The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-01 00:00:00

MILITARY OBITUARY FOR JUNE.

Major Generals—Eaton Monins, colonel Bth Foot
Richard Rich Wilford Brett; George Congrieve
C.B.

Colonels—Sir John Thos. Browne, Royal Art. ;
James Henderson, K, H., major unattached; William
Garstin, retired full pay, staff office pensioners.
Lieut. Colonels—Abraham Collis Anderson, major
unattached, fort major Edinburgh Castle; Isaac
Richardson, captain retired full pay 11th Foot.
Majors—John Atkinson, 89th Foot ; David Dick-
son, captain retired full pay 95th Foot.
Captains—Lawford A. Richardson, sth Dragoon
Guards, suddenly, on march from Horsham to
Godalming ; Charles D. Pogson, 25th Foot ; Robt.
Richardson Ellis, 50th Foot; Richard Charles
Price, 100th Foot; John Henry Grant, adjutant
department battalion ; Edward Morgan, half-pay
75th Foot.

Lieutenants—Edmund C. M'lsTaughten, Royal
Artillery, killed in action, Taranaki; Aug. Daniel
Keane, 74th Foot; Stephen William Sewell, 89th
Foot; George John Malcolm Taylor, 93d Foot,
drowned at sea ; Thos. Davies Mahon, 3d West India
Regiment; Geo. Lidwill Harnette, ditto; James
Godolphin Burslem, retired full pay Royal Artillery;
Thomas Cottingham, half-pay 52d Foot; Egerton
Chas. Ht Isaacson, half-pay Garr. Comp.
Commissaries General—Sir Geo. Maclean, K. C.B. ,
half-pay; Joseph Hollingworth Adams, half-pay.
Deputy Commissary General—Paulus Emilius
Singer, half-pay.
Surgeons—John Freer, M.D., half-pay 97th Foot ;
F. Walters Knox, half-pay staff; William Maclise,
half-pay staff.

Assistant Surgeon—William Jackson, 80th Foot.

THE VOLUNTEERS.

Insiderable misconception having arisen as to
the ten-shilling fee required from all volunteer com-
petitors for the prizes of the National Rifle Asso-
ciation, we publish the following extract from Rule
16 :—" At the meeting of the Association it shall
be open to all volunteer corps to send a certain
number of their members to compete for prizes, pro-
vided that the persons so sent be bona fide enrolled
volunteers. No entrance fee shall be required from
volunteer competitors so sent whose corps has sub-
scribed to the funds of the National Rifle Associa-
tion an annual sum of not less than £1 per company
or subdivision. From all other corps the competi-
tors so sent shall be charged an entrance fee of 10s.
each. These payments shall entitle the above
competitors to shoot for all the prizes open to
Volunteers only."
On Friday last the annual meeting of the St.
George's Rifles was held in the Board-room of the
Workhouse of the parish. It appeared from the
report, which was unanimously adopted, that the
receipts for the past year had been £2,506, besides
a further sum due of £467, the balance in hand
being £530. The committee for the ensuing year
having been elected, the proceedings terminated.
On Tusday evening the second annual meeting
of the 20th Middlesex Volunteers was held at 239,
Easton-road, under the presidency of Lieutenant-
Colonel Bigge, F.G.S., Commandant, for the purpose
of receiving and considering the report and balance-
sheet for the past year, and other business. The
Secretary (Mr. Hoare) submitted the report and
balance-sheet from the • council, together with the
report of the Band Committee. The balance avail-
able for general purposes had increased from £l3l
19s. 4d. to £215 10s. 7d. ; balance of clothing ac-
count £7 13s. 2d., making a total at present of
£223 3s. 9d. The committee regretted a diminution
in the amount of honorary subscriptions and dona-
tions, but this was attributable partly to the fact
that at the first formation of the corps several full
subscriptions of life members were paid, while some
of their patrons had tran.r—a Larir eatropa6,- ev
tormeil in their own districts. The
ceirricstive strength of the corps was 1,300, which in-
cluded the Metropolitan and West Central Com-
panies, the former comprising about 600 and the
latter over 100 members, but neither of whose
finances had as yet been brought into the general
account. The committee congratulated the members
on the recent nomination of the Hon. H. Gage (an
officer of experience) as Major, the appointment of
an adjutant by Government, and the erection of a
butt at Willesden, affording a range of 700 yards.
The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the report,
remarked that if the attention of the members at
drill was as successful as everything else connected
with the corps, he should consider himself to be one
of the most fortunate commanding officers of volun-
teers in the country. Captain Houghton, Ist com-
pany, seconded the adoption of the report, and the
motion was carried by a large majority. The annual
dinner of the corps took place last Thursday even-
ing, at St. James's Hall, when 800 sat down to din-
ner, and the entertainment passed off with great
eclat.

On Friday and Saturday a grand Volunteer fete
and fancy bazaar in aid of the funds of the South
Middlesex Rifles, came off in the grounds adjacent
to Beaufort House, Fulham. The interior of the
spacious club-room was tastefully ornamented with
flags and banners. The prizes, consisting of silver
cups, tankards, &c., were competed for by Volun-
teers, in hurdle races, Highland reels, running,
high jump, siuglestick, high leap with pole, con-
tests with the sword against the bayonet, wide
leap, fencing, sword-dance, flat races, hop, step and
jump, running in sacks, &c. A silver cup was won
by Mr. Macnamara, of the London Irish, at wide
leap ; Mr. Wilson won a prize at a hurdle race, and
also one at flat racing.

The official inspection of the Ist Middlesex Engi-
neers took place on Thursday and Friday last. On
the former day the corps paraded in Hyde Park,
and executed the movements incident to a field-day
and the usual battalion movements, in the presence
of Colonel M'Murdo, C.B. A large number of
spectators assembled, among whom were Colonel
Viscount Ranelagh and the Hon. Colonel Charles
Lindsay. A strong detachment of the 46th Mid-
dlesex, under the command of Sir J. Shelley, M.P.,
undertook to keep the ground, which they did in
the most efficient manner. At the close of the in-
spection Colonel M'Murdo addressed Colonel
M'Leod of M'Leod and the Engineers and expressed
his satisfaction at the steadiness they had shown in
the various movements. When Colonel M'Murdo
arrived at head-quarters of the corps, at South
Kensington, on Friday evening, the men were en-
gaged in the erection of a two gun half-sunken bat-
tery, and in making gabions and fascines
required for its proper construction. After
minutely inspecting the work and questioning the
men on varions points such as the dimensions
and height of the different parts, &-c., Colonel
'Murdo expressed himself pleased and satisfied
with the work shown to him.

On Friday evening last the Finsbury (39th Mid-
dlesex), nine companies strong, attended under the
command of Lieutenant-Colonel Colville, in Gray's.
inn-gardens, for the purpose of undergoing the
official inspection. There were about 430 members
present, of whom 381 were efficient. These latter
were formed into eight companies and underwent a
very severe drill. After inspection, Major Nelson,
the inspecting officer from the War-office, addressed
the corps. He congratulated them on having the
good fortune to be commanded by Colonel Colville,
and commended their efficiQncv.

On Tuesday evening the official inspection of the
West Middlesex Rifles by Colonel M'Murdo, as-
sisted by Major Nelson, took place in the Regent's
Park. Shortly after 7 o'clock the corps to the
number of 365 of all ranks, under the command of its

Licutenant-Coloncl, Lord Radstock, Captain and
Adjutant Pennymore, and Captain Fenton, acting
Major in the absence of Major Compton, marched
into the Regent's-park, headed by its band, where
they found Colonel M'Murdo and Major Nelson
already in waiting. There were but a compara-
tively small, number of the public present on ac-
count of the wet and the want of knowledge that
such a proteeding was to take place. Great disap-