The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-12 00:00:00

Wimbledon on the 6th of August,—the two first
companies against the two Whitehall Companies of
the Civil Service Volunteers. The Whitehall Com-
panies were the victors.
The contest for the Turner Challenge Prize, which
was decided to have been won by the St. George's,
on Tuesday, the 30th ult,, in consequence of one of
the members of the Victories shooting with a rifle
of less pull than the regulation 61b., again came off
yesterday, Colonel Lindsay having, on behalf of
his corps, declined to become the possessor of such
a trophy under such circumstances. At the 500
yards range the Victorias headed their opponents
by one point, which advantage the St. George's
counterbalanced in shooting at 600 yards. This
left the score equal, but at 700 yards the St.
George's literally ran away from their opponents,
scoring 39 to the Victorias 21, and thus winning by
18 points.
The first corps of Kent Volunteer Artillery, under
the command of Lieutenant• Colonel W. Gladdish,
proceeded from Gravesend to Sheerness on Friday,
for the purpose of expending their annual allow-
ance of gun ammunition, consisting of 80 rounds of
solid shot—embracing 40 32 pounders, and 40 68-
pounders—and 20 rounds of 10 inch shell. A tar-
get was laid out about a mile from the shore, when
the practice by the Volunteers was excellent, and
scarcely in any way inferior to that of the regulars.
After firing their allowance of ammunition the
Volunteers headed by their band re-embarked for
Gravesend.

On Monday last the 23d Kent Volunteers
assembled at the Penshurst range to compete for
various prizos, and to select two representatives for
the approaching county prize meeting at M aidstone.
The company cup, given by Captain Wells, to be
won two years in succession, with five sovereigns
added by Lady Louisa Wells, open to all members
who have passed through the first-class, five shots
at•2oo yards, and five at 600 yards, was won by
Private Martin making 11 points at 200 yards, and
three at 600 yards.

On Thursday the Bth inst., a rifle contest took
place at Canterbury, between ten members of the
sth Kent (Canterbury) Rifle Volunteers, under the
command of Captain Plummer, and ten of the 7th.
Cinque Ports Rifle Volunteers (Margate) under the
command of Captain Cox. The conditions of the
shooting were that each man should fire five rounds
at each of the following distances-200 yards, 300
yards, and 400 yards. The match was contested
with great spirit, Canterbury winning by 9 points,
the scores being as follows :—total points, Canter-
bury 153, Margate 144. A strong wind was blow-
ing down the range at the time.
On Saturday last a grand Volunteer display took
place at Bellamow-hall, near Rugely, the seat of
Mr. T. Horsfall, M.P. Between 700 and 800 of
the Bth Battalion of Artillery and the 25th Com-
pany of Lancashire Volunteers from Liverpool ar-
rived in a monster :train at the Rugely station,
where they were met by a guard of honour, con-
sisting of the 21st Staffordshire or Rugely Rifle
Rangers, and escorted to Bellamow-hall. After
lunch the Volunteers re-formed, were reviewed by
Lord Begot, and went through a variety of move-
ments with great skill and efficiency. The Artil-
lery also went through a number of evolutions in-
cluding practice with their large Armstrong guns.
At the conclusion of the review, the Volunteers
were marched to an immense tent, where the follow-
ing bill of fare was provided :-4001b. of beef, 300
hams, 300 tongues, 300 couples of fowls, and 2001 b.
of cheese, ale ad libitum for each man, and a pint
bottle of champagne for each man. Mr. T. Hors-
fall presided.
A rifle competition, open to all corners, took
place at Silloth, Cumberland, on Thursday and
Friday last. The ranges were 300, 500, and 700
yards-5 points at each distance. The first prize,
£lO, was won by Corporal Jameson, of the Penrith
Inglewood Rifles, who made 14 points ; the second
prize, £5, was won by Private Lee, of Alston Moun-
taineer Rifles, who had also made 14 points, but
who lost in the shooting off of the tie. An exciting
contest took place for the third prize, £2 between
Capt. Lamport, of the Workington Rifles, and Pri-
Tate Hetherington of Brampton. After making equal
points for several rounds, Captain Lamport missed
the target, and his opponent, having scored, won
the third prize.
The following is the result of the shooting be-
tween 20 men from each of the 12 companions of
the Birmingham Battalion of Rifle Volunteers :-
Ist prize, Corporal Albert (No. 9 company), 10
points ; 2d prize, Private Lea (No. 1 company),
9 points. The average shooting of the battalion
was 3.0. On Wednesday 12 members of No. 9 and
110 companies competed for a rifle offered by Lieut.-
Col. Mason. The ranges were 200 and 300 yards
—five rounds at each. Corporal Albert was again
the winner, scoring 18 points, the highest in No. 10
company being Quartermaster-Sergeant Vincent,
who made 10 points,
On Monday, the sth instant, the members of the
3d Shropshire Rifle Volunteers (Whitchurcia) met
to compete for a silver cup, the gift of Mr. George
Brookes, the honorary treasurer of the corps. The
shooting was at ranges of 150 yards and 250 yards,
five shots each range. The cup was won by Pri-
vate R. B. Jones, marking 16 points. Three other
prizes, given by the ladies or Whitchurch,. were
won respectively by Privates Edwards and Brom-
field and Sergeant Harrison.
The subjoined scores obtained at a rifle match be-
tween members of the Cape Town Volunteers show
that one at least of our colonies is scarcely behind the
mother country in good shooting. The first match
was between Mr. H. Glynn and Mr. Johnson.
Mr. Glynn dropped one shot at 200 and 300
yards. The total made by each was,—Glynn,
11; Johnson, 7. The second match was be-
tween Messrs. H. Glynn, W. Keane, Johnson, W.
Glynn, Gorman, and Kettle, the distances being
from 200 to 600 yards. The following was the
result :—At 200 Yards—H. Glynn, 43 ; W. Glynn,
43; Johnson, 31 ; Keane, 16. 300 Yards—ll.
Glynn, 41; W. Glynn, 38; Johnson, 21 ; Keane
20. On the 27th the competition for the gold
medal offered by the officers of the rifle corps for
the best shot took place, when Mr. Henry Glynn
was again successful in distancing all competitors.
His score was 11 out of three shots at 200 yards,
four at 400, and three at 600.
The administrative battalion of the county of
Gloucester Volunteers was inspected at Gloucester
on Thursday afternoon by the inspecting officer of
the district (Major Dick). At the close of the in-
spection Major Dick expressed his regret at the
paucity of the attendance, attributing it chiefly to
the recent Warwick review. He expressed himself
satisfied with the drill, and called upon the men to
attend company drill regularly. _ _

On Wednesday last an influential meeting of the
magistrates of the county of Somerset was held at
Wells, Lord Portman, the Lord-Lieutenant, in the
chair, for the purpose of discussing the propriety of
forming an association for the promotion of rifle
shooting in the county of Somerset. It was
decided by the meeting that an association should
be formed for furnishing prizes. Several noblemen
and gentlemen were appointed as the council, and
Mr. Lovell, clerk of the lieutenancy, was appointed
honorary secretary.
At a meeting of the council of the Yorkshire Rifle
Association it has been decided that a review shall
be held at York on Wednesday, the 25th of Sep-
tember. The council had the pleasure of hearing
from the Lord Mayor: that Knavesmire had been
thoroughly drained, and that the corporation were
prepared to afford every facility.

Considerable alarm is felt about the safety of the
steamer Z. C. Pearson, which sailed from Riga for Hull
on tho 2Gth ult. Twenty guineas insurance was paid at
Lloyd's yesterday, and fifty guineas was asked to-day. It
is feared that this is another case of loss through deck-
loads.

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THE BISHOP OF SALISBURY v. DR.
ROIVLAND WILLIAMS.

The proceedings against Dr. Rowland Williams,
to which the Bishop of Salisbury adverted in his
charge, have so far progressed that the case will be
ready for hearing early next term. The articles
have been filed. In the preamble it is stated that
Dr. Williams is charged with having within the
last two years written, printed, published, dis-
persed, and set forth in a book, entitled " Essays
and Reviews," a certain article, or essay, or review,
with divers notes thereto, entitled " Bunsen's
Biblical Researches," and by having in such article,
or essay, or review, and in the notes thereto, ad-
visedly assumed and maintained certain erroneous,
strange, and heretical doctrines, positions, and
opinions, contrary and repugnant to the doctrine
and teaching of the said United Church of England
and Ireland. The following is a summary of the
articles upon which Dr. Rowland Williams will be
put on his defence :
Article 1 declares that all ecclesiastical persons who have
been admitted into holy orders ought to adhere to and main-
tain with constancy and sincerity the doctrine and teaching
of the Church, and that for impugning these doctrines they
ought to be punished and corrected, according to the gravity
of the offence and the exigency of the law.
Article 2 declares that Dr. Rowland Williams is a person
in holy orders, and Vicar of Broad Chalk, in the diocese of
Salisbury.

Articles 3,4, 5, and 6 declare the publication of the book,
and Dr. Williams' share in its authorship.
Article 7 is as follows :—" And we further article and
object to you, thesaid Rev. Rowland Williams, that in the
said article, essay, or review are contained the following pas-
sages, that is to say :—'As in his Egypt our author sifts the
historical date of the Bible, so in his Gott ender Ge schechte
he expounds its directly religious element. Lamenting,
like Pascal, the wretchedness of our feverish being when
estranged from its external stay, he traces, as a countryman
of Hegel, the divine thought bringing order out of confu-
sion. Unlike the despairing school who forbid us trust in
God or in conscience unless we kill our souls with literalism,
he finds salvation for men and states only in becoming ac-
quainted with the Author of our life, by whose reason the
world stands fast, whose stamp we bear in our forethought
and whose voice our conscience echoes in the Bible, as an
expression of devout reason, and therefore to be read with
reason or freedom, he finds record of the' spiritual grants
whose experience generated the religious atmosphere we
breathe.' At pages 82 and 83: 'lf we would esti-
mate the truth of such views, the full import of which
hardly lies on the surface, we find two lines of inquiry pre-
sent themselves as criteria, and each of these divides
itself into two branches. First, as regards the subject matter,
both spiritual affection and metaphysical reasoning forbid
us to confine revelations like those of Christ to the first half
century of our era, but show at least affinities of our faith
existing in men's minds anterior to Christianity, and renewed
with deep echo from loving hearts in many a generation.
Again, on the side of external criticism, we find the evidence
of onr canonical books, and of the patriotic authors nearest
to them, are sufficient to prove illustration in outward act of
principles perpetually true, but not adequate to guarantee
narratives inherently incredible, or precepts evidently
wrong. Hence we are obliged to assume in ourselves a
verifying faculty not unlike the discretion which a mathe-
matician would use in weighing a treatise on geometry, or
the liberty which a musician would reserve in reporting a
law of harmony. Thus, as we are expressly told, wo are
to have the witness in ourselves. It is not our part to dic-
tate to Almighty God that He ought to have spared us this
strain upon oar consciences ; nor, in giving us through His
Son a deeper revelation of His own presence, was He bound
to accompany His gift by a special form of record. Hence
there is no antecedent necessity that the least rational view
of the gospel should be the truest, or that our faith should
have no humanelement, and its records be exempt from his-
torical law. Rather we may argue the more divine the germ
the more human must be the development.' (Other passages
are quoted from pages 77 and 78, and it is contended that
these opinions are antagonistic to the 6th, 7th, and 20th of the
Articles of Religion—that portion of the Nicene Creed which
declared in substance that the Holy Ghost spake by the
prophets, and that portion of Scripture appointed in the
Book of Common Prayer to be read as the epistle for Christ-
mas-day (Hebrews 1).
Article 8 is of extreme length, and cites a large portion of
the essay having reference to the moral and predictive ele-
ments of prophecy. "We article and object to you," it pro-
ceeds to say, " that in the passages hereinbefore recited,
being portions of the said article, essay, or review, you did
advisedly maintain or affirm that in the Books of the Old
Testament there is, with the possible exception of one, two,
or three doubtful passages, no element of divinely inspired
prediction or prognostication of future, persons or events,
or that you did therein advisedly maintain or affirm such a
doctrine, position, or opinion, and that the same is contrary
to and inconsistent with the 6th and 7th of the articles of
religion and that portion of the Nicene creed which declares
in substance that the Holy Ghost spake by the prophets
and contrary to and inconsistent with the teaching of the
said church as contained in that portion of the Holy Scrip-
ture appointed in the Book of Common Prayer to be read as
the Gospel for the Monday in Easter week (St. Luke
xxix.-13)."
Article 9 sets out certain passages contained on pages 76
and 77, and proceeds—" e article and object to you,
that in the passages hereinafter recited you did advi-
sedly maintain and affirm that the prophet Jonah was
not a real historical person, and that the canonical book
written by him and incorporated in the Old Testament was
not really written by him, and has not any authority bind•
ing upon the church, and that the book of Daniel was not
the work of the prophet Daniel but of some other person,
and is not an authority binding on the church, or that you
did therein advisedly maintain or affirm a doctrine, position,
or opinion, contrary to or inconsistent with the 6th of the
articles of religion, and contrary to or inconsistent with the
teaching of the church as contained in the form and manner
,of making deacons, in thefollowing question and answer, to
wit—The Bishop—Do you confessedly believe all the Ca-
nonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testament? Answer
—I do believe them.

Article 10 charges Dr. Williams with maintaining that
the portion of Holy Scripture usually called the Revelation
of St. John the Divine, the Epistle usually called the
Epistle to the Hebrews, and the Epistle usually called the
Epistle of St. Teter,: are not respectively parts of Holy
Scripture, whose authority is binding on the Church.
Article 11 charges him with affirming that the statements
of Holy Scripture as to historical facts may be read and un-
derstood in a wholly figurative and non-natural sense, being
inconsistent with the teaching of the Church as contained
in that portion of Holy Scripture appointed by the Book of
Common Prayer as the proper lesson for the evening service
for the first Sunday in Lent, 22d chapter of Genesis ; and
to the second proper lesson for the morning service on All
Saints-day, from verse 33 of the 11th chapter of Hebrews to
the 7th verse of the 12th chapter.
Article 12 charges Dr. Williams with affirming that
Christ did not suffer, nor was crucified, dead, and buried
to reconcile His Father to us, nor to be a sacrifice for the
orginal guilt as well as for the actual sins of men; that the
offering of Christ is not the perfect redemption, propitia-
tion, and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world, both
original and actual, and that such doctrine is contrary to
and inconsistent with the 2d and 31st of the articles of reli-
gion, and with the teaching of the Church, as contained in
the prayer of consecration in the order of administration of
the Lord's Supper, or Holy Communion.
Article 13 sets out the following passage as affirming
that the element of water is not a divinely ordained means
whereby we receive spiritual grace in the sacrament of bap-
tism, and as denying the doctrine of original sin. "The
first Christians held that the heart was purified by faith ;
the accompanying symbol, water, became by degrees the
instrument of purification. Holy baptism was at first pre-
ceded by a vow, in which the young soldier expressed his
consciousness of spiritual truth, but when it became twisted
into a false analogy with circumcision, the rite degenerated
into a magical form, and the Augustinian notion of a curse
inherited by infants was developed in connection with it."
Article 14 charges Dr. 'Williams with affirming that the
incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ was purely spiritual,
and that the Son of God did not take man's nature in the
womb of the blessed Virgin, contrary to and inconsistent
with the second of the articles of religion.
Article 15 charges him with affirming that justification
by faith means only the peace of mind or sense of divine
approval which comes of trust in a righteous God, and that
justification is a verdict of forgiveness upon our repentance,
and of acceptance upon the offering of our hearts, contrary
to the 11th article of religion.
Article 16 identifies Dr. "Williams with tho views of Bun-
sen, upon whose works he commented.
Article 17 is as follows—" And we further article and
object to you, the said Rev. Rowland Williams, that the
manifest tendency, scope, object, and design of the whole
essay, is to inculcate a disbelief in the divine inspiration
and authority of tho Holy Scriptures contained in
the Old and New Testament,lto reduce the said Holy Scrip-
tures to a level of a mere human composition, such as the
writings of Luther and of Milton ; to deny that the Old
Testament contains prophecies or predictions of Our Sa-
viour and other persons and events ; to deny that the pro-
phets speaking under the special inspiration of the Holy
Spirit foretold human events; to deny altogether, or greatly
discredit, the truth and genuineness of the historical por-
tions of the Old Testament and the truth and genuineness
of certain parts of the New Testament, and the truth and
reality of the miracles recorded as facts in the Old and New
Testament ; to deny or interpret by a meaning at variance
with that of the church the doctrines of original sin, of in-
fant baptism, of justification by faith, atonement and pro-
pritiation by the death of Our Saviour, and of the incarna-
tion of Our Saviour."
The remaining articles, five in number, are of the usual
formal and technical charaater.

THE CAVALRY.—tI general order has been issued
(says the United Service Gazette) to thy effect that the
shabraque, in future, is only to bo worn on the occasion of
reviews, and when in complete marching order, for route
marchipg.