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London, England, 1860-07-10 00:00:00

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1 Sharp .. .. 9th Sussex .. .. 17
2 Henry .. .. City of Edinburgh .. 17
3 Bainbrigge .. Ist West York .. 17
4 Collinson .. .. 6th North York .. 16
5 Pout .. .. sth Kent • . •. 16
6 Burgh .. .. 10th Glocester .. 15
7 May .. .. sth Sussex .. .. 15
8 Baker .. .. Bristol .. .. .. 14
9 Lord Fending .. Flintshire .. .. 14
10 Jackson .. .. 32d Kent .. .. 14
11 Jenkins .. .. sth Glamorgan .. .. 14
12 Cocks .. .. St. George's .. .. 14
13 Wood .. .. Edinburgh 14
14 Caiger .. .. 2d Middlesex tics l4
15 Phillips .. .. Ist Shropshire 14
16 Plasket .. .. 21st Middlesex .. 13
17 Wylie .. .. Ist Lanark .. .. 13
18 Blackburn .. Edinburgh .. .. 13
19 Russell .. .. Edinburgh .. .. 13
20 Ross .. .. 7th North York .. 13
HER MAJESTY'S PnizE, £250 and a gold medal of the As-
sociation, open to the 20 winners as above, and 20 next
best shots, at 800, 900, and 1,000 yards, 10 rounds at each
distance with Whitworth Rifles.
1 Ross .. .. .. 7th North York .. 24
The presentation of the prizes occupied rather
more than an hour. Most of the winners were
congratulated by the President, the Swiss gentle-
men receiving marked attention. They appeared
much more excited than the English victors ; some
of them could not resist a flourish of the prize-rifle
over their heads as they carried it off—most of the
Volunteers shouldered the arm, and disappeared at
the marching step. The succession was onlybroken
twice ; one winner did not appear when called,
having deputed a friend to receive his prize ; and
Mr. Egan's rifle, in the fourth set, awarded to Cor-
poral Hodder, of the Grenadier Guards, had not ar-
' I rived, or was not among the weapons on the table,
Mr. Ross, the winner of the Royal prize, was no
stranger by the time Lord Elcho arrived at that
announcement. He had appeared and taken off
two minor prizes. When called to receive the
Queen's prize of £250, the band struck up " See
the Conquering hero comes," and the applause that
had greeted him before was redoubled. He bore
his honours with great quietness of manner, re-
ceiving the prize as coolly as he shot for it. He is
tall, slight, and very youthful in appearance. He
was congratulated on his skill and success by the
President, the different members of the Council, and
a. knot of friends—among them was his father, the
famous deer-stalker. Mr. Ross was called on to
show his gold medal, and, finally, to put it on ; he
held it up tothe spectators, but did not comply with
the other request—the medal had "no fixings."
It was announced by Lord Elcho that her Majesty
has expressed her intention to make the prize she
has given an annual one as long as the Association
exists. He explained also that though Mr. Ross was
put down in the official lists as belonging to the
7th North York, and the President had flattered
himself that the grand prize had been won by a
Yorkshireman, the winner was really much " fur-
ther north" than Yorkshire—he was a Scotchman.
lithe English volunteers next year allowed a Scotch-
man to take the gold'medal, it would be a disgrace
to them. To this the President rejoined, that if
it took a Scotchman to win the prize it had re-
quired Yorkshire to train him, which Lord Elcho
rebutted by asserting that the youthful Ross had
been trained by his father, the deer-stalker, con-
siderably north of the Tweed.
The proceedings were closed by a short address
from
Lord ELcHo, who, before the assembly broke up,
wished to saw a few words on behalf of the Asso-
ciation. The expenses at Wimbledon, in conse-
quence of the previous inclemency of the weather,
and tke unexpected work they had had to do, had
been enormous. The number of members of the
Association was comparatively small. The Swiss
nation could every two years raise £lO,OOO for their
Tir Federal, and it would be a disgrace to England
if it could not raise every year a similar sum. The
Government had done all in its power to aid the
Association, and the volunteer riflemen were now
so popular that, if the Association required it, he
believed an appeal to the House of Commons for a
grant of money might be made. But the Associa-
tion wished to be independent of the Government,
and the only way to insure it was by the public
coming forward and joining the Association, mem-
bership of which was open to ladies also.
The spectators then quitted the Palace, and dis-
persed through the grounds ; the fountains played
at five o'clock, and a hurdle-race and some other
games were commenced, which continued till twi-
light. The scene in the gardens during the whole
evening was magnificent.

NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

The Couneil of the Association entertained a
dinner last evening at the Crystal Palace the Swiss
riflemen who had competed for the prizes at Wim-
bledon, and those gentlemen composing the School
of Musketry at Hythe who had assisted in carrying
out the arrangements during the past week. Lord
Elcho presided. Among the company present were
Earl Spencer, Colonels Kennedy and Bowes, M. de
la Rive, the Swiss Minister, the Swiss officers who
accompanied the riflemen to England, Capt, Archi-
bald, 58th Regt., and Lieut. Lacy, 12th Regt.
All the speeches were delivered in the French
language. Lord Elcho proposed the first toast—
" The Queen" (La Reine, la premiere carabiniere
d'Angleterre), which was followed by " The Health
of Prince Albert, the Patron of the Association."
Lord Elcho then proposed " The Health of their
Swiss Guests," expressing the very great pleasure
they had had in welcoming them to England, and
of meeting them that evening to bid them farewell.
Had time permitted the Crystal Palace might have
been filled with an audience desirous to do them
honour. Lord Elcho dwelt upon the sympathy
which existed between England and Switzerland,
both alike the homes of freedom. The association
had in their first experiment endeavoured to carry
out the Swiss model, which had made every man a
skilful marksman and every citizen a soldier, and
had caused Switzerland to be respected throughout
Europe. It had given him great pleasure to see
that their worthy friends had succeeded in carrying
off prizes, at the same time they had an opportu-
nity of seeing the superiority of English weapons,
although they had maintained their ancient repu-
tation by the way they had handled them. He
trusted their visit would encourage a repetition next
year, and in far greater numbers. (Great applause.)
M. VESSEL responded on behalf of the Swiss, in
a speech remarkable for taste and good feeling, ex-
pressing their sense of the high honour that had
been done them. He could not express the delight
they felt at their reception, and of what they had
seen in England. At Wimbledon they had seen a
shooting-ground unequalled in their own country,
and they had fired for the first time with arms which
had astonished them. Such weapons used with skill
would make any invasion hopeless. M. Wessel
spoke in eloquent terms of the proud position of
England and of the hospitality they had experienced
as evidencing the true sympathy which existed be-
tween the two countries, and in proposing the
health of Lord Elcho he thanked him for the cour-
tesy and kindness he and all his companions had re-
ceived from his Lordship.
Lord ELcHo returned thanks.
M. DE LA HIVE proposed " England, and the de-
velopment of her military spirit." To accomplish
this only two things were wanted—men and arms.
Of English courage, and endurance, and energy it
was unnecessary to speak, and when the country
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(From the Special Correspondent of the Times.)
ALIA, JUNE 29.
You must have a good map of Sicily to find out
where I am. In order to facilitate your search, I
must tell you that I am writing to you from one of
those picturesque towns in the interior, nestled on
the side of the mountain, 46 miles from Palermo,
close to the high road towards Caltanisetta, Catania,
and Girgenti.
As there were no events of importance to report
from head-quarters beyond the daily work of pre-
paration and organisation, the details of which,
however important for the national army, offer
only moderate interest to your readers, I thought a
trip to the interior of this terra incognita would be
welcome to them. It is not more than three days
since I left Palermo, and I have scarcely travelled
one fourth of the length of the island, yet I can see
already that it is not until you get into the interior
that you are able to judge of the whole Sicilian
movement.
As you know, there are three columns which at
this moment are on their way through the island—
one which, proceeding by the seashore tends to-
wards Messina; the second, which passes right
through the heart of the country, by Caltanisetta
to Catania ; and a third, which traverses the island
in a southerly direction from Palermo to Girgenti,
and then will unite with the second. Behind these
three columns is Garibaldi, organising new divisions
and new reserves at Palermo.
The middle column, the nucleus of which con-
sists of the Cacciatori delle Alpi who came with the
first expedition, was the first to start. Its compo-
sition was the work of less than a fortnight. In this
time the cadres had to be made of the Cacciatori,
Sicilian volunteers had to be enlisted and brought
into shape, all had to be clothed, the greatest part
of them armed, artillery prepared, the departments
of the intendance, ambulance, and transport orga-
nized; in one word, all that machinery which is
required fora column in march had to be got ready
and made to work.
With regular routine organizers the attempt to
work this wonder would have been hopeless ; not
so with Garibaldi and his coadjutors, who seek
unity and organization more in the spirit of activity
and the energy of every one than in the dead forms
of routine. The difference between the two is just
that between a complicated machine which cannot
work, unless all its parts be perfect in the begin-
ning, and which gets invariably out of order when
the process of cleaning and oiling can no longer be
attended to, and a living organism, which has a
small and simple beginning, growing and develop-
ing itself by its own internal vitality.
This difference has never, perhaps, been better
illustrated than in the present case. Garibaldi,who
knows no rest himself, urged the speedy departure,
his idea being that the soldier wants but little if he
is penetrated by a good spirit ; he is impatient with
those who speak of impossibilities. Besides being
anxious not to lose time, according to his idea the
important thing was to make a beginning. Start
with whatever you can get together, and then pro-
vide for the rest on the way. This is his maxim,
in which he was strengthened by the consideration
that it was necessary to win the soldiers from the
" otia" of Palermo.
He could not have pitched on a better man to
second his views than General Turr, who was
charged with the formation of the First Division
and the command of the middle column. In spite
of all obstacles, the want of men cognizant of the or-
ganisation of troops, the difficulty of sobering down
the noisy enthusiasm of the Sicilians sufficiently to
make them enlist as volunteers, and the poverty of
Palermo in all articles required for soldiers, were
all overcome, and, in less than a fortnight, the
column departed from Palermo.
If one of the routine soldiers had seen the column
start he would have prognosticated dissolution in a
few days, and utter inability to proceed. Linen
blouses, trousers in great measure ad libitum, shoes
indifferent, not to say bad, " intendance" inexpe-
rienced, great longing for the fleshpots and other
attractions of Palermo, a tendency in the volunteers
to go backwards and shout rather than to proceed
forward, and ultimately to fight—verily these were
serious drawbacks, but the essential thing was done
—the column started. At Misilmeri the column
halted for three days to supply, as far as possible,
what was wanted, and then continued its road to
Villafrate. It would be untrue to say that all the
volunteers remained, that all was got right, or that
nothing more was wanted ; but the column was at
least twice as well organised when it left Misilmeri
as at its departure three days ago, and every
day since a considerable improvement has taken
place. The reminiscences of Palermo are becom-
ing weaker; the volunteers get a taste for cam-
paigning in a beautiful country ; well received
everywhere and feasted, the organisation works
better and better every day, and all are beginning
to look forward instead of backward.
There has only been one drawback hitherto,
and that is the illness of General Turr, the com-
mander, to whose activity and energy the formation
of the Division was above all owing. Still suffer-
ing from the effects of the wound received last year
in the plains of Lombardy while with Garibaldi,
General Turr was nursing his'shattered health at the
baths of Aqui when Garibaldi summoned his friend
and follower to come and help the Sicilians in their
struggle. General Turr did not hesitate for one
moment to respond to the appeal. Named Adju-
tant-General of the force, he exerted himself to get
the expedition started from Genoa. It was owing
to his management that the expedition, which had
to leave with very little ammunition, supplied this
want on the road, and at the same time obtained
four guns in the most unexpected manner. He was
the first to set foot on the soil of Sicily, and has
been foremost in all the actions which led to the
taking of Palermo and the evacuation of that place.
Named Inspector-General of the National Army in
Sicily, and charged with the organisation of the
First Division, he undertook and completed the
work, but at the expense of his health. During 1
the last few days of Herculean labour, in spite of
strong symptoms of serious illness, he exhausted
his remaining strength, and the very first night of
his departure for Palermo a violent inflammation
of the chest, with convulsive cough and spitting of
blood, declared itself. Despite of the urgent advice
of all the medical men of the division, he would not
abandon the post confided to him, and persisted in
proceeding to Villafrate, where he arrived dange-
rously ill. Another more violent crisis forced him
at last to give in, and allow himself to be tran-
sported back to Palermo. The morning of the day
before yesterday the officers and many men were
assembled at daybreak before the house occupied
by him in Villafrate, anxious to have another look
at their chief, who, although a Hungarian, is one
of the most popular men in the force, with whom
he has shared weal and woe. Many a hardy Cac-
ciatore had tears in his eyes when the carriage
rolled off.
His column has since been proceeding on its double
mission, military and political. Theinterior of Sicily
has at all times had the credit of being the most un-
manageable part of the island—wild, poor, unculti-
vated ; and this is not an opinion entertained alone
by foreigners, but it is one which you hear constantly
repeated by people who have large property in the
island. As with all unknown things, there has
been a great deal of error and misrepresentation in
this respect. I have seen but a small portion as yet,
but at every step hitherto things become better in-
stead of worse, and in every respect.
I find that the feeling improves at every step.
Misilmeri, only eight miles from Palermo, was cool
in the reception of the troops. When they arrived
at night nothing was found prepared ; the bread
was not ready, the stores had to be fetched from
outside, and every face was of uncommon length.
On inquiry it was found that the conscription had
frightened them, and, above all, the women had
begun a strong opposition. Every one did his best
to explain the misunderstanding, and to make peo-
ple understand that only a small portion of those
liable would be taken, with all due regard to mar-
ried men, only sons, &c. Frate Don Giovanni, a
brave Franciscan monk, who acts as chaplain and
-;+ator-general of the force, made a long sermon to
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There can be no doubt that the squadre have had
the habit, and probably still retain it a little, of
living at the expense of the country ; but one ought
to be just. It is they who kept the insurrection
alive, and not those who complain now. While these
latter remained snug at home, and the towns
were satisfied with making demonstrations, these
people carried on the guerilln warfare. They took
very likely often more than they ought to have
done, but, on the whole, it is found that even in
this respect there is a great exaggeration. Now,
they are sent home, and requested to become peace-
ful National Guards, or enlist; no wonder that
some have some difficulty in doing this, and that
here and there they find means of getting some
scudi out of the wealthy. These are small incon-
veniences which cannot be remedied in a day, and
it is just for that that the organisation of the Na-
tional Guard must be urged on, so as to give some
strength to the authorities.
But that it is mere fear and imagination which
invent and magnify these things we have proof
every moment. Thus, while the column was at
Villafrate the news came in that a place about ten
miles distant calledyrizi was threatened by a band.
A battalion was despatched to see, and, instead of
finding bands, found an enthusiastic reception, with
balls, dinners, illuminations, and general festivities.
Yesterday morning the column arrived at Rocca-
palumbo. The magistrates met it before the town,
and did everything to make the soldiers comfortable.
There was great talk likewise of the fear from
bands, but not a single fact on which to proceed ;
nay, during the stay of the column a brother of the
man arrested at Villafrate came to ask for a certi-
ficate of probity. Enthusiasm, National Guard, and
levy go together, and in the last station the first
was considerable, the second already in formation
and almost entirely armed, and the third ready
when called out.
The reception at this place, where we arrived
last night, surpassed by far that at the preceding
station. More than a couple of miles in advance
we were met by a detachment on horseback, with
the tricolour flag, which was a proof of goodwill,
but had the inconvenience of creating considerable
excitement among our horses. Other detachments
of people nearer to the town came out on foot,
shouting and cheering. At the ascent to the town
we were received by a band of music at the entrance.
The munic;pality and clergy were waiting to wel-
come us. Bonfires were lit on all the heights, the
town was illuminated. Meat and wine were offered
in the name of the town to the men, and the officers
were feasted by their landlords. No doubt, the
joy has something to do with the fear of the
squadre, but there is no doubt that the more we
advance the greater is the participation in our
cause.

The difficulty is the ignorance and the want o
practice in doing anything for themselves. They
are so accustomed to find all done by the Govern-
ment that the very idea of doing something for
themselves is new. Thus they did not know how
to go about constituting the National Guard, and
at the request of the municipality the column
delays its departure to help on this work. There
seems to be a good number of guns, mostly fowling
pieces, and the rest can be armed in the meantime
with lances.
If the idea with which we had been impressed at
Palermo, that we should find a bad spirit in the
interior, turns out the very reverse, the idea which
was impressed upon us about the wildness and poor-
ness of the country is likewise false. At Misilmeri,
which has 11,000 inhabitants, the houses are little
better than hovels, dirty, wanting in every comfort,
with scarcely any furniture, little to eat, and that
bad. At Villafrate, which has but 3,000, things
were already a little better ; at Roccapalumbo, a
little place of 1,800 inhabitants, all officers were well
lodged, there was plenty to eat, and even the means
of getting something like a wash,
Now I and many others are lodged in better and
cleaner apartments than at Palermo. I am writing
in a large neatly furnished saloon, with a piano and
armchairs, have slept in an elegant brass bed with
clean fine linen, and, fancy, had my cold bath this
morning ! If it goes on like this we shall end with
palaces and every luxury instead of the privation
which we expected.
Not only is the interior better disposed than the
noisy capital to do something, but it is richer, and I
would almost say more civilised. Since we left
Missilmeri I have not seen more than two or three
beggars. The article seems almost unknown. The
country, which I expected to find barren and uncul-
tivated, is a succession of cornfields up to the tops
of the mountains, broken by magnificent olive
woods. These morning and evening rides are the
most charming things you can imagine. You must
know that we have adopted the Indian style of
marching—viz., late in the afternoon and very early
in the morning, so as to escape the heat, which is
very great during the day. The splendid country
and good living exerts its influence on the spirits
of the soldiers, and it is a real pleasure to see them
march. Stragglers are almost unknown, and the
columns keep better together than ever I saw the
columns of a regular army.
As for the scenery, it is the finest you can ima-
gine—a continual succession of magnificent valleys
and grand mountain slopes. In the distance we
have been hitherto accompanied by the picturesque,
rugged main-chain of the Sicilian mountains,
which traverses the whole length of the island from
Cape Gallo to the Straits of Messina. While we
have this magnificent back ground to our left, with
frequent glimpses of the sea, we wind up hill and
down hill among cornfields as far as the eye can
reach, and now and then an olive wood. From time
to time you can observe on the neck of a moun-
tain clusters of white houses perched up among
woods and gardens, for wherever there is a river
near everything lives with an exuberant life—the
cactus, the aloe, the vine, the fig and almond trees,
with flowers such as no hothouse can produce, roses
and oleanders in full bloom, not shrubs, but trees.
The towns and villages, like eagles' nests, are perched
up high, and secure from malaria, which infests all
the lowlands, and from hostile attack, the approach
to them through a garden. What astonishes you is
to see so much cultivation and so few villages and
towns—miles and miles of cornfields before you find
an inhabited place. The insecurity forced people to
herd together, and you could not understand how
they can, from so great a distance, attend to their
fields, did you not find now and then a little round
structure of reeds, something like an Indian wig-
wam or an English bell-tent of reed, with the
ground excavated as in the Crimea. With still
greater astonishment you see that all those grand
mountain slopes, with waving corn upon. them,
cannot be ploughed, but must be worked by manual