The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LUNDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 3, 1860.

prove an embarrassment to the foreign competitors

remains to be seen.
The rifle—a Whitworth—with which her Ma-
jesty opened the meeting, the target, and the gold

prize medal of the Association will be on view in

he Exhibition-tent to-day.
The following addresses were presented to her

Majesty on the dais of the Royal Pavilion imme-

diately on her arrival :
" May it please your Majesty,—We, the President
and Council of the National Rifle Association, hum-

bly approach your Majesty with sentiments of
devoted attachment to your throne and person.
"We tender to your Majesty our grateful
acknowledgments for the patronage and encour-
agement so graciously extended by your Majesty
and your illustrious and Royal Consort to our
association, which has been formed to give perma-
nence to the Volunteer force. The foree, of which

a small portion had recently the honour of being I
reviewed by your Majesty, has sprung from the in-
tuitive loyalty and patriotism of your Majesty's
people.
" We hope that, wide as is the present develop-
ment of the Volunteer force, it may yet attain to
much larger proportions. To aid in this develop-
ment, and to give permanence to this force by fos-
tering and diffusing a taste for rifle-shooting, are
the objects of the National Rifle Association. These,
we think, can best be effected by establishing a
great annual meeting for competition in rifle shoot-
ing similar to the Tir Federalof Switzerland, where
every two years prizes to the value of £lO,OOO are
competed for, and ►here riflemen from the different
cantons meet together in friendly rivalry.
" The use of the longbow and the cloth-yard
shaft was once the pastime of the English people,
and at the same time the terror of England's foes.
The spirit which animated our fathers still lives in
their descendants, and the National Rifle Associa-

tion hope, by establishing rifle shooting as a na-
tional pastime, to make the rifle what the bow was

in the days of the Plantagenets—the familiar wea-
pon of those who stand forth in the defence of their
country.
" Such being the objects of our Association, it

has been honoured in a- special degree with your
Majesty's favour and countenance ; for not only has
your Majesty been graciously pleased to express
your approval of our undertaking, and munifi-
cently founded a prize which will be the highest
honour that can be gained by the competitors, but
your Majesty has even condescended to inaugurate
in person this the first prize meeting of the associa-
tion. We most cordially and respectfully thank
your Majesty for this special mark of your favour
and we fervently pray that health and happiness
may long attend your Majesty, your Royal Con-
sort, and every member of your illustrious family."
Her Majesty rose from her chair, and in a very
clear and distinct manner made the following re-
ply :

" I receive with sincere satisfaction the senti-
ments of attachment to my throne, person, and
family which have been expressed by the President
and Council of your association ; and I assure you
that I, together with my Royal Consort, have
gladly given encouragement to a body whose ob-
ject it is to render permanent an armed force,
limited exclusively to defensive purposes, and
founded upon voluntary exertions.
" I have witnessed with pleasure the manner in
which the ancient fondness of the English people
for manly and sylvan sports has been converted by
your association to more important ends, and has
been made an auxiliary instrument for maintaining
inviolable the safety of our common country."
The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert then read the
following address to his Royal Highness, the
Prince Consort :
" May it please your Royal Highness,—We, the
President and Council of the National Rifle Asso-
ciation, humbly approach your Royal Highness,
and eagerly embrace this opportunity of expressing
to your Royal Highness our grateful acknowledg-
ment for the patronage and support which you
have been graciously pleased to extend to our
association.
" Your Royal Highness is ever found either
originating .or giving your enlightened and dis-
criminating 'support to such schemes as have for
their object the advancement of the public good and
the prosperity of the United Kingdom. To this
association your Royal Highness has, however,
shown a special mark of favour by deigning to be-
come its patron, and no further proof is wanted of
the value and importance of the objects we have in
view.
" We thank your Royal Highness for the active
interest you have shown in our undertaking, and
for the valuable counsel and assistance which we
have frequently received at your hands, as well as
for the prize which your Royal Highness offered for
competition by all nations.
" We trust that the National Rifle Association,
honoured as it is by the favour of her Majesty, and
patronised by your Royal Highness, will meet
throughout these realms with that countenance and
support which its national and patriotic character
may be found to justify."
To which his Royal Highness replied as follows :
" Gentlemen,—l thank you sincerely for your
kind address, and beg you to be assured that I am
very sensible of the flattering manner in which you
speak of any support which it may have been in my
power to afford to objects of national interest.
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around me and see the manner in which the call of
the Council has been responded to, that the result
will answer the most sanguine expectations of those
who set the present movement on foot.
" In establishing a prize open to the competition
of all nations, my object was to give our British
marksmen an opportunity of comparing their own
arms and their own skill with those of other coun-
trius ; and I am convinced the result will be to show
that, as the British manufacturer is already second
to none in the fabrication of the arm itself, so the
people of this country are not to be su.passed, by any
in the knowledge how to use it."

(From the Court Circular.)
Her M ijesty the Queen went yesterday afternoon
to the first prize meeting of the National Rifle Asso-
ciation on Wjmbledon•common.

The Royal procession quitted Buckingham Palace
five minutes before 3 o'clock, in seven carriages and
four, attended by outriders in scarlet liveries, and
escorted by a detachment of Light Dragoons.
The first carriage and four contained her Majesty
the Queen, his Royal Highness the Prince Consort,
her Royal Highness the Princess Alice, and his
Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Coburg.
The carriage conveyed their Royal High-
°s of Wales and the Princess Helena,
ntheessMistsehtcre in'eossdri ce
of the Robes, and the Master of the
Horse.

The third carriage conveyed their Royal High-
nesses Prince Arthur, and the Princess Louise, the
Countess of Gainsborough, Lady in Waiting, and
the Lord Steward.

The fourth carriage conveyed his Royal Highness
Prince Leopold, the Lady Superintendent, and the
Hon. Caroline Cavendish and the Hon. Horatia
Stopford, Maids of Honour in Waiting.
The fifth carriage conveyed the Right Hon. Sir
G. C. Lewis, Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment ; the Lord Chainberlain, Lord de Tabley,
Lord in Waiting ; and Lord Waterpark, Lord in
Waiting to the Prince Consort.
The sixth carriage conveyed Major-General the
Hon. R. Bruee, Governor to the Prince of Wales';
Major• General the Hon. Charles Grey, Equerry in
Waiting ; Col. the Hon. A. Hardinge, Equerry in
Waiting to the Prince Consort, and Baron Hoch-
waechter, in Waiting on the Duke of Saxe Coburg.
The seventh carriage and four conveyed Lieute-
nant-Col. Kingscote, Groom in Waiting; Colonel
Francis Seymour, C. 8., Groom in Waiting to the
Prince Consort ; Captain Grey, Equerry in Waiting
to the Prince of Wales, and Major Elphinstone, in
Waiting on Prince Arthur.
The Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales, and the
Duke of Saxe Coburg wore the riband and badge of
the Order of the Garter, and the Earl of St. Ger-
mans (Lord Steward) the Riband and Badge of the
Order of the Bath.
The Queen and Prince Consort received addresses
from the Council of the Association. Afterwards
her Majesty inaugurated the meeting by firing the
first shot, and returned to Buckingham Palace soon
after 7 o'clock.

THE PRINCE DE JOIN TILLE.—It may take our
citizens by surprise that the Prince de Joinville is in
Quebec ; but such is the case. He has taken up his quar-
ters, temporarily, webelieve, at the Clarendon. His visit is
of a private nature, but the registration of his name at the
Clarendon has naturally excited a good deal of interest, and
many of our fellow-citizens will be desirous, if possible, to
pay their homage to the distinguished:visitor. We can'fsaw
how long the Prince will prolong his visit at the Clarendon.
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