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

THE KIN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY ft, 1863.

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cally, and it was arranged that the firing should take Ist or 2d prize (the gold and silver jewel shat.
be in that order; and thus ran the list of the eleven George), which gal to the best two shots. The
chosen marksmen of the House of Lords—viz., the twentynines will so shoot oa their ties, to deter
' Earl of Ducie, Lord Londesborough, Lord Lovat, tinction of the third prize, a bronze cross of St.
Duke of Marlborough, Earl Somers, Lord Suffield, George.
Lord Vernon, and Lord Wharncliffe. And thus wichillo
The Harold Cup, value £52, presented by Lieut.
the list of the crack shots of the House of Commons W. F. Wills, of the 37th Middlesex, with £5O added
—viz., Lord Burs, Mr. Dillwyn, Lord Elcho, Mr. by the National Rifle Association, viz., £25 for the
Forster (Bradford), Lord Grey e on, Earl second best shot, £l5 for the third, and £lO for the
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Grosvenor, Mr. Leslie, Mr. Hastings Russell,
Mr_ 11. Vivian, and the Hon. li. Wyndham. The following is the official return, viz.:—Ni-
Talbot,
The general public looking at the two squads were
cholls, 10th Stafford, 48 ; Gibbs, Ist Gloster, 47 ;
at a complete loss as to their respective merits ; hut Tremlett, Ist Devon, 46 ; McGibbon, 14th Edin-
the knowing ones backed the Lords, freely offering burgh, 46 ; Hogg, Ist Peebles, 46; Howard, Vic-
three and even five to one, ands uling decisively toria Rifles, 46.
that the Commons had not the gst of a chance. The four forty-sixes shoot off ties to determine
Just before three o'clock, the two squads moved
third and fourth prizes to-day.
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HE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.—ASHBURTON CHALLENGE
SHIELD.-200 YARDS.—FIVE SHOTS AT EACH
200 yards, and there squatted themselves down on
the ground before two targets within seven or eight DISTANCE.
yards of each other—the public schools at the
Harrow beat Rugby by 10, Eton by 49, and
same time taking their places at contiguous targets, Marlborough by 52.
so that the whole interest of the afternoon was EARL SPENCER'S CUP, 'VALUE £2o_
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concentrated around one particular spot. To keep f each
off the pressure of the crowd ropes had been
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stretched for a considerable distance at the back of the four schools in the Ashburton competition,
of the firing posts, behind which was a closely
set row of chairs, borrowed for the occasion from the
parks, and which were appropriated solely to the
use of the ladies, those of the fair sex who could not
be so accommodoted being allowed to enter within
the enclosure, where they sat on shawls of their
own or on top-coats and Mackintoshes, carefully
spread out for them by husbands, or fathers, or
brothers, or friends; and it was now that the scene
became lively, picturesque, pic-nicish, and English.
The sun's rays were reflected from the barrels of
hundreds of rifles, and brought out into stronger re-
lief the flashing colours of scores of parasols, bright
shawls, and gorgeously-trimmed bonnets. All
ranks and conditions mixed freely together; every-
body seemed to recognise everybody, and every-
where was enjoyment. It was the Derby-day over
again, only upon a small, a very small, scale. It had
been said that Prince Napoleon would come, and
the Duke of Cambridge, but neither of these illus-
trious personages was present, nor was Lord Chan-
cellor Westbury, nor Mr. Speaker, in robe and wig.
Among those who were present, however, we ob-
served the Lady Constance Grosvenor, Lord Clyde,
Lord Sefton, Lord Eversley, Lord Llanover, the
Duke of Sutherland, Mr. Childers, M.P., General
Eyre, Sir G. Womwell, &c.
At three o'clock the signal gun announced the
opening of the contest, and at once the word was
given, the score being kept for the Lords by Capt.
Bythersea, of the 3d Royals; and by Capt. Woods,
3d Buffs, for the Commons.
The Marquis of Abercorn led off the fire at tar-
get 28, making a centre, and so scoring two points
and a hit with his first shot ; Lord Bury following
at target 29, with the same result. The Duke of
Marlborough and Lord Wharncliffe each made a
bull's-eye (or three points and a hit) with his first
shot ; but no bull's-eye was made by the Commons
until the second round, when it was done by Lord
Bury and Lord Elcho. The firing throughout at this
range was so even up to the last round as leave it
doubtful whether the Lords would sustain their re-
putation. Every centre, more especially every bull's-
eye, called forth a hearty burst of cheering from one
side or the other, and as this was also the case with
regard to the coincident struggle of the public
schools, a stranger to English manners and customs
might have imagined that the crowd was frenzied
with excitement. The firing was kept up pretty
regularly, but the Commons were somewhat quicker
than their opponents, and had completed their seven
rounds before their opponents had finished their
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LORDS. Pts. Hits. Pts. Hits. Total.
Marquis of Abercorn l4 7 17 7 45
Earl of Airlie
Lord Bolton
Earl of Dueie
Lord Londesborough 9 6 12 6 33
Lord Lovat 6 5 8 4 23
Duke of Marlborough 15 7 11 6 39
Earl Somers l6 7 10 6 39
Lord Suffield 7 5 3 3 18
Lord Vernon l5 7 16 7 45
Lord Wharncliffe l7 7 16 7 47

Points. Hits. Total.
Earl of Eldon—Eton .. 13 .. 6 .. 19
Elmhurst—Rugby
Flood—Harrow .. 9 5.. 14
Parancian—Marlborough 4 2.. 6
THE ALL COMERS.
The competition was continued. The following
made 17 at 200 yards (five shots each) vizl—Smitb,
17th Edinburgh ; Fellowes, Victorias ; Colesworth,
Liverpool R. B.
The following made 19 at 500 yards, viz, : Moir,
23d Stirling; Padwick, 7th Sussex; Baynes, 12th
Surrey; Cunliffe, 26th Cheshire; Vesey, Ist War-

wick.
At 600 yards, Moir, 23d Stirling, and Diney,
28th Middlesex, made 19 ; and De Gendre (Swiss)
and Young, Ist Stirling, scored 18, hits and points
included in all cases.
Some good scores were also mad tin the competi-
tion for the extra prizes, the shoog for the first
series of which closes tonight.
For the Association Cup no returns were issued.
The grievance of the disqualification for rejected
rifles still continues, although Mr. Ross's rifle was
returned from Enfield on Saturday with an un-
favourable report ; which prima facie justifies the
decision of the council in an individual case. Still
the general question continued to excite a good
deal of bitter comment, and a formal protest was
made en Saturday by Ensign Murdocke, of the Ist
Edinburgh, one of the disqualified, and who claims
the right of competing in the second stage of the
Queen's prize whatever the result of his protest
may be.
The programme for to-day, in addition to the As-
sociation Cup, the All Corners, the extra prizes, the
running deer, and pool, embraces the competition
between Oxford and Cambridge, commencing at
three o'clock ; Lord Vernon:B prize, Messrs. Ely's
prize, and the Oaks.

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

Saturday's attendance was excellent in point of
numbers, and unexceptionable as regards the rank
and fashion of the visitors. His Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales was an early visitor, and re-
mained till the afternoon, inspecting the picture
galleries and annexes. The nave, as usual on these
days, was a long and brilliant promenade, the num-
bers in which as the day advanced received con-
siderable accessions from the visitors to the Horti-
cultural Gardens. Still, though the nave was the
fashion, a fair proportion of the visitors was distri-
buted among the side courts and galleries, admiring
their contents, in which it is quite easy to find fresh
beauties at every visit. The English furniture
court, we are glad to say, is steadily rising in popu-
lar admiration, and especially in the admiration of
those whose approbation is almost fame. None are
more hearty and more unqualified in their praise of
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hibitors in the same class. In this court, as in all
others, the best things have been sold long ego ;
clocks, watches, philosophical instruments, bronzes,
furniture, porcelain, tapestries, silks, and laces—all
the things worth having, in short, have found eager
purchasers competing for their possession. None
have been more astonished at the demand than the
exhibitors themselves, who mostly state that they
could have sold ten times the amount they had in
the building ; and some of the most fortunate have
received orders which will keep their hands full of
business for the nest 10, or even 15 months.
In the Indian collection there were at first
some wonderful bargains to be bad, especially
in the enamelled gold work of Jeypore and
the filigree silver of Cuttack. These were
soon found out and bought, and the fame of their
cheapness spread, and the collection was invaded by
eager customers, who have bought up nearly every-
thing, and of course all the textiles, from the fairy
webs of Dacca muslin to the gorgeous shawls of
Delhi, or thick soft fabrics of Cashmere. We may
add that the attraction of this court to general visi-
tors has been much enhanced by giving conspicuous
positions to the two stuffed specimens of Royal
tigers which form most characteristic ornaments of
the collection. They are now placed where their
huge proportions can be closely scanned, and they
excite such an amount of interest on shilling days
that it is difficult to get near the cases at all. Both
these gigantic brutes were shot by Colonel Reid
in March, 1860. The largest, though its skin has,
of course, shrunk very considerably since its tan-
ning, must still measure eight feet from the nose to
the tail, and is no less than fifteen inches between
the ears. Within the last three years tigers have
become so scarce in India as to lead to a confident
expectation that in a few years more they will be
almost as much things of the past throughout the
greater part of India as crocodiles are in the Lower
Nile, or buffaloes on the prairies of Illinois. A proof
of this is to be found in the fact that tigers' claws
(which are much worn by the natives as charms)
have risen in value in India to as much as five
rupees for a single claw. The mutineers, who were
driven into the remotest fastnesses of the jungle,
were compelled in self-defence to destroy the tigers,
and the amateur exertions of our own officers com-
pleted the slaughter, till now they are fortunately
very rare indeed.
Though Saturday was, for the first time this sum-
mer, rather a warm day, the temperature in the
building was never more than moderately warm.
Messrs. Negretti and Zambra have fixed their most
sensitive thermometers on the floor and in the
galleries for the purpose of ascertaining the maxi-
mum heat in these two places every day, and so far
as their experiments have yet gone they show the
galleries, owing to the admirable system of ven
while
lation, to be as cool as the basement storey,
the various anemometers in both the nave and the
galleries prove that there is always a good current
of air in the latter, though scarcely any in the for-
mer. The result is, therefore, that the hot air is
taken off as fast as it rises, and the highest reading
of the thermometer as yet has rarely been 64 deg.
in the nave and 65 deg. in the galleries.
A very useful office in the north-east tower of the
building has been established for affording
connected
with the communications of the United Kingdom,
means
whether by road, rail, or sea, including the internoal
communications of the metropolis itself, e
transit to forei n countries, Sze. A charg of ld. isf
made for admission, in return for which the visitor
has the opportunity of referring to all thead me-
tables,
tisements, &c.
dep
A portion of the department ad-
joining the Post-office is also set apart as a letter.
writing room, where stamps and paper areartment sold.
ides, r
maps, directories, railway g
u
The want of such a conveyance inquiry
as this, and especially of a letter-writing room, has
been felt for some time. The admissions hy season
by payment of
tickets on Saturday were 9,826, and
half-a-crown 15,473 ; total, 25,299.

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COMMONS.
Lord Bury.. l5 7 17 7 46
Mr. Dillwyn l4 7 7 4 32
Lord Elcho
Mr. Forster, Bradford 7 5 16 7 35
Lord Grey de Wilton 9 5 0 0 14
Earl Grosvenor l4 7 8 5 34
Mr. Leslie 7 7 13 7 34
Mr. Hastings Russell 11 6 9 6 32
Mr. Talbot ll 7 4 4 26
Mr. H. Vivian .. 10 7 7 5 29
Hon. H. Wyneiara .. 13 7 4 2 26

When the numbers were finally announced the
Commons looked for a moment rather blank, but
then, said Lord Eleho, " Well, let's give three
cheers for the Lords ;" and three hearty cheers
were given, to which the victors made a responsive
echo. " And now," said Lord Elcho, " Let's give
one cheer more for the licking we mean to give 'em
next year." The Commons cheered accordingly ;
the Lords again responded, but this time a little
derisively, and then they passed away from the
firing posts, Lord Elcho, in a semi-comic tone, re-
marking, Sic transit gloria--.'
Just at that moment a mighty cheer arose from
the targets immediately to the left, and a glance
told the spectators that Harrow had prevailed in
the contest of the public schools. Later in the
evening, when the Harrow boys were on the point
of taking their departure, the unsuccessful
Etonians surrounded them, and cheered them off
the ground with the heartiness of good will, and
an utter freedom from the pangs of jealous ambi-
tion ; owing probably to the fact, as much as any-
thing else, that in the competition which followed,
that for the Ashburton shield, and which was con-
fined to the best shot of each eleven of the four
schools, Eton bore off the prize.

THE QUEEN'S PRIZE.
The ties were shot off, leaving the twenty highest
who are entitled to the twenty Whitworth Rifles
as follow :—Walton, 17th West York, 46 (silver
medal) ; Dougan, 26th Lancashire, 44 ; Wyatt, Ist
City of London, 43; Williams, 19th Middlesex,
43; Pixley, Ist Middlesex, 40 ; M. Smith, Victoria
Rifles, 43 ; Edwards, 6th Stafford, 42 ; Anderson,
22d Middlesex, 5,,42 ; French, Ist Warwick, 41 ;
Porter, 22d Middlesex, 41 ; Sprott, Liverpool, R. 8.,
40 ; Dines, 28th Middlesex, 40 ; Cunningham, 18th
Middlesex, 40 ; A. Smith, Edinburgh City, 40 ;
Morris, 9th Middlesex, 39 ; Doe, Ist Middlesex, 39;
Norfolk, 13th Suffolk, 39; Palmer, 36th Stafford,
39; Synw, Ist Lanark, 39; Sullivan, Liverpool,
R. 8., 39.
The following are the second twenty entitled to
fire for the Queen's Prize, second stage, with the
twenty winners of Whitworth rifles :—Glover, sth
West York, 39 ; Winzer, 40th Stafford, 39; Salis-
bury, 3d Berks, 39 ; Simpkins, Ist Notts, :$9; Jor-
dan, 7th Worcester, 39 ; Richardson, 11th Surrey,
38 ; Bettell, 7th Lincoln, 38 ; Thomas, 4th West
York, 38; Allen, 12th Derby, 38; Millican, 4th
Leicester, 38th ; Lithgoe, 47th Lancashire, 38 ;
Hook, 3d Devon, 38 ; Edenson, 3d Derbyshire, 38 ;
Kennedy, 4th Dumfries, 38 ; Ferguson, Ist Inver-
ness, 33 ; Jee, 55th Lancashire, 38 ; Ferguson, Ist
City of London, 38; Marriott, 4th West York, 37;
Jaques, 70th Lancashire, 37th ; Fuller, Ist Cam-
bridge, 37.

THE LEGITIMIS7 GA TUBBING.

• Nineteen years have passed away since M.
Berryer and other distinguished ?artisans braved
the horrors of the Channel to pa y 7 in Belgrave-
•
square, their homage to the illustrious pretender
whom they revered as the true mona,ach of p'= ante.
These meetings have been often repeiated in diffe-
rent places and in many widely diver,ged states of
political relations, but they have never attained
such numerical importance as the great :pilgrimage
which has this year drawn some 4,000 Legitimists
to the shores of the Lake of Lucerne. If all these
people return to their homes and move in _French
society unchallenged by the Government it will
show, we think, no small moderation on the part of
the Emperor. Nothing, indeed, is more difficult to
comprehend than the remorseless severity of his
internal policy at one moment, and its extraordi-
nary lenity at another. But a few years ago long
files of well-educated men, who had committed no
crime, were marched through the streets on their
way to Cayenne, and no persons at least as hostile
to his throne are allowed, it would seem, at least
for one little hour, to conspire as they please. To
say that the deportations of 1852 and 1858 were the
result of extreme fear is hardly a sufficient expla-
nation. It seems to be the fashion in this country
to treat this Legitimist congress rather as a joke
than as a serious demonstration. We suspect that
this is a mistake, and that the Legitimist party is
really stronger than many believe. It is not very
largely represented in Paris, and most Englishmen
generalise a little too hastily from what they find
in that city. The " real old bats of bigotry" do
not cross our path. They sulk in the provinces,
writing books about the genealogies of themselves
and their neighbours, and grumbling about the
Pope, or they give themselves up to mere gaiety
and " le sport," or they improve their fortunes by
commercial speculations ; but they are nume-
rous, and if united and in earnest might at any
moment be formidable, supported, as they
would at present be, by a large portion
of the clergy. We cannot be too often
reminded that religion is a great power
in the France of 1862. The ouvrier class in the
capital, and, indeed, generally, is hostile to it; but
the bourgeozsie has of late become pious out of oppo-
sition to the ruling powers. Not only on great
occasions, as when le Pere Felix preaches at St.
Roth or Notre Dame, or when some great function
is celebrated at the Madeleine, but habitually, the
churches of Paris are thronged. The reaction of
the last fifty years, which in England has turned to
the advantage of inumerable sects, has in France,
for all political purposes, turned to the advantage
of the Church of Rome only. The teaching of a
man like Renan is for the few; and French Protes-
tantism, except as represented by the school of
Strasburg, is intellectually defunct. When Gen.
Dolmas was questioned by Napoleon after the great
ceremony in Notre Dame which took place in hon-
our of the Concordat of 1802, he replied, "Nothing
was wanting but the million of men who have
perished in order to destroy what you have now re-
established." Re-established it has been to some
purpose; and this the Count de Chambord knew
well when he advised his friends to sink their poli-
tical differences, and vote for the Pope's friends.
One good turn deserves another. We do not assert
that the heir of St. Louis has any reasonable pros-
pect of returning to the throne of his ancestors. On
the contrary, we think that such an event is ex-
tremely improbable ; but France is the country of
surprises, and the gagging of the press makes it
impossible to do more than conjecture the state of
public feeling. Most men of Royer Collard's turn
of mind would, after all that passed, prefer in all
probability an Orleans prince as the person most
likely to be able to work Parliamentary system in
France ; but some sensible people are undoubtedly
of a different opinion, and the well-grounded hope
that the "lily will never blossom" is a temptation to
end the struggle between the two lines by rallying
round the one which has strict legal right on its side.
To the question—Has England anything to gain by
the restoration of the elder branch ? even those who
are least well-affected to the imperial regime must re-
turn a direct negative. No body of educated French-
men hates us so bitterly as do the partisans of the
Count de Chambord, for they are actuated not only
by that sentiment of dislike, a grain or two of
which is to be found in the heart of the least pre-
arsasesa of their countrymen, not only by the uneasy
feeling of a proud and irritable race which was
worsted in its last struggle with us, but by the con-
viction that in the English people the principle of
the right divine and the pretentions of the Roman
Church have their most uncompromising opponents.
We claim and exercise the right to criticise in the
strongest way the government of the Emperor. We
desire to see the popular mind in this country far
more enlightened than it is as to the methods by
which he seized, as well as to some of those by
which he retains power ; but we have no to
his dynasty. Bonapartism without chauvinism is
as welcome to us as any political war cry which is
raised among our neighbours. We respect the
defenders of the old parties. We feel that we may
one day find ourselves supporting the pretensions of
an Orleanist Prince ; but we do so only because we
are possessed by the fear that the Bonaparte family
will never frankly commit itself to constitutional
government, and that some morning we may wake
up to find the decree of the 24th Novembr, 1860,
rescinded as suddenly as it was made, and a soldier
of the Espinasse stamp disposing of the lives and
liberties of the best of his fellow-citizens, If, the
ruler of France will only carry out the policy whicla
Napoleon 111. is. we believe, really desirous to carry
out in Italy; if he will weigh with a heavy hand
upon priestcraft ; if, further, he will, as speedily as
may be, restore freedom to his people, he will have,
not the respect and confidence of Englishmen, for
we cannot forgot the past; but he will have at least
all the support which public opinion in England
can give him. Nine men out of ten on this side of
the Straits will sympathize with 011iver, who is
content that bygones should be bygones, rather than
with those who are eternally longing for the old
names and the old leaders. Those who are person-
ally acquainted with the Count de Chambord
declare that he has many qualities which are
desirable in a constitutional king. It is quite
possible that in the event of the sudden
death of the Emperor, some of the military
chiefs in whose hands the destinies of France would
for several days be balanced might declare for the
elder line. Should this ever occur we trust that
the Roman question may have been previously
settled. It will be something if one opportunity for
blundering is removed from the path of Henry V.
—London Review.

TILE COLLIERY INUNDATION AT
LLANELLY.

LLANELLY, SATURDAY,

The terrible catastrophe briefly telegraphed on
Friday has thrown a gloom over this town, which
has been particularly frt e from colliery accidents,
although surrounded by such works. An occur-
rence somewhat similar happened in the Gwen-
draeth Valley some years ago, when a number of
lives were lost by the flooding of a coal mine, and a
long time elapsed before the bodies were recovered.
In the present case there is also some delay in re-
covering the bodies. The following is a brief state-
ment of the facts attending the present catastrophe.
There were about 70 men and boys at work at
the Old Castle Colliery, belonging to Messrs.
Willyams, Neath, and Co., on Wednesday night.
Three veins of coal were in work at the time; In
the lowest, called the ' bussy" vein, four colliers
were working ; in the second, about 19 fathoms
above the lowest, there were only two men. The
rest of the men and boys were engaged in the top,
most vein, called the little vein. About one o'clock
on Thursday morning, without any previous warn-
ing, the water broke into the colliery from an old
working of an adjoining pit called the Bites Col-
liery, and poured into the lower workings
of the
Old Castle Colliery,
sweeping all before it. The
four men in the " hussy" vein and the two in the
one above called the golden vein were swept away
and drowned, but the 60 men in the little vein had
time to make their escape by a small
pit which had
been recently opened to allow of escape in case of
accident. The colliery is situate in a low position,
not far from the sea, and close to the town. The
water has been rising in the flooded colliery ever
since it first broke in,