The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-10 00:00:00

Dickinson with a score of 23, and prize presented by Mr.
E. Wade, the sheriff of York, being won by Bombardier
Atkinson with a score of 19. The whole of the prizes wero
publicly distributed on the evening of the last day's shoot-
ing by Mrs. Hollon,

In Cambridgeshire the second monthly competition for a
subscription challenge cup, offered in connection with the
Wisbeach corps has resulted in favour of Private Flanders.
The shooting was at ranges of 200, 500, and 600 yards, and
Private Flanders' score was 37 marks, Sergeant Bennett
coming second with 35. Ou the sth inst. a match was shot
at Cambridge between Captain Deverell's company (No. 6)
and the remainder of the University companies (Nos. 1,2,
3,4, 5), It resulted in the victory of Captain Deverell's
company, notwithstanding the darkness and inclemency of
the weather during the whole period of their firing at 600
yards ; eight competitors on each side ; seven shots at 200,
300, 500, and GOO yards.

King Leopold appears to have deferred his jour-
ney to England until the marriage of the Prince of Wales,

in the month of March.

The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon left town

on Monday for their seat, High Clere, near Newbury.

Colonel and Lady Margaret Charteris come to
:own to-day, from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness

of Bath, at Longleat.

Sir Fredk. Graham has arrived at the Brunswick
:otel, Jermyn-street, from Netherby.

A marriage is arranged to take place between the
Hon. Algernon Egerton, M.P., brother to the late Earl of
Ellesmere, and Miss Alice Cavendish, daughter of Lord

and Lady George Cavendish.

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The marriage of Mr. Robert A. Brooks, eldest
son of Mr. R. Brooks, M.P., of Woodcote Pack, Surrey,
to Katherine Pascal, eldest daughter of Mr. J. E. Geils, of
Dumbuck, county Dumbarton, and granddaughter of the
late Mr. Charles Dickinson, of Farley Hill, Berks, was cele-
brated at Queen Charlton on the 4th inst.

Certain persons, belonging to that political party
which has lately lifted up its head so much in Frussia,

propose, it is said, to present to the ex-King of Naples a
silver shield, commemorative of his exploits and misfor-
tunes, and for which the design is already sketched, It
represents Francis 11. on a rock, defending himself against
the attacks of a troop of demons, two among which are con-
qtaarcai unmistakeably to raeamble Vietor E.....anuel and
Garibaldi.
AN EX PRESIDENT.—The will of ex-PrEs;dent
Van Buren has been admitted to probate at Hudson. It is
dated Jan, 18, 1860, and commences as follows L
Martin Van Buren, of the town of Kinderhook, county of
Columbia and State of New York, heretofore governor of
the State, and more recently President of the United
States, but for the last and happiest year of my life a far"
mer in my native town, do make and declare the following
to be my last will and testament," &c.
--EXPORT OE COAL.—The following is a return of
the quantity of coal exported from the port of Grimsby
during the month of November, 1862 :—To France, 3,29e0
tons ; Norway. 359 tons; Denmark, 683 tons ; Sweden, 37
tons; Hanseatic towns, 3,711; Prussia, 1,697 tons ; Rus-
sia, 309 tons ; Italy, 518 tons. Total foreign, 10,916 tons
corresponding period last year, 6,945 tons. Coastwise, 1,361
tons ; corresponding period last year, 1,239 tons. Grand
total, 12,307 tons; corresponding period last year, 8,18
tons; increase, 1862, 4,123 tons.
THE NEW HIGHWAY ACT.—An adjourned Quarter
Session has been held in Suffolk to receive the report of a
committee appointed in October to consider the merits of
the New Highway Act. The committee reported that the
clerk of the peace had laid before them 93 memorials against
the adoption of the Act from ratepayers of the western dive'
sion of the county, containing 1,691 signatures, and two Pe'
titions in favour of the Act, containing 16 signatures. The
purport of the petitions against the Act was that the fulfil-
ment of its provisions would materially increase the expeasie
of maintaining the highways in the respective parishes,
au
tend to throw many of the aged poor out of eruployingit?
and consequently place them upon the poor-rates. set-.
withstanding this view of the matter was supported by an
immense majority of signatures, the committee came to the
conclusion that the adoption of the new Act would lead-
generally to a material reduction of expense instead of al'
increase, and that it would effect a general improvement it;
the roads of the district. They therefore recommende-
that the Act should be adopted within the western div°°rl
of the county or liberty of Bury St, Edmund's, referring
the arrangement of districts for future considersticT
Major Parker, M.P., on the presentation of the rePerr
moved that, having regard to the unmistakeableevi-
dence afforded of the opinion of the ratepayers, it Waar.
expedient to proceed further with the measure. ""c,-
Reveread R. Gwilt also counselled postponement, 1;
order that the oounty at large might have time to elPrefit
opinions upon the subject. Mr, Iluddleston argued 03E",
many of the adverse memorialists could not have read tl;
bill, as the management would, by its provisions, remain to
the same hands as at present. The machinery only ,vg_d_
altered ; the surveyors were to be called waywardens,
instead of these waywardens acting alone they would act
bodies. On a division, the report was adopted by 12 10 6,
and a committee was appointed for the purpose of takings.
into consideration the question of districts and reporting
thereon to the January Sessions.
BRITISH COLUMBIA. The British Colut33l/I°'
papers of October give good accounts of the mines. oft
British, Colo”.%" ~or- • -" nn a 01W-fiferi
Wt..' with a miner from William Creek, s„1,0 trave 88
over nearly the whole Cariboo country last summer' nio
says that the rush of broken' men is over. Few who c° at
in future but will have dust, and many will have grin,
quantities of it. Several men who came down with to
on the last trip of the enterprise, with from 2,000 dols:
60,000 dole. in their possession, reported theinseivereo
'strapped' for fear of assassination or robbery if it cs:o,..
publicly known that they had money, and this, our in"
ant says, will not be the case with future arrivals frelnatob(l
river. Many miners are at work on small creek° lose
glouches, and taking out the biggest kind of Kt ere
names and the names of the localities in which theYe; of
busy have never been heard of in Victoria, The high prie pot
provisions did the injury to the country this year, and 00
the lack of dust. Our informant left William Creek °lt to
13th of September, when snow was falling fast, and laYa
inches deep on the banks of the creek. The nugget fdtir'
Major Downie's claim weighed 1,100 dols. ; this clam'
Pile
about 50 dole, a day to the hand. Beegan's claim, halt. tt A
below the major's pay, 30 ounces a day to the conVeZg'iliel
nugget weighing between 400 dols. and 500 dols.was eu -deg
from this claim. All the hill claims on this creek are Pa
well. The creek claims below the Canon are yielding&-oey,
as richly as the creek claims above. On Lowilee,, jorS•
about 100 men are working. In one of theclainas :6"
out
to the square foot is being made; 536 dole. was takellaio,
of another claim on this creek, in‘one day. Tilton s c oor
also on Lowhee, will yield the owner an independeace'soce
informant showed us specimens of coarse gold fromtor,
which will assay 18 dots. 6Cc. to the ounce. 0a Lig/1 oil'
Creek three claims are paying richly. Three other e.etio.eo
vies make 15 dots. a day. On Last Chance Cree,,,ed,
companies are at work, making 80 dols. a day to the ne'"oo,
Anderson Creek, a tributary of Lightning, has one 1,44
pany at work, taking out 40 dols. a day to the haad...,,do
of Clubs Creek has one company drifting ; they obta"roeig.
good prospect ; something heavy is expected from this c
_ors,
oIIt
fr
FOniveAcnotmlepranthieesdaigregaintgwsorakreonsmsualgl,arbcurteewki,nalnads tinf ()aria,'
15 to 20 dole. a day to the hand. One of these coOPAecoi f,
had reached the bed-rock and obtained a handsome pia'
Big diggings are looked for there. A company is Irt )300
on Nelson Creek, and doing well in the hill. A elt3,loc.
been sunk 70ft. in depth, and a prospect of from let "ova
obtained. There are numerous little creeks that are jog
heard of here, where from one to five companies are 11, 16
handsome wages. On Snowshoe eight companies net! 10 to
dole. a day to the hand, One company on Chisholm /or:
15 dots. Four companies on Davis are doing WelhA gOCa
vey's has one company doing well in the Creek.
boy° ft:
hill prospect was obtained on Lightning, 100ft•aopaa,
c
level of the creek, at the rear of the California °goo e,
claim. Judge Bely'
gbie was engaged in trying
that
Williams' on the 13th. As a farming countrYt t in
on the line of the Brigade trail is pronounced by d cree,!
want as the best in the world, and on Cottonwee over°
Were is land with which the best soil on Vatic
Island will not compare." r(1ttl-
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SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW.-- yes-e
was the the second day of the Smithfield 011;0 sh
Show, or rather the first to the general public in, to Sot;
of a one shilling day, and the result has tendee dellto
the problem upon which there has been so mu dock
and speculation—viz., whether the people Well ito
the same proportion to the show as they did ittfrocaa (11,1,1
western and aristocratic region of Baker-street. fi'd,:aitt'e
subject there need be no-doubt, as the public Were ill el,
by six tell-tale turnstiles, and when it is stated tui3o
hour, between two and three o'clock, just C,O
passed through them, and that between three 12,000
01
o'clock it was estimated that there were ire°. food 01
14,000 persons in the building, some idea may be amber 9
the unfailing popularity of the exhibition. The art, t°
visitors admitted through the turnstiles, froth, %
p.m., was 27,141. sas'
A Cassel letter in the Hamburg?' News . g
"The Princess Hohonlohe, daughter of the tpsYll9,o
tor, whose husband has gone to America Witllsoo'
~s, 11;0
his debts, which amount to very considerable ;the fc_i
been summoned to appear before the tribunal c nil son.%
city of Frankfort ; as well as her brother, thet,:ee...7oo iforsl%
the Elector. The princess tigned bills for
.0(0) u_rinee
to
which her husband put in circulation, and "11,1;000
brother gave his guarantee by attaching his
At the
80,000 florins' worth of those bills,"
Birmingham
THE
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Police-court
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19
Carter, aged 19, brassfounder, was chargl
Thursday hot,
der of his sweetheart, Alice Hinkley, on
g.ve _ "forvert„,i
shooting her. The evidence which waserdrictuc,
posted©
Coroner on Monday evening, whenacaeuvsed,
was'
repo,,tuda
murder" was returned against th(3
-oelatirr jo,
yesterdayi3
°aches theret°
capital charge. The court and
aPPr
r,ons anxious
t°
densely crowded during the day by pe
twin, a sight of the accused.
and the prisoner committed to the next assizes on the