing could be more
sad than the funeral cortege—the mournful notes of
the music and the muffled drums, and the 300 stu-
dents with their flaming torches. On arriving at
the station they all sang in chorus, and after each
verse came the'well-known French refrain—

Mais en partant,
Ne versons point do larmes,
Car c'est lo dieu fort
Que gouverne nos jours.
From the station all returned in quick time, atIE
in front of the university the students made a funere

pile of their torches, singing in chorus as they threw
them away. The crtivvd then dispersed, and all the
students proceeded to a Bier Keller (before agreed
on), where the custom is for each to drink in per-
fect darkness a huge chopin of beer to the remem-
brance of the deceased when living, and of his re-
membrance in death; after which they all throw
their glasses on the floor and break them in pieces.
It might, indeed, be hoped that such a shocking
tragedy would induce: the authorities to put a stop
to the system of duelling, which prevails at this
university to such an extent that they are not even
a weekly, but almost a daily occurrence. The faces
I saw last night were scarred in every variety of
form. Some had their faces cut open—the scars
scarcely healed; some had bandages round their
heads, others huge plasters on their cheeks; and at
this present moment a student is walking about
with his nose stuck on with plaster. " Tons lee
gouts sont dans la nature," and at Heidelburg scars
are considered beauties, in the same way that
tatooiug is admired in New Zealand. What is also
strange, it is considered more honourable to receive
than to give cats. Tae Germans are loud in their
praises of the ordinary duels with swords, as they
say only a nose or an eye can be lost, for up to
their necks the students are muffled up and pro-
tected, and only the faces exposed. For a nose to be
ant off, or an eye put out, is by no means a rare
occurrence, but the famous Dr. G--s replaees
them so perfectly that only to the inner man is the
loss perceptible. A student, indeed, died of a sword
cut last year, but I was assured that it was quite
an accident, and entirely his own fault, as his skull
was unusually thin.