The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-04 00:00:00

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terday, eon
__t part of it which was furl
nished on official authority, which will require the
following corrections :
Palmer and Gibson, entered yesterday as Cam'
bridge, should be Cumberland.
Wean in yesterday's return should have been
19th Lanark. _ _

Ensign Sprott should have been Liverpool Rifle
Brigade.
Wheeler should have appeared instead of Will-
shire in yesterday's return.
40th Stafford--=-For Winger read Winger.

The following is the score, as far as could be
ascertained, of the contest for The All Comers'

Prizes :

200 Yard=.
Points. Hits
Brooks, 12th Middlesex ll 5
Formby, Liverpool, R.L. ll 5
Simons, South Middlesex 11 5
Brougham, 16th Stafford ll 5
Phillips, sen., Ist Salop ll 5
Clayton, Victoria
Macrostie, 12th Surrey ll 5
Happlestone ..
Pearce, 27th West York.. •

500 Yards.
Anderson, sth Perth.. l2
Boothby, Fife Art.
Boyne, 2d Cheshire
Heaton, 3d Manchester

600 Yarda
Heaton, 3d Manchester 12 5
Wigram, Coldstream Guards 9 5
Kinnear, Ist Edinburgh 8 5
Simons, South Middlesex 8 5
EXTRA PRIZES.—FIRST SERIES.
600 Yards. .577 Bore.
Cooper, 16th Middlesex 11 5
Robinson, 16th Middlesex 9 5
Toogood, 25th Devon
Fisher, Ist Wilts
FIRST SERIES.—Rifles under 101bs.
800 Yards.

Smith, Victoria ............ 14 5 19
Heaton, 3d Manchester...... 12 5 17
Simonds, 2d Middlesex • ... 12 5 17
At an advanced period of the day it was announced
that Colonel Rickson, the Inspector-General of
Muskets at the Enfield factory, would attend this
day at Wimbledon for the purpose of inspecting the
*K.-rifles which have been objected to and issued
from thii Governmaiii stores, bat it waiunderstood
that the only object the Council had in view was
the protection of the great body of volunteers from
any unfair advantage which might be attempted,
when rifles are supplied by private manufacturers_
The following official notice was issued last evening
on the subject :

‘‘ Wimbledon, July 3, 1862.

" All rifles made by private gunmakers or com-
panies which do not fulfil the required conditions
as to bore and grooving are disqualified. Bona fide
Government Enfields, furnished by Government
direct, or through the association, which do not
fulfil the conditions referred to may be used, subject
to further scrutiny at the close of the competition.
" ELCHO, Chairman of Council.

" Edward Mildmay, Secretary."
The contest for the above prizes will be resumed
this day, when the shooting for the Queen's Prize
will take place at 600 yards.
At six o'clock the shooting at the running deer
was resumed; but the marksmen merely had their
shooting for their pains, as the whole of the receipts
went to increase the funds of the association.

The unfavourable state of the weather yesterday
affected the receipts; but the accounts on the whole
are satisfactory. The admissions on payment on
Tuesday were 330; Wednesday, 511. Running-
deer target, 25., Tuesday, 40 ; pool targets, Is.,
Tuesday, 3,374 ; Wednesday, 5,039. Sighting tar-
gets, at 6d., on Tuesday, 2,942 ; Wednesday, 4,417.
The entries for the public schools' prize this year
embrace those of Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Marl-
borough College_ It will take place on Saturday
next.
The decision of the council on the question of dis-
qualification was come to in the absence of General
Hay, the umpire, by whom this and all similar
questions should be finally adjudged.
_ .

The whole case will be submitted to him to-
morrow.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTI-
TUTION.

Yesterday a meeting of this institution was held
at its house, John-street, Adelphi—Thomas Chap-

man, Esq., F.R.S., in the chair. There were also
present Captain Sir Edward Perrott, Bart., Admiral
Sir George Sartorius, Alexander Boetefeur, Esq.,
Admiral Cator, Captain de St. Croix, Admiral
Gordon, Montague Gore, Esq., and Richard Lewis,

Esq., secretary. The minutes of the previous meet-
ing having been read, a reward of £6 was voted to
pay the expenses of the institution's lifeboat sta-
tioned at Polkerris, near Fowey, Cornwall, in put-
ting of and saving eturing-a-ticaTy 6-.2...f wind,
and under very adverse circumstances, the Danish
schooner Sylphiden, of Nakskov, and her crew of
seven men. Mr. Stabb, R.N., chief officer of coast-
guard, had gone off in the lifeboat, and it was re-
ported that much of the success of this valuable
service was owing to his highly meritorious conduct
and seamanship. The institution voted to Mr.
Stabb its thanks, inscribed on vellum. The Whit-
t burn lifeboat of the institution had recently saved,
during a gale of wind and a heavy surf, from de-
struction, four fishing cobles, and their crews of 12
men. This boat is called the " Thomas Wilson,'
after one of the benevolent founders of this truly,
important and national institution, whose opera-
tions seem attracting the admiration of all nations.
Payments were also made to the crews of the life-
boats of the society stationed at Eastbourne, Port-
rush, and Kingsgate, for services offered to vessels
in distress. The silver medal of the institution
was voted to James Gough, fisherman, and to John
Donovan, chief boatman of the coast-guard, with £2
to the latter, in testimony of their daring cont great
teiant
swimming off through a heavy surf, and, at
risk of life, assisting to rescue 24 men belonging
which
to
the ship Queen of Commerce, of iv
was some time since wrecked near Tramoreßay.
It appeared that the ship had struck on a rock
frohl
b the
Gough, be
eehff ,
which, being ob-
servedabout fifty yards
the
shore
closely fol-
lowed by Donovan, swam out to the rock, over
which the sea was furiously breaking. They got
hold of a life-buoy, which had been thrown from
the ship with a line fastened to it, by which means
they succeeded in getting a hawser from the vessel
to the shore. By this time they
had received
of help from persons on
theshoreadthus
whole of the vessel's crew of 23 men and a
pilot
fortunately reached the shore in safety. A
n and
plenty
the
reward

of £2 was also granted to an Irish fisherman, named
Peter Connor, in testimony of his daring conduct
in rushing into the surf and rescuing, at great risk
of life, the master of the schooner Fairy, which, dur-
ing a gale of wind on the 11th ult., foundered near
the Tusker Light, on the Irish coast, The crew
had taken to the vessel's boat, which, on their
ie
at-
tempting to reach the shore, was upset in
life,
the
surf; two of the crew managed to reach the
the master, who was apparently without land,
was
rescued by the intrepidity of Connor,
fourth man unhappily perished. Thesepoor
but the
Irish fishermen are always ready, on
v their bleak in-
hospitable coast, to risk their
full well that their
i es to rescue the
shipwrecked sailor, knowingu f
self-denying acts will not go
unrewarded by the
National Lifeboat Institution. 3lrs. E. Hope had,
the Rev. F. W.
as executrix of her husband,latex
34 0
to establish a lifeboat
Hope, paid the society
eat Appledore, Devon. A.
and transporting car
lady, resident at Leith,
institution gbad also forwarded to the
liberal donation ation of £lOO. The society
d( tided to a place
institution a a
lifeboat as early as practicable
: n
the Northumberland coast. The
cost, £250 of t
at Tynemouth, this
G. boat had been presented to the
institution by G. .T. Fenwick, Esq. A lifeboat was
decided to be stationed at New Brighton, near
aL
loi
sv
e
r
p
001. It was stated that Colchester, emulat-
ing the laudable example of Ipswich, had decided
to collect the coast of a lifeboat, and that sermons
were to be preached in all the churches and
chapels of that town on the 21st inst., in aid of
(
that benevolent object. Several lifeboat-houses
were being built for the institution on various
parts of the coast, at a cost of £1,500. One of
them at Braunton, North Devon, is to be built on
piles on the sands, and will in consequence be of
a very expensive character, the sum required for
its erection being nearly £230. Payree.nts aTount-
ing to £360 having been made on various
lifeboat
estabishments, the proceedings terminated.

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