The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-07-18
THE BRITISH NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIA-
TIlN

TION.
SPEECHES QUEEN THE PRINCE CoNsoRT.
From the Liverpool Mercury, of the 3d.
This morning, Wimbledon, large as its area, was
literally covered with people, who assembled for
the double purpose of witnessing the contest for
the prizes offered by the national Rifle Association
and the arrival of the Queen. Her Majesty and
the Prince Consort arrived shortly before four
o'clock. The inner circle in which her Majesty
received the address was filled with distinguished
visitors.
The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert presented an ad-
dress to her Majesty from the Council of the Ma
tional Rifle Association. The address stated that
the association hoped, by establishing rife shoot
ing as national pastime, to make the rifle what
the bow was in the days of the Plantagenets-the
familiar weapon of those who stood forth in the
defence of the country.
Her Majesty's reply contained tie following:
assure you that together with my royal con-
sort, have gladly given encouragement to a body
whose object is to render permanent an armed
force, limited exclusively to defensive purposes,
and founded upon voluntary exertions. | have
witnessed with pleasure the manner in which the
ancient fondness of the English people for manly
and sylvan sports has been converted by your asso
citation to more important ends, and has been made
an auxiliary instrument for maintaining inviolable
the safety of our common country.
In his answer to an address
The Prince COnsort said In establishing prize
open to the competition of all nations, my object
was to give our British maIksmen an opportunity
OF comparing their own arms and skill with those
of other countries; and am convinced the result
will be to show that, the British manufacturer
is second to none in the fabrication of the arm ITSELF
so the people of this country not to be surpass
ed by any in the knowledge how to use it. Her
Majesty then proceeded to the tent facing the butts
One of Mr.. Whitworth's was fixed in sliding rest
at 400 yards range. The Queen pulled the trigger
by means of silk cord handed to her by Mr. Whit
worth. The shot struck the centre of the BULBS
eye, amidst great cheering. Her Majesty expressed
much qualification with the result. The meeting
was then declared open. The competitors, $50 in
nrp ahar Irar al A. g
form leading to the tent from which her Majesty
fired. About 1000 persons supposed to be
present. The common presented the appearance of
combination of race course and flower show, with
fair outside the barrier.
ROMANCE IN HIGH LIFE-On Saturday the matri-
monial union of Prince Peter of Arenberg with the
Countess Dowager Caroline of Stahremberg nee
Countess Kaunitz, was celebrated with great pomp
at the cathedral of st. Stephens, Vienna, in the
presence of the whole beau monde of the Austrian
metropolis. The story of this marriage is not
uninteresting one. Prince Peter is no less than
seventy years old, and his new consort, the cele-
brated Count Kaunitz's daughter, is sixty-one In
early youth both loved each other tenderlv, and
would have got married but for the opposing wish
of their respective parents. 1t is an old yery old
story this kind of tale and it is quite unnecessary
consequently, to dwell details in this particular
case, all cases of the sort resemble each other
like leaves on the same tree. Suffice it to say that
Prince Peter of Arenberg had to lead a daughter
of Prince Charles de Taleyrand to the altar and
that the young Countess of Kaunitz was united to
graf, or earl of Stahremberg. Years flowed on;
both the former lovers came to have children of
their own; both probably, had cares of their own,
and thus their lives rolled as most human lives
do-a mixture of joys and sorrows, pleasures and
pains. But, singuarly enough, both the husband
of Caroline of Kaunitz and the wife of Peter of
Arenberg died at the same time and accident throw
ing the two old friends once more together they
courageously resolved to carry out their original
intention and get married. Hence the ceremony
of Saturday last in the noble temple of st. Peters,
at Vienna-Berlin correspondence Of the Court Neos
BODY SNATCHING AFFAIR AT BosToN.-We learn
that there is good deal of fe ling among the citi
Of South Boston caused by the recent develop
ments in regard to the purloining of dead bodies by
a funeral undertaken. The feeling in some cases
amounts to deep mental anguish, as those who
he had frianha, hnrisd liy this individual aotu-
rally fear that their loved ones may have been sac
ri6ced to this unhallowed thirst tor gain and sub
ected to the rude treatment of the dissecting room
instead OF being permitted to remain peacefully in
their graves there to be sresolved to ear tn again
One gentleman whose wife was placed in a tomb
by this undertaken, and subsequently removed to a
grave at Cambridge, has become so much affected
by the apprehension that the remains of his con
sort may have been desecrated that he intends to
have the grave opened in order to determine the
truth OF the matter.-Boston Journal, July IA.
LUCKLEss EXPERIMENT WITH FARE-BoxEs IN RAIL
ROAD CARs.-The Broadway Railway Company, of
BROOKLYN following the example of several Omni-
hus Companies in New York, adopted the expe-
dent, some time since, of fixing boxes in the roofs
of their into which the passengers to place
heir fare. This prevented the halfpaid drivers
from robbiDg the employers, but resulted in worse
fraud. Some dsbursers of spurious coin observed
the matter, and placing themselves near the box
would attend upon their fellow passengers, receiv-
ing their good half dimes and placing instead their
own homemade currency in the box. The drivers
being thus found to be ''more honest than the pub
lc," the boxes have been removed.
Mr. John Hathaway died in Fall River, ON Tues
day, having worked for the Fall River Iron Works
Co. for thirty-eight years, four months and five
| days. He has made during that time ii 2SS 63s
| pounds of nails, amounting to Sl5,O7777 He was
probably the oldest mailer in the United States.
=, The New York Juvenile Asylum sent out OF
Monday about thirty children for homes in the
West, preparatory to which they visited photo
graphic rooms and had their hkenesses separately
taken, which the institution will preserve in their
House OF Reception.
Philadelphia, with her boasted water works, has
such an inadequate supply that the enlet engineer
of the department has issued notice 10 the eiti
zens raopastina them TO practice the utmost econ.
omy in the use of water.
Tho rool estate and personal property of Mr.
Ionortb of Cincinnati, has been ascertained
,;tb;n a lew days to be as follows: Real estate
60 oo0 o0o personal property, $1,000 900; total
S., $780, ,0Oo.
The Gwin's County Team of the 9TH instant saw
that il has now been three months since rain fell il
that section of country. The corn and cotton wer
t suffering greatly
. Intelligence from Demerara has been received l.
the 18th. There had been several arrival of coole
from the East Indies, about thousand of whom
, were landed in one week.
The typhoid fever is prevailing to an alarming
/ extent in Nansemond county, Va. One gentlema
has lost three of his servants and nearly all of
family had been down with it,