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it had never existed ; for if by any
rary collapse could be avoided the Association at. a
few bouts' notice might command any number of
markers they required. It is only fair to the Cold-
stream Guards to say that they never shrank from
the fulfilment of the task intrusted to them. If,
instead of flesh wounds, their comrades had sus-
tained mortal injuries in the butts, they would, ap-
parently, have taken their places with equal sang
frond to the last man. When Col. Steele assembled
the men and questioned them yesterday, the only
suggestion offered by one of the Guards was,
that " perhaps if his comrade were up at the
firing point instead of the Hythe sergeant, things
might go on more ship-shape." They all admitted
Alia with only one man in each butt, and with
regularity enforced at the other end of the range,
the system of marking was unobjectionable. A
commanding officer, however, is bound to look to
the safety of his men, or they will no longer feel
the same confidence in his orders; and Colonel
Steele may very well be pardoned for thinking that
seven or eight " splashes" in the course of two days
was rather an undue percentage to fall to the lot of
his regiment. The volunteers meanwhile exhibited a
spirit no less praiseworthy. Under the leadership of
Lord Elcho and Lord Ducie, the men who had
volunteered for that special service marched off to
the butts, rejoicing in the belief that they would
be able to accomplish successfully what on the
previous days had been largely tinctured with
failure. They continued cheerfully at their work
throughout the afternoon, and no casualty whatever
was reported. This gratifying result was due in
part, no doubt, to the improved arrangements intro-
duced by the Council, but likewise in no small de-
gree to the superior intelligence of the Volunteers
themselves. They were moreover encouraged by
seeing the heads of the Association give the most
convincing proofs of their own faith in the system.
At one time, when railway collisions were of fre-
quent occurrence, it was jocularly suggested that
public confidence could only be restored by the pre-
sence in each train of a director of the line. Here
was an instance in which noble lords, members of
,he Council, voluntarily assumed analogous func-
Due, and slaved for hours at marker's duty into the

The crisis which had been impending at Wimble-
don for the previous two days in referent;, to the
marking en the Swiss principle took place yester-
day. The military authorities on the ground de-
clined any longer to expose the troops to what they
considered the dangers of the system. But, as there
was something remarkable both in the mode of
communicating this decision and in the spirit with
which the announcement was met by the Council
and the Volunteers, a slight retrospect is necessary
to convey a clear idea of the proceeding. On Wed-
nesday evening matters were in this position—re-
peated accidents having occurred to the markers,
application was made to the Commander-in-Chief,
who heard all that the Council had to suggest in the
way of additional precautions, and finally declared
that, if next morning, on viewing the alterations
which were proposed, Gen. Hay and Col. Steele, of
the Coldstream Guards, were of opinion that the
shooting might safely proceed, the Swiss principle
of marking should be adhered to; but if their deci-
sion was adverse to that method the old flag-system
should at once be employed. At half-past 7on
Wednesday night the only arrangements in exist-
ence were those made previous to the meeting for
marking on the Swiss principle. By half-pasteb
o'clock next morning, if faith were to be kept with
the Volunteers, it was necessary that the Council
should be in a position to act on either alternative,
according to the decision of the military authorities.
The business of a week had to be compressed into a
single night, a second range of markers' butts
suited for flag marking to be erected, and the
sets of flags, forming an indispensable portion
of their furniture, to be procured from town. Ob-
viously, there could be little rest for the execu-
tive that night. Lord Elcho, Captain Drake, R.E.,
Captain Wigram, of the Coldstream Guards, and
Captain Page literally spent the intervening hours
on foot or in the saddle, while fatigue parties of
soldiers and civilians worked till 10 p.m., and began
again with the first light at 2.30 a.m. Captain
Drake, in addition to his exertions at this point, had
undertaken some evaninge before to give a reading
of " Mr. Bob Sawyer's Party" in the Club-room, at
9 o'clock. If this were postponed the camp at large
would suspect the existence of some grievous hitch,
and the success, or, at all events, the enjoyment of
the meeting of 1863 would be endangered. Accord-
ingly this able and versatile commander fulfilled his
promise to the volunteers, and when he once more
returned to work no one could have guessed that
his own thoughts were less pleasantly engaged than
theirs had been in listening to him. Morning
dawned, and, after the most strenuous and unre-
mitting exertions, the Council, at half-past 9
o'clock, were in a position to say to the military
authorities, "We await your decision." This Gen.
Hay was not prepared to give, as Colonel Steele
was unfortunately detained in town, and did not
reach Wimbledon till past 11 o'clock. In the mean-
time, of course, the arrangements with the firing
parties were getting behind-hand, so it was agreed,
pending Colonel Steele's arrival, the marking at
those ranges where the greatest pressure was felt
should be on the old flag system. When the com-
manding officer of the Guards ultimately arrived he
was taken, with General Hay, to view the changes
which had been made, and which, with the rules
to be insisted upon at the firing points, the Council
hoped would prevent the recurrence of accidents.
The boards which were erected at some distance in
front of each firing point to prevent the marksman
from seeing any target but the one he ought to
aim at were pointed out; the rule by which volun-
teers would be prevented from getting into position
before the danger signal had been taken down was
discussed; and, finally, the butts, in each of which
there was only to be one marker at a time, were
visited. The following special order had been
widely circulated :
" Several accidents having occurred to markers, the fol-
lowing regulations will be most strictly enforced :
" 1. No person will take up his position to fire at any
target until the Register-keeper gives the word Ready,'
and names the target at which he is to fire.
"2. The person about to fire will take care that he fires
between the boards, which aro numbered the same as the
target at which he is ordered to fire.
"3. Any competitor firing at or hitting the wrong target,
or infringing these rules, will be excluded from all further
competition throughout the meeting. "By order,
S. FLOOD PAGE.
"N.8.--The Council earnestly appeal to every competitor
to assist them in giving effect to the above necessary rules."
General Hay and Colonel Steele admitted that in
their opinion no more effective precautions could be
taken than those which had been devised, and that,
if the instructions were only adhered to at both
ends of the range, all danger of accident ought to
be at an end. Later in the day they seem to have
been under the impression that a qualified consent
only was given by them to the Swiss system of
marking ; but at the time the impresiion conveyed
to the Council certainly was that these officers
sanctioned the measures adopted during the night,
and that the shooting was to proceed as usual. In
that belief Lord Elcho quitted General Hay and
Colonel Steele, and, telling the Guardsmen that he
would not ask any man to undertake a duty from the
discharge of which he himself shrank, went into one
of the butts, and remained there for upwards of an
hour. In the meantime, General Hay and Colonel
Steele arrived at the conclusion that, although acci-
dents ought not to happen, it was still possible that
they might happen; and the British officers' bug-
bear "responsibility" having been placed on their
shoulders by the Commander-in-Chief they deter-
mined to get rid of it as soon as possible. They
accordingly drew up and signed the following do-
cument, which was duly forwarded to the Execu-
tive of the National Rifle Association :
" Wimbledon-common, July 9.
"Having most carefully considered the question of the
present system of disc marking, and feeling the very grave
responsibility a continuance of that system entails on us,
we are compelled with much regret to decline to accept such
responsibility beyond this day's shooting.
"CHARLES HAY, Major-General.
" Txos. STEELE, Colonel, Coldstream Guards.
" The Executive of the National Rifle Association."
Manifestly, such an announcement was as un-
pleasant as it was unexpected. The Council having,
at great labour and expense, placed themselves in a
pcsition to adopt either system of marking which
the military authorities might select had a right to
expect that one or other would be chosen. The
sanctioning, for a single day, of a system of mark-
ing which at the same time they condemned Te as
not only inconsistent, but mischievous, as reg
ar
the conditions of the contest. General Hay and
Colonel Steele said, and, no doubt, intended, that in
the partial sanction given to the disc system the
convenience of the Council should be consulted. ales
much as possible. But the fundamental princopat
of the competition for the Queen's prize
beingterrns
Volunteers shall shoot, as far as possible; otnhe
disc
of equality, it follows that to contiinnueo.e__ia.
system for a whole day when it evadsutieg
tiheun't
tion to return to the flag-
of the meeting must create thewidest
Lord Bich° was ap
between competitors. When
taken he lost no
prised of the step which had
flag-marking
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time in assembling the Volunteers--
about
lained to them the position
about lunch hour—and w
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of affairs. Ile then a;
marking should be continued
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or be abandoned. Wah_ one Force
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to be preferable to the old flag system,.
and intimated
their willingness to co-operate in any measures which
would insure its continuance. Lord Elcho said
there was only one way in which this could be
done,
and that was by volunteering tobutte
themselves into the
themselves till arrangements could be entered into
for supplying the places of the Guards. If others
were willing to follow them,
members of the
would set the example. The effect . Council
ect of this
was such that in a few moments address
sufficient to supply all the vacant names more than
during the day but throughout places, not only
the beet part of the
meeting, were given in, the members of the Victoria

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The following were the highest scores made at the
500 yards range in the competition for the Queen's
Prize:—
Corporal Hooper, 22d Middlesex (Queen's) .. 17
Lieut. D. Bevan, 17th Glamorganshire .. 16
Private Rhead, 3d Gloster .. 17
Quartermaster Serjeant Turner, Bth Gloater 16
Private Walters, Ist Edinburgh .. .. 16
Lieutenant Toogood, 25th Devon .. 16
Lieutenant Yates, 2d Lancashire .. 16
Private Richardson, sth Lincoln .. 16
Private Redfern, 4th Lanark .. .. 16
Private Fidler, sth Isle of Wight .. .. 16
Corporal Wells, 3d Herts 16
Major Sir G. Douglas, 3d Roxburgh.. .. 16
Private Richardson, 10th Norfolk .. .. 16
Private Coles, Ist Notts .. .. 16
Private Noddall, Ist Notts • • •17
Lieutenant Watson, Ist Newcastle .. 19
Sergeant Dowe, 6th North York .. .. 16
Ensign Wynn, 12th North York .. 16
Corporal Bees, Ist East York.. 19
Sergeant Butler, Ist Wilts .. • • .. 1S
Colour Sergeant Cook, 4th Warwick.. 17
Corporal Taylor, 17th Somerset .. 16
Sergeant Chase, 4th Suffolk 17
Sergeant O'Reilly, sth Wilts 17
Private Phillips, Ist Shropshire .• 17
Sergeant Allen, 25th Somerset.. 17
Private Hodson, Sth Cambridge .. .. 16
Corporal Rudd, Ist Cumberland • . 16
Corporal llenderson, Cornwall .• ••16
Sergeant Maddock, 14th Cheshire .. 16
Private Rowe, sth Dorset • • .. •17
Sergeant Reed, 36th Middlesex 16
Corporal Gould, 37th Middlesex .. 16
Sergeant White, 39th Middlesex .. .. 16
Private Wainson, let City of London .. 16
16
Private Birkley, 2d Toper Hamlets
Corporal Sharp, 26th Kent .. 16
Sergeant Noakes, 42d Sent ••16
Sergeant Brook, 12th Middlesex .. 16
Captain Dear, 9th Middlesex .. 16
Lieutenant Marrnier. 9th Middlesex .. 16
Private Smith, 9th Middlesex.. .. 16
Private Rowe, 11th St. George's • • .. 16
Sergeant Millard, 11th St. George's .. 16
Sergeant Garnett, 20th Middlesex 16
Lieutenant Shipway, 22d Middlesex (Queen's) 17
In the first stage of the House of Lords Prize
some good scores were made at the 500 yards range,
of which the following ranked highest :
Captain Goodliffe, Ilth Harts • . GO 23
Sergeant Instructor Smith, 3d Surrey .. 21
Sergeant Bruce, sth Warwick .. 21
Colour Sergeant Chipperfield, 2d Norfolk .. 21
Sergeant White, 10th Wilts 22
Private Hitchcock, 7th Wilts • • ..
22
Corporal White, 2d Northumberland .. 22
Sergeant Palmer, 36th Stafford .. •• 21
Private Child, 4th Shropshire • • .. 22
Sergeant Maddock, 14th Cheshire .. 21
Private Wisker, 2d Essex .. .. 21
Private G. Miller, Ist Bristol .. 22
Private Tothill, Ist Bristol .. .. 23
Gunner Hyde, Ist Bristol Artillery .. .. 22
Lieut. Pollard, 13th Cornwall
Private Skelton, 2d Hants .. •••• 212
•• 22
Sergeant Inman, Ist Lancashire ..
Private Davis, Ist Lancashire .. •• 21
21
Private Brown, Ist Exeter • • .• • •
Corporal Humphrey, 9th Surrey .. ••• f 2
•
Private Sladden, 24th Kent .. • •
• • 24
Corporal Wells, 3d Herts • • •• ••. 23
Private Morris, Ist Hants • •
The highest scores for the other *Prize; shot fc
were as follows :--
ALL COMERS—SmaII Bore-600 yards..
ZO
Private Simons, 2d Middlesex •• •
.. • • 24
Captain Serope, 4th N. York r
• • 23
Private Leete, Queen's W •
• •
•estminate
Count de Gendre, Swigs 222,
iddlessrc
er
•
Captain Oxley, 19th Mt •
Captain neaten, 3d IVranches • •• 26
Private Doe, Victories ..
h. • • • • .. 23
200:Yards.
• • 24
Ensign Brazill, 6lst Lances ire
Lord Wharaoliffe •• •• 22
ENFIELD---ALL COMER;—.
Private Garland, 2d Dorset • . 23
private Theakston, 27th West York
•• 23
private Andrews, 26th Kent
G. 23
Private Penton, Bristol Rifles
• • .. 25
Private Bidder, Inns of Court
• . • 21
Private Miller, Ist •Bristol
Lieut. Pollard, 13th Cornwall
•
Sergeant Marriott, 4th West York II
2243
Private Dawson, 4th West York •
•• 2:A
Sergeant Lunnon, Ist Bucks •
ENFIELD—ALL CO • • • • 24
"u"-500
Private Clemitson, 14th Yards.
Durham ..
Captain Fano, Oxford
Lieutenant Burt, Ist Wat wic•k
..
• •
Lieutenant Por--her, 11th Surrey •
ALL COMERS—Small Bore-200. Yards
Lieutenant Brougham, 13th Stafford
Lieutenant Hitchcock,nioaek, 7th Wilts .. .
• I,
Major Boothb
neigh Ans.lle .Ys_ lie Artillery • • •
Lieut,-Colonel sth Wilts • • .. •
onel Raiford, let Leicester
ALL COMERS-500 Yards.
J. R. Mitchell, 2d Essex . • • • •
L. "ter, Queen's Westminster
• •
Lord Wbar •
ne e, 211 Vest Fork .. •
Quartermaster Serj. Potter, Sch. of Musketry 24
Lord Iladdo, 2d Aberdeen .. 24
Lieutenant Thompson, 3d Durham ..
• 25
FIRST SERIES EXTRA PRIZES-800 Yards
Ensign White, 25th West York ..
Hoare, Volunteer .. • •
T. Turner, ditto .. •
A. Mitchell, Ist Clackmannan..
J. Doe, Victoria Rifles
G. Gibbs, Bristol •• •• ••
SECOND SERIES-600 Yards.
Captain Dunne, 7th Kent .. • 23
Private Horner •
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APPLICATION FOR A R ES.
£1 per Share pa, able on Application. and Z 1 10s. on Allot-
ment To the Directors of the Oil-seed Crushing Company

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Gentlemen. request you to allot me shares of
£2O each, in the Oil-seed Crushing. Company (Limited), and
I hereby agree to Accept such shares, or any IPss number that
may be allotted to me, subject to the regulations f the Com.
pany. and to pay the further dep sit of 41 10s. p r share on
allotment; and I further ant orise you to enter my name n
the re,i-ter of thin Company for the number of shares which
may be allotted to me.
Signature
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Date

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THE NAVY.
Major-Gen. Lord W. Paulet, C. 8., and Vice-Ad-
miral Sir Michael Seymour, G.C.8., the military
and naval commanders in-chiei at Portsmouth, pro-
ceeded to Osborne in the Fire Queen steam yacht
yesterday, returning again to Portsmouth in the
Fire Queen at the conclusion of their visit to her
Majesty.
Vice.-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, G.C.8., is-
sued cards of invitation to a dinner at the Admiralty-
house, Portsmouth Dockyard, last evening, to meet
Capt. Luce and the officers of the United States
training frigate Macedonian, prior to the frigate
leaving Spithead. She is expected to sail. this
morning for Cherbourg, Brest, Cadiz, u,ini Gibraltar,
and finally for the United States about the com-
mencement of October.

The Warrior, iron fligate, C:vot. the Hon. A. A.
Cochrane, C. 8., steamed out of Portsmouth harbour
yesterday, at 5.30 p.m., and joined the Chaunel
fleet at Spithead anchorage.
Signal was made yesterday to the Channel fleet
to prepare to leave Spithead this morning for the
Downs and the North Sea. The whole of the ships
have been provisioned and coaled for their cruise,
and it is a very creditable fact that from the time
of the demand being made on the Royal Clarence
yard for the fleet's provisions and medical comforts,
in 12 hours all the supplies were alongside the re-
spective ships. One of the items consisted of 1,100
bags of biscuit, and beef, pork, and other articles
were in proportion.
A good deal of anxiety is being manifested by
the officials to complete the Royal Sovereign at
Portsmouth by the time which has been officially
named, September, if possible, and the hands em-
ployed on her are being increased in number with
this object. An immense amount of work, how-
ever, yet remains to be done, and it may safely
be stated that the ship will not be complete, i.e.,
armed, stored, and ready for activeservice before the
end of November or the beginning of December.
On Tuesday George Hinckley, quarter-master of
her Majesty's sloop Sphynx, at Plymouth, was pre-
sented by Port Admiral Sir H. Stewart, on Mount
Wise, with the Victoria cross, in presence of the
Mayor of Plymouth, the Commander-in-Chief of the
Forces, all the seamen off duty from the ships of
war in port, and a large concourse of spectators.
The cross is accompanied by a pension of £lO a
year, increasing £5 annually for every good conduct
bar obtained subsequently. Hinckley won the
honour on the 9th Oct., 1862, during the attack
upon the city of Fuugwha, in China, where, under
a heavy fire, he succeeded in rescuing two wounded
officers and carrying them to a place of safety.
The Spanish war steamer Concepcion, from
Southampton, arrived yesterday morning at Ply-
mouth, where she will embark his Royal Highness
the Duke de Montpensier and suite probably to-
morrow, and then sail for Spain.
The new iron-clad frigate Prince Consort, 35, in
Keyham basin, Devonport, is rigged, and will be
ready for the first division of the steam reserve early
in August. On Wednesday she was placed in No.
1 dock to have her bottom examined and cleaned.
The crew of the paddle-wheel steam sloop Sphynx,
at Devonport, were paid off yesterday (Thursday).
The sloop will be dismantled and placed at moorings
with the third division of the stkiam reserve.
The Salamander, 6, paddle-wheel sloop, 818 tons,
200 horse power, chief engineer Ben. Barker, hav-
ing undergone thorough and extensive repairs, and
been supplied with new boilers at Deptford, is being
fitted in the large basin at Sheerness dockyard for
the first division of the Steam Reserve at this place.
The Radamanthus, paddle-wheel store ship, 813
tons, 220 horse-power, has been taken into the large
basin at Sheerness dockyard to be fitted with new
boilers and receive a general overhauling.
The Wye, iron screw store ship, 700 tens, 100
horse-power, Master-commanding Valentine G.
Roberts, having undergone extensive repairs at
Sheerness, will be taken out of the basin to-morrow,
and will proceed at 01130 to resumti her duties.
The Scylla, 21, screw steam corvette, 1,467 tone,
400 horse-power, chief engineer James Gillies, is
being thoroughly repaired in No. 1 dock, Sheer-
ness-yard, and will shortly be taken to her moor-
ings in the harbour, fitted for the first division of
the Sheerness Steam Reserve.
The following appointments were made at the Admiralty
yesterday afternoon :
Mr. Walter Hailstone and Mr. C. E. W. 11. Hutton,
midshipmen, to the Warrior.
Mr. C. W. Dickinson and Mr. Francis S. Knowles,
naval cadets, to the Warrior.
Mr John Giles and Mr H. B. Beresford, midshipmen, to

the Resistance.
Lord Lewis Gordon and Mr. H. J. Knight, naval cadets,
to the Resistance.
Mr. IL Francis E. Haigh, midshipman, to the Liver-

pool.
Thomas C. Heathcote, Clement Royds, and William A.
Becclee, Naval Cadets, to the Liverpool.
G. T. Temple, Midshipman, to the Defence.
Alexander W. Ogilvy, J. S. Haramet, and Horace H.
Barnard, Naval Cadets, to the Defence.
Royal Oak.
Julian A. Barker, Midshipman, he
Frederick S. Pelly, Edward J. Bawtree, and Frederick
Maitland, Naval Cadets, to the Royal Oak.
R. F. Hoskyn, midshipman, to the Emerald.
Reginald 0.8. Carey, and R. D. B. Bruce, naval cadets,
to the Emerald.
aPjr.tic.en.
cane,
Pierre G. Evans,
chibald midshipman, thllatrheenßeel,aacnk
Edward Goldney, Ar li,
lack Prince.
naval cadets, to the B
Mr. James Erskine Russell, nominated to a naval
cadetship•

Fatal Fight at Hammersmith,
Brutal and

A protracted investigation was held late on
Wednesday night by Mr. J. Bird, one of the Mid-
dlesex coroners, at the Traveller's Rest Tavern,
starch-green, Hammersmith, respecting the death
of Richard Philip Collins, aged 36, who was killed
under circumstances of great brutality.
Mr. George Lewis, jun., represented Joseph
West, who was charged with the manslaughter of
the decease d.

Joseph Dorsett, 8, Paradise-row, said that on the
evening of June 6 the deceased and a man named
West were in the Seven Stars public-house, New-
road, Hammersmith. Deceased was tipsy, and
West only partially so. West threw down a sove-
reign and said, " I will fight you now." Deceased
said he would fight if any one would back
him up. John Simpson, a brickmaker, said
that he would do so. A man named Newell stopped
the fight at that moment, but when ho left for a few
minutes they pulled off their coats and fought out-
side the house. West knocked deceased down nearly
every time, and fell on and over him. Simpson
picked West up, although he had promised to pick
up deceased. Before the last round deceased said

he would give in, but West knocked him down.
After that they both went into the house. West
then wanted to renew the fight, but deceased re-
fused.

By the Jury—West deliberately went up to de-
ceased and knocked him down after he said he
would give in. The man Newell picked up de-

ceased.
Maria Collins, 3, Albert-place, Starch-green, said
that deceased was a brickmaker. He worked until
lately for West, but had left him and went to work
for Messrs. Bird. West was angry at that. He
was dreadfully injured when he returned home
after the fight_ lie had four wounds on the head.
A doctor was sent for, but he never rallied, and
died on the following Tuesday.
])r. P. R. Tomlinson said there were open woun
on ds
deeeased'a head, resulting from blows. Fr)m
the appearance presented he was of opinion that
something hard was in the hand When the blow
was inflict:O. The post modem examination
showed death to have resulted from abscess on the
brain from the blows. •
The Coroner then summed up, and the jury,
after a brief deliberation, returned a verdict of
manslaughter against Joseph West, for killing and
slaying Richard P. Collins.
The Coroner then made out his warrant for the
commitment of West to.Newgate, to await hl3 trial
at the Central Criminal Court.