The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-20 00:00:00

THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT.

The ceremony of presenting to the Highgate
Rifles a silver bugle, subscribed for by the ladies of
Highgate, by Miss A. Burdett Coutts, has been ap-
pointed to take place this (Saturday) afternoon, at
3 o'clock, in the ground adjacent to Holly Lodge.
The 16th Surrey (Egham) Rifle Corps was in-
spected on Wednesday last by Major Parratt, Adju-
tant of the 2d Battalion of the Surrey Rifle Volun-
teers. After putting the members of the corps
through various evolutions in light infantry drill,
the Major expressed himself well satisfied at their
readiness and efficiency, and stated that he should
feel much pleasure in favourably reporting them at
head-quarters. He was desired by Captain Sir H.
Fletcher to request their attendance a Kingston on
the 27th inst., where the various Surrey corps will
meet for probably the last time this season. The
competition for Sir J. Cathcart's prizes will take
place at the end of this month or beginning of
November.

The several corps formed throughout the county
of Essex are steadily prosecuting their studies in
the various branches of military training, and the
result is that some thousands of efficient Volunteers
are now so advanced that, in the event of an emer-
gency, they could most effectively co-operate in the
less complicated brigade movements of the field of
action. The North Essex Borderers, whose enrol-
ment was announced in The Sun, have just chosen
the following officers :—The Hon. C. Neville, cap-
tain commandant ; Capt. H. Byng, RN., lieutenant;
Capt. Lane, R.A., ensign ; Mr. A. N. Jones, sur-
geon ; and the Rev. J. Oldham, chaplain.

Some of the members of the Maidenhead Volun-
teer Rifle Corps having distinguished themselves in
the use of the rifle, one having obtained the grand
challenge prize at the meeting in Windsor Park,
and some others having beaten the Windsor corps
in a late contest, it was thought desirable by some
of that corps to enter into a contest with the Read-
ing corps, several of whom carried off prizes at
Windsor and on subsequent occasions. The chal-
lenge was therefore sent to Reading for 10 of their
men to shoot for £lO a-side with the Maidenhead.
It was accepted, and the match came off at the
butts of the Reading Volunteers on Thursday. The
weather was exceedingly unfavourable, the rain at
times falling heavily with a strong wind, which
prevailed through the greater part of the day. The
Reading side consisted of Musketry Instructor Tur-
ner, who won a prize at Wimbledon, and also a
handsome Enfield rifle, the gift of Sir F. Goldsmid,
M.P. ; Corporal Soper, the winner of the £lO cup
given by the Mayor of Reading ; Assistant-Surgeon
May ; Private R. W. Salter, winner of the ladies'
cup and purse at the Windsor meeting ; Private
Stevens, winner of a £5 cup'; Assistant Musketry
Instructors Heelers and Barrett, and Privates J.
W. Hounslow, J. B. Salter, and Compigne, all of
whom, with one exception, had gained prizes be-
fore. The Maidenhead side were represented by
Messrs. Colman, Mills, Plumb, Jackson, Compton,
Lewis, Nicholson, Clark, and Pearce. Twenty
rounds of ball cartridge were delivered to each man,
and the firing commenced some time before the mid-
dle of the day, but despite the bad weather they
kept on, and the contest was so keen as to create
the greatest interest both among the spectators and
the parties moreimmediately interested; so close did
they keep together in the number of points made
that it was at one time doubtful which would be
the victors. On the side of Reading three men
made 18 points each out of 20 rounds, but only one
of the Maidenhead made that number. At the close
of the shooting the following was the result
announced :—Reading, at 300 yds, 31 points;
Maidenhead, do, 32; Reading, 400 yds, 50 points;
Maidenhead, do, 49 ; Reading. 500 yds, 38 points ;
Maidenhead, do, 31; Reading, 600 yds, 23 ; Maid-
enhead, do, 28. Total, Reading, 142 points, and
Maidenhead, 140, the former winning by two points
only. Considering the boisterous state of the
weather, the men on both sides shot in a manner
that evinced careful training and practice.
Wycombe Abbey, one of the scats of Lord
Carington in Buckinghamshire, was on Thursday
last the scene of a demonstration in connection
with the volunteer movement. The proceedings
consisted of a trial of skill in rifle shooting by the
members of all the corps, the prizes competed for
being three handsome silver cups presented by Lord
Carington. At 1 o'clock Lady Carington came on
the ground for the purpose of presenting in personi
her own gift—a silver bugle—to the Wycombe
corps, in which it is understood her eldestsoan,cotrnhe-
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thin were presented with a handsome silver bugle.
The presentation took place in Castle Lynare, upon
which occasion all the elite of the neighbourhood
attended. The corps is in a high state of efficiency,
principally attributable to their having been well
drilled by Sergeant-Major M‘William, of the Pem-