The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-15 00:00:00

The National Rifle Association.

The unfortunate change in the weather which so
spoiled what would otherwise have been the impos-
ing spectacle of the reception of the Belgians by the
Prince of 'Wales, had a considerable effect on the
shooting. During a portion of the afternoon of
Saturday the rain poured down in such torrents as
to make practice an impossibility. Shooters and
register-keepers were alike driven to seek the scant
shelter that the camps afforded. Many volunteers,
from the time thus lost, were unable to fire in com-
petitions for which they were entered, while the
pool targets were of course deserted, to the great
loss of the Association. This interruption was the
more to be regretted as the programme embraced a
very large number of competitions.
The first important match of the day was for the
China Challenge Cup, a piece of plate, value £525,
given by the volunteers in China for competition
amongst the home volunteers. To this the National
Rifle Association add £5O. The conditions of the
competition are that each county shall send a squad
of ten efficient volunteers to fire at 200 and 500
yards, five shots at each range. The squad making
the highest score take the cup, which remains for
the year in the custody of the Lord Lieutenant of
their county, and a purse of £25. The second
squad takes a purse of £l5, and the third a purse
of £lO. The competition took place before the
rain came on, and was therefore satisfactorily con-
cluded. The winners were the West Yorks, who
made 296 marks, or within a fraction of an average
of centres. The second squad—that sent by the
Queen's Edinburghs —were only a short distance
behind with 293 marks, and the Staffordshire ten
came in third with 288 marks.

The second competition of the day was that for
the Belgian Challenge Cup, a piece of plate pre-
sented by the Chasseurs Eclaireurs and other Bel-
gian visitors to Wimbledon in 1866, for volley
firing. The National Rifle Association add £75,
divided into £3O for the first squad, £2O for the
second, £l5 for the third, and £lO for the fourth
squad. The conditions are a squad of ten men
from any battalion, each squad to fire five rounds
kneeling at 400 yards, in accordance with the
army regulations for volley firing. The squad
making the highest score wins the cup, which is
held by the commanding officer. The bad weather
interfered so much with the shooting that it was
impossible to finish this competition. The squad
sent by the Berkshire battalion, and made up from
the Windsor Company, was understood to stand
very high amongst those firing on Saturday ; but
whatever may be their score, they deserved great
credit for the soldierlike, automatic style in which
they worked together.
In the contest for the Martin's Challenge Cup,
with £5O added by the Association, the conditions
of which are that marksmen of 1866 and 1867 only
shall fire five rounds with the Enfield, the winners
and scores were as follows :

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Ensign
CorporalG B° we
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18 Cup and £lO
Corporl Breeze, Ist Norfolk'
... 5
Private Peake, 6th Lancashire
Private Frere, London Rifle Brigade 17 ... 3
Colour-Sergt. Jones, 40th Middlesex 17
... 3
Ensign Grieve, 4th Roxburgh l7 ... 3
Sergeant Baillie, London Scottish l7 ... 3
Corporal Boamish, 2d Warwick l7
... 3
Private Roberts, Bristol
Private Ray, 4th Surrey l6 ... 3
Captain Dear, 9th Middlesex l6 ... 3
Private Ryley, Victoria
There was a second prize given to the Daily
Telegraph prize, which was won last week by Ser-
geant-Major Cooke with the remarkable score of 20,
at 500 yards. This second prize was a piece of plate
value £25, presented by the proprietors of Land and
Water. The winner was Private J. Read, of the
14th Staffordshire, who scored the best 18 that was
in the competition, no one being able to approach
nearer than that, the " highest possible" of Sergt.-
Major Cooke. .
On Friday and Saturday the struggle for the
Albert series of prizes commenced. It will be con-
tinued to-day, and close to-morrow evening. It is
the first of the small-bore competitions of the meet-
ing for a series at 200, 500, 600, and 800 yards,
each of the value of £l3O. The accuracy of small-
bore men is now so great that it is hardly likely that
less than the " highest possible" will take a prize at
any of the ranges. The names of several well known
good shots were mentioned as having attained the
maximum of 20 marks, and by the time the score
the cream of the best shots of the United
closes,
Kingdom will appear on the register.
The competition for the Enfield Association Cup
closed on Saturday. The marvellous score of 37,
three short of the highest possible, made by Mr.
Edward Ross, and Private Marsh of the 12th Nor-
folk, was never touched, though several eompetitora
totalled up 30 marks, gr. Diarahl tilerefore, frora,

shot for it.
The sixty highest scorers in the first stage of the
Queen's Prize paraded at 9.45 a.m. on Sat'irday
morning in front of the Council, and had the mili-
tary Whitworth rides served out to them, with which
they will compete in the second stage. Targets
were placed at their disposal for sighting, and they
will continue their practice to-day before commenc-
ing the grand contest of the meeting to-morrow

morning.
In the second series of extra prizes, for Enfields,
at 500 yards, five rounds, the following is the cor-
rected list of prize winners :
SECOND SERIES, EXTRA PRIZES.
Prize

Prize,

Pts.

1.-1" W. Hope, Cam-
bridge Univ. 2O
2. Pte.M'Rea, lstNew-
castle l9
8. Assist.Surg.Masfen,
25th Staffords.... 18
4. Pte. Bazeley, 10th
Gloucestershire 18

Pts.
5. Sergt. Clarke, Ist
Staffordshire lB
G. Ensign Radcliffe, S
Middlesex lB
7. Ens. Sprott, sth Lan lB
B:Pte. Brand, Ist Lan-
arkshire,. l7

In the third series of extra prizes, for small bores,
at 600 yards, the number of 4, highest possibles"
made involved the necessity of resorting to tie
shooting to decide the order of priority. The re-
-sults were. as foilowi

Prize Prize
1. Sergt. Norsmithe, 23d 6. lion. Mem. 11. Ross,
Middlesex. 15th Middlesex.
2. Lieut. Coat; Gth Red. 7. Private M'Ketrna, Ayr.
3. Cap. Heaton, 40th Lanc. 8. Capt. Burrs, 29th Kent.
4. Hon. Mem. Rawson, 9. Sorgt. Brown, l 3th Lan-
Derby. eashire.
5. Pte. Pell, 23d Middlesx.
As a sequel to the International Enfield Match,
there is a competition by the highest scorer in each
team, for the possession of a splendid piece of plate
called "The Irish International Challenge Trophy."
The three highest scorers were Private Smythe, of
the Ist Lanark, for Ireland, who made on Tuesday
last the fine score of 68 ; Private Ray, of the Lon-
don Scottish, for Scotland, who made 65 ; and
Corporal Rumball, of the 3d Herta, for England,
who made 63. These three excellent shots fired
over the same course on Saturday (seven shots at
200, 500, and 600 yards), when Private Hay im-
proved on his previous score by registering 66,
while the other two competitors fell off respectively,
Private Smythe to 53, and Corporal Rumball to
42. Scotland, therefore, holds the trophy for the
year.

The match between the Lords and Commons,
fixed for Saturday afternoon, and which would, but
for the storm, have been the most brilliant of this
series of contests between the Upper and Lower
Chambers of the Legislature, was deprived of much
of its interest. The crowds of fashionable specta-
tors who would have eagerly watched every shot of
noble lords and gentlemen had been driven away
drenched and disheartened from the common. It
was, therefore, no small credit to the competitors
that they should have come gallantly to the scratch
and contended in the most closely fought match
that has yet taken place between the two Houses.
Five of a side were all that could be mustered ; but
these proved to be wonderfully even in skill. The
conditions were 200 and 500 yards, 7 shots at each,
any rifle, any position. At 200 yards the Lords
were five ahead; but at 500 yards, the admirable
shooting of Lord Elcho, coached by Captain Ross,
Mr. Fordyce, and Mr. Malcolm, turned the scale,
and the Commons became the winners by 6 marks,
nominally, but really only by two, because one noble
lord fired at the wrong target, making a,bull's-eye,
of which his squad did not get the benefit. The
following are the scores and the names of the com-
petitors :

-LORTYS.
200 500 Tot.
L'AVlvrncliffe 26 2l 47
Earl Ducie ... 26 26 52
Lord Bolton 21 24 48
Earlof Denbigh2s 26 51
Earl Spencer 26 21 47

Coxmoss.
200 00 Tot. ,*iirr
Mr. Lamont... 20 22 42
Mr. Malcolm 27 27 54
Mr. FordyCe 25 28 53
Mr. Bass ... 21 24 48
Lord Elcho... 26 28 54

Total

... ... 251

Total

... ... 245

After the public reception by the Prince of
Wales some fewv of the Belgians commenced
shooting for the third series, at 150 yards. Their
practice excited considerable curiosity amongst
the volunteers, a goodly crowd of whom sur-
rounded the firing points. Several of the com-
petitors were obviously not much accustomed to
target practice. Those rho made the best shooting
had evidently undergone a course of musketry
instruction somewhat analogous to our Hythe
system. They stood to their work in good military
attitude, though probably one of our Hythe staff
Sergeants would, in some minor details, have been
able to suggest improvements. The Belgian weapons
—at least those of the contingent who are now here
—are far inferior to our regulation arms, They are
arms of large bore, those of the Garde Civique
having the appearance of smooth-bore muskets,
adapted to modern requirements by being rifled
with four shallow grooves. The weapon of the
Chasseurs Eclaireurs is about the length of our short
Enfield, but also of large bore with polygroove
rifling. The artillery carry a carbine of a similar
character. The musket of the Garde Civique ap-
pears to have a fixed block for a back sight, which
would not give sufficient elevation for 500 yards.
The rifle of the Chasseurs has a flap and slider to
adjust the sight for different ranges. The bullet
used must be heavier than the Enfield, but the charge
of powder appears to be lighter. At 150 yards the
practice made, though inferior to what we should
expect from fairly good shots, was respectable, and
at 209 yards the same result may be anticipated ;
but unless the arms are much better than one would
imagine from their appearance, the shooting at 500
yards would be very wild and unsatisfactory. Seve-
ral of the Belgians fired a round or two from the
Enfield with results that show they would soon be
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On Saturday his Imperial
the Sat
paid a visit to her Majesty the Ottlien Vin Ssor
Castle, where the illustrious visitor was received
4At
with befitting state. The streets of Windsor were
decorated, and from the houses banners and flags
were hung, or were suspended on cords stretched
across the roadway. Great crowds of people, gaily
dressed, thronged the footways, and filled the win-
dows. The acclamations of welcome with which
the Sultan was received in the Royal borough were
very marked, and they were gracefully acknow-
ledged by his Imperial Highness.
Shortly before II o'clock the Sultan, attended h
an
Buckingham
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escorted by de' tolcialigneslentleofft
the Royal Horse Cu I r - (Blne), and was ch:iven to
the Paddington terminus of the Great Western
(I
Railway. The Royal reception rooms, as well as
the station, were tastefully decorated with much
effect. Many choice plants and flowers were dis-
posed in the waiting rooms, and on that portion of
the platform reserved for the Royal train which was
to convey the illustrious travellers. The platform
was carpeted, as was the front of the station where,
the Sultan and his suite alighted. A guard of
honour of the 2d Battalion Grenadier Guards, with
their band, was drawn up iuside the station. His
Imperial Highness was received by Sir Daniel
Gooch, Bart., M.P., and other principal officials
of the Great Western Company ; Mr. It. Eykyn,
M.P. for Windsor, with Major-General Hood and
Colonel Hardinge, for the Queen. The special
train, which was of seven carriages, including three
magnificent Royal saloons, moved from the station
at a quarter-past eleven o'clock, and reached
Windsor at a few minutes before noon. Here
the preparations made were very complete and of
a similar character to those at Paddington.
Upon the platform, in front of the Queen's waiting
rooms, were their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur
and Prince Louis of Hesse, attended by their re-
spective suites. Prince Arthur wore the uniform of
the Royal Artillery, and Prince Louis a Prussian
unform, with a helmet. The Mayor and Corpora-
tion of Windsor, in their dress robes, with the mace,
&c,, were in the waiting room. A number of spec-
tators had been admitted to the station, but the
platform where their Royal Highnesses stood in
front of the waiting room was kept clear by lines of
troops. In the courtyard of the station, where the
Queen's carriages were drawn up, was a guard of
honour of the Ist Battalion Scots Fusiliers, under
the command of Colonel White, and a captain's
escort of the 2d Life Guards, with standard, was
in waiting. The band of the 2d Life Guards was
also stationed there. All the military were in full
dress, and the bandsmen in their State uniforms.
On alighting from the train the Sultan cordially
shook hands with Prince Arthur and Prince Louis
of Hesse, and was conducted to her Majesty's car-
riage, which was drawn by four white horses, and
preceded by outriders in scarlet and gold, while the
Guards saluted and the band played some Turkish
music. As to the procession of carriages, headed
by that in which sat the Sultan and the Princes,
with the principal Minister in attendance on his
Imperial Highness, left the station yard, it was
greeted with loud cheering, and the bells of St.
George's Chapel and of St. John's Church rang
peals. The carriages proceeded slowly up the
crowded streets to their destination, and were every-
where received with the heartiest cheers, which the
Sultan repeatedly acknowledged. All along the
route the houses were profusely decorated with
flags, &c. Leaving Park-street the procession
entered the Long Walk, and as it swept into
the Home Park a salute of twenty-one guns was
given. From the gates, the roadway leading
through the grounds to the grand entrance of the
Castle, between the York and Lancaster Towers,
was lined with troops, on the eastern side by the
2nd Life Guards, on the western by the Ist bat-
talion Scots Fusiliers. The troopers were dis-
mounted. In the grand quadrangle of the Castle
was a guard of honour, with colours and bands of
the Ist Battalion Scots Fusiliers, under command of
Colonel Peel. The spectacle was splendid in the
extreme when the Sultan passed under the grand
archway and alighted, as the troops presented arms
and the band played. The Yeomen of the Guard
were in attendance at the Castle, and the reception
inside the palace was equal to the splendour of the
public welcome without. Surrounded by the junior
members of the Royal family, the principal officers
of the household, and by the ladies of the Court in
state costumes, her Majesty the Queen received the
Sultan in the Grand Hall with a cordial greeting,
advancing to meet his Imperial Highness, who, after
making a salutation, bent and kissed the Queen's
hand. Her Majesty kissed the Sultan's young son,
Izzeddin Effendi. The Queen and her Imperial
guest, with his suite, were then conducted by the
Lord Chamberlain and other high officers of the
Household to the Oak Parlour, where they partook
of luncheon. Covers were laid for 45. The visit
lasted about one hour. His Imperial Highness the
Sultan having taken farewell of her Majesty, quitted
Windsor Castle, escorted and..attended as before, at
a little before one o'clock. At about ten minutes
past one the Royal train left Windsor station for
Paddington, which terminus was reached at ten
minutes before two. his Imperial Highness was
received here with the same ceremonial as when he
started, and having entered the oyal carriageßuck-
in
waiting, returned under the same R
escort to
ingham Palace.

The Round lable gives the following interesting
remarks :—" Already China and Japan are coming to bo
looked upon as intimate neighbours, if not quasi-outlying
provinces, of California, and the opening of the mail route
via San Francisco has been followed by a variety of inter-
national enterprises. San Francisco has had for some
time its Chinese newspaper and printing office,
and another
indication comes to us in the form of Asiatic guide books
and English-Chinese phrase books,
which bear the im-
print of California publishers upon pages of toa-box look-
ing text, in as matter-of-fact a way as a New York house
would acknowledge the same provision for travellers to
France or Germany% The Chinos° and Japanese, net con-
tent with showing themselves in the streets of evon our
eastern cities until we have almost become familiar with
their Appearance, aro reciprocating in the matter of litera-
ture. From San Francisco aro to come the writings of
Confucius, from Yokohama an Englisb-Japanese di.c-
tionary, and at Pekin and Jeddo the Bible and the 'Pil-
grim's Progress' or write offered to the Orientals, and
their own authors histories of America and me-
moirs of Washington. In newspaper enterprise Japan vies
with California, and at Jeddo is published a
apenewsper
designed to post' its readers in foreign news ; re-
cent issuo of which sheet, the ‘Bankok-Shin-13101-Shi
by name, appeared a conversation in London on the sub-
ject of the Panama intercontinental route. Even at Shang-
hai, where they light by gas and have learned photo-
graphy, the Tantai (governor) has bought type, presses,
and the other equipments of printing offices, as they are
amongst the outside barbarians, and the King of Siam has
established an office under the charge of an English ma-
nager. At Jeddo also the Government has established a
school where .the English, French, and Dutch languages
are to be taught. It is, we presume, for this school that
the order is made for 20,000 text-books from Messrs.
Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman, and Co., of New York. So
far as Japan is concerned all this is hardly surprising, but
that a desire for progress' should have taken root in
China seems almost incomprehensible. It is, neverthe-
less, a fact that Pekin is immediately to witness the estab-
lishment of a college for European lingual and scientific
study. In a most extraordinary document, the Tsong-li-
ya-men (Council of the School of Languages) represented
the necessity to the Emperor, whom it so effectually im-
pressed that the memorial received the Celestial endorse-
ment, `The Preceding is A pproved. —Respoc t This.' In
this efficacious manifesto, the wise men, after combating
the general impression 'that it is contrary to Chinese
dignity to allow ourselves to be instructed by Euro-
pean masters,' proceed to argue that
roduced ' it
all it i clear
now that Chinese genius has ps
able to produce, and that intelligent persons do not
conceal from themselves that, in order to walk alone in
future, it must first resolve to receive from Europielaiens
those sciences and arts in which stadia deficuileeentr.'s
abroadan
they cit ) the example of Japan iu ,
on tours of inspection, and draw inferenceigof necessity
of peace stud..war
.that
of learning those mechanical arts
shall keep China abreast of the most powerful nations.
Japan to buy books in New
So China is to have colleges,
York, the cities of the Pacific coast of either continent to
produce international newspapers, the Occident and the
Orient to have a general interchange of literature. Per-
haps it may not be long before eclectic weeklies shall cater
for the literary demands of celestial readers in the Uuiied
States, and the Chinese Mad ani Flying Dragon undertake
to demolish Dr. Ilohnes's theory that
The little Mincio, dribbling to the Po,
eats all the opice el the Bogus-lio;"