The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-25 00:00:00

The Volunteers.

The Queen's (Westminster) lately competed at
Wormholt-scrubs for a valuable prize presented by
Major Russell, and shot for under novel regulations.
The competition was confined to marksmen of the
year who had passed into the first class in judging
distance, and had a competent knowledge of the
theory of musketry. Each competitor had to fire
20 rounds in extended order, and advancing and re-
tiring between 200 and 600 yards at a third-class
target (not shot at in class beyond 300 yards), hav-
ing a black centre of 2ft. ; only centres and outers
to count. The prize was won a second year in suc-
cession by Sergeant Clothier, who now becomes its
absolute winner. He made 43 points, and last year
he won it with 41. The 2d company of the regi-
ment held its prize meeting at the same place a few
days since, when several valuable prizes given by the
officers and friends of the company were shot for.
The chief prize winners were Private Richardson,
Ensign Smith, Private Jolly, Private Lewis, and
Private Weatherdon.

The sth company of St. George's have just com-
pleted the annual prize meeting. The ranges were
the regular Wimbledon ones, with seven shots at
each. Lieutenant Banting, with 49, won a watch
given by Captain Peal ; Sergeant Grosse, with 39,
won a London Armoury rifle presented by the pre-
vious winner ; Sergeant Amor, with 38, won a prize
given by Lieutenant Waller ; Private Cory, with
37, won a telescope given by Sergeant Grosse ;
Private Hiddersley won a prize given by Sergeant
Sercombe, and Sergeant Lintott won a tea service
given by Sergeant Townsend. Lieutenant Banting
added an extra prize in consideration of his having
won the first.
The 4th Tower Hamlets Volunteers shot last week
for the battalion prizes, at Brentwood, at 200, 400,
and GOO yards. A cup, value £l5, given by Lieut.-
Colonel Thomson, was won with 40 points by Ser-
geant Hughes; a prize of £l2, given by Colonel
Sir Henry de Hoghton, was won by Corporal
Hurst ; a prize of £lO, given by Lady de Hoghton,
was won by Lance-Corporal Baines ; a prize of
similar value, given by Major De la Rue, by Lance-
Corporal Ebden ; a second prize of £B, by Colonel
Sir henry de Hoghton, by Sergeant Thorne ; in
addition to which there were many others, the chief
winners of which were Private Giles, Ensign
Walker, and Private 011ey.
The Ist Middlesex Artillery Brigade lately held a
great gun competition on the plan adopted by the
National Artillery Association. The competition
was between the two corps in the brigade—the Ist
Middlesex at the Ist Tower Hamlets—and the
shooting was carried on with smooth-bore guns at
1,150 yards and 1,350 ; the prize being a challenge
cnp of over 50 guineas in value, presented by Major
H. F. Smith. Captain Marsh's battery of the Ist
Tower Hamlets won the prize ; with 29 points, hit-
ting the target at 1,150 yards in three of the five
shots fired, scoring the maximum number of points

for elevation and direction for one of the shots at
the longer range, but having failed to score any for
direction with the other, the maximum for elevation
awarded were lost. The firing was carried on under
Colonel Creed, Major Smith, and Captain and
Adjutant Adams, Captain Rutley commanding the
range.

Distressing and Fatal Shipwrecks.

TIIE LATE FATAL WRECK AT SOUTER POINT

A correspondent forwards the following particulars rela-
tive to the wreck of a Prussian barque, which took place
on the night of the 18th inst. between Marsden Rock and
Whitburn, which were related to him by Mr. Jas. Dalton,
coastguard, stationed at the latter place :—" I was on duty
at Sunderland on the 10th inst. until about 7 o'clock p.m.
It rained incessantly all day, and blew a most dreadful gale.
I was hastening home through the village (Whitburn)
when my attention was arrested by the dreadful cry of A
ship ashore !' The wreck occurred on the Sunderland side
of Marsden, right abreast of the wild perpendicular cliffs,
that run along that part of the coast. Not waiting to change
my wet clothing, I immediately got all my gear out and on
to a cart, and drove with all speed to the scene of destruc-
tion. The night was so dark that I was obliged to crawl on
my hands and feet to the edge of the cliff, to see, if possible,
whero the barque lay. I succeeded, adjusted my rocket
stand, and seeing my gear in proper order, told the fisher-
men to attend to my orders. I fired, and sent the rocket
fizzing across the ship at the first shot. They caught hold
of the line on the wreck. I sent the gear on board, and then
we hauled the crow, seven in number, over the cliffs. One
poor lad was washed overboard before Ireached there. Had
I been one half-hour later they must all have perished."

THE LATE FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT AT
NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SEA.

The body of Robert Armstrong, fishermen, of Newbiggin-
by-the-Sea, drowned with three others on the 13th inst., in
a coble belonging to that place, was found on Friday morn-
ing on the beach near North Blyth. The unfortunato man
was about thirty years of age. The body being very much
decomposed, and there being no doubt as to the facts, the
coroner (Mr. Hardy) at once granted a warrant for burial.

THE LATE FATAL SHIPWRECK AT NORTH
SUNDERLAND.

On Friday three more bodies were washed ashore on
Shoestone Sands, supposed to be part of the crew of the
Emerald, of Sunderland. These, with the young men
found in the boat on the day of the disaster, are all the
bodies that have yet been recovered. Two of them are
young men apparently under thirty, and the other a lad
under twenty. One of the bodies is lying at North Sun-
derland, and the rest at Monks House.