The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 12, 1861.

English Statesmen being CHARLES Fox and
CHARLES GREY. Lord HOLLAND, the Lord HOL-
LAND, appearing there likewise among the throng
of Eminent Englishmen introduced to the young
First Consul by Lord WHITWORTH, his Britannia
Majesty's Ambassador. Too soon, however, that
glorious illusion of a General Peace throughout
Europe was dissipated, England would not yield
up Malta to the Knights of St. JOHN. England,
jealous of the ambition of her terrible neighbour,
abruptly seized upon all the French vessels lying
in her ports—the First Consul retaliated by seizing
' upon all the English travellers then loitering
through France on excursions of pleasure, unfor-
tunates thenceforth known for years afterwards
as the unhappy Detenus. The rupture was complete,
the treaty signed and sealed with so much osten-
tation of cordiality was torn across and thrown
aside as useless—Franee and England again con-
fronted each other as Foes—as Foes they again
contended fiercely, and they continued so to contend
until 'Fifteen, upon every possible opportunity. It
was three years previously to the threat of invasion
just referred to that that threat was first held out by
France against England—the threat of invasion.
This was in 1798—otherwise, midway between the
wonderful Italian and Egyptian campaigns of
young BONAPARTE. When the Directory not
knowing how to employ the youthful genius that was
becoming so alarming to themselves—threatening
their very existence as a Government—encouraged
the conqueror of BEAULIEN and WURMSER, the
Victor of Lodi and Arcola to adventure upon
the invasion of the mightiest of all the foes of
France. What fascinated NAPOLEON'S imagination
for a brief interval in 1798—seized upon it as a day-
dream that might be realised in terrible earnest
three years afterwards, i.e., in 1801. And three
years after that, viz., in 1804, subsequently to the
Rupture of the Treaty of Amiens, when the Repub-
lic was merging into the Empire, and the First
Consul BONAPARTE at length (still in the flower of
his age) assumed the Imperial purple as NAPOLEON
—the Invasion of England by the legions of the
Conqueror of Europe, appear to be an interprise in
every point of view most imminent. It was at those
critical epochs of 1801 and 1804, but especially
at the latter period that the Volunteer move-
ment first profoundly agitated our English popu•
lation.

The contrast of the circumstances as they
were then and of the circumstances as they
are now—will sufficiently illustrate upon the in-
stant the character of the two movements. Then
—the Volunteers rose in answer to a formidable
threat of invasion. Now—they rise in answer to no
threat of invasion or of antagonism even from
any quarter whatsover. They have spontaneously
formed themselves into an army of from 100,000 to
200,000 strong to ensure to the country the
greater efficiency of its defences betimes against
any future assailants. Very ridiculous this may
appear to Mr. BRIGHT and those who sympathise
with him in his beautiful but impracticable seheme
of governing the nations of the earth henceforth by
means of Universal Arbitration. But not a jot
more ludicrous is the organisation of an army
of Rifle Volunteers for the defence of the
country, than is the maintenance of our maritime
supremacy by fostering the Royal Navy of England,
or than is the continuance of the discipline of
her MAJESTY'S land forces, with the same material
object in view. The Volunteers are de-
signed merely as an auxiliary to the regu-
lar army—and, as such, as a valuable auxi-
liary to the QUEEN'S troops, they have
all along been welcomed by their red-coated
compatriots, as they are in fact regarded with
favour by 01l rank s& cima olaososi of their fe4lova
countrymen. Honour to the gallant hearts of those
who first came forward in this good cause in defi-
ance of all ridicule They have their reward at last
—for they handle their rifles now in an army very
little short of 200,000 men—and the ridicule first
feebly attempted to be cast upon them has long
since given place in their regard to one universal,
cordial feeling of admiration.

Madame Corinne do Luigi's, the celebrated pupil
of Rossini's, first and only appearance this year in London,
after her triumphal excursions in Europe, and lately in
Paris, will take place on Wednesday next, 17th July, in
Willis's Rooms, at her grand morning concert, on which
occasion Mdme. de Luigi will sing, for the first time in
England, a new Rossini's dramatic melody, "La Separa-
tion," composed expressly for her, and Prince Z. Ponia-
towski's new drama "Tic Scene Circe."

The Prince Consort and the Crown Prince of
Prussia landed in the Southampton Docks at 10.20 a.m.,
from Osborne, and proceeded by railway to the Wellington
College. _ _

Mr. Edwin James was married on Tuesday, at
the British Embassy, Paris, by the chaplain of Earl Cowley,
to Mrs. Hilliard, a widow lady, who has resided a good
deal on the Continent, and is well known to a wide circle
of our country people abroad. A brother to Mr. Edwin
James and a very few friends of the lady and gentleman
were present at the wedding. Mr. and Mrs. James left
Paris on Wednesday afternoon, but not for America.
TIIE NEW SOLICITOR GENERAL.—Mr. Roundell
Palmer is the second son of the late Rev. William Jocelyn
Palmer, Rector of Mixbury, in Oxfordshire, by the youngest
daughter of the late Rev. William Roundell, of Gladstone-
house, in the county of York, and grandson of the late Mr.
William Parker, of Nazing,-park, in the county of Essex,
and thus nephew of the late Mr. George Palmer, M.P. for
South Essex, and also of the late Mr. John Horsley Palmer
and Sir Ralph Palmer, and cousin to Sir George Palmer,
of Wanlip-hill, Leicestershire. Mr. Roundell Palmer was
born in 1812, and married in 1818 the Lady Laura Walde-
grave, second daughter of William, eighth Earl Walde-
grave, by whom he has several children.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—At a meeting
of the Council on the 11th inst., Mr. William Fergusson,
F.R.S., Surgeon-Extraordinary to the Queen, was intro-
duced and took his seat, to which he was elected by the
Fellows on the 4th inst., and Mr. Cmsar Henry Hawkins,
F.R.S., was elected President in the vacancy occasioned by
the retirement in the prescribed order of Mr. South ; Mr.
James Luke, F.R.S., Surgeon t) the London Hospital, and
Mr. Frederic Carpenter Skoy, F.R.S., Surgeon to St. Bar-
tholomew's Hospital, were elected Vice-Presidents of the
College for the ensuing year, and Mr. George Gulliver,
F.R.S., was elected Professor of Comparative Anatomy and
Physiology in the vacancy cccasioned by the resignation of
that office by Mr. William Scovell Savory, F.R.S.
Two letters were read at the last meeting of the
Geographical Society of Paris from Dr. Peney, who is at
present exploring the Sennaar and the country watered by
the Upper Nile and its tributaries. Dr. Peney's last letter
is dated from Gondokora, the 20th of February, where he
had arrived from Khartoom, after a journey of 58 days.
Dr. Peney left Khartoam at the end of October, under the
official protection of the Egyptian Government. He had
at his disposal two boats and 25 soldiers, and no other in-
struments but a watch, thermometers, a mariner's com-
pass, a sextant, and a telescope. He had not been able to
procure a chronometer, which was much to be regretted,
as he cannot give an accurate description of the position of
the places he has visited. At the beginning of January
D. r. Peney arranged with a caravan of merchants, engaged
in purchasing ivory, to travel with them to Niambara. It
requited eight days to perform a journey of 25 leagues in
the district of Mourn. He came to the river Djour, or, as
the Arabs call it, the Bahr-el-Djour,at one degree west,
and on the parallel of Gondokora. It runs from south•
east to north-west. Its breadth, when the water is low,
is 80 yards. Dr. Peney traversed inhis peregrinations the
territory of several regro tribes. He remarked among
them one called Niam-Niam•Makaraka, which is supposed
to be a generic name rather than that of a tribe. Dr.
Peney, though he was sometimes plundered by the negroes,
is not dissatisfied with the result of his expedition. Having
returned to Gondokera, which he fixes at 5 degrees north
latitude, and rot at 41. he was waiting for the floods to
e dD
ae b ovlelroy,
interesting
tAetr;lstteisneg,
cress the falls of Garde and Alanedo, and to ascend after-
wards by land,
journey. The next acesuris from Dr. Panay arc anxiously
already known aas'2
expected, as it is believed they will announce some impor-
tant discoveries. havingwni accomplished
THE ACCIDENT NEAR THE MARBLE
Moore, the unfortunate man who was so dreadfully wounded
by falling upon the spikes of the railing of General Sir Lacy Evans's house, died yesterday. His two sons still sur-
vive, but small hope is entertained of the ultimate recovery
of either. An inquest is to be held on the body of the de-
ceased this evening at St. George's Hospital.

L E 'r NE S.

PARIS, JULY 12.

The Moniteur of to-day publishes the usual
monthly return of the Bank of France, which
shows the following results, as compared with the

June account:—

doors of the fallen minister's house were at the
same time closed, and he now remains in virtual
arrest.

Not to leave this act of signal justice incomplete,
his Majesty has ordered the immediate appointment
of a commission of investigation into the whole
departmental accounts of the late chief, extending
over eighteen years, since his appointment to the
seraskeriat in 1843. The clothing and equipment
of the army during that long period, as also the
actual strength of the various corps d'armee—
especially those of Irak, Arabistan, and Anatolia,
in the whole of which it is notorious that immense
malversation has been carried on—will be
made the subject of rigorous inquiry, and the
most startling discoveries are expected to result
from the investigation. It is said, too, that in
the single item of the preserved-meat (kavur7na)
contracts during the Crimean war, some colossal
frauds will also be brought to light, The antici-
pated revelations will, it is further believed, com-
promise more or less a certain ex-president of the
Council of War, whose relations with the fallen
minister have for many years been personally and
officially most intimate ; but on this point it is, of
course, as yet inconvenient to say more. Add to
this wide-extendfng subject-matter for investiga-
tion the item of the palace expenditure, whilst un-
der the control of the ex-marshal, and during his
dealings thereabout with Ketch Oglu, and the
" bill" against him assumes proportions such as have
seldom risen in judgment against any minister in
this or any other country.

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 12.

The Hamburg and American Company's steam-
ship Bavaria, from New York on the 29th ultimo,
has arrived.

She brings 52 passengers for Havre and England,
and 143 for Hamburg.

On the 30th ultimo she spoke the Etna, standing
west, and, of the same day, passed a steamer, sup-
posed to be the Hammonia.

On the 6th instant she spoke the British barque
Indiana, from London for Quebec, and on the 11th,
off Scilly Islands, the steamer New York, bound
for New York.

Her news has been anticipated.

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 12.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Alhambra, Captain Steward, with the above
mails, in charge of Lieutenant Rennier, R.N., has
arrived.

She brings 11 passengers, five packages specie
value £1,195; also 272 boxes lemons, 243 boxes eggs,
20 hampers onions, 30 boxes apples, 13 boxes apri-
cots, and seven packages sundries.

The Alhambra spoke the following ships :—On
the 4th inst., at 4 p.m., the British schooner Pride
of the Isles ; on the same date, at 6 p,m., the
British bark Kingsdown ; 10th, at 8 p.m., lat.
47.52 N., long. 69 W., passed a steamer, supposed
to be the Magdalena, with the outward Brazil
mail ; and on the 11th, at noon, the steamer
Iberia, bound from London to Oporto.
The steamship Vasco di Gama sailed from Lisbon
for Glasgow on the 4th inst.
The French screw yachts Reine Hortense and
Prince Jerome arrived at Lisbon on the 4th inst.
LISBON, JULY 7.

The Cortes are engaged in discussing the reply
to the Royal speech. There is, however, no news
of political importance.

The Chamber of Peers are discussing the decree
of the Government abolishing the order of Sisters
of Charity and confiscating their goods.
The vine disease has not spread so widely as was
anticipated, especially in the port wine districts.

The Prince Napoleon has been visited by the
King on board his yacht. The Prince and his wife,
Princess Clotilde, will leave for New York on the
Bth.

The highly respectable firm of Garland, Laidley,
and Co. has stopped payment.

Exchange on London, at three mcnths, 531;
Paris, -630 ; namburg, 48 ; Amsterdam, 421; ;
523 ; Rentes, Three per Cents., 47 ; Coupons, 47 ;
Deferred, 40; Lisbon Bank, 594; Oporto Com-
mercial Bank, 258 ; Oporto Mercantile Bank, 258.

NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

The most interesting of the proceedings yesterday
was shooting finally for the prizes for All-Comers.
No other matters were definitely decided. To-day
all the rest of the great prizes will be finally com-
peted for. These are the Prince Consort's, the
Duke of Cambridge's, the Duke of Wellington's,
the Rifle Derby, and a new prize just given by Lord
Dudley, to be shot for by prize-winners only. The
Rifle Derby is perhaps the most valuable prize re-
maining, as this amounts now to very near £4OO.
The Winners' Prize, which was yesterday announced
for competition to-day, will be first contended for
with five shots at 500 yards, when all making six
points and upwards will finally shoot seven shots
each at 800 yards. This contest at the long range
is to be decided by the same rules as those under
which the Queen's Plate is contended for viz.,
the gentleman having the highest average score
throughout to be the winner of the ties. The value
of the cup is, £5O, and as only winners compete,
some splendid shooting is looked forward to. Yes-
terday the prizes given to the All-Corners were six
of £2O, seven of £35, and seven of £5O. Those who
shot next in order to the prize-takers received copies
of engravings presented, to the value of £250, by
Mr. Garle Brown. The shooting, though very good,
appeared to excite no great amount of interest.
The following were the prizemen and winners of
engravings :

ALL- COMERS.
WINNERS Or £2O.

Sergeant Harding, 7th West York ..
Captain Wilbraham, 13th Stafford ..
Mr. Hardy, ditto
Mr. Smith, Mid-Lothian . ,
Mr. Hendrie, 7th Ayrshire
Mr. Brooks, 12th Middlesex ..

WINNERS OF ExanAvirros.
Mr. M'Gregor, Mid-Lothian
Mr. Frazer. S.F.G
Sergeant-Major Palmpr, R.M.C.
Captain Da idgman, West M iddlosor
WINNERS OFX3S.

200 yards.

.. 12

.. 12

.. 12

.. 12

.. 12

.. 11

.. 11

11.1 11

.. 11

.. 11

500 yards.
Mr. Leece, Manchester, Whitworth Rifle Co. 9
Mr. J. Colquhoun, 4th Dragoon Guards .. 9
Mr. J. Jervis, Manchester .. .. .. 9
Captain Cox, 3d London .. ..
Lieutenant Marriner, West Middlesex
Mr. E. Ross, Cambridge University
Mr. C. Young, Ist London ..

WINNERS of ENGRAVINGS.
Mr. Noesworthy, Oxford University
Mr. Cowan, Edinburgh
Mr. FeHowes, Victoria Rifles
Mr, Dickens, Victoria Rifles ..
Major Moir, Stirling
WINNERS OF

.. 9
.. 8
.. 8
.. 8

• • 8

• • 8

• • 8

• • 8

• • 8

GOO Yards.

Viscount Fielding, 4th Flintehire
Ensign Osley, 4th Surrey
Mr. Dickens, Victoria Rifles
Ensign Halliday, 21st Middlesex ..
Mr. E. Ross, Cambridge University
Mr. Dunlop, Scottish „
Sergeant Brown, R.A. • • • •
WINNERS OF ENGRAVINGS.
Major Margary .„ . • . .
Mr. Peterkin, Cambridge
Mr. Greig, 27th Cheshire . • ..
Mr. Rollett, 3d ditto .. .. ..
Mr. Bidder, Inns of Court
Mr. Salter, 6th Glocester

.. 4. .. 8

• • 7

• . 7

.. 7
.. 7
.. 7

.. 7

It may be said in explanation of the apparent
discrepancy when the winners of engravings scored
as high as the winners of prizes, that the prizemen
won by shooting off their ties.
In the course of the day Lord Elcho called the
officers of the various corps round him, and ad-
dressed them on the comparative success which had
attended this year's meeting. He said, nevertheless,
he was sorry to find that public interest had not been
sufficiently excited in the matches to induce as
numerous an attendance of visitors as they had ex-
pected. He hoped, however, that with the assist.
ance of the officers in their various counties and
districts, the meeting would eventually become as
popular in its way as the Derby itself at Epsom.
Unexpected sources of profit had, however, fortu-
nately arisen to the association from the pool and
sighting targets, for up to 'Wednesday night they
had sold 37,000 pool tickets and 8,000 tickets for
the sighting targets. Next year, however, these
arrangements 'Would, he hoped. be carried out
on a still more extended scale. After alluding
to the expenditure incurred in the erec-
tion of the butts as a reason why the
meetings could not be made migratory to be
held at various places, as was at one time pro-
posed, his lordship went on to say that some com-
plaints had been made of the small number of
prizes that were given toYolu nteers only. This
grievance, however, could easily be removed by
the Volunteers themselves giving increased support
to the Association, and it had been decided that no
Volunteer should be allowed to shoot at future
meetings unless the company of the regiment to
which he belonged subscribed £1 annually to the
funds of the Association. When this rule was car-
ried out it would give the Association a small per-
manent income with which to meet their annual ex-
penses, and enable them to do as ay with the 10s.
entrance fee which Volunteers whose companies did
not subscribe were now charged. In conclusion, his
lordship dwelt upon the admirable nature of the
ground chosen for the approaching review, and
said that, as far as his experience went, no capital
in Europe possessed a Champs de Mars equal to that
afforded by Wimbledon-common.

The subjoined is the official programme for the
review on Saturday :

Hon. Artillery Company
Ist Middlesex (Artillery)
Ist ditto (Engineers)
32d ditto (Rifles)
Ist ditto (Victoria Rifles)
18th ditto
2d ditto (South Middlesex)
9th ditto (West Middlesex)
11th ditto (St. George's)
30th ditto
15th ditto (London Scottish)
19th ditto •
20th ditto
21st ditto (Civil Service)
38th ditto
Ist Battalion 22d ditto
(Queen's)
2d Battalion ditto (ditto)
23d Middlesex (Inns of
Court)
26th dittO (Custom-house)
2d City of London

28th Middlesex (London
Irish)
29th ditto (Rifle Volun.)
37th ditto
39th ditto
40th ditto (Gray's-inn Rifle
Rangers)
2d ditto (Adrnins. Bat.)
6th ditto (ditto)
7th ditto (ditto)
Ist Surrey (South London)
7th ditto
10th ditto
19th ditto
12th ditto
Ist ditto (Admins, Bat.
9th ditto (Rifle Volun.)
23d ditto
2d ditto (Admins. Bat.)
2d Essex (ditto)
Ist City of London Rifle
Brigade
2d Tower Hamlets.

It is probable that the aggregate strength of
these corps will exceed 10,000 men.
The following Staff are appointed, with the
sanction of his Royal Highness the General Com-
manding-in-Chief, to the several brigades which
will compose the Volunteer force at the review at
Wimbledon on Saturday :
Brigadiers.—His Grace the Duke of Wellington, K.G.,
Lieut.-Colonel Hicks, Lord Colville, Viscount Ranelagh,
Lord Elcho, and Earl Grosvenor.

Brigade-Majors .—Major Nelson, Assistant-Inspector of
Volunteers; Major Reilly, R.A., Captain Vigors, 19th
Regiment; Major Hume, Assistant-Inspector of Volun-
teers; Major Walker, Acting Assistant-Inspector of Volun-
teers ; and Captain Kirk, 96th Regiment.
Each Brigadier may have one aide-de-camp.

It is requested that the Brigadiers with their staff will be
upon the ground at 4 30 p.m. in the centre of the open
space in front of the butts, in readiness to take over their
respective brigades as these are formed.
At 5 p.m. the brigades will be drawn up in line of con-
tiguous columns at quarter distance right in front, facing
the butts.

The brigades will constitute two divisions under the
command respectively of Major-General Sir Richard
Airey, K.C.8., and Sir J. Yorke Scarlett, K.C.B.
Corps coming from the Wimbledon Station will enter the
ground at the southern angle of the enclosure near the
Guards' Camp.
Corps coming from Putney or Wandsworth will enter
from the Putney and Wimbledon-road, near the centre of
the enclosure, facing the butts.
At the termination of such manoeuvres as the limited
extent of the ground will admit of being performed, the
force will march past his Royal Highness the General Com-
manding-in. Chief ; and the several battalions will then
leave the ground directly by the gates at which they
entered,
While the troops are marching past, the Staff will be ,
drawn up on either side of the bands facing his Royal
highness.
Certain bands will be appointed on the ground for the pur-
pose of playing while the troops march past. The other
bands will march past with their i espv,tive battalions with-
out playing.
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Rifle
Volunteer Corps, 3d City of I London, and 6th Tower
Hamlets.

equeetrian,s, except the Staff and Lorda•LieutenoßjA

of counties, will be permitted to enter the enclosure with
the troops.
Officers on foot, in uniform, will be admitted in front of
the line of stands, but they are not to be permitted to intro-
duce any one with them.
All spectators are to be required to remain in rear of the
line of troops employed in keeping the ground.
By order,
War-office, July 11, M. WM URD O.