The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-28 00:00:00

PIER AND HARBOUR ORDERS CONFIRMATION

BILL.
The Lords' amendments to this bill were considered and
agreed to.

PARTNERSHIP LAW AMENDMENT BILL.
The order for the committal of this bill was dischazged,
and the bill withdrawn.

CONVICTIONS (IRELAND).
Mr HENNESSY moved for a return of the number of
persons convicted in Dublin and the county of Dublin of
using or having in their possession any false or unjust
weights, measures, or balances for the year ending the 25th
day of March. 1864, showing the nature and extent of such
inaccuracy, the business carried on by the offender, and
the date when the offence was committed, distinguishing
between offences committed in any shop, warehouse, or
other premises, and those committed in the public streets
er other open places ; also the amount of the penalty and
costs in each case imposed, and whether any such
weights, measures, or balances were seized and condemned,
and how the said, penalties, costs, and articles condemned
were di: posed of..—Agreed to.

EMIGRATION (AMERICA).
Lord E. HOWARD called attention to the subject of
emigration to the United States of America, in reference to
the prolongation of the war now raging in that country.
The noble lord detailed a number of cases in which num-
bers of mechanics had been decoyed over to America under
the inducement of good work and high wages in large
farms in Canada. Instead of being conveyed to that place
they were landed in New York, and there having been
surfeited with whisky, deserted without having in their
possession the means of subsistence, and ultimately many
of them, to escape starvation, were compelled to enter the
Federal army. He looked with great concern upon the
great emigration at present going on, and be advised the
large manufacturers to do their utmost to stop the flow of
skilled labour from their several districts. The noble
lord then referred to the circumstances that occurred
a short time ago in Irel,nd, and afterwards
read extracts from letters written by those who had
unfortunately been deluded into quitting England for
America, all of whom advised their fellow workmen to look
with the greatest suspicion upon all inducements to visit
the United States at the present moment. It might be that
the wages given there would be larger than those in Eng-
land, yet the prico of the necessaries of life were so enor-
mous that the lesser sum earned in England went further
than that to be obtained in America. If it were possible ha
should like the Government to give some expression of
opinion upon the subject; but, at all events, he felt certain
the Foreign-office would do all that was possible to
protect those who had been kidnapped from their native
land to take part in a disgraceful war which was a disgrace
to both of the contending parties.
Mr LAYAItD said the noble lord had done good service
in calling attention to the subject of emigration to Atneriecad.
He could not see how many of the difficulties mentioned
by the noble lord were to be avoided, but he advised
greatest caution to be observed by all quitting
land. The Government had directed the proper .
iish emigrants,
authori-
ties to do all that was possible to protect Lug
who went
but at the sane time he hoped that partiesthose thei native
tnat emigration
to America, because it was idle to suppose
grn greatest discretion. The
ie ht rest assured, would
could be stopped, to exercise theed
emigration officers, the nolle lord
attributed to
the Ame-
rican certain that blame was not to be
ZelYre6ta"rye forthe Ireland papers
do all in their power to preventrutiguir practices, but he
the
rican Government. H©
the noble lord desired. ,
Mr F. HENNESSY,
seeivin hether the
in his place, wished to kno,''
N. emigration from
wouldg
Cork, to enlist in the Americane.tarmy,.as going on at the
extent as it was at the beginning
present time to the same
of the year ?
N r LINDSAY said it was of the greatest importance
that extreme caution should be exercised by emigrants.
The present value of the American dollar was certainly not
4s. 2d. To show the extent of the horror of the present
struggle and th© sacrifice of human life, it was said that

se
r up the 30th of June upwards of a million lives havebeen
already lost.
Sir R. PEEL, in reply to the lion and learned member,
said a proclamation had been issued by the Lord Lieutenant,
which he hoped would check the tide of emigration from
Ireland. The greatest efforts were being made to make all
parties well acquainted with the state of affairs in America.
After a few words from Mr P. TAYLOR,
Lord J. MANNERS thought the Emigration Commis-
sioners should issue a warning stating that it was not safe
for the humble people of England to go to America to find
a home.
The motion was agreed to.
[LEFT SITTING.]

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before Sir 3, P. Wildo and a Jury.)
EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF CRUELTY AGAINST. AND
COUNTEL,CHARGE OF ADULEERY BY, A HI, SBAND-
BANCROFT V. BANCROFT.
This was a suit instituted by the wife of the respondent, a
person carrying on a respectable business at Manchester, for
ajudicial separation on the ground of her husband's cruelty
by kicking and knocking her about. The respondent denied
the cruelty, and also added on the record a plea that his
wife had been guilty of an incestuous intercourse with
her brother in the law, the husband of her sister, a Mr
Wm. Rumney.

The parties had been married as recently as April,
1866, and, as stated by the judge, she committed
a great fraud on her husband by representing
a child then 12 years of age as her neice, when in fact it
was her own illegitimate child by the husband of her aunt.
This led to tho cruelty complained of. She left her husband's
home, and refused to return on any account, and took these
proceedings, when, for the first time, the charges of her
adultery was brought forward, and was characterised as a
conspiracy on the part of the respondent to relieve himself
irom supporting his wife.
The case commenced on Saturday, occupied the whole
of yesterday, and the greater portion of to-day, resulting
in the jury retiring, and after a lengthened discus-
sion, returning a verdict that the respondent had been
guilty of the cruelty alleged, and that his counter charge
of adultery had not been proved.
Decree nisi for judicial separation.

There is a cross suit for dissolution of marriage by res.
sen of the wife's adultery, but as the facts alleged are the
same as these decided by the jury, it will not be proceeded
with.

The Wimbledon Meeting,

COMPETITION FOR THE MARQUIS OF
TWEEDDALE'S PRIZES.

This interesting competition was continued yes-
terday at the London Scottish ranges at Wimble-
don. No new competitor fired yesterday, the pro-
ceedings being confined to carrying on the trials of
guns which had made targets on previous days, and
to firing second gnus where the competitors have

entered more than one of the same kind. The first
of th© muzzle leaders to fire was Mr Rigby, who
fired his second 100 rounds. Though an excellent
shot, this gentleman has not had the training to
qualify him for shining in a match where rapid
loading forms an essential element. Profiting by
the experience of the first day he discarded the
powder.flask, and had his ammunition made up in
paper tubes, but the end stopped with a felt wad .

In loading the wad was withdrawn, the powder
poured in, and the ramrod passed through the tube
to ram home the bullet. Though inferior to the
Whitworth plan of cartridge, inasmuch as it in-
volved loss of time in pouring in the powder, it
enabled Mr Rigby to get through his 100 rounds in
389 minutes, as against 601 minutes with the flask.
Very gcod shooting was made ; but, from the fact
of the shots "grouping," owing to the wind, on the
right plate of the target, the score was not so good
as it otherwise would have been. The same cause

led to a similar result in the case of the Whitworth,
suggesting to the observer how much better it would

be, in such a compstition, to fire at a large experi-
mental target, to find the centre of the group of
shots in the usual way, and obtain the absolute value
of each rifle's performance. Mr Rigby used the
plain horizontal bar backsight, which would be so
great an improvement on service rifles, and a bead
foresight; but as the bend bad got broken off he was
obliged to make shift with the stem. The following
was the result of his practice : 100 rounds, 500
yards, 38 min. 31 sec. time, 17 bull's-eyes, 3 0 centres,
31 outers, no ricos,, 22 misses, no missfires—making
a score of 220 marks. The ten accuracy shots made
23 marks. The rifle kept perfectly clean, the last
round loading as easily as the first. Mr. Rigby
used the shell bullets, which are found to give much
more accurate practice than the solid-fronted seri,
vice projectile.

The Whitworth large-bore was fired for the third

time, but from the circumstance referred to, and
from more misses being made, the score did not
Equal the first and second days' performance. Mr.
Leece got through his 100 rounds in 24 min, 56
sec., making 20 bud's-eyes, 42 centres, 25 outers,
and 13 misses, no ricochets, no misefires, making a
score of 256 marks. The ten shots for accuracy
produced 27 marks. Not a shot struck the left
plate of the target, and but for the " grouping"
being too much to the right, a much higher score
would have been made. The competition as re,
garde muzzle-loaders may be considered as decided
in favour of Mr. Whitworth's large-bore, Mr.
Rigby making a good second. Indeed, eliminat-
ing from the calculation the difference due to the
skill of the men, it would probably be found that
the difference in the accuracy of the arms is very
small indeed. The present trial is as much a trial
of the skill in shooting of gun-makers, as of the
merits of different kinds of guns.
Mr. Cooper's breech-loader was the first fired.
This was the second course of 100 rounds. The rifle
worked well and rapidly, and there were no miss-
fires. The practice was not good, but it would be
unfair to condemn this or any other rifl3 for what
was, in all probability, more the fault of the man
behind it than of the arm itself. The time taken
in firing the 100 rounds was 13 min 19 sec. There
were no bull's-eyes ; 11 centres, 10 outers, 6 rico-
chets, and 73 misses, all pattered round the target
in a way that would have been as unpleasant to a
body of men stationed there es if every shot had
been a bull's-eye. In the ten shots for accuracy
only one hit was made, and that a bull's-eye.
Mr. Bro wn, as skilful an operator with the breech-
loader as Mr. Leece with the muzzle-loader, fired
the Henry rifle, and showed himself, under circum-
stances of considerable difficulty, to be the right
man in the right place. Two mishaps occurred to
his rifle while he was firing, either of which would
have been sufficient to spoil the shooting of most
men. Mr. Brown, however, lost only a few minutes
in remedying the accidents (41 minutes according
to Captain Knight, 19th Regiment, who had charge
of the trials), and finished up by making the best
score of the day. E arly in the 100 rounds the
little spring for jerking out the cartridge cases
broke, and jammed the breech-piece; extricating
this at the expense of a gash on the back of the
forefinger, Mr. Brown got on the target the
out
very next shot, and kept on until a cartridge
breaking, the ramrod had to be u
the bullet, and the loose powder wiped clean out of
the principle that
o
the chamber. The ramrod, on
misfortunes never come singly, fcsoeudrsteo haddrive stuck
fast. Grasping the burning hot barrel to draw this,
he severely blistered all the fingers of his left hand.
Notwithstanding this complication of misfortunes,
Mr. Brown got his next shot well on to the target,
finishing up his ICO rounds in 18 minutes 36 seconds,
and making the excellent target of 25 bull's-eyes,
47 centres, 50 enters, and 8
misses, or a total score
of 2SI marks. The ten shots for accuracy gave a
score of 26 marks, This, and his first day's shoots
ing of 239 marks in 17 minutes 12 seconds, placed
the Henry so far ahead of all other competitors as
to leave nu doubt of his taking the for breech
prize
loaders.