The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-27 00:00:00

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went of the camp.
Some little explanation is requisite with regard
to the shooting for the National Rifle Association
prizes. The scores displayed a plentiful array of
" noughts ;" but it must not be supposed from this
that all these " noughts" represent total misses. As
before explained points arc gained by both eleva-
tion and deflection, and where a shot fails to score
points in both it has no value whatever. In the
first day's shooting the mirage on the sands was
very great indeed, and, though the direction of 19
out of 20 shots was good, nearly all the shots which
failed to score ricochetted before reaching thel
" bounds" in front of the target. This was throtigh
the "No. 1," the leader of the detachment, mot
giving elevation enough, and nearly all the first
shots of the detachments, and all the shots of some
were thus lost to the competitors, even though they
were so well directed that many of them would
have made a hole in a ship's side. The win-
ners of the prize, the Ist Kent, are a smart
detachment, and they profited by the experience of
others, far, firing last, they were enabled to see
that from some cause or other more elevation than
ordinary was required. The Ist Kent is the Graves-
end corps, and is under Capt.-Commandant Leith,
whose men at the previous meetings of the associa-
tion have proved themselves good gunners. It is
also worth mentioning that the guns which the
men had to work were mounted on new carriages,
and these were hard to move, a fact which accounts.
for the loss of time by some detachments.

The shooting of this day was for a challenge prize,
with a purse of money to the winning detachment
called " Scotland's Cup." This is open to be shot
for by one detachment from every volunteer artil-
lery brigade in the kingdom, and it is to be held for
a year by the brigade whose detachment wins it.
The cup has been raised in Scotland, and the regula-
tions for the competition have been made by Major
Innis, of the Kincardine. On the pedestal of the cup
the royal arms of Scotland are to be engraved, and
around will be the arms of all the Scotch counties,
the arms of those counties which have subscribed to
the cup being distinguished in a very marked man-
ner from those which have not. Before the detach-
ments marched off Major Innes addresied them
with respect to the then coming competition, and
stated that as it was desirable that all the detach-
ments which desired should fire, and that as it would
not be fair for one brigade to have more than one
chance of winning the cup (several having more
than one detachment), . each brigade would nomi-
nate its champion detachment to compete. It was
also noticed if a Scotch detachment won the cup the
future competitions for it wouldbe in Scotland until
it should again be carried over the borders by an
English detachment. The shooting then proceeded
on these terms, and the result is that the highest
score in the shooting—the detachment making it
not being nominated as the champion of its brigade
—will not take the cup. The shooting was much
better flip on the previous day, the men now
being better used to the battery and guns ; and
this day's shooting, it should be remarked, was
carried on amid a heavy wind, and in the first part
of the morning amid heavy rain as well.

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