The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-17 00:00:00

THE WIMBLEDON MEETING

The Council of the National Rifle Associa-
tion have issued the prize list for the forthcoming
rifle meeting at Wimbledon. The general regula-
tions were issued last week, and have appeared in
The Son.

The l rhicipal prizes to lie shot for this year are as

1. Her Majesty the Queen's Prize.—To'al aggre-
gate value, £1,313, exclusive of medals and badges.
First stage, £1,065. To the best thor, the silver
medal of the AFsociation, the Asv;ciation's silver
badge, and £6O in money ; to each of the next 29
bust shots in order of merit, the Association's bad;ze;
to the next 30, £lO in money, and next 90, £3. The
latter 90 will not be allowed to compete in the s cond
stage. Ranges, 200, 500, and 600 yards; five shots.
There will be a battalio❑ sweepstakes in connection
with the first stage.

Second Stage.—g.2so, the gift of her Majezty the
Queen, together with the gold medal and badge of
the As.,:ociation. Open to the first 60 winners in the
first stige. Ranges 800, 900, and 1,000 yards ;
seven shots. with Government Whitworth rifles. .
2. Ilis Royal highness the Prince of Wales's
Prize.—A cup value £lOO, or £lOO in money, the
gift of the Prince of Wales, with £lOO added by the
A•sociation and divided into 20 prizes. To the best
shot the Prince of Wales's prize, and to the next. best
20 £5 each. Ranges 200, 500, and 600 yards ; five
shots.

3. The St. George's Challenge Vase.—Total
gregate value, £623. First stage. The vase. and
60 I:riz s; value, £573, exclusive of badges and
jewels. Range, 500 yards; five shots.

4. (Second Stage) Dr.igon Cup; value. £so.—To
be shot for by GO in the first stage. 600 yards ;
seven shots.

5. The International Challengo Trophy, value
£l,OOO, to which is added a cup, value £5O, with
£lO in money given by the Guntnakers' Company, of
London, and £lO by the National Rifle Association.
200, 500, and 600 yards ; seven shots.
6 The International Irish Challenge Trophy, value
£5OO, atud a cup, value £5, or money, to the best
shot ; 200, 500, and 600 yards ; seven shots.
7. The Oxford and Cambridge Match, for the
Chancellor's Challenge Plate, value £lOO, presented
by the Duke of Devon-hire, K.G., and by the Earl
of Derby, K.G., for annual competition by the Vo-
lunteers of the Oxford and Cambridge University
Rifle Corps. 200, 500, and 600 yards; seven shots.
8. The China Challenge Cup, value £525, pre-
sented by the Volunteers in China for competition
by the Home Volunteers, to which is added £5O by
the National Rifle Association. 200 and 500 yards ;
five shots.

9. The Enfield Nursery Prizes.—£Bo presented by
the National Rifle Association, and divided into 25
prizes. 500 yards ; five shots.
10. The Martins' Challenge Cup, value £5O, pre-
sented by the National Rifle Association, with £5O
in money, divided into 13 prizes. 600 yards ; five
shots.

11. The Belgian Challenge Cup, value £lOO, pre-
sented by the Chasseurs Eclaireurs of Brussels, and
the Belgians who visited Wimbledon in 1866, to
which is added £75 by the National Rifle Associa-
tion. Volley firing, 400 yards ; five shots.
12. The Consolidation Prizes, aggregate value
£so—£2s from the Ladies' Prize Fund, and £25
added by the National Rifle Association, divided
into 30 prizes ; SCO yards, 5 shots.
ALL COMERS' PRIZES, OPEN TO ALL NATIONS.

13. The Albert, total aggregate value, £598. First
stage, 40 prizes, value £498. 200, 600, and 800 yards,
7 shots.
14. Second stage, £lOO (cup or money), and the
silver medal of the Western India Rifle Association,
1,000 yards, 15 shots.
15. The " Alexandra" prize; total aggregate value,
£l,OOO. First stage, 156 prizes, £825, and 34 prizes,
value £125, for the highest aggregate scores at 200,
500, and 600 yards, five shots.
16. Second stage, £5O (cup or money), 600 yards,
seven shots.

17. The " Windmill" prizes, value £375. First
stage, 104 prizes, value £350. £2OO and 500 yards
five hots.

18. Second Stage, £25 (cup or money), 600 yards,
seven shots.

19. The " Any Rifle " Association Cup, value £5O
200 and 600 yards, seven shots.

20. The " Enfield" -Association Cup, value £5O,
200 and 500 yards, five shots.
21. The "Any Rifle" Wimbledon Cup, value
£lOO, 600 and 1,000 yards, seven shots.

22: The " Enfield" Wimbledon Cup, value £lOO
200 and 600 yards, five snots.
23. The Any Rifle " Nursery" Prizes, value £BO,
First stage, 20 prizes, value £BO, 500 and 600 yards
seven shots.

24. Ladies' Prizes, value £5O, at 1,000 yards, s3ven
shots, with any rifle, five prizes of £5 each ; and
with Enfield rifles, at 500 yards, five shots, five
prizes of £5 each. . .

'25. Carlton Prizes, value £9OO, divided into three
series for " any rifle" and the Enfield. " Any rifle"
prizes, value £415, and Enfield rifle prizes, value
value £485.

26. The Army and Navy Challenge Cup, va!ue
£265, presented by the National Rifle Association,
to be competed for by non-commissioned office's and
privates in the Army and Royal Marines, and by
sailors in the Navy. First stage, £155, divided into
50 prizes, 500 and 600 yards, five shots.
27. Second Stage, a cup, value £lOO, and a prize
of £lO to the best shot.

28. The Army Prize, value £lOO, presented by an
officer in the Army to any battalion of the Guards
or of the Line, to the Corps of Royal Engineers, or
Royal Marines who shall win it either two years con-
secutively or three years at intervals ; 500 yards,
15 shots to be fired in two minutes.

29. Breech-loading Prizes—£so, by the Duke of
Cambridge, £5O by the Right Hon. E. Cardwell,
Secret.try of State for War, £25 by Lord Northbrook,
Under Secretary for War, £5O by Mr. Bass, M.P.,
£5O in guns a .d rifles by Mr. Henry, of Edinburgh,
£2l in rifles and a revolver by Messrs. heir and Co.,
and £lOO by Messrs. Eley Brothers.
30. The Elcho Challenge Shield, valu d at £l,OOO,
800, 900, and 1,000 yards, 15 shots.
31. The Daily Telegraph Prize, a cup, valued £52
10s , 500 yards, five shots.
32. The Challenge Shield, value £l4O.
to be competed for by the public schools, 200 and
500 yards, five shots.
33. The Spencer Cup, value £l5, 500 yards seven
shots.
34. The " Henry Peek" Prize, value £52 10s.,
500 and 600 yards, 5 shots at the former and 7 at
the latter range.

35. The Dudley Prize, value £5O, 800 and 1,000
yards, five shots at 800 and seven shots at 1,000
yards.
36. The Rifle Oaks, 500 yards, five shots.
37. The " Earwig" Prize, value £2O, presented by
the Victoria Rifles, 500 yards, five shots.
Besides the above there are numerous " extra
prizes."

THE KNlFE.—Daring some bargaining for guano
between some farmers at Kilkenny on Saturday, a
quarrel ensued, when one of them nemed Harper, who was
under the influence of drink, struck at another named
Mengrath with a knife with which he was cutting tobacco,
inflicting a severe wound in the side. He was at once
arrested. It is not known whether the injury will prove
fatal or not.

FLOODS IN NEW SOUTH WALES.—Disastrous
floods have taken place in New South Wales, and there
has been great destruction of property in the dis-
trict by the Hunter river. The river rose
twenty feet above its ordinary level, and near the
towns of East and West Maitland, about ninety-eight miles
from Sydney the walls were carried away by the force of
the torrent, and the greatest damage was done. West
Maitland was partially inundated. The river Hawkes-
bury also rose, and partly submerged the town of Windsor
Serious floods have occurred in Queensland, and business
has been interrupted through the colony.
LOUIS BLANC ON THE PLEBISCITE.—Louis Blanc
writes a long letter to the Temps on the pldbiscite, quot-
ing the opinions of the English press and of English politi-
cians generally, who he declares were almost unanimous
against the vote, as a needless cause of irritation
to the Liberal party. It threw doubt on the
sincerity of recent professions and revived the remem-
brance of the coups d'etat. It called the legitimacy of
the Empire in question by admitting that it required a
fresh recognition from universal suffrage. Bonapartists
in England were, says M. Blanc, much grieved at the
result of the vote of the Bth, which in the eyes of English-
men instead of signifying, " We prefer the empire," meant
"We fear chaos." With regard to English opinion the
Pldbiscite was a mistake. Englishmen are profoundly
impressed by the fact that 50,000 civilians protested against
the existence of a regime created and supported by the
sword. In conclusion, Louis Blanc regrets that the
opponents of the vote did not more generally abstain from
voting as it is never good policy to fight an enemy at the
time and place he has himself chosen, with weapons
selected by himself.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Tins DAY

BRUTAL ASSAI LT OX A FE VALE.—At the Marlborough"
street Folice-court Richard Furniss, a watchmaker, living
in Whitcomb-street, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with
violently assaulting Ellen Barry. Mr. Wm. Moore, of th°
Associate Institute for the Protection of Womee, watched
the case. From the evidence of the complainant it appeared
that she had lived with the prisoner as his -Wifo
for some years, and had six children by him . Jr°
had done no work for some time, and she worked hard to
keep him and the children. At a late hour at eight he cam°
home and asked for his supper, and on the corep;ainaut
ing him that what money she had she had been obliged t,)
pay away, and the' eforo had been unable to get any, P°
gave her a violent blow in the eye, cutting it badly, and
it bled a great deal. In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the cony
plainart said ho was drunk, and had ill-used her beforo'
Police-constable 221 0 said the prisoner was drunk ‘‘llo3
he took him into custody, and that the complainant had
very bad cut on her eye. The priaouer was very violent,
and threatened to rip her up. The prisoner s Lid the cent"
plainant injured herse!f by fa hug on the stabs. 311."
Tyrwhitt said the prisoner was a mean, cowardly
and committed him for two mouths' with hard labour,
cautioning him it he ever c Mil before hint nob,- lie w,'"ld
be committed for six months.
CRUEL ROBBERL s. —Richard Ellis, aged 30 years, a p" 'l'"
ing case-maker, was charged at the Thames I'olice-pfl'o
with committing several robberies. The sufferers were 811
working men. In the first instance the prisoner sneaked
into a house in St. George-in-the East, where a motto pawed
Thomas Matthews was at work, and stole his white-41,11"
ing brush, valued at ss. He was soon a.terwards taken into
custody by Gulley, a police-constable, No. 16 tf R,
found upon him several 1 awnbrokers' duplicates relatitig
to carpenters' tools, and the officers tract d the owner •
William Iliggledon, a packing case maker, of Great Bland-
street, Southwark, was at work in the house No 136, TooloY-
street, ou the 4th inst, The prisoper came there and said
he was a packing case maker. He went out for a shoo ante
and left the prisoner in the house. On his return the pri-
soner was gone, and he missed a plane He identified the
property whichpully found in tho possession of a pawl)"
broker, where prisoner had pawned them. A precisely similar
charge was made by Geo. Bray brook, a journeyman carpenter,
and ho identified his property. Gully said there were seve-
ral other cases against the prisoner for stealing saws, plane',
and rules belonging to carpenters. Mr. Lushington—Tbr°
cases are sufficient. George Foster, a detective offict rof the
H division, said that the prisoner was convicted at the,
Middlesex sessions in 1867, and sentenced to two yor6
imprisonment and hard labour for felony. Since then t"
prisoner had been convicted at the Mansioa-House policc-
court, and sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment and load
labour. Mr. Lushitigton committed the prisoner for trial 01)
three charges.
AREA SNEAKING AT THE VICE-CHANCELLOR'S.—TO''•
Connor, 16, was charged at the Westminster Police-Court
with stealing a brush, value de. 6d., the property of Si'.
Richard Malins, the Vice-Chaucellor, at his residence, 57'
Lowndes-square. The I risoner was observe Iby the bark`
raking the dust hole, and lie had a bag with him containing
eggs. The butler inssted on seeing the contents of
bag, and found therein a sheobrush which Lind, been safe
in the vault three minutes before. The detective police
proved that 'was not the first thou ho had been in alc:ls
pretending to pick up rags, but really. to pilfer what was
handiest. He was sentenced to three months' hard lataitir
under. the Vagrant Act.