The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-24 00:00:00

ARISTOCRATIC PIGEON SROO7ING.

There was a large assembly of aristocrats, end a far
larger number of the general public, at the Welsh Harp,
Hendon, on Saturday, the attraction being " The Summer
Handicap," Mr. Frank Heatheote being the handicapper.
The card, on the usual conditions, had 104 entries on it,
but only 36 of that number came to the post, the aggregate
number cf shooters, however, was 43, as 7 post entered.
As usual, Mr. Warner made every necessary arrangement.
The afternoon was exceedingly fine and quiet, but the birds
were not of the first class.

The shooters were :—Mr Berkeley Lucy, Captain Starkey
(post entry), Mr Monkton (post entry), Mr Henry Rudd,
Sir Thomas Hesketh, Bart., M.P., Sir C. Legard, Bart., and
Mr C. Hammersley, killed six birds each ; Mr K. Peach,
Mr W. St. Julien Arabin, Captain A. L. Ricardo, Mr.
Robertson (post entry), ?sir Forster (post entry), Mr Ernest
C. Nevile (post entry), Mr E. H. Maxwell, Mr. H. J.
Shelden, Sir Walter Carew, Bart., Hon. Reginald Capel,
and Mr W. Duncofhbe killed four each ; Mr H. Allgood,
Colonel Fellowes, Colonel the Hon. H. Annesley, M..?.,
Mr. George Johnstone, and Mr. George Thompson killed
three each ; Mr. Charles Ilambro, Sir Charles Mordaunt,
Bart., M.P., Mr. N. Wood, Mr. W. Harrison (post entry),
Le Comte de Gendre, and the Hon. Walter Verney (post
entry) killed two each ; Captain J. J. W. Fredricks, Mr.
Frederick Norris, Colonel Fraser, Mr. S. Bateson, Sir
Henry Pottinger, Bart., Mr. J. Jee, V.C.C.8., Mr. Clarke
Thornhill, Mr. J. Tharp, and the Marquis of Graham only
killed one each; Captain Baskerville, Mons. G. Andre,
Captain 81,-.13(1, Captain Arthur Burnand, and Viscount
Hohnesdale, M.P., did not kill. Of course all did not shoot
at six birds.
Seven of the competitors having therefore killed all their
birds, had to shoot for the prizes. Mr. Berkeley Lucy killed
his first, but Mr. R►udd's bird, though hit hard, fell just out
of bounds. Sir Tho-nas liesketl►, Sir Charles Legard, and
Mr. Hammel-81e)- failed to score; while Captain Starkey
and Mr. Monkton, by killing, had to shoot again. At the
second attempt they failed, so that Mr. Berkeley Luc}•,
who killed, became the w:nner of the first prize. The two
"post entries," after again trying, settled their respective
superiority, Captain Starkey by ,killkng•hlifSecond bird, an
example Mr. Monkton failed to Killen'.

THE SCORE FOR. TILE TIES WAS :
Mr. Berkeley Lucy 1 1 First prize, £l2O.
Captain Starkey (post entry) 1 0 1 1 Second prize, .£6O.
Mr. Monkton (post entry) lO 1 0 Third prize, £25.
Mr. Henry Rudd, Sir Thomas Hesketh, Bart., M.P.,
Sir Charles Legard, Bart. and Mr. C. Hammersley did not
kill.

PRESENTS AT PARKINS AND GOTTO'S.—PhOtts-
graphic Albums, a choke of 3,000; despatch-boxes, writing-
cases, dressing-m(8, travelling-bags, envelope-cases, blot-
ting-books, ink-stands, desks, book-slides, wort-boxes, tea-
caddies, hand-bags and reticules, card-cases. purses, sta-
tionery cabinets, scent-bottles, albums for postage stamps,
crests, &a; cigar-ages, card-baskets. pocket-books, electro-
gilt and elegantly-mounted articles. 13ible, Prayer-books,
and Church Services, in every type. Parkins and Gott ~ 25,
Oxford-street. The public supplied at wholesale prices from
the I .rgest stock in London.
" A rumour that the wife of a duke and the wife
of a bishop are about to appear in public as singers," says
the Athenreum, " will probably be enough, in our wonder--
seeking society, to fill even Exeter-hall with an eager
audience. For once the good-natured public will bo right
in following its instincts. Tho cause which has won the
goodwill of a host of patrons, and which has decided the
Duchess of Newcastle and Mrs. Ellicott to appear in public
—the desire to assist with funds the Home of Relief for
Children with Chronic Diseases of the Joints—is worthy
of every one's helping hand; and even those of the audi-
tory who may be drawn to Exeter• hall on Wednesday,
July 3, in order to enjoy the exhibition of talents which
are loudly vaunted in society, will have the satisfaction
of knowing that the children of the poor will be benefited
by their curiosity." The oratorio selected for perform-
ance is Herr Schachner's " Israel's lt3turn from Babylon"

The yacht Henrietta, the winner of the ocean
race, arrived at New York on the Bth of June, having
made the voyage in 32 days and 11 hours. The Hen-
rietta encountered heavy weather during nearly the whole

passage.
THE GROUSE DISEASE.—There can be little if any
doubt that the grouse disease is still doing its fear-
ful work of destruction. The pestilence has lately raged
amongst the grouse upon moors that up to a very recent
period were quite exempt from it. We have no hesitation
in saying that this rapid propagation of the malady must
be attributed to contagion, for in no other way can we
satisfactorily account for its spreading, now that the pre-
disposing causes which originally produced it are at an
end. We have fine weather and an abundance of healthy
food. Wo again advise all gentle Mon who aro owners of
grouse moors to cause the birds that perish to be carefully
collected and buried deeply in the earth. It is with sorrow,
too, wo learn that the malady has commenced to seize
with its deadly gripe upon the black game, birds that
have hitherto been free from any trace of this pestilence.—
Land and Water.

Under the heading " Disinfection" the Times
remarks that in the paper "Americans and the Cholera,"
which we transferred to our columns last week, there
occurs a misprint, which, although of only one letter, is
one of some importonce. Dr. Harris, addressing the New
York Board of Health, says that scientific chemists and
experimenters agree that "carbonic acid" is one of the
best and cheapest disinfectants. This is a very obvious
misprint for "carbolic acid," an agent the value of which
in destroying germinal matter of infection it is almost im-
possible to over-estimate.
The parents of Oscar Becker, who attempted the
life of the King of Prussia a few years ago, and who was
pardoned, have received a letter from New York announc-
ing that their son had gone mad, and lima been placed in
an asylum in that city.
[lnvEttvisEttExi.]—Dyspepsia (Indigestion) Constipation, De-
bility, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach, and liver
complaints in every stage, are only aggravated and accelerated
by drugs of every description, but perfectly curable by Du
Berry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food. as proved by
thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless, such
as—cough, asthma, also diarrhoea, hemorrhoids, liver com-
plaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats,
diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and
ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia,
irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn,. head-
ache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness,
even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula,'
tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and
between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few :—The Pope's health
restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 63,413.—"R0me, July
21, 1866.—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially
since, abandoning all other remedies, he has cmfined himself
entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he
consumes a plateful at every meal, It has groduced a sur-
prisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot
praise this excellent food too highly. From the " Gazette du
Midi, July 2,5 Cure No. 46,270 Mr. James Roberts, timber
merchant, of Frimley Surrey, of hit tt years' diseased lungs,
spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partia deafness.
Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieut. of
Waterford, of many years, dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "Fifty
years' indescribable agony from disPePsia• nervousness,
of
asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, "Ta'n'', sickness s an
vomiting.—Maria Joly." Important Caution Bewaremany
unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to whicl withoutei.
authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attache
In tins at Is. 14d.; I lb.. 2s. 94.; 2 lbs., 4s. 6,1.; 5 lbs., lls. •
12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 40s.—Banitx BAttitYiso nanltBlC No. 77,'
,Piccadilly;
Regent-street, London; also Fortnarahaf‘tul ,
and at 61, Gra,cedhurch-stroot; 4, C ApsidO•, 63, 1,50, and ::03
Oxford-street • 330 Strand; and 411 grocers and chenus. ts.

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE.
Sole LESSee and Manager, Mr. F. Chatterton.
THIS EVENING. THAT RASCAL) ACK essrs. J.
. M
Rouse, J. Neville, C. Warner; Mesdames B. Aleyne, C.
Thompson.
To conclude with THE GREAT CITY. Messrs. C.W arner
F. Morton, J. Fitzjames, C. Harcourt, F Villiers, J. C.
Cowrer, W. M'lntyre, J. Rouse, J. Irving, J. B. Johnstone;
Mesdames M. Robertson, IL G. Le This
e, C. Thompson.
Commence at Seven.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET,
Sole Leesce and Managtr, Mr. Bucks One.
THIS EVENING, PEItFECTI')N. Mr. Kendal and Miss
Burke.
To be followed by A WILD GOOSE. Meser3. sothern,
Buck.4tone, Rogers. Gordon, White, Vincent, Weatherg-,
80. ; Aesildinfs Burke, Hill, Chipprintale, Laws, Sidney. titt.l.
To conclude with. FISH OU f OF WATER. Mr. Comp-
ton.