The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-15 00:00:00

obtaining another. A gentleman of Switzerland,
one M. DE GENDRE, as became a countryman of
the apple-shooting TELL, obtained one of the £5O
prizes for a hit at 600 yards distance. 'The presen-
tation of this prize to the keen-eyed, steady-handed
foreigner just mentioned being an especially appro-
priate and graceful incident in this year of the In-
ternational Exhibition. Altogether the festivities
of yesterday were of the most exhilarating charac-
ter imaginable, and augur admirably for the main-
tenance of that Volunteer Movement which has
already within so brief an interval since its in-
auguration led to the enrolment of fully 150,000
Volunteer Riflemen.

THE LUDGATE-HILL TRAGEDY.—Mrs. Vyse Still
remains in the custody of the governor of Newgate, the
Secretary of State's order for her transmission to Bethle
hem Hospital, where she will be kept in confinement as a
criminal lunatic during her Majesty's pleasure, not yet
having arrived. The unfortunate woman since her trial
has been, and still continues, overwhelmed with grief. Miss
Saunders had an interview with her sister this afternoon,
but the usual rules of the gaol were maintained,
THE NEW AMERICAN TARIFF.—For the conve-
nience of shippers an extra steamer of the Inman line will
be despatched for New York on Thursday next, July 17th.
THE MIDDLESEX Vv ESTERN CORONERSHIP.—
Yesterday the polling for coroner of the western district of
Middlesex took place, and considerable excitement pre-
vailed. At the close of the poll at four o'clock it was stated
that the majority in favour of Mr. Bird was between 200
and 300. The official declaration of the poll will be made on
Wednesday.
ROYAL PAVILION HOTEL, FOLKESTONE.—Arri-
vaIs : Major Galton, Mr. and Mrs. Dalbiac, Mr. and Mrs.
Fenwick, Mr. Marlay, Dr. Parsons, Admiral Sir A. Arbuth-
not, Captain Grindall, Mr. Round, Mr. Twining, Colonel
Wyndham and family, &c.,
THE BOMBAY TAIL.—SOUTHAMPTON, July 14.
—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship
Mooltan, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has
arrived. She brings 75 passengers, £ll4 in specie, pearls
to the value of 71.600 rupees, and 2,831 packages of general
cargo, including 927 bales of raw silk,valued at 90,0001. At
Gibraltar on the 9th instant, exchange on London, 90 days,
was quoted 491 f ; on Paris, sf. 26c. ; Marseilles, sf. 28c. ;
Genoa, sf. 28c. ; on Madrid, at eight days' sight, 1 prem.
Freights were unaltered.
A Shanghae steam packet company has been
started in China to run steamers to and from Shanghae,
Chufoo, Tientsin, the ports of Japan, Foochow, Amoy,
Swatow, and Canton. The capital is £240,000. About ten
or twelve steamers will be employed, which will be built

in America.
SOUTH KENSINSTON MUSEUM.—During the
week ending July 12 the visitors have been as follows :—On
Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, free days, open from 10
a.m. to 10 p.m., 28,115; on Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday, students' days (admission to the public, 6d.), open
from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m., 10,980; total, 39,095. From the
opening of the Museum, 2,936,108.
THE HARVEST IN FRANCE.—The accounts of
the harvest, which has already begun in the south of
France, are not satisfactory. The hopes of a superabun-
dant and even a precocious harvest have vanished, and it
will be fortunate if we have a very ordinary yield The
accounts from foreign countries do not seem to be much
better, and though, according to present appearances, there
is little reason to apprehend a scarcity, still any serious re-
duction in prices is faintly expected. The cold and wet
weather so prevalent,with little interruption, for more than
a month, which retarded the ripening of the crops, will be
felt when they come to be gathered in. Cold nights fol-
lowing sunless days, and frequent and heavy falls of rain
and strong winds, have retarded and laid the corn ; end
the quality of the grain, if not the quantity, will be i'ar
from realizing the hopes which the agriculturist cherished
in May last.
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOClETY.—Yesterday
being a fine day, the gardens wore their holiday aspect,
being crowded with a large influx of fashionable visitors
who attended to hear the bands of the Zouaves and of the
gendarmerie of the Imperial Guard. Among those present
were their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge,
the Princess Mary, and the Duchess of Mecklenburgh
Strelitz, who paid marked attention to the music of these
excellent bands. They are to perform again to-day and
to-morrow (Wednesday).
THE VICEROY OF EGYPT.—In preparation for
the banquet announced to take place on board his High-
ness's steam yacht, the Faid Gehaad, at Woolwich to-mor-
row (Wednesday) evening, and to facilitate the arrival of
the Royal and distinguished guests free from inconveni-
ence, arrangements have been made for the entrance of a
special train through the lower gate of the Arsenal, from
London, to pass without interruption to the head of the
pier, and, if necessary, over the turntables, discharging its
freight on the platform at a covered gangway leading on
board. During the preparations, which are on the most
magnificent scale, the yacht has been besieged with claim-
ants for admission to view the interior, but all demands for
that purpose have been refused.
BANQUET TO THE VICEROY or EGYPT AT THE
UNITED SERVICE CLUB.—Last evening the members of
the United Service Club gave a splendid banquet to his
Highness the Viceroy of Egypt at the club-house, in Pall-
mall. The entertainment reflected much credit on all con-
cerned. It was served up in a style of princely elegance, in
the spacious and elegant breakfast-room of the club.
INDICATORS FOR TARGET PRACTICE.--Mr.
Dempster, inventor of the problem yacht; new trawl net;
and a flag telegraphic signal for ship use, handy and perfect
for communicating in light winds and calm weather, now
proposes the adaptability of his flag signal for the purpose
of indicating the exact spot where a ball hits the target.
Mr. Dempster's plan is to divide the Government service
target (of 6 feet high, 4 feet wide) into 24 equal squares,
and represent each square by a letter of the alphabet; then,
with his system of signalling, or rather his alphabet in
colours, the marker at the butt could immediately point
out the exact square where the ball hit. One great ad-
vantage of Mr. Dempster's indicator is, the whole affair,
both flags and frame, stows away in a case that need be no
thicker than a soldier's halbert, a ship's boarding-pike, or
a gentleman's walking stick. For private practice in shoot-
ing Mr. Dempster has got other ideas on the subject of
target practice to enable our riflemen being good shots.
One of his suggestions are to shape the target in the form
of a man 6 feet high and 2 feet broad across the shoulders.
This figure to be divided into 300 equal squares, or
hexigens. Each division to be represented by a letter
or letters of the alphabet suitable for being in-
dicated to by the eighteen consonant letters, now
used for the Government Commercial Code of Signals.
By permutation with 18 consonant letters of the alphabet,
which might be made of pasteboard or tin, the marker at
the butt could indicate to upwards of 300 different divi-
sions on the target, and never require to show more than
two letters at a time. By having all the divisions on a
target of small dimensions, it must be of the utmost im-
portance to crack shots whilst sighting their rifles to know
exactly within an inch on the target where his last ball
hit. For private practice Mr. Dempster suggests the
" man.shaped target" might be printed on stout paper and
pasted on boards. After one target is riddled another can
easily be stuck on the boards. The expense of getting up
paper (f ac-simile) targets would not be much ; nor would
the indicators be very expensive. Riflemen, after a day's
shooting at the man .shaped target, might have some fine
fun while speaking over their successful aiming and de-
cided hits. One might be able to say, "Ohl my first ball
hit the fellow in B C right in the eye." Another, " And
mine hit B L right on the shoulder blade." And another
might say, " The second shot I fired hit the letter D,
which is right in the breadbasket." In fact a regular
anatomical discussion might go on about target-practice.
AN EXPERIMENTAL STEAMER.—NEV METHOD
07 PROPULSION.—On Friday morning, a little steamer,
measuring about twelve tons, and fully 50 feet long, with
only a chimney standing amidships, entered our harbour .
She is the property of a military gentleman from the
Clyde, and is, we understand, a patented invention, pro-
tected for a twelvemonth, showing a new method of pro-
pulsion and steering. The vessel has no rudder, but is
steered—and most admirably and readily steered—by
the propelling apparatus. This apparatus is fixed at the
stern, and consists of a horizontal iron wheel, from which
projects six spokes, also horizontal, and attached to the end
of each spoke, and dipping vertically into the water, is a
blade, working in the same way as the blade of a pa-
tent paddle—namely, turning its " feather edge" to the
water as it goes forward, but the full flat face when mov-
ing in the direction necessary for propelling the vessel.
These spokes are made to revolve with the wheel with
which they are connected ; and this wheel, by an eccentric
motion which it possesses, is made to remain fairly amid-
ships, or is moved from port to starboard by means of a
lever connected with the internal machinery. She answers
to the least touch of this lever ; and another remarkable
property of the litte craft is that she goes as well, and steers
as truly stern first as stem foremost. There is one draw-
back at once visible on seeing the vessel sailing ; the hori-
zontal wheel is fully:a foot above the surface of the water,
and the bars of the six blades being uncovered, would, in
revolving, be very liable to become entangled with drift
wood or other floating matter. However, a protecting cover
might be made to obviate this. The vessel is chiefly occu-
pied with the furnace and boiler and engine. Her deck is
flush, and the only bulwark is a rope netting. She came
from the Clyde, bound for Aberdeen. She passed through
the Clyde and Forth Canal, and in a mist early on Friday
morning went half-way up the Tay without discovering her
error, having lost reckoning after making the East Neuk
of Fife. We are told that she has neither anchor or
compass on board. '1 hree blades of her paddle were broken
in coming through the canal, which, of course, much re-
duced her speed, but notwithstanding this, her gallant
veteran owner, with his crew one seaman, a stoker, and an
engineer, steamed smartly out of the harbour in the after-
noon, standing gaily away to the north; the little craft, not
much larger than a large fishing boat, sitting lightly and
steadily on the water.-4rbroath Guide