The Potteries Examiner : — 1878-06-15 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

TRADE. were present, numbering in all about 20,000 per. : THE WIMBLEDON MEETING, 1878, ' eons. A severe thunderstorm interfered with the In the following terms the committee of ,thre Cobden .. The camp at Wimbledon will be open for the marsh- Club have placed :on record their feeling on the death ' procession. Many streets were perambulated, mg in evolunteers, on Saturday, July 6th, and the of Earl Rnssell,—" The committee of the Cobden Chit. , order along the route being preserved by the shooting will be continued from day to day till Satin. desire to place on record their deep sense of the has . cardinal's Leagne Guards. At Hyde Park the day, the 20th July, when the meeting will beclesed which this club, in coranion with the whole country ,:ordinal presided over the meetieg, and made an with the usual athletic games, the interest of which has : hes sustained in the .recent death of Earl Russell. ' eloquent speech in favour of temperance. The been so largely increased during the past two years. The illustrious career of Earl Rmsell, esteading over residents of the various branches also delivered consequent on the military being permitted t, eosupete . more than half a centery of public life, has already be. ' addresses. with the.volunteere, come a part of the national history, ever to be reI The long list of competitions which has ta.be gone garded as a, memorable example of political constancy through in the fortnight has but little altered from the and lifelong fidelity to the great principles of civil and programme of previous years, there being ace increase religious liberty. But this club is bound to &arrowin the number of prices (quite numerous enough al- ledge with epeced gratitude his exertions in support of' readyl. There are, however, material differences in ' that cause which is specially associated with the name the method of shooting which will make some ef the of Mr. Cobden. Though Earl Russell was not among ' competitions, but especially that for the Queen's Prim the earliest pioneers of Free Trade, it was he who, by ' and the St. George's Challenge Vase, more exciting • hie fearless declaration against Protection at a MOO, than ever before. The Secretary of State for Wes TO- critical juncture gave a decisive impulse to public/ eently ordered Martini-Henry rifles to be issued to all opinion, acid powerfully contributed to bring about the intending competitors for the Queen's Price, so that repeal of the Corn Laws.' It in well known thrit Mr. this year for the first time all the stages of the contest Cobden entertained the highest resrectfor his political for this, the chief of the Wimbledon trophies, will be : character. When this club wee founded Earl Russell shot for with the same splendid rifle, and none but , was one r Ithe foremost to emnitest his appreciation of volunteers who have had ample opportunity of beeom- ; its objeets, baying joined it as an original member, ~ log trained in the use of this rifle will compete. FTOIM . hen,* presided at its annual dinner in duly, 1864 this it follows that the Queen's Prize this year passes ! end:having taken a constant interest in its proceedings: through a great transitionary stage. At first a prize to , In thus perpetuating the memory of his connection be shot for with Entields, then with Sniders, then for with the club, the committee would also express, on many years with Snider and Martinis, it now becomes a behalf of all its members, their sympathy with the ' competition alone for Martinis. That the changes in Countess Russell and the rest of his family, as well as the competition are beyond all question popular with , their hope that so honoured a name, having now the country is revealed by the fact, and we have the descended to his grandson, nary carry with it the noble full sanction of the secretary of the Rifle Association for inheritance of his public and ptivate virtues." the statement, that the entries for the Queen's Prize i . already this year amount to 2500. And as the post After obtaining the opinto• M of counsel on the entries are permitted to nearly the middle of this ' month it is manifest that, by a most marked proper. subject, the Aehton-in-Makerfield Local Board'. tion, the entries of this year will outshine all lists in have resolved to take proceedings against certain' !past contests, colliery proprietors, to compel them to repair the --- ' As the Queen's is about to become the great Martini. damage to roads in the district caused by mining. Diphtheria is very prevalent M the north of Ilenry contest, the St. George's is about to become operations. , more important than ever as the great Snider contest. , Leedom A privato ist ea. oria rieyet es, wipe I The Volunteem, whose own pecans.. rifle is the Bolder, The town of Cannes is about to show its are themselves giving proof of all their admiration for . m ' 1 d C 11 ham committed suicide on Monday gratitude to the late Lord Brougham by the old ann by their entries, and it is thought that anfaterenoon, uWgrhile being marched through the eelebratieg the anniversary of his birthday. the St. George's will also be represented at the firing streets of Guildford as a prisoner towards tW : Lord. Brougham virtoally made Cannes a water. points by over two thousand marksmen. barracks, be suddenly broke sway from the escoii, I The ifle Association have also increased their jumped into the river Wey at Guildford Bridge, ing place. I statistical staff, which will once again this year be and was drowned before assistance could reach De.rarcrive