The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-08 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

A review of the troops in garrison at Portsmouth
will take place on Southsea-common on Thursday
next at 3 p.m. Major-Gen. Lord W. Panlet, C. 8.,
will command the force. _

By direction of the War Department a new kit-
chen-range, &c., has been provided for the sergeants
at the Sbornciiffe Camp to avoid the inconvenience
of cooking in the general mess-room. The non-
commissioned officers of the sth Fusileers have pre-
sented a valuable testimonial to Sergt. Borkes, on
his retirement after 21 years' service. Two detach-
ments of Royal Horse Artillery are ordered to encamp
on the Warren at New Romney for gun practice.

THE VOLUNTEERS.

The Margate Cinque Ports and county of Kent Rifle con-
test, under the patronage of the Lord Warden of the Cinque
Ports, commenced on Monday morning at North Down,
near Margate, a well-selected spot on the cliffs about mid
way between Margate and Broadstairs. This contest, from
the circumstance of receiving the patronage of the noble
Premier, and the support of the Marquis of Conyngham,
Sir Brook W. Bridges, M.P., Sir E. C. Dering, M.P., Mr.
Knatchbull-Hugessen, M.P., Mr. Frederick North, M.P.,
Mr. H. B. Shtridan, M.P., the Mayor of Margate, and a
large number of gentlemen of local influence, is not only
popular thri ughcut the district, but being in nearly every
competition open to all comers, with the shooting portion of
the volunteer forces generally, thus attracted cracks from
all parts of the kingdom, and even from remote parts of
Scotland. The competition consisted of the Premier Stakes
of £1.50, and the general distribution amounted in the aggre-
gate to £220, divided into 47 separate prizes. In the Pre-
mier Stakes the first prize consists of the Palmerston Cup,
of the wine of £52 10s. ; second prize (money), £2O ; four
prizes of the value of £lO each ; one of £7, four of £5 each,
and the other of £3 and £2 each. Among the other com-
petitions was one for an elegant tea service, open to all ser-
vices the arm of the corps. A competition open to all
corners, first prize £26 55., and a second a Steward's Lord
Bury telescope; a competition for a gold watch value £lO
108., and various other competitions of considerable value,
amounting to 17 in the aggregate. The charge for entries
to the Premier Stakes was 15s. if paid by Sept. 4, but on the
ground ls., and the others varied in accordance with the
value of the stakes competed for. The competition in the
Premier Stakes is to continue throughout the meeting, and
will not close till a given hour on "Wednesday, to be shot
for at 200 and 500 yards, seven rounds at each range, En-
field rifles and Government ammunition. The arrangements
were entrusted to Capt. Cox, of the 7th Cinque Port (Mar-
gate) Rifles, and the targets were erected on the North
Down, near the Waterloo Gardens. Marquees for refresh-
ment, &c., had been erected, and a plentiful display of flags
gave the spot an exceedingly gay and pleasant appearance
It was arranged that the competition should commence at 9
a.m., but " as there is many a slip between the cup and the
lip," so it may be in respect to rifle shooting. The targets
had been duly prepared, but unfortunately the distemper
colours distinguishing black from white had been prepared
without sufficient size or other combining mate •
rial, and when Mr. J. H. Keble and Mr. Smith
arrived on the ground they found the targets entirely
obliterated by the pelting rain which had prevailed through-
out the night and morning. This circumstance caused a de-
lay of nearly two hours before the proceedings were com-
menced. The weather was most unpropitious for shooting,
at 9 o'clock blowing at least half a gale of wind from south-
west by west, right across the range. It subsequently sub-
sided, but not to any great extent. Among the notabilities
in the shooting volunteer world were Sergeant Thornberry,
of the Victories, Lieut. Marriner, of the West Middlesex,
Ensign Chambers and Messrs. Dynes and Chattock, of the
London Irish, Capt. M'Gregor, of the London Scottish,
Lieut. Morris, &c. It was understood that nearly 150 entries
had been made for the Premier Stakes, and over 200 for the
other competitions. The principal scores made for the Pre-
mier Stakes throughout the day were—Sergeant Hall (South
Middlesex, 39 ; Private W. Dalton, 22d Kent, 36 ; Private
Macrone, S uth Middlesex, 38; Private Saniers, 29th Kent,
36; Sergeant Spencer, 35; Sergeant Harris, 33. In the third
oompetition, for the tea service and other prizes, Sergeant
Thornberry, of the Viatorias, won the first with 15 marks.
For the second prize Lieutenant Marriner, of the West
Middlesex, and Private Thomas, of the Kent Battalion,
tied, and in shooting off Lieutenant Marriner won. There
were ties for the third prize, not shot off. For the Sweep-
stakes, Private Dalton, of the 22d Kent, won the first.
Lord Palmerston is expected to present the prizes on Wed -
neslay, but in his absence the duty will devolve on Lord
Harris. The Mayor of Margate has advised that Wednes-
day should be kept as a holiday.
The third annual meeting of the County of Lancaster
Bata Association commenced on Monday at Altair.
Though the prizes were more numerous than last year, there
was a considerable falling off in the number of competitors,
owing, perhaps, to the fact that the meeting had not been
more widely announced. The shooting continued through-
out the week, but in consequence of the heavy rain which
fell on Saturday, the last day of the meeting, the firing
for the volley prizes was neces-arily postponed nexttill..
n year. Shortly after 4 o'clock on Saturday, all
hope of
aa
setendle,
immediate return of fine weather having been aban
res
prizes were distributed by Lieut.-Col. Bruce,
who
and a
regret to find that the entries of competitors bad P
dnensx,ot been
so numerous on the present as on
anneraossasociation would
hope that next year the meeting
of
Cup
resented him-
be more successful. The Association
E. Ross, who was loudly cheered whencthe
p
u was won by Capt.
Liverpool Rifle B
Kershaw rigade,
Cat. of
self to receive it. Among the 6thother successful competitors
were Ensign Sprott, of the
who won the Association Purse of ; p ,
the Leigh Challenge Cup ; and
the winner of the
the Bth L.R.V.,
who
won
47th L.R.V.,
Mr. W. Lythgoe, of the 47th
I Association Grand Challenge up.

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Some of the Perthshire moors appears to be well stocked
with game. On Thursday his Royal Highness the Maha-
rajah Dbuleep Singh bagged to his own gun, on the Loch
Kennard range, Grandtully, 50 brace of grouse, and a few
hares and snipe. Sir H. H. Campbell, Bart., shot on the
hill of Monzie, in the afternoon, 7 brace of grouse. The
numerous sportsmen who are residing at Drummond Castle
have secured some excellent bags. The sport of Glenarte ey,
Longside, Locherneide, &c., has been good. Grouse are
plentiful, and not the least symptom of disease has been seen
among them.
Good sport is obtained in the forests. Down to the 28th
ult. Mr. Holmes had shot at Monar no fewer than 13 stags,
all carrying capital heads, and one weighing 17f stone.
Deer were never seen in finer condition in this district.
From the commencement of the season to the last day of
August, Mr. Thistlethwayte brought down 14 stags in
Lochluichart forest, shooting on that day a fine animal with
beautiful large antlers of the following dimensions, viz. :
Span, 231 inches ; length, 33 inches ; thickness, 5 inches ;
length of front tines 10 inches. The head was a royal, with
palmated tops, of 6f inches in breadth. Lord Lovat and
party succeeded in killing 23 stags during last week, ten of
the number being shot on Thursday, and all in Glenstrath-
farar forest. On the 21st the Rev. W. Basset shot a fine
stag at Kinclochewe ; and on the 26th J. F. Basset, Esq,
shot a beautiful animal with a royal head in the same forest.
Lord Stamford shot in his forest of Rothiemurchus, on
Wednesday and Thursday, 4 excellent stags, and about 70
brace wild ducks, and on Friday 5 stags. The Hon, G.
S.
Duff has had capital sport in Mar Forest, and up to Thurs-
day last bad killed 14 stags, all of them splendid animals,
the lightest weighing 15 stone, and the heaviest 18 stone.
On the 24th Mr. Bentinck, M.P., killed two fine stags in
Glenavon, weighing respectively 14 stone and 14 stone
Nibs; and on Wednesday he killed one weighing 15 stone.
In spite of bad weather, Mr. Snowie has during the week
received a number of stags' heads for preservation. J. G.
Leigh, Esq., has forwarded six, three of them being royals;
Lord Galway, one of ten times ; Christopher Turner, Esq.,
Glenfeshie, a good specimen of a royal ; and F. Bassett,
Kinlochewe, also an excellent royal. Horatio Ross,
Esq , has also sent a very fine specimen of a royal head.
The antlers measure in length, 32 inches; in span. within
bow of the antlers, 31/ inches ; and between the outside
tops, 37 inches. The stag was shot in Glendibidale or the
28th of August ; it weighed 18 stone 31b , and makes the
twenty • eighth stag shot by Mr Ross and his sons since the
commencement of the season. On the same day a young
gentleman staying at Glendibidalo went out with a common
carbine, and shot a stag of nearly 18 stone weight, with
antlers of 33 inches span. Two very fine heads, from J. G.
Leigh, Esq„ Strathconen, have been received this morn-
ing. Span of one, 27 inches; brow antlers, 10 inches in
length ; length of horns, 34 inches ; thickness, 5} inches ;
weight of deer, 17 stone. The other head is almost a
caberslach.

The Wolverhampton and Dudley Mysteries.

Yesterday a further attempt was made to throw some
light upon the deaths of two persons, which occurred under
extraordinary circumstances at Wolverhampton and Dudley
respectively. It will be remembered that the woman who
was found a worm-eaten cot pse in an empty house at Dudley,
and who was supposed to be the woman who lived with the
deceased man Cheenery as his wife, and who was the last
person seen in the house where his murdered body was
found, was, after the coroner's inquest, buried without any
post-mortem examination having been made of her body.
Capt. Segrave, the chief constable of Wolverhampton, and
Mr. T. M. Phillips, the coroner for that borough, both de-
sired that she might be exhumed, and they applied to Mr.
Robinson, the coroner for Dudley, to issue his order for the
exhumation. That gentleman, however, having completed
the inquest, could not comply with the request.
At the inquest on the body of Cheenery, which was
further adjourned last week, the evidence still left a
doubt on Mr. Phillips's mind that the woman found at
Dudley was the woman Steadman, who must undoubtedly
have had a hand in the murder of her paramour. That
gentleman therefore made an application to the Secretary of
State for the Home Department for h;s order to exhume the
body and to submit it to a post-mortem examination. That
order was received yesterday, and witnesses were sent over
to Dudley from Wolverhampton, including the mother of
Cheenery, to endeavour to speak to the body being that of
Steadman or not; and surgeons also went over to make the
post-mortem examination. When the ckffin was opened
identification from the features was utterly impossible, but
the height and build of the corpse were quite those which
characterised Steadman. The identification of the clothes,
was however, complete, most of the garments which were
upon the woman when she was found, and in which she Was
interred, being sworn to as those which Steadman had bee... 11
accustomed to wear. The surgeons, who were Maw::
Nesbit and Mr. Keogh, the latter the senior bowie enlarr
of the South Staffordshire Hospital at Wolverhampton,
then commenced their examination. This inoquiry wee
in the
charnel-house of the Dudley Cemeterh au_
being proceeded with when our corresPonddent left Dudley.

Sept of the Season.
The Drought and
a been so hot a summer on the
Continent as that iv
For many years there has hnas
just ended ; and both there
which has
has been very great. It
almost looks
and in this country the error had been committed in the
Aldershot if
a
der°hot as a site for a barrack town ; for, the
drought has
selection of x•,30 great this summer as to compel the
troops to gut..
t batha:place altogether from want of water. In
Pais and its vicinity no such drought and heat have been
suffered for many years as during the past summer. In-
deed, as regards heat. during the last 158 years it has pro-
bably only once been warmer than it lately was on certain
days. The thermometer last month reached 39 degrees
(102 degrees Fahrenheit) in the shade, which implies
something like the scorching heat of 65 degrees in the sunl
In Paris it is very rare for the thermometer to rise above
36 degrees in the shade. The river Seine fell to the level of
the great drought of 1719, which forms the zero line of the
metrical ladder on the Pont Royal for measuring the depth
of the river. This is only the second time of such an occur-
rence for nearly 150 years, and the first since the year before
the comet of 1811. The waters of the Loire, too, have never
been known to be so low as in the season just past. This
great river, which has so often ravaged the country for
leagues by its excesses, was lately crossed, where it meets
the Nievre and Cher, both on foot and in carriages without
either difficulty or danger. The drought and heat in Aus-
tria have been extreme ; as also in Italy, especially at Rome.
In Germany, too, water became both scarce and dear. t
15
n
drought at Aix la Chapelle was such that water sold
there
groschen, or ls. 6d. a barrel. Some few years ago
was a considerable drought for successive seasos► but not
to so great an extent, it would seem, as in the present
wereseroaurs.
At that time, it may be remembered, there were
Sincei
fears that the rainfall was permanently
. ,
then, however, there have been very :rinliet seasons which
have tended greatly to restore the average and doubtless
sooner or later we may look out for a recurrence of the like
compensatory process.—Builder.

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According to his own account of is--iv
career in his recently published Autobiogra, RA S
collections, called Yesterday and 70-day: —My
first lucubration in type was in youth, in 1801, in an
epitaph en Sir Ralph Abercromby, who bad just
fallen in Egypt. Some translations from Ovid,
and similar pieces between 1801 and 1804. The
year 1806 found me in the Abbey, at the funeral of
Pitt, afloat on the wide world, and soon afterwards
I became fatherless. Fox was in power, and during
his short administration I commenced my labours,
and for a year after its close I laboured on the Pilot
newspaper. I adopted Liberal principles, and have
never faltered, working for them, too often without
fee or reward. I have stated before how it tell to
my
lot to proceed to Plymouth, where a newspaper
came wholly into my hands. That paper wua
neutral as far as regarded Whig or Tory principle.
No Liberals or Radicals were then known; Whig
or Tory clirld,'d ihe politicians. A Itron desirJ
ro do right induced me to support Ca,:hol;:em.nci.
pation, on which question the Cabinet was- divided .
I have stated how I was served by Mr. Perceval for
that heinous offence. It struck a severe blow on
all my future life ; in fact made me a political mar-
tyr. I sold the paper at a great loss,l
nearly all I possessed, and more indignant thans-of
mn i
y aY
pocket.
I kve t.
re-
pentant, after five or six years of life wasted,
re-
turned to London with a little money in
While at Plymouth I wrote for the Naval Chronicle
in London, and published two letters to Lord Holland,
on the libel law. The year 1814 found me in London
working at a Dramatic Review, publishing articles
in the Morning Chronicle and Examiner, and learn-
ing German. All this wastgiven up for a projected
work on Ireland, in consequence of Wakefield's
volumes not being satisfactory. It was to have been
on a large scale. I had letters from persons of con-
sequence, to individuals in the island. After wait-
ing several months, the whole was abandoned, be-
cause no one Could be got on moderate terms to
manage the plates and engravings, which were a
necessary. After the battle of Waterloo I went to
France and resided faur months at Rouen ; then at
Gisors, collecting notes on Normandy, or travelling
in the country south, and making observations on
the vine and its product. I also corresponded with
the Examiner. I next proceeded to Paris, and
there edited Galignani's Messenger. I returned
after three years' absence, and, going into Warwick-
shire, edited a paper for a short time at Warwick,
as a holding of place for another. I also, while
there, wrote two letters on the Game Laws, to Dr.
Parr. In 1820 I commenced writing in the New
Monthly Magazine, at the same time as the late
Judge Talfourd, but in two months afterwards
Campbell was engaged as the editor. I have ex-
plained elsewhere the part I had in that work, in
which every third volume, part original and
part compilation, was mine. Besides this I found
time to correct the proofs of all the work, and write
one hundred And seventy-seven articles besides.
Campbell's articles were not more than one-third of
mine even in the original part; all bear his name.
The whole weight of it soon fell on myself. The form
of that wonderfully successful work was different
then from what it has been since. Here I have to
lament I wasted ten years, the best years of my life,
doing nearly the whole work, and writing all the
political matter. But Campbell and myself were
intimate friends. The Metropolitan followed the
abandonment of the New Monthly. Iv 1833 I went
into Sussex and put together my work on wine,
which has made me extensively known in England
and America. The history of that work incurious;
to myself it was of less advantage than any other
1 had undertaken considering its labour. The MS.
in material lay untouched for thirteen years ! None
of the " trade" would look at it or hear of it. 1 had
proposed it to Colburn in vain. "It would not
answer." " So few drank wine," and so on ; which
meant that there was no work in the market like it,
that had made a noise, by which it could be judged.
Nly notes on wine, like those on Normandy, had
not, like them, become useless from being super-
seded by others. When I left the Metropolitan,
therefore, I put the work in order. The late Mr.
Whittaker, who was a particular friend, at last said
he would publish it on the principle of half profits.
It was most beautifully printed by Gilbert and
Rivington in one volume. The woodcuts were then
five times the price they are at present, and the ex-
pense of the work was thus greatly enhanced. It
went through a second edition, but I never received
more profit from it than paid my sojourn on the
coast for two or three months while I put it together.
I abandoned it in disgust, as labour and toil en-
tirely wasted. . . , . It is continually ex-
pected that literary men should serve public
purposes gratuitously, while the public cares
not a rush how they fare, or live, or die in
harness, never giving its services without an equi-
valent. I was glad to serve the pane, I confess,
bat more because it was a pleasure in iny case than
a duty, though ruinous as a waste of time, for I
could look nowhere for remuneration. But it has
been the same in politics. I have served liberal and
reform and free-trade principles devotedly for above
1 half a century without more pecuniary profit than
very common labour returned, and can ask myself
the question cui bone? except that the public bene-
fited. Still it is a very serious question, at above
three-score years and ten, to a literary man, too
whose time is his estate. In active politics, it is
true, I worked con amore for my party ; I paid my
own expenses, and never received a shilling, except
the moderate salary paid me, all through my career.
Besides the weight of a paper to meet this salary,
working at the same time for London periodicals,
which nothing but a happy constitution
enabled me to bear. Of the same polities, from.
the time of Mr. Fox I have seen almost all the Me-
et' body
rary men I knew pass away,
works through perilous
the same state. In political .
while I have been in
tbiamveisn,gofqteanitftreodmothee
neaolt,
myselfi
nt
than
writing-tablepress r ofc irecvuemn s tfaenr eae ein,
faogrethniortyb:titex
worldly
bettel left Plymouth, though I am the
r
offoursintogethiedrl.y I
circumstances find
But to
owldheesnt'cionnitiBnlutd literary workman in England, and
over the largest scope of action.
conclude, besides beeweesnbfloirsthyed a and fife; volumes
have edited
ta
e above
four hundred,news
newspapers,
rile:
and edited
noifuingyinwlBo6.n'l I have
six, one in France, and written for four
others. There are few periodicals which have not
had something of mine, and I have published,
artiolesl,know not how many in Encyclopaedias and
similar works.

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THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.—The road at
Gettysburg was lined with Yankee dead, and RS
they had been killed on the Ist the poor fellows had already
begun to be very offensive. We then returned to the bill I
was on yesterday, but finding that to see the actual fighting
it was absolutely necessary to go into the thick of the thing,
I determined to make my way to General Longstreet. It
was then about 2 30. After passing General Lee and his
staff I rode on through the woods in the direction in which
I had left Longstreet. I soon began to meet many wounded
men returning from the front; many of them asked in
piteous tones the way to a doctor or an ambulance. The
further I got the greater became the number of the wounded.
At last I came to a perfect stream of them flocking through
the woods in numbers as great as would crewel Oxford-street
in the middle of the day. Some were walking alone on
crutches composed of two rifles, others were supported by
men less badly wounded than themselves, and others were
carried on stretchers by the ambulance corps ; but in no
case did I see a:sound man helping the wounded to the rear,
unless ho carried the red badge of the ambulance corps.
They were still under a heavy fire ; the shell wad continu-
ally bringing down great limbs of trees, and carrying fur-
ther destruction among this melancholy procession. I saw
all this in much less time than it takes to write it, and
although astonished to meet such vast numbers of wounded
I had not seen enough to give me any idea of theme' extent
of the mischief. When I got close up to Gen. Longstreet,
saw one of his regiments advancing through the woods in
good order ; so, thinking I was just in time to see the attack,
I remarked to the general that "I wouldn't have missed
this for anything." Longstreet was seated at the top of a
snake fence at the edge of the wood, and looking perfectly
calm and unperturbed. Ile replied, laughing, "The devil
you wouldn't I I would like to have missed it very much ;
we've attacked, and been repulsed—look there l"—Black-
Wood s Jragaziine for September.
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