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has been adopted as the port of disembarcation for
troops despatched to the Abyssinian frontier from
Cairo, there can be no question as to the superior
facilities of the route.

If we are to operate against Abyssinia our forces
must be upon the frontier early in November, at
the commencement of the healthy and dry season.
October is an exceedingly unhealthy month, as the
rank vegetation produced during the rainy season
is in the process of drying. At the close of Novem-
ber the withered grass can be fired, and the country
becomes favourable for military movements ; no rain
will fall until the end of May, and no tents will be
required for the troops.
Time presses. The public has happily a thorough
confidence in the wisdom and caution of the Foreign-
office, under Lord Stanley ; but if this approaching
season for action shout' unfortunately pass by, our
countrymen must languish for another year in
chains, and our reputation will rust in inaction.—l
am, sir, your obedient servant,
SAMUEL WHITE BAKER.
Hedenham-hall, Bungay, July 29.

THE BRITISH ARCILEOLOGICAL ASSO
CIATION.

LUDLOW, Thursday.
This is the fourth day of the congress of this ass°.
tion, and up to the present time they have been
favoured with most delightful weather, which, as
most of the day is spent in the examination of out-
door objects, is most fortunate.
Yesterday the examination of Ludlow Castle
and Church was finished. At the castle, after
describing in detail all the various portions of the
building and its historical associations, Mr.THOMAS
WRIGHT, M.A., F.S.A., concluded by quoting an
extract from his " History of Fulke Fitz-Warine"
(published in French, with an English translation),
relating to the capture, by Joce de Dinan, the owner
of the castle, then called Dinan Castle, of Sir Walter
de Lacy and Sir Arnald de Lys, his friend, and their
imprisonment in one of the towers of the castle.
llere Sir Arnald de Lys became enamoured of Marion
of the Heath, the chief chambermaid at Dinan
Castle, and "It happened that Sir Arnald, when he
saw an opportunity, pleadEd with the damsel, and
told her that she was the thing that he loved most,
and that he was so much overtaken with her love
that he would have ne rest day or night unless sbe
yielded to him ; for she would give him relief from
all his sorrows. And if she would do it he would
make her a surety at her own will that never would
he love another but her ; and as soon as he should
be set at liberty he would take her for his wife.
The damsel heard the fair promise and yielded him
to do his will in all things, and took surety of him
that he would hold with her according to his pro-
mise." By her means they escaped from the castle,
and aftewards Sir Arnald de Lys, in the absence of
Joce de Dinan, visited his lady love, and treacher-
ously let in the servitors and armed men of his
friend, Sir Walter de Lacy, who put all the inmates
in the castle to death, and sacked and burnt the
town. The betrayed woman, however, slew her
lover with his own sword, as the story narrates :
" Marion of the Heath lay in bed beside her love,
Sir Arnald, and knew nothing of the treason which
Sir Arnold had perpetrated. She heard a great noise
in the castle, rose from the bed, and looked down
into the castle, heard the noise and cry of the
wounded, and_ saw knights in arms, and white helms
and haubercs. Now she perceived that Sir Arnald
had deceived and betrayed her, and began to weep
very affectingly, and said piteously, ' Alas, that
ever I was born of mother, for by my fault my
lord, Sir Joce, who fostered mc tenderly, has lost
his castle an I his good pe)ple, and had I never been
nothing would have been lost. Alas ! that ever I
believed the knight, for by his flattery he has de-
ceived me, and my lord, who is still more to mc."
Marion, all weeping, drew the sword of Sir Arnald,
and said, " Sir Knight, awake, for you have
brought strange company into the castle of my lord
without leave ; and since you have deceived me
you cannot rightly blame m.,! if I render you ser-
vice according to your des i-t ; but you shall never
boast to any mistress you shall have that by my
deceit you have gained the Castle of Dinan and
the country." The knight raised himself erect.
Marion with the sword which she held draw❑ in her
hand struck the knight through the body and he
died immediately. Marion then threw herself from
the tower and was killed.
At last night's meeting Mr. LEVIEN, i11.A.,
F.S.A., read a paper " On the Barony of Burford."
After some introductory remarks, he said Burford,
as Eytou told them, was the capat of Osbern Fitz-
Richard's Shropshire barony, and is thus described
in Domesday : —" Osborn Fitz-Richard holds Bur-
ford of the King. Richard, his father, held it."
This Richard, the father, who was lord in the Saxon
times, was Richard Scrupe, or Scrob, or Fitz-Scrob,
one of the favourites of Edward the Confessor, who
conferred upon him the manor, with four others in
Worcestershire and one in Herefordshire, viz., Yar-
pol, about four miles south of Richard's Castle, of
which this Richard Scrupe is believed to have been
the builder. He survived the Norman Conquest,
but died before the completion of Domesday. Ou
the death of Richard Scrupe, his Shropshire manor,
with others, was granted to his son Osbern, who was
lord of it in 1087. The manor descended through
the family to Geoffrey de Cornwall in 1307, he
having married into the Scrupe family. It re-
mained in the Cornwalls a long time, and Mr. Le-
vien traced it through many generations of the hon-
oured family, referring, in the course of his history, to
the jousts and tournaments, and the feasts in which
different members of this family were engaged.
The last of the barons of Burford to whom he called
attention, and whose likeness, with those of his father
and mother, was in a tryptych on the north side of
the altar in Burford church, painted by Melchior
Salaboss in 1588, was Edmund Cornwall, the giant,
or, as he was styled in the Cotton Roll, which is a
pedigree of the Cornwall family, " Edmund Corn-
waile de Burford, Esq., commonly called the strong
and bold baron." He was said to have been if t. Sin.
high, but the recumbent figure of him which is below
the triptych in the church made him, even taller
than this. At his death his brother Thomas became
baron of Burford, and was living circa 1650. After
him the manor descended to his son Thomas. In
later times Mr. George Legh, of High Legh, county
Chester, who was born 1703, married Anne Maria,
daughter and heir of Francis Cornwall, baron of
Burford, and assumed the name of her family. Thus
the senior branch of the once princely Cornwallis was
now representedby the Cornwall-Leghs of Cheshire,
whilst the junior is represented by the Cornwalls of
Delbury, Shropshire, through their descent from Sir
Rowland (or Sir Richard) Cornwall, of Berrington,
county Hereford, second son of Thomas Cornwall,
baron of Burford, by Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir
of Rowland Southall, Knt., of Hampton Court, county
Hereford. Among their more celebrated descendants
in modern times were Charles Wolfran Cornwall,
Spe:ler of the House of Commons 1780-81, and the
Light Rev. Folliot Herbert Walker Cornwall, D.D.,
successively Bishop of Bristol, Hereford, and Wor-
cester, who died sth Sept., 1831. It did not appear
from the Rolls of Parliament;that the barons of Bur
ford were ever summoned to the national count'
by the title of their barony, for as late as 20 Hen
VI. (1412) Lord Melbroke was summoned as Sir
John Cornwall. In conclusion, he observed
that the facts he had laid before them as con-
nected with the barony of Burford served to show
how full of historical interest those spots which were
design rated as "out-of-tile-way places" often were.
They would prove that more than one of the former
lords of 11 trford might justly 11 Lve asserted of him-
self, in the words of th,t motto borne by the present
noble owner of its baronial halls, that he was'' Par
1 ternis suppar," almost a match for any other three.
Rev. J. D. L. TOUCHE next read an interesting
paper on Stokesay Castle, a small castle now disused
on the. banks of the river Ouney, about four miles
from Ludlow. Ile traced its history from about 1200.
In 1291 a license was granted to Laurence de Lud-
low to crenelate his house to guard it against the
Welsh marauders. In 1790 it was the resting-place
for a night of the Bishop of Hereford. The bishop
appeared to have purchased food for h.rnself. Ten
generations of the De Ludlows held possession of
the castle down to 1497, when a fen le descendant
married one Vernon, and the propery remained in

the Vernon family down to 1616, and eventually it
came to the Cravens.

Thanks were voted to the readers of papers, and
arrangements being made for to-day's proceedings,
the party broke up.
There was a large muster this morning at the
Feathers Hotel, the head-quarters of the association
at Ludlow. At 10 o'clock the programme for the day
commenced with an excursion by road through
Ludford, Woofferton, Ashford, &c., to Little Here-
ford, thence to Burford, and so on to Tenbury. The
first halting place was at Little Hereford, where
there is a quaint old church close to the river Lune,
whose brawling voice is heard in the solemn quietude
of the rural churchyard. Mr. It 4berts, F.SA., was
the guide of the party, and described the arcLpello-
gical features of the church. Close at hand is the
seat of Sir J. Bailey, M.P. (Easton Court), which,
however, was not included in the programme. It
is of mo.lern date. The party, after spending a
short time at Little Hereford Church, resumed their
carriages and proceeded to Burford, where they
were courteously received by Lord Northwick
and the lion. Miss Rushout, and conducted over
the mansion and church.
Mr. ROBERTS here offered some remarks "On
Burford Church."

The party next wended thir way to Tenbury,
where, at Swan Hotel, Lord Northwick had ordered
to be prepared for the travellers a most hospitable
entertainment. A sumptuous dejeuner was laid out
here, and duly honoured, after which the party (hav-
ing first inspected Tenbury Church) accepted the

invitation of the Rev. Sir F. Gore Ouseley to inspect
an Oriental collection at his residence. This part of

the programme, however, had only been partially
got through when the train conveying this despatch

eft Tenbury.

This evening, among the other papers to be read
at Ludlow, is one on the " Masque of Comus," by
Mr. T. F. Dillon Croker.

The Volunteer Artillery contests at Shoe-

buryness.

Yesterday the great prize of the meeting and the
greatest honour the Volunteer Artillery service can
win—the Queen's Prize--was contested for at Shoe-
buryness by representative detachments of Volun-
teer Artillery Corps from all parts of England and
Scotland. The prize is, as we have previously stated,
ten cups of exquisite design, and the contest is to
the artillery for the same great distinction that the
" Queen's" at Wimbledon is to the rifleman.
All the other competitions than the " Queen's"
have been with smooth-bore guns, but the Queen's
Prize is doubly attractive to the Volunteer artillery-
man, as the contest is a great honour in itself, being
with the weapon of precision, the. Armstrong rifled
ordnance, of the powers of which every artillery-
man is aware, and with which it is an object of
ambition on the part of Volunteers to practise.
Early and late the Volunteers stationed at Shoe-
bury have been at the special drill, and before pro-
ceeding to the battery all the detachments were ex-

amiued by Colonel Fisher, the Royal Artillery In
structor of gunnery, in this drill, and all " passed.'
The competition with the Armstrong was very dif

fcrent to the smooth-bore contest. - In the latter
the shooting was at 1,253 and and 1,500 yards, and
points were counted for shots which went, at the

first distance, within 12 yards of the right or left o:

the target, within 105 yards over the target, or 55
yards in front; and at the second distance of 18
yards of the right or left, 110 yards were allowed
over the targets, and 60 before the target. For the
Armstrong sho9ting nothing scored except actual
hits on the target. The shooting was at two dis-
tances-1,500 and 2,000 yards, so that the gun had
to be trailed, laid, and elevated differently at every
shot, for the targets were not the one behind the
other, but were to the right and left. The target
of the 1,500 yards' range was 9ft. by Oft., and at
2,000 yards 12ft. square, and each hit, an whatever
part of the target, counted 12. The time allowed

'or the five shots was ten minutes. The Armstrongs
used were the 40 roucders.
The firing was carried on at two batteries, under
the immediate superintendence of Colonel Wilmot,
R.A., the commandant, Colonel Gordon, R.A., and
Colonel Fisher, R.A. '1 here was a very strong
wind blowing, and it is not at all surprising that
detachments which had never fired with this weapon
before should have missed the '' direct hits" which
are requisite to be made before there is any score.
Some of the layers of the gun, the " No. 1," were
not at all free from nervousness on finding them-
selves for the first time behind the loaded Arm-
strong ready for action. Most of the men had no
experience whatever in the Armstrong gun drill
or practice until this year, and none had any
1 gun drill or practice before or since the associa-
tion's meeting last year. No. lof the Ist A Cinque
Port., Dover, hit the first shot of his practice
at the wrong target, with the elevation of the
shorter distance, and struck at such a point as
to indicate that if properly directed the shot
would have been a hit. The next shot, elevated
for 2,000 yards and properly directed, was a
hit and scored 12, and this was followed by two other
hits, making 36. The Ist Shropshire scored 24 in
6miu. 27sec., a time which plainly shows that the
gun was laid hurriedly. The Ist Sussex (Brighton)
first detachment scored 36 in Bmin. 30sec., and the
next detachment of the same brigade score.' the
same number of points in the short time of six
minutes and a half. The Ramsgate detachments,
the Ist C Cinque Ports, then entered for their turn
of firing, the turns being decided by lot, and their
shooting was watchel with some interest, for their
corps supplied tho winners last year. The detach-
ment which last year won the prize now scored in-
differently, but the second detachment did so well
that for some little time the great prize seemed
within their grasp. The No. 1 was Gunner Pugin,
the brother of the commandant, Captain Welby
Pugin, and assisted by a smart body of gunners ;
he worked the gun very well indeed, but too quickly.
His first shot was close to the target,: his second
was a direct hit on the 2,000 yards target, his third
also a direct hit on the 1,500 yards target, his fourth
another hit at the 2,000 yards—in all 36 points;
but his fifth struck the water before reaching the
target, scarcely enough elevation having been given,
and he scored nothing for that shot. The firing was
done by the detachment in Galin. 57secs., having
more than three minutes to spare. The 4th West
York soon after entered, and at the first shot of one
of the detachments, said to be the Sheffield men,
the target was knocked over. Upon this the firing
was stopped until the tide had run out sufficiently to
allow the Royal Artillery to go out with a new tar-
get. No decision can therefore be given, as the
tiring was resumed just at the time when it became
necessary to depart to catch the last train for Lon-
don. The second detachment of the Brighton corps
stood the highest, as all ties of equal scores are de-
cided by the time, and the detachment fired in the
shortest time. The Ramsgate detachment was
second.
In the shooting for the Eccentric Prizes the Wal-
ton Detachment of 2d Suffolk, one of the smalleat
corps in the brigade, and the only representatives
of the two counties of Suffolk and Norfolk here,
were declared the winners of Col. Adair's Challenge
Prize and Lieut. Gearn's £lO. The Ist B. Cinque
Ports was the winner of the second, Lord Limerick's
£lO, and the 2,1 Cinque Ports of the third, the £5
given by the officers of the Ist Surrey. All the guns
were 32-pounder garrison guns.
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