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pointment was, however, experienced, and we be--
lieve shared in by the men, that no blank ammu-
nition was served out, and that consequently no
firing took place. The movements were, therefore,
confined to battalion drill, chiefly forming squares
to receive cavalry, marching in column, line, and
eschelon, and other field evolutions, and marching
past at the quick and the double, skirmishing, and
light infantry exercise. Colonel M'Murdo compli-
mented the men on the way in which they per-
formed one movement, which, even in regiments of
the line, was looked upon as most difficult, that of
forming square on the two centre sub-divisions, and
also the noble lord their commander on the clear
and distinct manner in which he gave the words
of command.
On Wednesday last a match took place at Plum-
stead between 10 men of the London Rifle Brigade
and 10 of the First Surrey Rifles. The distances
were 200, 500, and 600 yards ; five shots at each
range. The total score of the former was 149 points,
and of the latter 147 points.
On the afternoon of Saturday, the 22d current,
the Bth Essex Volunteers went by special train to
Tottenham, and were at the residence of Captain
Commandant Sinclair, under the command of Major
Horatio Love, drawn up in review order, when, in
the presence of a large assemblage, they were by
Miss Campbell presented with a set of colours, the
work of herself and Miss Sinclair.
On Saturday, the 22d ult., about 40 members of
the 2d Administrative Battalion (Hampstead, High-
gate, and Hornsey) met at the Range, Child's-hill,
Hampstead, to compete for a Whitworth rifle, given
by Mr. J. Hoare, and a gold challenge medal given
by Major Wilkinson, to the best shot of the batta-
lion, and a Lancaster rifle, given by the other officers
to the next best shot. Ranges. 200, 400, and 500
yards; five rounds at each. The Whitworth and
medal were won by Sergeant J. Scott (Hamp-
stead), who scored 20 points, and the Lancaster by
Lieut. Holford, who scored 18 points, and won the
tie with Capt. Warner.
The first annual meeting of the Shropshire Rifle
Association took place on Friday in Hawkstone-
park, immediately adjacent to the residence of the
Lord Lieutenant of the county, Viscount Hill. The
locale, whether as regards picturesque beauty or
convenience for rifle practice, can scarcely be
matched in England, and these two causes com-
bined resulted in an enormous gathering both of
volunteers and spectators. Lord Hill had made
ample provision in the way of creature comforts for
the volunteers, &c, No fewer than 1,114 volunteers
were present, of whom 154 were artillery. The re-
mainder were rifles, and the whole were divided
into two battalions. The first, commanded by Lord
Berwick, comprised two companies of artillery and
seven companies of rifles ; the second battalion,
consisting of eight companies of rifles, was com-
manded by Lieut:-Col. Lovett. Lord Hill arrived
on the ground a little before 11 o'clock, dressed in
his uniform as colonel of the North Shropshire
Yeomanry Cavalry, and accompanied by Major
Dick, assistant-inspector of volunteers for the Mid-
land district, Capt. Clement Hill, the Hon. R. C.
Hill, M.P., the Hon. Geoffrey Hill, &c. The volun-
teers went through a series of evolutions in a most
creditable and soldier-like manner, at the conclusion
of which Lord Hill expressed his satisfaction at
having the first meeting of the association in his
park. He was glad to find that Shropshire had
not been behind in the movement. Major Dick
then addressed the volunteers, whom he highly
complimented for the manner in which they had
gone through the various evolutions. Cheers were
then given for Major Dick, Lord Berwick, Lady
Hill, and the ladies of Shropshire, after which the
shooting for prizes commenced. The following
were the chief of these :-Ist Prize.—A .purse of
£25 and a Whitworth rifle presented by the late
Lord Berwick for the largest aggregate number of
points made at the reapective ranges of 300, 500,
and 600 yards. Won by Corporal Jones, 2d Com-
pany (Market Drayton), 17 points. 2d Prize.—A
purse of £2O and a rifle, presented by Mr. Ebrall,
for the next largest aggregate number of points
made at the above ranges. -Won by Private Harper,
2d Company, 16 points. 3d Prize—A pnrsf. of 120
......2 a. ail rcA . a,..., nesentea by Archdeacon Allen,
for the third largest aggregate number of points
made at the above ranges. Sergeant Roberts, 12th
Company (Wem). 4th Prize—A purse of £2O for
greatest number of points made at 600 yards (win-
ners of any of the foregoing prizes being excluded),
Private Edward Phillips, sen., Ist Company
(Shrewsbury). 9th Prize—A Challenge Cup, value
£5O, open to all corners belonging to or resident in
the county, whether members of volunteer corps or
not ; five rounds ; range, 600 yards. There were
22 competitors, the prize being won by Private
Edward Phillips, sen., Ist company, who made
seven points. The shooting terminated about 7
o'clock, after which the prizes were delivered by
Lord Hill, who addressed a few appropriate re-
marks to each recipient. The day was uncommonly
fine, and the proceedings passed off without the
slightest accident or unpleasantness. Nearly 20,000
persons were present, among whom were the Vis-
countess Hill, Earl Brownlow, Viscount Newport,
M.P., Lord and Lady Henry Thynne, Lady Marian
Alford, &c.
On Thursday the second battalion of the North
York Rifle Volunteers was reviewed on the slope
before the north front of Castle Howard by Major
Harman. The volunteers having been put through
a series of evolutions, were addressed by the re-
viewing officer, who expressed himself gratified to
be able to report favourably of their efficiency to the
Secretary for War. The beautiful day attracted a
vast number of visitors to the park, which has sel-
dom presented a gayer appearance. After review
there was a dance to the music of the bands of the
Ist and 3d companies on the sward in the front of
the castle. It was 9 o'clock ere the bugle sounded
the assembly.
On Wednesday last a match came off between
twelve men of the 4th North Yorkshire (Hang
West) and twelve men of the 12th (Wensleydale)

Volunteers. Ten rounds were fired at 200 yards,
giving an average score for the former of 12.75, and
for the latter of 10.66.

The Essex County Rifle Association will hold
its first annual meeting at Southend on Monday,
Aug. 5. The Braintree and Colchester companies
had a shooting match at Wivenhoe in the course of
last week. The ranges were 200, 300, 400, and
600 yards; five shots each; and eight gentlemen
shot on each side. The Braintree competitors made
99 points and the Colchesters 139, being 12 per
man in one case and 17Z- per man in the other.
In Lincolnshire two valuable silver cups have been ,
shot for by the Holland and Lindsey Battalions, the
first competition taking place at Boston and the
second at Lincoln. The cups were given by the
Countess of Yarborough. At Boston the Boston,
Spalding, Holbeach, and Donington companies
competed through a limited number of their best
shots, and the cup was won by Armourer Slingsby,
of the Boston corps ; Sergeant Wheeler, of the same
corps, was awarded an Enfield rifle ; and Private
Russell, of the Donington corps, a gold watch. At
Lincoln the range was 300 yards, ten rounds per
man, and the three Lincoln companies, the Market-
Rasen , Horncastle, Alford, Spilsby, Lou th, Grimsby,
and Barton companies were represented. The cup
given by the Countess of Yarborough was won by
Dr. Lowe, of the 3d Lincoln. Sergeant Marshall,
of
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.had a field-day on Fri-
Thea
ee ne, of Glevering-
hall, near Wickham•Market, commanded by Capts.
Haward, Pierson, Rouse, and Long ; Lieuts. Aree-
deckno, Hayward, and Garrett. The battalion,
which mustered in all about 400 Volunteers, was
reviewed by
Lieut.-Col. Ibbetson,
Inspector of
Volunteers for the Eastern district, and executed in

a creditable style a variety of manoeuvres. At the
close of the movements Lieut. Arcedeckne, in the
name of Mrs. Arcedekne, presented a silver bugle to

the Glevering company.
On Wednesday and Thursday there was a shoot.
ing match between 113 members of "the Norwich,
Aylsham, Dereham, Fakenham, Harleston, Holk-
ham, Loiddan, Lynn, Reepham, Stalham, Wymond-
ham, and Yarmouth companies, for a number of
prizes provided by subscription. The competitors
fired three.shots each range, at 200, 300, 400, 500,

and 600 yards ; and a silver teapot was also shot
far at 700 yards. The first prize of £2O was won
by Captain Holloway, of Holkham.
The Ist Ca.mbfidgeshire battalion has been re-
viewed at Wisbech, in the presence of the Earl of
Hardwick°, Lord Royston, and a large number of
the elite of the district. A bazaar was held at
Wisbeach at the same time in aid of the funds of the
battalion, and at the close, on Thursday evening,
the considerable um of £1,032 had been realised.
The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke, Lady Ag-
neta Yorke, Lord Royston, Mr. Adene, M.P., and
Lady Elizabeth Adene, and the principal families
of the neighbourhood, manifested a warm interest
in the proceedings.
The Northamptonshire Rifle Association will
hold its second annual meting at Easton, Neston-
park, on Thursday, July 18. A review of the
Northamptonshire corps will be held on the occa-
sion.

unfit a clergyman for the practical duties of a parish
priest; because he is, in fact, in diametrical opposi•
tion to his paritthioners with respect to the very
basis of Christianity and the very foundation of
their faith. He is in a false relation to them, which,
whether clearly known by them or not, is a funda-
mental defect in his position ; and if he preaches
openly what he thinks there is no parish in Eng-
land in which he could stay a week.— Times.

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,WE INTELLIGENCE—June 29.

THAMES—EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF AFFILIA-
TION.—Mr. Charles Barnes, a man about 37 years
of age, married, and the father of six children, ap-
peared before Mr. Woolrych on a summons which
charged him with being the putative father of an
illegitimate male child, and called upon him to show
cause why he should not pay 2s. 6d. per week for
its maintenance, and other expenses.
Mr. Kenealy, LL.D., a barrister, opened the case
for the prosecution. The complainant, Miss Jane
Storey, was a young lady of respectable family and
formerly an assistant to a draper at Sleaford. The
defendant was an inspector of the Derbyshire con-
stabulary stationed at Matlock in that county and
a married man with six children. The defendant
first became acquainted with Miss Storey on the
occasion of his official interference with a case
of shop-lifting at her master's house in Slea-
ford. Miss Storey subsequently paid a visit to the
defendant's wife during her confinement with her
fifth child, and upon that visit, with his wife in the
same house, Mr. Barnes seduced Miss Storey. The
illicit intercourse existed for several years after-
wards at intervals, and Mr. Barnes, forgetting his
vows at the altar and his family duties, frequently
enjoyed himself in the society of Miss Storey. On
the occasion of the Arboretum fete in the town of
Derby, on the 24th of June, 1860, the gallant in-
spector of police engaged a private room at Mead's
Temperance Hotel, and there Miss Storey visited
him. The result of that interview was the birth of
a male child in Chatham on the 26th of March last.
There was no doubt the defendant was the father of
the child. Mrs. Mead, the landlady of the Tempe-
rance Hotel at Derby, would be called in corrobo-
ration of the complaint. Since the birth of the
child the defendant had used every possible exer-;
Lion to induce the mother not to swear it to him )
had sent her three letters, which he (Mr. Kenealy
might have occasion to put in evidence; and had
used threats, persuasions, and entreaties to induce
her to quit London, and not affiliate the child; and
she was at last so harassed that she was obliged to
leave her apartments. There was no doubt the de-
fendant was the father of the child, and that he was
a police inspector at Matlock, and a married man
with six young children.
The complainant, a ladylike young woman of
considerable personal attractions, said her parents
lived at Sleaford. A tender intimacy commenced
between her and the defendant in 1858, when she
visited his wife. She then confirmed in detail all
the statements made by the learned counsel, and
said she had frequently met the defendant at an
hotel in Derby. The blinds of .the room were al-
ways down when they were there. The intercourse
with the defendant continued until February last,
and he said he would support the child when it was
born. Mr. Barnes was the father of the child. She
had received a great many letters from the defen-
dant relative to their connexion. She identified
three letters put into her hands by Mr. Kenealy to
be in defendant's handwriting.
The defendant cross-examined Miss Storey at
great length, and in a most extraordinary manner.
She said, in answer to his questions—My father
first heard of this in March last. At your sugges-
tion I said the child was not yours. I said the father
of it was a commercial traveller. You told me to
say so. My parents believed me. I never told my
parents that you had not, in any instance, acted im-
properly by me. I was confined in my brother's
house at Chatham. I told my brother Edward you
were the father of my child. My brother threat-
ened to write to your wife, and to your chief con-
stable in Derbyshire. If my brother had not threat-
ened that I should have sworn the child to you. I
left your residence at Matlock in February last be-
cause there were words between you and your wife
about me. All the letters you sent me with your
protestations of love, constancy, and eternal fidelity
are burnt. The only letters of yours in existence
that I know of are those before me. I know Mr.
Haldam, a commercial traveller. I first became
acquainted with him on Good Friday, 1860. He
has not paid his addresses to me. He has taken me
out as a friend. I went out with him one night and
returned home in a cab with him, which he pro-
vided for me because it rained. Mr. Haldam has not
come from B urton-on-Tren tto Sleaford on Saturday
nights and Sunday mornipes, anti gum, away on
Monday mornings atter seeing me. My sister Lizzy
uuc may Haldam was a good chance for me.
I was formerly employed in the house of Mrs.
Holmes. Mr. Haldam's first name is Richard. I
have not christened the child by that name. Mat-
lock is 17 miles from Derby. You arrived on the
evening of the arboretum fete at Derby, about eight
o'clock. I was in the room—a private one—at the
hotel, waiting for you. I told my sister I was going
to chapel. I left you at the hotel, and went and
joined my sister and Mr. Haldam, and took a walk
in the arboretum. It rained, andiwe sought shelter
under the trees. Mr. Haldam took me into a public
house near the arboretum. He saw me home to the
hotel afterwards, and I joined you. Mr. Holmes
is not a married man. He obtained a situation
for my sister. I am not aware that he will ob-
tain one for me. I have been living at 7, Janet-
terrace, Stepney, for the purpose of taking out the
summons at this court. Mr. Holmes is my late em-
ployer at Derby. I was with him one year and three-
quarters. My father did rebuke me once for lolling
upon you. Upon my oath you had intercourse with
me at Sleaford. I never put my feet on your lap in
a rude, wanton, and improper manner in presence
of your wife and sister. I have not gone into your
bedroom at Matlock after your wife has gone down-
stairs, but your wife has nearly caught you in my
bedroom.
The Defendant—Have I not said to you, when
you have been fondling over me, Get a husband
of your own, Jenny."
Complainant—Never, Charles, never.
The Defendant— You were good-looking enough
to get a husband.
Complainant—Perhaps I am. (Laughter.)
The defendant continued his cross-examination
for some time, imputing the most disgusting and
lascivious conduct on the part of the complainant in
her intercourse with him, which she stoutly denied.
The Defendant-1 can ask her no more. She
knocks me out of time.
Mr. Woolrych (to complainant)—Did you ravish
this police inspector ?
Complainant--No, sir, I did not.
The Defendant—l do not say that, exactly, but
she would never leave me alone.
Mrs. Mary Ann Mead, landlady of a hotel in
Derby, spoke to the complainant and defendant
frequently meeting there and having a private room.
She always looked upon Mr. Barnes as a gentleman
paying his addresses to Miss Storey--as her lover.
Mr. Woolrych —No, according to his account she
paid her addresses to him.
In answer to other questions, Mrs. Mead said the
parties met on the night of the Arboretum fete.
They were in a private room, and the shutters were
closed. There was a sofa in the room.

The defendant addressed the magistrate at great
length. He did not mean to deny a long intercourse
with the complainant, who was the seducer, and not
the seduced—(a laugh)—but he had no connexion
with her for two months before the Arboretumfete
at Derby, on the 24th June, 1860, and for two
months afterwards. The complainant was in Mr.
Hadlam's company on the anniversary of the Ar-
boretum, and he saw her home in a cab, and was
the most likely person to be the father. He had been
17 years in his office of a police inspector, and if
the child was affiliated upon him it would reduce
him to beggary. The summons would never have
been taken out if the brothers of the complainant ,
had not interfered.

Mr. Woolrych said he was sorry for any grave
consequences that might arise from the defendant's
indiscretions. He could not help it. He had come
to the conclusion that Mr. Barnes was the father of
Miss Storey's child. There was full, minute, and
circumstantial evidence of the intimacy between the
parties, commencing at Matlock in 1858, and con-
tinuing until within two months of the birth of the
child. He had not the slightest doubt the defendant
was the putative father of the complainant's child,
and he made an order upon him to pay 2s. 6d. per
week for its maintenance .until it was 13 years of
age, and to pay costs.
Defendant—l have only £65 a year, and a wife
and six children to maintain. This is not the case
of a young girl, Miss Storey is now 27 years of age.
Mr. Woolrych—This is not the ordinary case of
a young unmarried man, but the case of a married
man with six children, who is an inspector in the
Derbyshire constabulary force. Besides the 2s. 6d.
per week, I order two guineas law costs, 10s. for
the midwife, £1 15s. for the summoning officer's
travelling expenses to Matlock and back, £1 15s.
to the witness, Mrs. Mead, and 4s. for the summons
and order, in all six guineas costs.

SOUTHWARK.—THE GREAT FIRE IN TOOLEY-
STREET.—In the course of the day several men
were brought before Mr. Combe charged by the
police with having 'in their possession seven
or eight tons of tallow floated into the river and
sewers from the great fire at Cotton's and Hay's
wharves, Tooley-street: The majority of the pri-
soners had cartioads of the tallow which they were
conveying away for the purpose of disposing of it.
Some of the prisoners said that they had worked