The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-05 00:00:00

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would not be as well to test the rill Nfifilit.6lo4:)?
were used at the targets. To wit qiiit
- ir
military emphasis, the general thus ,eZfen xer:t44
—" You can't do it. There's a man la d •
_ill
from morning to night, and it's all he can dq4o get) is
through. You can't do more than you can do--ane
if you try to do more, you'll do nothing." After
which nothing remained for the volunteer but to
quietly subside into himself—
which he did.
Captain Ross, a member of the council, and father
of Mr. Edward Ross, one of the rejected competi-
tors, proposed that the rejected rifles should be
sent for examination to the Government factory at
Enfield, and that meanwhile their owners should he
allowed to take part in the later stages of the com-
petition for the Queen's prize, under protest, The
second part of this proposal was decisively rejected
by the council, but Colonel Dickerson, inspector at
Enfield, agreed to receive the rifles for exatnina-
tion at Enfield to-day or Monday. Should this
result in favour of any considerable number,,
only
one, of these rifles, as is stated to be more
than likely,the council will find themselves in an un-
pleasant position since the first stage of competition.
for the Queen's Peiee is now concluded ; while, if the
report should be unfavourable, loud are the threats
of action at law against the London Armoury Com-
pany, by whom the
m
rifles have been sold under warranty.
of
rrantyt impeached
.he
The deer target yesterday ran all day, to the in-
tense amusement of the spectators, who congregated
about him in large numbers, and the intense dis-
gust of the disappointed marksmen, who paid their
2s. per shot with no other result than to miss the
bull's eye, or, worse still, to hit that forbidden spot,
the haunch, and so to be fined a shilling. For
those who wish to perfect themselves as marksmen
this running deer is the best target on the ground,
presenting a moveable bull's eye of eight inches
diameter at 120 yards' range, travelling at a mode-
rate speed, and at the same time strikingly life-like.
Nevertheless, the number of bull's eyes made is
surprisingly small. Daring the hour of its run-
ning on Thursday evening 49 shots were fired,
many of which were by accomplished sportsmen,
and yet the bull's eye was not once hit. Then,
again, yesterday the firing was continued from
half-past nine to half-past 11 with the same result ;
but then, as if by a miracle, two bull's eyes were
made successively, and, after one intervening shot,
a third, among the cheers of excited onlookers.
After a lapse of 20 minutes a fourth was made, and
then the running deer was left, another long inter-
val of immunity from damage by rifle shot for
hours. The four fortunate marksmen—for other
competitors said these were mere flukes—were LIS
follows :—A. Munro, let Lanark ; Sergeant Sloper,
4th Dorset ;J. Freu, 4th Lanark—all of whom used
long Enfields ; and Captain Thresher, sth Dorset,
who used a Turner rifle—the honour being equally
divided between the counties of Lanark and Dorset,
neither of which is particularly renowned for deer-
stalking. Later in the day the bull's-eye was hit
by others, among whom was Captain Ross. Pool
at the ordinary targets was very active yesterday,
and the shooting good. The number of those who
paid their shilling for pool on Thursday was 2,819 ;
those who paid for sighting (sixpence) were 3,070;
the number of admissions by payment on that day
being 289, the lowest number of the three days.
For yesterday the return has not yet been furnished.
As an item of some general interest we may state
that the quantity of ammunition issued from the Go-
vernment tent, in charge of Sergeant A. Mullis,
R,H.A., and Police-Sergeant Picton, A division,
was as follows :—Tuesday, 15,360 rounds ; Wed-
nesday, 18,240 rounds; Thursday, 13,440 rounds.
THE QUEEN'S PRIZE. FIRST STAGE.
The shooting at 600 yards, the concluding range
on the first stage of the Queen's prize, was naturally
the most interesting event of the day. The fluctu-
tions of the contest were closely watched ; when a
it
was known—at the termination of the firing—that
a Yorkshireman had attained the highest score, and
so become entitled to the silver medal of the asso-
ciation, a, loud cheer was raised by his brother
Yorkshire Volunteers—who mustered pretty strong-
ly on the ground—which we are compelled to add,
was not very heartily responded to by volunteers
belonging to other counties. The following is the
official return of the principal scores made in this
contest :

200 yds. 500

Walton, 17th West
York. lO5 95
Dongan, 2Gth Lanca-
-8 5 13 5
shire
Pixley, Ist Middlesex 9 5 12 5
Wyatt, Ist City of
London 9 5
Williams, 19th Mid-
dlesex 9 5
Smith Ist Middlesex

12 5

Total.

Engineers 9 5
Anderson, 22nd Mid-
dlesex ............ 9 5
Edwards, Gth Stafford 10 6
Porter, 22d Middle-
sex
French, Ist Warwick 9 5
Dines, 28th Middlesex 8 5
Sprott, sth Lancashire 11 5
A. Smith, Edinburgh
City
Cunningham, 18th
Middlesex
Sullivan, sth Lanca-
shire
Salisbury, 3d Berks.. 6 4
Syme, Ist Lanark.... 7 5
Simpkins, Ist Notts. 8 5
Winzer, 40th Stafford 9 5
Norfolk, 13th Suffolk 8 5
*Murray, Ist Peebles 7 5
Morris, 9th Middlesex 7 5
Hall Doe, Ist Middle-
sex
Jordan, 7th Worcester 9 5
Glover, sth Gloucester 9 5
Millican,4th Leicester 11 5
Ferguson, Ist Inver- 5
ness ll
... _ n
Bettell, 7th Lincoln.
Edenson, Bth DerbY• •
Allen, 12th Derby • . 6
Kennedy, 4th Dum-
Hook, 3d Devon
anca-
LithgoW, 47th Lfries
shire ............ 8 5
Gee, 55th Lancashire 7 5
Foster, Ist City of
London 9 5
Thomas, 4th West

York
Rowe, Ist Devon
Jaques, 70th Lanca-

31 15

shireller
, lst Cambridge 17
58 3 5
Fu
Nichols, 3rd Cam
Robertson, 10thrert.h.
bridge -
106
55 1,1
15 : :
Butler, Ist City of
London: lO 5 9 5 6 3
Stratton, 17th Wor-
cester
Marriott, 4th West
York
Fletcher, Ist War-
wick lO 5 6 4 7 5 23 14 37
Murdoch, Edinburgh City, 43 points ; Blackburn,
Ist Gloucester, 38 points, disqualified, bore tight.
L. A. Rifles.—Bettell 7th Lincoln, bore tight. God,
vernment Rifle, subject to further scrutiny.---Leech
28th Middlesex, 37 points, disqualified. Triggers,
bore
slbs.—West, 9th Essex, 37 points, disqualified,
tight, L. A. Rifle. With the eiceeption of those
where their
disqualified, those of 37 and upwards, t
off tie
position is not determined as above, shoos.
Walton, who heads this list, takes the silver
medal of the association, and with 19 others, mak-
entitled to a rifle, value
ing the highest scores, is
1,25 ; but for these rifles those scoring 39 will have
to shoot off their ties till five are thrown out. In,
the same way the hirty-sevens will have to shoot
again until five are thrown out, so as to reduce the
to those 40 the competition
entire list to 40, and
were restricted.
issu d yesterday-
for the Queen's in the second and final stage of the
the shooting for the Assueiantion Cup will
:euirc:eenu'rn:iteiri led.,rizaeosffiowfc
iiLlall2asrlOestouwritnlhlsabte
for the Extra Prizes
with Pool and the Running
To-day
gAe
tll;
be
unittehrteshemore interesting features of
the day will
peer Va4r,
shooting off of the ties in the
first stage of the Queen's
Lords and Common , the match between the
Harrow, Rugby, and 8 the public schols match, Eton,
Marlborough College, and the
contests for Lord '
Vase
(value Spencer's Cup, the St. GCOrp'S
4200), and
the Harold Cup. <

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