The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-03 00:00:00

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

TATTERSALLS'-(11111S EVEN ING).

LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
100 to 12 agst The Dane (taken)
100 to 6 agst Brunette (taken)
100 to 6 apt Thomastown (taken)
20 to 1 agst Master Bagot (taken)
20 to 1 agst Tippler (taken)
25 to 1 agst Romeo (taken)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
1000 to 30 agst Old Calabar (take 4 to 1)
6to 1 agst Marquis (taken and offered)
CHESTER CUP.
25 to 1 agst Schism (taken)
25 to 1 agst Vest colt (taken and offered)
30 to 1 agst Zodiac

33 to 1 agst Agag (taken and offered)
50 to 1 agst Chere Arnie (taken)
50 to 1 agst Satenella (taken)
50 to 1 agst Vietrix

DERBY.
Bto 1 agst Buckstone (offered)
9to 1 agst Old Calabar (take 10)
25 to 1 agst Typee colt (taken)
25 to 1 agst Ensign (takes)
25 to 1 agst Caterer (taken)
40 to 1 agst Vanguard (taken)
40 to 1 agst Master Fenton (taken)
50 to 1 agst Argonaut (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Garibaldi (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Clarissa colt (taken)

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The following appointments were made at the Admiralty
this evening : _

Commanders—C. M. Luckraft to be Governor of Lewis
Convict Prison; J. M. Whyte to the Castor, additional,
for service with Royal Naval Reserves in Hastings, vice
Luckraft ; W. K. Bush to be Inspecting Commander of
the Coast Guard, vice Whyte.
Surgeons—W. W. Baynes (staff), additional, to the Vic-
toria and Albert yacht; William E. Dillon (assistant) to
the Nereus; William Inman (acting assistant) to the
Tartar.

Midshipman—Hugh S. Baillie to the Revenge.
Naval Cadets, nominated—Walter G. Goodridge and
Herbert G. Archer.

THE VOLUNTEERS.

The Suffolk County Rifle Association held its first
annual meeting on Friday at Ipswich, the president,
Sir E. C. Kerrison, M.P., in the chair. Among the
gentlemen present were the Earl of Stradbroke,
Lord Lieutenant of the county ; Earl Jermyn, M.P.,

Sir R. C. Rowley, Mr. J. C. Cobbold, M.P., Col.

Adair, Lieut.-Col. Anstruther, &e. The report of
the committee, which was read by the president,

congratulated the association on the success which

had attended the general competition for prizes at
Ipswich in September last. The expenditure for

prizes and maintaining the association was £292,

leaving a balance of £7l in hand. In dealing
. . _ .

with this surplus the committee proposed the pur.

chase of three sets of Lord Elcho's shooting scr;ens
and three sets of marking flags and pads complete.
The committee also proposed that £5 ss. should be

presented to Mr. R. Bishop as an acknowledgment

of his useful services as secretary, and recommended

that the sum remaining should be carried forward

for the purposes of the current year. The Marquis
of Bristol was elected president of the association
for the current year, it being intimated that the

noble marquis intended to grant the use of his park
at 'Acworth, near Bury St. Edmund's, for the next

annual county competition.

A general meeting of the members of the Nor-
wich battalion was held on Thursday, Lieut.• Col.
Brett, the commandant, presiding. The gallant
colonel stated that the accounts showed a balance
on the right side, and that although the corps had
lost some members their places had been 'supplied
by recruits. The range had now been extended

from 600 t 0.1,000 yards, which would obviate eon-

siderable inconvenience. Lieut. Bignold, paymaster
and secretary, read a financial statement showing
that the- receipts for the past year from all sources
had amounted to £531, and the expenditure having
been only £320, a balance of £2ll remained in.

band. It was announced that the Government
would henceforth furnish two drill instructors to

,the battalion. A resolution was adopted unani-
mously recommending the establishment of a county
rifle association in Norfolk, in connection with the

National Association; and Lieut.-Col. Brett under-

took to convey the wishes of the meeting to the
Lord-Lieutenant, who had expressed a wish that
the officers of the various county corps should confer
together on the subject.

In Lincolnshire the Market Rasen Company has
again had a contest for prizes. Instead, however,
of offering cups and badges, the three gentlemen
who stimulated the competition gave each 10 tons
of coals. Three classes of competitors were formed,
and 10 tons of coals were allotted to each. In the
first class each man fired five rounds at 400 yards,
and five rounds at 500 yards, and Sergeant Foster
scoring 10 points was victor. In the second class,
each competitor fired five rounds at 300 and five
rounds at 400 yards, and Sergeant Goodson scoring
nine points was declared the winner. In the third
class the ranges were at 150 and 250 yards, and
private Cooper proved the winner, making 10
points. The respective winners in each. class
awarded some minor prizes to the next best shots,
and a soiree and ball wound up the proceedings.
The members of the Lincoln corps have been hospi-
tably entertained at Washingborough by the Rev.
Humphrey Sibthorp, who addressed his guests, as
did Major-General Marten, a veteran Waterloo
officer.

A county rifle association has just been formed
at Worcester. At a public meeting held at Wor-
cester on Tuesday, Lord Lyttelton took the chair,
and Earl Beauchamp, Sir J. Pakington, Hon. F.
Lygon, Mr. Knight, M.P., and Mr. Vernon,
took part in the proceedings. Resolutions were
unanimously passed for establishing a fund in aid
of the volunteer movement in Worcestershire, a
desire being expressed that the officers and men of
the corps should not be called upon for any heavy
pecuniary sacrifices, but that the necessary funds
for keeping up the rifle corps should be raised by
the general public. Some liberal donations were
announced :—Earl Dudley, £5O per annum for five
years ; Earl Beauchamp, £2O per annum for the
same term; Lord Lyttelton, a donation of £lO and
£5 per annum subscription. It was calculated that
the cost of maintaining the two Worcestershire
battalions of rifle corps would be £2,000 per annum,
exclusive of Government aid, which, it was
hoped, would be still further increased. Sir J.
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their great battles. He advised organisation. A
force of 150,000 men, should they ever be called
into requisition, could not be employed simply as
skirmishers, but must become a portion of the re-
gular army.
A vocal and instrumental concert, in which some
of the most celebrated performers of the day took
part, was given in aid of the band funds of the 3d
Essex Artillery and sth Essex Volunteer Rifles, at
Stratford, to a crowded audience. A similar enter-
tainment in aid of the 6th Essex (Colchester) Rifle
Corps has been repeated in that town with success.
Tha 4th Essex (Chelmsford) are about to have an
amateur theatrical performance by members of the
corps, assisted by a few professionals from town.
The second annual meeting of the 12th Essex
(Braintree) corps was held on Wednesday. The ba-
lance in hand at the commencement of the year was
£146 7s ld, and the subscriptions and donations
£96 16s 6d. After defraying the necessary expensees
there was left in hand £74 9s 7d, but the outstand-
ing subscriptions would increase that sum to £ll6.
The second annual meeting of the Gth Essex (Col-
chester) Rifle Corps was held in the
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Friday evening The total receipts
ohadfx2been y £211.28.
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Round, the Recorder of the, including a third donation
borough, and the expenditure £227 lOs ld., leaving
only 7s 10d in hand.
The Leyburn (North Riding) Volunteers gave
a grand ball at the Bolton. Arms on Wednesday
night.