The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, I_B6o.

TO CAB DRIVERS. -£1 REWARD -A
Foreign Gentleman was driven in a four-wheel cab to
No. 24, Orchard-street, Portman-square, about 6 o'clock on
Thursday evening last, 6th September. He waited there
about an hour, and then went away with same luggage in the
same cab. The driver was told on starting to go to St
Katherine's Wharf. the driver is requested to apply imme-
diately to Messrs. H. and S. Mullens, solicitors, 7, Poultry,
London, E.C.

FItEEROLDS AND COPYHOLDS—MARCII, CAMBRIDGE.
TO BE SOLD. pursuant to a Decree of the High
Court of Chancery, made in a cause of Elliott v. Elliott,
with the approbation of the Right Hon. the Master of the
Rolls, in Three Lots, by Mr. Ambrose Grounds, the person
appointed by the said Judge; at the Griffin Inn, at March, in
the Isle of Ely, in the County of Cambridge, on WEDNES-
DAY, the 26th day of September, 1860, at Seven of the clock
in the evening precisely, certain FREEHOLD ARABL
LAND sit ate in Burrowmoor, in March, atores.id, and a
COPYHOLD DWELLING-HOUSE, with FaKm Buildings,
Barn, Granary, Gardens, Stabling, and Out-offices, situate
in Well-end, at March aforesaid, fronting the Station Road,
and held of the Manor of Doddington, at an annual quit rent
of ld. and nominal fine of ld.---Particulars and conditions of
Sale may be ha of the Auctioneer, at March ; of Mr. H. H.
Lawrence, solicitor, 1, Verulam- buildings, Gray's-inn, Lon-
don ; Mr. Charles Hanslip, ,olicitor, 2, John-street, Bed-
ford-row, London ; and at the principal Inns in the neigh-
bourhood.

CHAS. PUGH, Chief Clerk.

CONTRACT FOR COALS FOR HAULBOWLINE.
Department of the Storekeeper-General
of the Navy,
Somerset-place, 6th Sept., 1860.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the
OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED
KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on TUESDAY, the
18th instant, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with
such Persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for supply-
ing and delivering into Store at her Majesty's Naval Yard at
Haulbowlin e,

1,500 Tons of SOUTH WALES COALS,

fit for the service of her Majesty's Steam Vessels.

A form f the Tender may be seen at the said office. No
tender will be received after Two o'clock on the day of
treaty, nor will any be noticed unle.s the party attends, or an
agent for him duly authorised in writing.

Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary, of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Ten-
der for Ooals for Haulbowline," and must also be delivered.
at Sometiet-place, accompanied by a letter signed by a re-
sponsible person, engaging to become bound with the person
tendering, in the sum of £3OO, for the due performance of
the Contract.

offering up their General to their lox e of absolutism
they were effectually relieved from what otherwise
might have seemed the rather pressing necessity of
fighting for it. A course combining so many ad-
vantages was absolutely irresistible ; so the General
was murdered with every circumstance of ferocity
and barbarity, and his troops, having thus relieved
their feeling by this sanguinary protest against
liberalism in the person of Briganti, disbanded
themselves at once, and left liberalism in the person
of Garibaldi at liberty to march in triumph to the
metropolis, That goal he reached yesterday, to
the inexpressible relief of the inhabitants, who
naturally expected from the retiring dynasty a
bombardment, if not a massacre and general pil-
lage, executed as nearly as possible according to
the pattern of the 15th of May, 1848. Tyranny,
however, in this instance had to be humane for lack
of instruments audacious enough to execute its
cruelty. Retribution would have followed too
closely. Even a Neapolitan railway does not con-
sume more than two hours in the journey from
La Cava to Naples, and Garibaldi was known to
be at La Cava.

What his course will be when master of
Naples we forbear to speculate; facts will speedily
speak for themselves; but one service we hope he
will render to the enlightenment of the human race
—towards exploding the grossest and most baneful
superstition. We hope he will possess himself of
the mixture called the blood of St. Januarius, and
cause it to be submitted to a searchinv chymical
analysis, and make the results, whatever they may
be, known to the civilised world. It is worthy of
the hand which has just emancipated the people
from the fetters of temporal oppression to expose
one of the grossest and most impudent frauds
which even the priesthood of -gle_South of Italy
ever practised on the credulity of a semi-barbarous
population.—Times.

LORD WODEHOUs'E ON RIFLE CORPS.

Lord Wodehouse, the Under Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, presided on Friday last at a
public meeting held at Wymondham near Norwich,
for the purpose of forming a Volunteer Rifle Corps
for that town and the surrounding district. Lord
Stafford, Sir J. P. Boileau, and several landowners
and clergymen of the neighbourhood were present,
and a considerable number also of tenant farmers,
notwithstanding the pressureof harvest operations.
Lord WODEHOUSE said that an attempt was
made some time ago to form a rifle corps in
Wymondham, but the feeling then did not appear
to be so strong as to encourage hopes of success.
That was no reason, however, why another effort
should not be made now. " Better late than
never" was a good maxim, and though they were
rather behindhand they would have the advan
tage of the experience gained in other places. It
had been proposed to inclide Wyrnondham and
the hundred of Florehoe in the corps which
was being formed in Attleborough, but it had
occurred to him that it was only proper first to try
whether they could not get up a corps of their own
in W 3 mondham. (Applause.) It would be a great
inconvenience for the Volunteers to have to go to
a distance for their drill, and on that account alone
a local corps was more likely to be permanently
successful; and he felt confident from the commu-
nications he had had with some gentlemen in the
neighbourhood that they could succeed in forming,
if not a company, at least a subdivision in their
hundred. (Cheers.) It might be considered almost
supererogatory now to say anything in favour of
the movement, because there could be no greater
proof of its advantages than the extraordinary suc-
cess it had met with throughout the country.
Many persons, he was aware, still felt some objec-
tion to joining these corps, under the idea that it
was calling upon them to do something out of their
usual sphere, and to undergo inconveniences which
they were not bound to subject themselves to. He
thought a moment's reflection would show any one
that this movement was precisely in accordance
with the general character of our institutions.
There was not one of us who was not called upon
every day to submit to considerable personal in-
convenience in order to carry on what was in fact
the government of the country. Many gentlemen
present acted in various positions of responsibility
—either as overseers or as guardians of the poor, or
as unpaid magistrates—all of them offices for which
no remuneration was received, and which were dis-
charged for the general benefit of the public, be-
cause it was the characteristic of Englishmen that
they managed their own concerns. (Hear, hear.)
This Volunteer movement was based on the same
idea—namely, that though it might be personally
inconvenient, and even expensive to us to discharge
these local offices in our several counties, we were
bound to undertake those offices; so were we also
bound to ungergo some personal inconvenience and
expense in assisting in the defence of our country.
(Hear, hear.) He (Lord Wodehouse) held that
every man was quite as much bound to contri-
bute
to the defence of his country as he was
bound to perform any other duty which might
devolve on a citizen. (Hear.) One of the first '
principles on which any society could be based was 1
that each man should do his best in the defence of
the country. In other parts of the world this was
effected by the personal contributions of the inha-
bitants for the maintenance of an enormous stand-
ing army. The principles of our constitution had
always, however, been opposed to the maintenance
of a large standing army. He hoped that that
principle would always be adhered to—(hear)—
but then, if we did not have a large standing army,
we must, as reasonable men, provide in some ether
way a force which would be sufficient to place us
in safety, so that we might have no fear of any
events either at home or abroad. He should say
nothing, after all that had been said by so many
having far greater authority than himself, as to the
purely defensive character of the volunteer move-
ment. but it must be acknowledged—and it was one
of the advantages of the movement—that there was
nothing in it offensive to any nation whatever. It
was simply a movement which showed that we were
determined to place ourselves in such a position
that we should be enabled to take our own course,
without having regard to anything but that which
we believed to be to the advantage of the country
and the promotion of general peace and tranquillity
throughout the world. (Applause.) There were
two aspects in which this movement might be re-
garded—both of them, he thought, very advanta-
geous to it. In the first place, it provided for the
defence of the country ; and secondly, what was of
no inconsiderable importance, it afforded a healthy
and useful recreation to all classes. (Hear.) He
thought we were in want in this country of some-
thing which should bring different classes of society
together by engaging them in some common object
which was at the same time useful and agreeable,
sad such a means of social intercourse and recreation
was provided by volunteer corps. (Hear.) There
was no one, he was sure, who began to practise
rifle-shooting who would not find it extremely
amusing and attractive ; a maa felt that he was ac-
quiring an art which some day or other might be
useful, and which at any rate could do him no harm
to learn. The noble lord then proceeded to explain
the necessary steps to be taken in forming a Volun-
teer corps, and observed, with regard to the ex-
pense, that as that deterred many from joining, he
thought it ought to be kept as low as possible. As
the Government now found the rifles, the members
would only have to provide their uniforms and
accoutrements, which he was informed at the War-
office need not cost more than £3 10s., and could
even be provided for a lower sum than that. He
suggested a general subscription for defraying the
expense of procuring a practice-ground, and that
honorary members should be admitted for an an-
nual subscription of from £5 to 10s., with the pri-
vilege of practising at the butt and wearing the
uniform. With respect to the drill, he observed
that a Volunteer, in order to be enrolled as an
" effective," was only required to attend eight
drills in four months, so that the tax on one's time
and convenience was really very trifling. After
offering a donation of £5 to the corps, and express-
ing his regret that his official duties in town would
prevent him from becoming an active member,
Lord Wodehouse, in conclusion, said he believed a
more patriotic movement than this had not been
inaugurated during the present century. Nothing
had been done more calculated to raise England
both at home and abroad—both in her own self-
respect and in the estimation of other nations—
than that we had gone heart and hand in a move-
ment so essentially English, being calculated to
give us a cheap means of defence, and at the same
time to improve the personal bearing, he might
say, of every man who made himself one of a body
of men who were animated by such laudable and
patriotic motives. (Loud applause.)
Sir J. BOILEAU also addressed the meeting in
support of the movement, and resolutions were
unanimously adopted for the formation of a rifle
corps at Wymondham, and appointing a provi-
sional. committee to enrol members and make the
necessary preliminary arrangements.
It was stated that more than 50 persons had al-
• ready signified their intention to join the corps.
' In addition to the £5O subscribed by Lord Wode-

house, Sir J, Boileau gave a donati
_r„ of £25, and
the amount guaranteed before **the meeting broke
up was nearly £250.