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London, England, 1863-07-13 00:00:00

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THE LATE BARON STOCKMAR.
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A telegraphic despatch on Friday announced the
death, at Coburg, in his 77th year, of Baron Stock-
mar, the earliest and most devoted friend of her

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Middlesex, 22; Private Watson, Ist Wilts, 22 ;
Private Biddex, 23d Middlesex, 22 ; Sergeant Pal-
mer, 36th Stafford, 22; Corporal Coulson, Bth Dur-
ham, 23 ; Private Baker, Bristol, 23 ; Private
Howard,ist Suffolk, 22 ; Corporal Sy tier, Ist Aber-
deen, 24; Private Yeatman, 9th Middlesex, 22;
Corporal Rodgers, sth Forfar, 22 ; Corporal
Smock, Inns of Court, 22 ; Corporal Waterman, Ist
Surrey, 22 ; Corporal Turner, 23 ; Private Wilson,
Ist Devon, 23.

Majesty.
Baron Stockmar had been a faithful attendant
and companion of Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg,
even before the marriage of his Royal Highness
with the Princess Charlotte; and when his estab-
lishment was formed in England Barcn Stockmar
was appointed Controller of the Household. Ho
continued the friend of Prince Leopold after he
accepted the throne of Belgium, though he was no
longer in attendance on him, and at intervals ho
passed much of his time in England, where he en-
joyed the confidence of the Duchess of Kent to an
unlimited extent. In them days of her early child-
hood the Queen's friendship for, and confidence in,
Baron Stockmar began, and continued without in-
terruption to the present moment. Before the mar-
riage of Prince Albert with the Queen his Royal
in Italy, and Baron Stockmar was requested by the
King of the Belgians to accompany his Royal High-
ness upon this journey, and for no one did the
d Prince employed
esteem throughout his life, regard and
t
tour

All Coin rs.—Stmall bore, 500 yards.--. Captain
Brooks, 10th Leicester, 25 ; Sergeant Salmon, Ist
Chester, 26; Atntniotn, Caterharn, 26; Lord Feild-
ing, Flint, 27; Lord Bury, Civil Service, 25 ; Capt.
Cotesworth, 2d Essex, 25 ; Capt. Webb, Hereford,
25; Col. Brown, 26 ; Ensign Macrae, let Newcastle,
25; Ross, civilian, 25; Sergeant Instructor Rose,
School of Musketry, 26 ; Private Allport, let War.
wick, 25; Captain Ross, Cambridge, 25; Corporal
Ferguson, let Inverness, 27 ; Lieut. Penny, let
Gloucester Artillery, 26; Private Ashton, Liver-
pool Rifle Brigade, 27 ; Private Henry, Edinburgh,
25; Private Fisher, Ist Wilts, 26; Lieut.-Colonel
Raiford, Leicester, 25; Colour Sergeant Curtis, 11th
Sussex, 26 ; Private Miller, Bristol, 26.
First Series, Extra Prizes,—Private Hyde, 12th
Surrey, 23 ; Capt. Anneson, Rifle Club, 26; Serg.
Windser, 3d Kent, 25; Sergeant Clutterbuck, 6th
Gloucester, 24; Ensign Panting, St. George's, 26;
Sergeant Cunliffe, 26th Cheshire, 27; Serg. Flet.
cher, Ist Warwick, 27 ; Private Holloway, sth
Gloucester, 23 ; Private Golden, 3d West York,
22 ; Sergeant Pixley, Victoria, 22 ; Private Payne,
Westminster, 22.
Second Series, 577 bore.-600 yards.—Private
Dawson, 4th West York, 19 ; Sergeant Kinnear,
Ist Edinburgh, 20; Lieut. Gould, 6th Devon, 20;
Corporal Thomas, 4th West York, 21; Lieutenant
Lamb, 21st Lancashire, 21; Private Hibbs, 6th
Dorset, 22; Private Mortlock, Victories, 19; Pri-
vate Riley, Hon. Artillery Company, 20.
All Comers.—Small bore, 200 yards.—Captain
Ross, Cambridge, 23 ; Quartermaster Serg. Wil-
son, School of Musketry, 23 ; Robert Gregg, civi-
lian, 23 ; Robert Hern, 17th Devon, 24 ; Ensign
Few, 6th Surrey, 23; Broderick, 24; Captain
Landon, Ist Northampton, 23 ; Cooper, 23.
Up to Saturday evening, Serg. Hardcastie, of the
Royal Horse Artillery, Woolwich, who has charge
of the ammunition tent, had sold nearly 80,000
rounds. The ammunition used at the meeting was
made at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, and taken
to the magazine in Hyde Park. There is now in
store at that place 260,000 rounds, and only suffi-
cient is brought down to Wimbledon each day for
consumption. On Wednesday there were strong
apprehensions that the store would not last out the
meeting, and therefore the telegram was sent to
Woolwich, ordering 100,000 more rounds to be got
ready. The charge to volunteers is 6d. for every
ten rounds.
Each day during the 'past week about 500 per-
sons have breakfasted, dined, and had tea in the
refreshment tent, As a matter of course the con-
sumption of food has been very large, and as it
may be interesting to some we give a few of the
items in the consumption list for one day ;—Meat,
12001bs.—salmon, 1001bs.—potatoes, 8001bs.—green
peas,9.oo quarts—bread (baked in their own ovens),
200 41b. loaves—cobs or dinner rolls, 1,000-50
hams. Ale (home brewed), 1,000 quarts—Guiness's
draught stout, 1,000 quarts—Bass's pale ale, 100
dozen—Guinness's bottled stout, 100 dozen—lemo-
nade, 150 dozen—sodawater, 100 dozen—tea and
coffee, 501bs. each—milk, 200 quarts.

Having thus lived upon intimate terms both with
the Queen and with the Prince,
received n a t
ot h
it was not extraor-
dinaryteatrheastt
andh
alwaysewmasost
devoted
Palace as
the d
friend f the Royal
couple. Those who had the privilege of knowing
well this extraordinary man could appreciate the
charm of his society. With an intellect seldom sur-
passed, and a fund of general information rarely
equalled, Baron Stockmar combined a playfulness
and gentleness in conversation and manner which
made him a companion such as is seldom met with in
society, but it was in the chivalrous honour and in-
flexible justice with which be applied his mind to any
question submitted for his opinion and advice, and
in his kindness and goodness of heart, that his chief
value was felt. No personal feeling, no advocacy of
particular principles, could divert his judgment from
the real substantial justice of the case before him,
and long experience taught those who knew him
well that the Baron's opinion was not only the re-
sult of most acute examination of the subject, but
was founded upon morality and truth. Well known
to most of the great men of all ranks in Europe, the
Baron was esteemed and consulted by most of those
whose good opinion was valuable.
Of naturally a weakly constitution, and fre-
quently an invalid, the energy of his mind had con-
stantly conquered the feebleness of his body, and
he had been able to serve with a labour of love all
those to whose service he had devoted himself up
to a short time since, when his increasing infirmities
and failing health obliged him to confine himself to
his residence at Coburg. For many years he passed
a very large portion of his time in England, living
at the Palace, as the dearly valued friend of the
Queen and Prince, and even when last at Coburg
he paid daily visits to the Queen, and it may be
supposed her Majesty derived much consolation
from these conversations with one who had so
intimately known her beloved husband. An attack
of paralysis upon the 6th warned his friends that
the separation, for which his rapidly increasing
weakness had prepared them, was at hand, and at
3 o'clock in the morning of the 9th inst. he sank to
rest.

His loss will be deeply mourned by the Queen,
and will, we fear, add to her sorrow and affliction.
Her Majesty had, doubtless, looked forward with
satisfaction to seeing him again on her approaching
visit to Coburg.

Death of General Sir Thomas Erskine

Napier, K.C.B.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The colonelcy of the 71st (Highland Light In-
fantry) Regiment of Foot has become vacant by the
death, on the sth inst., at his seat in Scotland, of
General Sir Thomas Erskine Napier, K.C.B. He
was second and youngest son of the Hon. Charles
Napier, second son of the sixth Lord Napier of
Merchiston, and brother of the late Admiral Sir
Charles Napier, and was born May 10, 1790. The
late general entered upon his military career just
after he had attained his 15th year, in the 52d
Regiment, and served with that regiment at the
siege of Copenhagen and battle of Kiogo in
1807, and in the following year acted as aide-de-
camp to General Sir John Hope in the expedition
to Sweden. Sir Thomas served subsequently in
General Sir John Moore's campaign in Spain, in-
cluding the retreat to and battle of Corunna. He
served in Sibily with the 52d until the autumn of
1810, and afterwards served on the staff in the
Peninsula, including the defence of Cadiz, battle
of Fuentes d'Onor, second siege of Badajoz, battles
of Salamanca, Vittoria, Nivelle, and the Nive, Sze.,
slightlyse-
verely on the 11th, when he lost his left arm.
i
of the Bath, and in May, 1860, a anion Order
Knight Com-
mander of that " most honourable
Order" of
n 18
wounded on the 10th December and 8
he was made a Comp of the
knighthood. In January, 1854, he was ET_
pointed colonel of the 15th Regiment of
mentse
Foot i
and on the death, in the summer of 1859, of
Gen. Sir James Macdonell, G.C.8., he was trans-
ferred to the 71st Regiment. The late General was
for some years assistant-adjutant-general in the
northern district of Ireland, and had held several
other
July 3, 1805 ;
,May 1,
1806 ; captain, Oct. 27, 1808 ; brevet-major' Dee.
26, 1813 ; brevet lieut.-colonel, June 21 1817. ' colo-
nel, JO. 10, 1837 ; major-general, Nov.: 9, 1846;
lieut.-general, June 20,1854; and
general, Sept. 20,
1861. For his distinguished services in Spain and
Portugal he received the
silver war medal with 7
clasps.
followsst a ff
-Ensign,ppoint6 His commissions bore date
as .
:

THE NAVY.

The screw steam corvette Brisk,:l6, Capt Sohn P.
Luce, sailed from the West Coast of Africa, is ex-
pected daily at Plymouth.
The United States sailing training ship Mace-
donian, Capt. Luce, sailed from Spithead on Friday
morning, at daylight, for Cherbourg. On Thursday
evening Capt. Luce and a portion of his officers, with
the American Vice-Consul, Mr. James Garratt,
were entertained at the Admiralty-house, Ports-
mouth, by Vice-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour,
G,C,B. The greatest possible good feeling has
existed between Capt. Lace and his officers and the
English Naval officers and authorities.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Rich. Sheepshanks
to the Excellent, additional, for service in the Stork ;
Lieut. Edward Poulden to the Excellent; H. F.
Strugnell, assistant-engineer to the Asia, as super-
numerary ; and J. M. Brankston, of the Osprey,
promoted to acting first-class assistant-engineer.
The following appointment has been made in the
Royal Naval Reserve :—To be Hon. Lieut., Henry
Morris.