The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-16 00:00:00

THE VOLUNTEERS.

CUP.
CONTEST FOR THE BOROUGH OF MARYLE-
Yesterday most and
exciting
contest took
aB 0 N E
interesting
place at the ranges of the West Middlesex, the Queen's,
St. George's, and Paddington Rifles at Wormwood Scrubs,
for the possession for the year of the Borough of Maryle-
bone Challenge Cup, value 60 ngi
- -neaa, presented by Lord
Formey end Mr. Harvey Lewis, the borough members, for
,a
annual competition between the four corps established in
the district, viz., the West Middle
contest were of a somewhat
Middlesex the North Middle-
sex,Middlesex (Padding-
ton) Ii tilitiell2eos.th
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mystifying and not very equal character, namely,
corps shall be represented by one man for every 50 effectives
returned to the War-office under the late regulations; ten
shots at each range of 200, SCO, and GOO yard. each man,
the average to be taken of the shooting for each regiment.
By this arrangement, whilst the 20th Middlesexthahtaedactoh
compete with eight men,
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x men,
seven men, the West Middlesex had but si and
the Paddington only three men. Capt. M`Gregor, of the
London Scottish, acted as umpire, and there were on the
ground Lieut.-Col. Wood,
Capt. Jones, and a number of other officers and gentlemen
connected with the various regiments. The match
.Lochner,Middlesexwith
com-
menced at 10 o'clock, with drizzling rain, and the wind
blowing in a south-westerly direction across the left of the
ranges, and continued so mostly throughout. The average
shooting with all the corps showed a vast improvement upon
that of last year, when the West Middlesex won the cup by
a very small average above the North Middlesex. At the
conclusion the West Middlesex were again the winners, the
average shooting of the respective corps being as follows :
West Middlesex, GS, GG ; Paddington, 65, GG ; North Mid-
dlesex, 62, 14 ; 20th Middlesex, 66, 75,
There can be no question but that the corps which had
the smaller number of men have on this principle the greatest
ad vantage ; and as Mr. Hall, of the Paddington Rifles, made
the splendid score of 85, had his two colleagues made average
good shooting, the cup must have fallen into their hands. At
the conclusion three cheers were given for the West Mid-
dlesex by their antagonists, and also for Mr. Ilall, of the
Paddingtons, as having made the highestscore on theground.
The West Middlesex also gave three cheers for their oppo-
nents, and the proceedings terminated.

SHAKSPERE'S " HAMLET,'' we Ho it is an-
nounced (not Snooks', ?), is shortly to be revived at
Sadler's Wells, the part of Hamlet to be tustuined by Miss
.1./aniott.

MADAME RATAZZI (nee de Solari) has written
drama called "Corinne," whic% has been produced at Turin
with much success. •

'EBRU ARY 16, 1864.

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK.

GREECE,

Advices from Athens state that the King of
Greece has given a grand ball, at which were
present all the members of the diplomatic body,
the Ministers, the grand functionaries, and about
a thousand other guests. His Majesty opened the
fele with the wife of the President of the Assembly,
and danced several times during the evening.

THIRD EDITION

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK.

AMERICA.
(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

CROOKHAVEN, FEB. 16, 1 15 P.M.

The extra Inman steamer City of Limerick, from
New York on the 3d inst., passed this port at noon
to•day, all well.

Her news has been anticipated by the City of
New York.

The City of Limerick experienced moderate
weather throughout the passage.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
BIRMINGHAM RACES--Tms DAY.
IIUNTE EtS' PLATE.

Express ..
Jocular
Killarney

Twelve ran.
LICEN -ED VICTUALLERS' PLATE.

Telegram
Arlescott
Old Squire

Seven ran.
GRAND ANNUAL STEEPLECHASE.

Chamade
Arbury
Merrimac