The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-02 00:00:00

THE FORTHCOMING VOLUNLEER

SHAM FIG.HT.

It has now been finally determined that the sham
fight and bivouac of the Metropolitan Volunteer
Corps shall take place on Saturday, the 14th July
instant. On Friday Viscount Ranelagh as the
chairman, with Captain Wilkinson as the hon.
secretary, and a number of other commanders of
volunteer rifle corps, proceeded by railway down
the Mid-Kent Railway for the purpose of reconnoi-
tring the ground on which it is proposed the dis-
play shall take place, a large tract of land lying
between Bromley and Chiselhurst in Kent, and after
going over it the commanding officers assembled
were unanimous in their opinion that it was highly
favourable for the proposed evolutions. It is under-
stood the volunteers will assemble on the ground on
Friday afternoon, the 13th, when a sort of rehearsal
of what is to done on the next day will take place
between the various corps engaged. The War-
office is, it is understood, to provide the tents, cook-
ing, and other necessary apparatus, and as evening
approaches the various corps will pitch their tents,
and the contending armies are to form their own
encampments.. Whether the government will also
provide the eatables and drinkables necessary for
the volunteer force likely to assemble on the occa-
sion has not yet transpired, but it would appear
that something of the sort must be contemplated,
as it has been announced that the actual expense
to each volunteer attending is not to exceed 2s. per
man, including railway fare to the field of evolution
and back again to town. Every movement is to be
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P y An Inland Revenue return just
that the paper duty collected in the year
end-
minted to £1,451,254.
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usEENNESS.—In the year ending at Michael-
liussgu te•Ahde PATER
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of March, 1860, am
no last 56,161 persons in England and. Wales were pu.
niished by magistrates for being drunk, or drunk and dis-
orderly, 10,486 of them women; the number charged was
89,903, 24,395 of them Women. In 306 cases in the year
1859 on coroners' inquests a verdict was found of " Died
from excessive drinking." Those persons were not tempted
by the cheapness of untaxed liquor. We took toll upon the
6,775,911 gallons of foreign wine and the 4,909,817 gallons
of foreign spirits, that were imported and retained fur home
colt:4;1111144m in 1859; and, as for home-made beverages
the Inland Revenue-office has just informed us that in the
year ending March 31, 1860, the Excise duty collected on
spit its amounted to £10,000,191, on malt to £6,852,458, on
hops £462,881.

MYSTERIOUS EVEN T.—A circumstance occurred
last Sunday in Queenstown which has given rise to much
conjectured gossip among the " guidwives." A few days
ago, as we are informed, a young lady of prepossessing ap-
pearance arrived at the Queen's Hotel alone, where she
lodged under the name of, we believe, Mrs. Carr. Last
Sunday, just after the arrival of the tug-boat containing the
American mails for the Persia, a gentleman, fashionably-
dressed, called the hotel, and inquired 'for Mrs. c'_aerp
That lady immediately appeared with her luggeg.e ticked
paid her bill, and went off in the Persia, acccinP.nolrdsVehne
gentleman. The vessel had been gone about tnn
Mr. Elliott, the proprietor of the Q4_ ! received a
telegram from Dublin offering P‘£l°° reward if he de-
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