The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-25 00:00:00

THE WIMBLEDON MEETING.

Contrary to the original regulations laid down, the prize
list was not closed on Friday, more than one of the com-
petitions being allowedto stand over until Saturday morn-
ing. For all practical purposes, however, the shooting might
as well have been concluded for not a single rifle
was discharged on Friday, and the Hit of scores
already published has contained the names of the win-
ners, with one exception—the successful competitors
in the " Comblain " Prize.

The Wimbledon meeting is, therefore, concluded, and
nothing now remains to be done but the removal of the
various camps and erections Which have studded the
ground during the last fortnight. And this work is pro
ceeding rapidly enough. The thousands of flags which
have been displayed during the gathering are no longer
visible, and the tents are being gradually struck. Prob-
ably by to-night little will be left to denote that such a
large gathering has taken place upon the common, except
it be a legacy in the shape of several inches of dust.
Never during the annals of the National Rifle Associa-
tion has there been such a pleasant and at the same time
purely business like meeting. The officials are satisfied
with the men, and the volunteers to a man are grateful
to the officials. This being the case, it is sufficient evi-
dence that throughout the gathering everything has
worked smoothly and well. Not a single incident
occurred until Friday to mar the even course
of the meeting, and we apprehend that nothing
could have happened to cast such a gloom as the
painful news which was received with reference to the
unfortunate accident to Lord Elcho's son. There is not a
more popular officer in the Volunteer force than Lord
Elcho, and the sympathy which was expressed from one
end of the common to the other.was heartfelt and genuine.
The abandonment of the presentation of the prizes by
the Princess of Teck was a step which was commended on
all sides, and the withdrawal of such an interesting
ceremony was lost sight of and forgotten in the general
wish of all to express sympathy with Lord Elcho on the
unhappy occurrence.

With regard to the attendance at Wimbledon, it has
been unequalled in any former year, both as to the number
of volunteers and the amount paid by the general public
for admission at the gates. It is impossible to
give a rough Estimate even of the numbers
which have from day to day visited the Common. The
" gate money " only accounts for a small proportion of
spectators compared with those who have been admitted
by ticket, and, after gun-fire, free of charge. Still, we
have the fact that, on payment up to Friday night, no
less than 25,000 persons had been admitted ; and if we
take a moderete computation, there will to-day be 15,000
on the ground, giving a gross total of 40,000 visitors—a
number far in excess of previous meetings.
The "Peek Prize," which was not declared on Friday,
as there was a protest entered, has since been decided,
and the winner of the 50 guineas is Lieut. Whitelow, of
the 102nd Lanark. The result of the "comblain " is as
follOWs

THE COMBLAIN PRIZE.-200, 500, and 800 yards.—
Captain Burt, Ist Warwick, 153 points, £lO and Com-
blain Rifle ; Pri';ate Buxton, Bth Derby, 148, 25 and
the Comblain Rifle ; Colour-Sergeant Brooks, 12th
Middlesex, 145, £5 only; Corporal .Peake, 6th Lancers,
135, £5 ; Corporal Frost, 26th Kent, 133, £5 ; Sergeant
Ragg, Ist Warwick, 126, £5 ; Private Morris, Ist Hants,
119, £5; Sergeant Bott R Marmes, 118 ; £5 ; Sir Charles
Shakesly, sth Chester, 105, £5.

The London correspondent of the Western Morn-
ing News says that the superannuation of established
dockyardmen will be stopped. New works will be laid
down which will keep all hands employed. It is believed
that more small gunboats will be made.

Colonel Henderson has just issued his first annual
report of the Metropolitan Police, and the first document
of the kind ever published. Attached are reports of the
various district superintendents, and details with reference
to every division, together with the Chief Commissioner's
remarks on the conduct, drill, and discipline of the police
force, and other matters.
The Blue Book of the Ritual Commission will be
found full of protests by various Commissioners against
different alterations recommended by a majority of the
Commissioners on the Rubrics, which taken altogether
are probably improvements, but only a few, the John Bull
imagines, will be tabulated in an Act of Parliament.
Unless the prohibition of wafer bread be an exception,
hardly anything, it is said, will touch the Ritualists.
The office of agent to the Governor-General at
Moorshedabad is, we have learnt on good authority, to be
kept open till le return to India of Colonel Frederic
Layard, at present on deputation with his Highness the
Nawab Nazim of Bengal. Colonel Layard is a brother to
our minister at Madrid, who, some of our contemporaries
incorrectly stated, was to be appointed Governor of
Madras. —Civil Set-vice Gazette.

We (Broad Arrow) regret to hear that a few
fresh cases of scarlatina have made their appearance
amongst the cadets on board the Britannia. The cadets,
in consequence, have left earlier than usual for their holi-
days, the examinations being hurried, and having taken
place two days earlier. The certificates and prizes were
distributed to the cadets on Wednesday last, so as to
enable them to leave as sooon as possible.
The barometer at 8 a.m. stood in London at
30.16, the direction of the wind being E.N.E., and its
extreme direction N.E. A decrease of pressure has oc-
curred in the south-west of Ireland, but at Yarmouth and
the Helder a slight increase is perceptible. Readings are
highest on the east coast, and temperature, which has
fallen in the south-east has risen in the north and west.
The weather is clear and the winds light on all coasts, and
the sea is generally calm.

It is understood that his Royal Highness Lieu-
tenant Prince Arthur will permanently rejoin the garrison
at Woolwich. The house of the Commandant of Royal
Marines, Rush Grove, Woolwich, just acated by Sir
Edward Warde, K. C. B. , is being fitted up as the Prince's
official quarters. A succession of changes of regiments will
be made at the infantry and other barracks at Woolwich
from time to time, with the object of the Prince obtain-
ing experience in every branch of the army.

On Tuesday night last a telegraphic despatch from
the War Office was received by the commander of the
Ganges training ship, at Falmouth, upon which he im-
mediately hired the Pendennis steam-tug, and embarking
in her with three other officers, three engineers,
and about ten seamen, after shipping provi-
sions. water, compasses, &c., proceeded to the
westward, and returned on Wednesday, at 1 p.m. ; but
no further particulars have transpired, and the object of
the mission is unknown. There are lying at present in
these roads only nine German vessels and two French
vessels for orders. Some of the former have had their
destination fixed for the Continent and elsewhere, but,
excepting those bound to English ports, they will not
proceed without further instructions.—Broad Arrow.

‘,Ik.DVERTISEMENT. ADVERTISEMENT.]—HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.
lany persons neglect to take the commonest precau-
tions against illness, whereby they are exposed to future
suffering or probable danger. Colds, coughs, and oppres-
sion at the chest should be removed without delay by
rubbing this cool derivative unguent twice a day upon the
skin covering the chest, and its sanitary action should be
augmented by the use of Holloway's Pills as propounded
in their accompanying directions. The same means
diligently carried out will relieve influenza, asthma, short-
ness of breath, palpitation, and almost every other pr
torsi complaint. Be the cause of the malady known
unknown matters not. Holloway's remedies are com-
petent to expel all corruption from the system, to
regulate disordered functions, and to restore nervous tone.'

JULY .25, 18704

LITERATURE, S‘CIENCE, AND ART.

The Irish Academy of Music is tllkint i o b'e closed.
It appears that there is no entire copy of tl-1e hriwinal
MS. of "Pickwick." Only about half-a-dozen sheets t,f
it exist, and even they are not in the possession of Mr.
‘,Dickens's
- -

The Graphic states that in addition to its special cor-
respondents now at Berlin and Paris, it has made arrange-
ments with officers in the Prussian and French armies to
contrilint6 skathes of the Most iinpo'rtant events of the
present war. . .

Nature says the prepatlitidfis foF the New Ydik Indus-
trial Exhibition are making rajlid proore4si bta it is not
expected that it will be opened before the stqlim of 1872.
—The editorial chair of the British Medical Journal is
about to become vacant.--Mr. G. H. Hurlbut,
an American, has been appointed engineer to
the Governthent Nf tho United States of Columbia at a
salary of il4Bo per annum. Tht tltckth of the distinguished
Anglo-Saxon scholar, Mr. Benjainhi Thorpe, is an-
nouunced. Mr. Thorpe was in his eighty-eighth ye,tv.
The death is also reported of Mr. A. H. Halliday, A.M.,
of Carnmoney, county Antrim. His decease occurred on
the morning of July 13, at the Villa Pisani,
near Lucca. Mr. Halliday entered Trinity College,
Dublin, in 1822, at the age of fifteen, and
graduated five years afterwards as a gold medalist,
Shortly after he teas tiallbtl to the bar; but he never
practiced. He was High Sheriff a Antr'n it 343. As
an entomologist his name will always rank with tli&m of
his friends Curtis, Sichel, Westwood, Dohrn, and Walker,
while his quiet and retiring manners, and his (rreat scholar-

meiit to Ken.' r, to whier777ifiriderMite
was inaugurated on tilt, 24th June with great Eclat at his
native pla,ce,the little town a Mreildiettadt, inWurt emburg.
The statue is of bronze, ten feet high, iii A ili4titig pasture.
In his left hand, supported on a celestial globe, he holds a
parchment on which is drawn an ellipse ; in his right hand
is an open compass ; he is looking toward the heavens.
The four corners of the pedestal are adorned with statues,
five feet in height, representing M. Mastling, the Profes-
sor at Tubingen who taught Kepler mathematics, Coper-
nicus Tycho Braht, and Jobst Byrg, the mechanician who
assisted in the construction of his optical and astronomical
instrnments. In the centre of the pedestal is the single
word, Kepler. —At Zurich there are at present fourteen
ladies who attend the lectures of the Vacuity of Medicine
concurrently with the male students ; and last year two
ladies, one Russian and the other English, passed their
examinations for the degree of Doctor of Medicine.—
Brandt, the Russian naturalist, has been elected a Cor-
respondent of the Acad4mie des Sciences in the section
of Zoology. Mr. Darwin was one of the candidates for
the post.

The Athenceum says :--The meeting of the Royal
Archteological Institute, at Leicester, begins on Monday
next —The eccitement caused by the war has led to an
increase of between fifty and seventy five per. cent. in the
sale of. the London_ daily papers. The limes has, we
learn, despatched to Prussia tivo special cont3pondents,
provided With pftlper credentials ; and We shall be sur-
prised if the leading journal remains satisfied with the
present exclusion of its Correspondents from the French
lines. Nearly a dozen "mans of the seat of war " have
already been advertised by English publiehets arid map-
makers.—Mr. Carlyle has been nominated unanimously to
the office of President of the London Library, in the place
of the late Earlof Clarendon. The venerable man of letters
was, in truth, the first to suggest the formation of the
institution.—Some notices of the Stepney Family have
just appeared in a small impression for private circulation.
The most remarkable fact relating to the Stepnsys, apart
from their connection with George Stepney, poet and
diplomatist, is their relationship to Van Dyck the painter,
and their descent through his wife, Mary Ruthven, from
the Ruthvens, Earls of Gowrie, who played so conspicuous
a part in Scottish history, in the time of James the Sixth,
Elizabeth's successor on the throne of England--The
obituary of the week contains the name of Mr. B. B.
()midge, the well-known author of several works illustra-
tive of the ancient history of London and its citizens. Mr.
Orridge devoted much sime and labour to his favourite
study.—The Grenzbotcn for January 24, contained a warm
tribute to the memory of the late Mr. Charles Dickens,
by the editor, Herr G. Freyteg, the celebrated novelist.
"The Pickwick Papers,"he says emancipated the German
mind from the predominating influence of French fiction,
and had a most powerful and healthy influence on
German literature. Mr. Dickens's writings, he adds
have done much to awaken in 0-ennany a kindly feeling
towards England and Englishmen.—We are glad to learn
that the Journal of Philology writes Vergil for Virgil, a
praiseworthy innovation, which Professor Conington de-
clined to follow Ladewig in adopting,.—Captain Erhard, of
the Bavarian army, has published the first volume of an
elaborate military history of the Palatinate, Franconia,
Suabia, and Bavaria. Parts of these countries at least
' are likely to be again the battle ,ground,, of Europe--A
new English paper has been started at Shanghae in China
and called the Cycle. It is charged, with representing the
anti-progressive party.—Herr Bjornson has published a
new volume of poems.—A paper in Burmese, known as
the Burmese Herald, and published in the city of Rangoon
has attracted the attention of the King of Burmah, whohas
bought it for £3,600, and gives a subsidy of 230 monthly.
The foreign singing birds in London have been terribly
fluttered by the outbreak of war in Germany. The
bathing localities in the Fatherland have hitherto proved
a profitable source of income to vocalists and instrumen-
talists, but Homburg, Baden-Baden, Wiesbaden, Ems,
eec., will not be very agreeable even to artists of Euro-
pean fame at the commencement of hostilities.—Dr.
Barrier, chief surgeon at the Hotel Dieu, and one of the
best-known surgeons in Paris, has just died, after a pain-
ful illness of several months.—A fairy comedy by Mr.
W. S. Gilbert, entitled " The Palace of Truth," will
shortly be produced at the Theatre Royal, Manchester,
with a view to its transference thence to the Haymarket.
The comedy, which is in blank verse, is in part derived
from a story of Madame de Geniis, and is altogether
novel, we understand, in execution and idea.—Mr. G. F.
Watts has a commission from the Marquis of West-
minster to execute an equestrian statue of Hugh Lupus,
Earl of Chester, the marquis's ancestor. This is to be
set up at the end of the avenue of Eaton Hall. The
model, in clay, for this group is well advanced.

Mr. C. 11. Spurgeon has been lately suffering,
from an attack of gout, from which he is now slowly re-
covering.

The gates of Strasbourg, which were shut a day or
two ago, have been open day and night for more than fifty
years !

The British Medical Journal is glad to be able to
state that Mr. Gladstone has quite recovered from his
recent slight indisposition.

k marriage is arranged to take place between
ViscountTurnour, eldest son of the Earl Winterton, and
Miss Cavendish.

The prosecution of Sir Henry Edwards and Mr.
Burrell, for alleged bribery at the Beverley election, will
be proceeded with at the next York assizes.

As an instance of tho signs of the times, we remark
that the keeper of a certain Cafe Napoleon in Berlin has
actually been obliged to shut up shop, so obnoxious was
his sign.

Sir F. Lycett has offered to the Wesleyan Metho-
dist Conference to give £lO,OOO for chapel purpoees in
London on the condition that an equal sum shall be con-
tributed by the provinces.

The South London Press states that a new infirmary
is about to be erected in connection with the Freemen's
Orphan School at Brixton, at an estimated cost of £833.
There are at present 139 children in the school.
The Government have stated that they intend to
fill the vacancy in the Lords Justices' Court, but we be-
lieve there is no probabilicy that any appointment will be
be made this side of the Long Vacation.---,S'oliators' Jour-
nal.

The Speaker of the House of Commons was again
prevented by indisposition from resuming the chair
after the House had been in Committee of Supply on
Friday evening. Mr. Dodson, as deputy speaker, took
the chair.

Their Royal Highnesses the Grand Duke and
Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, and suite,
were to have left on Saturday morning on their return
to Germany, their sojourn in this country having been
abridged by the unfortunate Franco Prussian war.
On Sunday morning last, a lad named Parrish,
aged eleven years, whilst imitating "Blondin " on the top
of a gate at Kettering, slipped, and the points of some
palings were forced into his body, causing injuries which
ended fatally on Wednesday.

Lord Justice James on Saturday morning, on the
application of Sir R. Palmer, appointed Monday, the let of
August, for hearing a petition praying the court to sanc-
tion a scheme which has been prepared for the reconstruc-
tion of the Albert Life Assurance Company.

The coroner's inquiry into the accident on the
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway at
Woodburn Junction was concluded on Friday. A verdict
of accidental death was returned, but it was understood
that three out of the fifteen jurymen dissented from this
finding.

The Committee of the House of Lords on the
Universities Tests Bill met for the first time on Friday.
The importance of considering how the prizes of the Uni-
versity now to be given to a larger number of competi-
tors may be made more available by further reforms, was
brought forward.

The overseers of Hammersmith liave received a
deputation of gentlemen, Protestants and Catholicsion
the subject of the rating of Nazareth House. A proposi-
tion was made on the part of the authorities to recom-
mend a re-assessment, which would for the future make
the home liable to a payment of £6i) a year.
PORT DUES AT ADEN.—The attention of the
Under Secretary for India has been called to the increase
of shipping now frequenting Aden via the Suez Canal, as
a port of call for fuel and provisions only, and he has
been asked to reduce the port dues in such cases, which
are now the same as for loading and discharging cargoes.
This is thought unfair by shipowners and others interested,
as the Council of India has a large surplus from the ship-
ping charges at Men. Mr. Grant Puff, in reply, has
stated that such a reduction is in-contemplation.