The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-31 00:00:00

PRIZE MEETING OP THE 7TH SURREY.

On Saturday the 7th Surrey held their annual
meeting at Wimbledon ranges, when some thirty
prizes were shot for. The arrangements for the
shooting, which were made by Sergeant-major
Wallis, were carried on under Major Jones, the
adjutant, with whom was Lieutenant Stewart. The
first-class prize, presented by Colonel Beresford,
was won by Private Williams, and the chief of the
series of prizes given by Mr. Doulton, M.P. for
Lambeth, was won by Paymaster Collins, who
was also successful in winning the first of the three
prizes given by J. Johnson, Esq., the treasurer.
Sergt. Provyn was very successful, for he won the
non-commissioned officers' prize and several others ;
and Captain Porter alsO won several prizes. No
winner can take more than three prizes—a very
wholesome regulation. Many prizes remain to be
shot for, for the list was a very long one, and, with
all the excellent arrangements, darkness came on
before winners could be assigned to all the prizes,
several of which were presented through Quarter-
master Gauntlet—a most active member of the

regiment.

INSPECTION OF THE 10T, 19TH, AND 23RD

SURREY CORPS.

On Saturday evening there were three corps in-
spected in Kennington Park by Colonel Wright,
the Deputy Inspector General.
The regiments
were under the command of Col. Labrow, the 10th
mustering two companies ; the 19th six ; and the
23rd one ; and after drilling until it was so dark that
they could see no longer, a square was formed, and
Col. Wright addressed them in terms expressing his
great satisfac don with the general drill, but with a few
words urging the officers to take care not to allow
the men to press to the right flank in marching past
—a defect which he said he had noticed in some of
the companies of most corps.
Colonel Labrow acknowledged the compliment,
and sail he could not call for three cheers for the
inspecting officer, as he knew the gallant soldier
would look upoil, such a proceeding as unmilitary.
The men then reforQed column and marched from
the ground.

ANECDOTES OF GENERAL GRA:.":lT.—When Gen.
Grant was in New York, says a gossipping correspondent,
some one congratulated him on his relfief from st: much re-
sponsibility and care. Ho remarked that such (meth:Alone
afforded himno relief, and that his responsibility and labour
would be more for the next twelve months than they had
been for the twelve months past. A friend of mine visited
General Grant's father, who, with the utmost simplicity,
related many striking incidents in the life of the lieutenant-
general. One was quite characteristic. The old gentleman
visited his son out West, just after the surrender of Vick S 4
burg. In walking round he saw the carcasses of hundreds
and thousands of cattle and horses, and as a manufacturer
of leather he saw before him a fine field for speculation.
He went to his son and told him what he had seen, and
asked him for an order to gather the skins. "And what
do you think," said the old man, " Lysuss said ?
Why he told me that I had bettor go home, and not be,
speculating on the battle field and compromising him with
the Government." A gentleman who was present at &
dinner givento General Grant by several Congressmen,
says General Grant spoke but one word during the whole
dinner. His Engineer, in giving an account of the Pas-
sage of a river, spoke of it as 13 feet wide. General Grant
lifted his finger and said " fourteen."—dnti-Slatcry
Standard.
GENERAL GRANT'S GRANDMOTHER.—Died at
Crofts of Tulloch, in parish of Abernethy, on the
9th inst., aged 98 years, Mrs. Catherine Macdonald or Grant,
some time at Corbeth House, near Glasgow. Mrs. Grant
had three sons, gallant young men, who entered the British
arlmex
l of the present century—James,
Alexander, James rose from the ranks to be a,
yan aboutder, the
and b
Peter.egin n
conunissioned officer, and died of his wounds many years
after at the Cape of Good Hope. Alexander and Peter
latterly emigrated to America, and joined the army of that
country. Peter, after having attained the rank of major,
was killed in Mexico. Mrs. Grant subsequently went to
America, in search of Alexander, where she remained for
nine months, but got no trace of him till on the eve of re-
turning home, when she learned that he was then in the
State of Ohio, but at such a distance that it was impossible
for her to get his length. Since she had not heard of him.
This Alexander, a person of great muscular strength, and
who stood six feet four inches high, if alive, is now seventy-
six years of age, and his brother Peter a year or two younger
It is surmised by many of the clan whether either of these
two brothers may not be the father of General Grant of
the American army. Deceased herself to the last cherished
the pleasing although perhaps erroneous impression that
General Grant was her grandson. She was born at Tors-
parden, in Inverallan. Mrs. Grant was chargeable to no-
body, she having had sufficient means of her own for her
subsistence.—Elgin Cwrier.