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tamed to the week. It was also stated that the reason why
Matthews offered to buy the hat was that he owed Mailer
for a waistcoat made some months ago, and the hat was to
be a kind .of set off for the amount due.
There being no further evi,lence,
The warrant was then made out and signed by Mr Henry,
after which it was taken to Mr Adams, the American Mini-
ster, to be endorsed. It was then handed to Inspector Ker-
ressey, and this officer started with it by the night mail to
Liverpool, intending to catch the mail packet, which was to
sail from that port yesterday morning,
The former warrant was obtained in a very hurried manner
on Tuesday evening after the court had closed, and some
important links in the evidence could not be supplied. For
this reason, and to guard against possible delay of the Man-
chester; it was considered desirable to send out a duplicate
warrant, with all the further details that could he gathered
respecting the murder of Mr Briggs.

THE WIMBLEDON KM ;TING,

Yesterday the remaining items in t:se list of busi-
ness for the Prize meating of 18G4 w ere duly tran-
sacted. The final contest for the D. adley prize,
enlisting an amount of interest second .01114 To that
felt in the distinction offered by her M sie-sty.lastcd
until gunfire, and the excitement wt pro.
longed to the very last shot.

Looking back upon the proceedings .of the fort-
night, it must be Peen how truly the Ast o citation has
entitled itself to the epithet ".Natione I." Collecting
representative men from every corner of the United
Kingdom, and from the remotest colony N.c here a lore
of rifle-shooting exisls, it has lag he., at d found
them in occupation, sod though nearly 1 000 men
have resided in cam/. and & revenue of £1 0,000 has
been raised at Wimbledon, the arrangtime tate ef the
Council and the measures of its executive officers
were such that not a single tenable grievance hes
been put forward from beginning to end of the
meeting. But one unhappy cloud fell over the lat.
ter portion of the proceedings, and that was attri-
butable to an accident which no human foresight
could have prevented, and which did, in fact, occur
in spite of the most stringent regulation. It is grati-
fying to be able to state that the unfortunate marker
of the Coldstreams is still alive, and that, if any.
thing, last evening he was a shade better. The con-
dition of a man with a bullet through his lungs can.
never be described as other wise than critical; bn t
in the opinion of Assistant-Surgeon Trotter, of hILs
own regiment, who has had large experience of
gunshot wounds, there is still a chance of his re-
covery. It seems that the bullet, having passed in
at the back, and nearly through his body, formed a
large tumour on the breast; which it was decided,
not to open, lest in the operation of extracting tt,,z;
bullet the patient might sink. It is this very
tumour, which by its pressure diminishes the f,en..
deney to internal hemorrhage, that now givres to
Cooper his possibility of recovery.
The operation of measuring the cartons pierced
at the Swiss target in order to determine which
was the most central shot occupied a considerable

time yesterday, but was watched by the competitors
with keen interest. Until the very last moment it
is never possible to tell who is the winner, for when
the eye fails to discover any difference in point of
merit between the hits a delicate instrument is
employed, which can tell to the thousandth part of
an inch the distance from the bullet hole to the
mathematical centre. No doubt could be enter.
tained yesterday as to the superiority of the winner;
of the first prize, but, as to one of the smaller onees
the fractional difference in favour of the winner w
exactly 2.loooths of an inch. Shooting at Cris
range is within certain limits a complete lottery.
The successful competitor is said only to have need°
a couple of cartons. Captain Heaton made upwards
of 50, yet none of them was pierced so as to ga'ln the
prize. Major Halford, second for the Queen's Prize
was also second for the Wimbledon Cap. In the
latter competition he was called on to shoot off ties
with Mr. Martin Smith, and this competition be.
tween two of the picked shots of England was one
of the most interesting features of the meeting.
In one passage of the shooting for the Mont
Storm prizes the advantages which may be looked
for when Volunteer become more accustomed to
breech loading rifles was exhibited in a remark-
able manner. Oee of the competitors had fired at
the 200 yards' range and made 24 points within the
stipulated period. At this number there was a tie,
which had to be shot off, and at the next trial lie
increased his score to 29. This was again tied, and
within a similar interval, on his third attempt he
made 31 points. Until he entered upon the compe-
tition in question, this volunteer declared that he
had never seen the description of rifle with which
he was firing. Of the 26 prizes offered in the Mont
Storm competition, two only were won by other
makers, Messrs. Joslyn and Mackenzie.