CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. LOcrozzn 15, 1959 
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Š * 3 “ant ere were no les 4 who id this. This } Russian Three per Cents. 1859, 6775 
ractice lasted fro Tuesday to 81 ay, and I cannot ais » ; Spanish Tu 
Public Avdresses. — be to you the excitement of it. It excee ed anything I per n 12 ; Ditto New D eferre The Oa 
pcr ever Hunting, or cricket, or boating is nothing toit. I o 332; Ditto Passive Bon 
CAPTAIN V. A. KrxG, of the 2d Cheshire Rifles, has | felt, when w it, pe ere was no mistake poer Cents, 1854, 783 to DA ex div.; Du ri T 
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delivered a a lecture at Birkenhead on the Rifle Practice o notis d -— — MA tog a o zu conusable Ditto ‘for Acct., 68; to 1858, 
at the I a p ^pa march from their parade ground ball practice de e 
is an abstra he barrack-yard at Hythe. I oug ou that we 
% We assembled at Hythe on the 23d of July. and reported subscribed for three rifles—one for the best shot of the whole ; Bank ot Jngland 
ourselves to the. ee A . a word about Major-General of 3 Med —- L i-e a n — t Sho EAN E vs _ IS8UE DEPARTMENT: LL 
Hay; heisa fi of very pleasing manners, | Of tne i , , vd 1 ernment Debt ,, , 
pes — 85 e z" SA qe K bim; he . snot and Tinley, of Liverpool, the second ; Coxe, of Derby, the ird. Sas cae DES 
is seldom seen without his rifle in his hand.. e were can ttempt to describe to you the excitement on Saturday ver Bullon n ti 
42 of us from all parts of the kingdom, of all clas . . n Taa afternoon. The struggle was between Aik ones Wi ley for "231,136,605 Io 
two peers, Earl Spencer and Earl Pomfret there 7 5 country | the first prize; they were firing at 900 yar re wer B ANRIN ZAR 
k i tors, and as h of these two me lt re G DEPARTMENT 5 
gentlemen, there were barristers, there were xai fro m the | many s] Ü 1 roprietors" Miche 2 553,000 Government b 
Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh, ther re we rchants, here was not even a per heard ; all se ed afraid even to Rest 3,087,110 — Deed Rada i 
there were txadesmon- all. c classes, act. dee ired no | breathe. They both got 11 poi ts—a tie; but Warner won, as Publie Deposits s (inclu erm 17 eight 
introduction; we were good friends = p. as we met. We he previous classes he h: ade 53 points and Tinley 51 Tog is fan s Other Securities. l 
felt we eg ie all 8 who had a quaa 8 "objeck i in | Tinley had unfor unately twice aimed at the wrong ta — of (Nat. Debt, an nd Divi Gold s ‘aud SüverCoi 7' i 
view, the defence of b e land, and se sufficient hit it, and these two points did not count, otherwise Warn lend Accts.) . 9,378,802 er Coin s, y 
Mieti ert ana e peer reated with no pace Dy respect tha and Tinley would have been ties t. p ceu On Monday w Niner Deposits... 13,799,686 E 
the tradesman, or the cia ori than the peer; and here let fired 10 rounds file firing, 10 rounds volley firing, and 10 roun nds | Seven day and other bills 903,634 1 
me say, for the honour of the — f England, iet the | skirmishin, last don 1 work. We loaded as we 241.722.232 
peers worked quite as hard as any of us, there was no dis- ug, and fi istances of 400 to 200 RI but we had to | 13thday of Oct, 1859. M. MARSHALL, Chief 
tiation; they were o by itodo ^ xp ts just : same as jadeo our our m danori pt advancing i ; à 
ofus. O e 25 u — — intl , : 
barrack tent—a em — „an- pem of instructions were — Tema s distance rue iirod ek an elevation of 400 yards t 
delivered t h of us e aaoo 3 into ur bullets would La a & least 5 feet above the target. If at Gazette 0 the Ue 
sections, containi m six to nin h. We were then 400 ards’ distan! tried to fire at an elevation of 200 UESDAY—BANKRUPTS S—J. Barns, Sedgeley, Si 
ushered into th $ -room to & few words f yards, then tne bullet eser wg trike the ground at 280 yards. .W. BAWDEN Tien Merit M 
the General id us he a friend of the | Now for the result of our ball practice. You must understand PEN. and Joszrx 
volunteer movement, which he would do all in his power | that e shot which is fired at Hythe is registe d. Ifa heffield, Coo 
to forward, as he considered it essential to the safety man s badly or carelessly he is sure und out 
f the country. He thanked us for ow in coming All is reduced figures. There cannot a question 
so far for instruction, and state d that it would give both about who Ue best and who shot worst. The shooting 
m and his Staff the — leasure io i p x = is estimated by figures, which cannot 1 — ee 
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all they could in the very li mited time we had for the 
He then stated that if the volunteer force could not shoot they 
or 1 *there 
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ou the ffice Nodes id 
through the previous three courses at Hythe. You will, no | turers—L. PRIESTLEY, 
doubt, be certain that we volunteers were & long way behind | M. S. Se = 7 
them; for in mind they had 16 position drills—we had 
t only 6; they have a mie mcer ary conrse of 20 rounds of ball 
ear iridge—w we had not any, but fired at once in the third class. "Accountant — W. A s m, Waterbrae, 
The mean averages are as — — $:—1859, January—officers, — Drm 
46.08; soldiers, 43.97. April—officers, 46. 94; soldiers, 44.35. Ti g near Glasgow, Merchante, 
July—officers, — - - —— 
200, ho 
ridiculed the popular error which uch dw 
upon of late in the zin N that nothing "but plenty. of al 
practice would ever make m n good shots. He told us that 
h practice fac 
uld 627 
officers, 46.22; soldiers, 43.65. The Ge — was su a 
this result: he said he expected us to beat P prem 
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Tur GREAT EASTERN.— be Great 
at — th Monday afternoon from Po 
accom lished the voyage roe under 
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n them of bad habits, and, until they | Carr. LONGLEY, R. E., son of the Bishop o f Durham, 
Jue token o them, it wes useless to teach them to shoot, —— — — n the affair of the Pe iho on Tuesday, in 
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en us 
teach us to shoot; the more of this a man posse noos. 
i i il he had not ott | his arrival a at — Auckland. The following is an | to a Scilly Isles, thence pr St. Geo 
t $ to the Old Head of Kinsale, and thence 
teach men to shoot without ever firing a shot; and I have| I was t during th: ment. We waited 
not the slightest doubt that this can be done; I am desee 8 NA to Hol head. The average rate 
= He us that we volunteers to had to vin pies aud | trip a little 
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drill and discipline could not be expected such as would | Waslikewise blockaded the e Cube. told che Ambassadors that 5 
nf ert se 3 as È never went nm thai 0 belt m ‘de je pais 
revoluti a working Jr 
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bodied some years. There was a gentleman from South Devon. 55 ‘ " 
The General asked him if th — A i men on towards the embrasures I was unfortunately wound: success. ith s 
G 85 they p! ised aiming — He If the Chinese h. opened out erii wholes of — ordin a least 10 knots might be ob 
y clara w 
r part thai 
a s PT: Pr —— — short è € 8 made. There was no treachery in the case at all. There eight knots. 
fi od for this ob course was notrap laid for us. We saw it all before we went; w 
2 qm A Uv emi en m gue our deity for res, and of course conclu 
a of instruction was, cleaning of | there was guns behind them, and we saw the mud we had to | with 
ing — en eile In the cleaning of arms we were not only i T 
TO! b r tion 
to clean ined to de A every part of the weapon was | these barbarians, as we term them, it rsto me to — 
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expla — — to ascertain if derstood | “sit; k d, i — 
'e were ques we unde! 3 
all had within his own house; but a number of persons meet oer or, 
— —— told us. The lectures on tbeorstical go to him, and say, Lou must come vil and be civilised ; or, we M — stes 
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acknowledged to ; be so in England, and I don't know why it m 
ÓÀ 2 be so in China. I doy "t — that we are to give up — the shi j^ steamed e h 
e are right in | let go her anchor a few minutes 
forcing our civi ination upo pon China I d ont Vv Mak sand show | before she was expected, to to the disappo! 
em very examples © it; suc! 1 H 
customs that they néed wish to imitate (era ; and it is a fact, Erich includin 
stated by Lord Elgin, t the further he ent into the hie been 
interior the better — the people were towards us; but into the channel, and to 
for 200 years, Vm hey is Vane: ved feslinge towards us, because lished | ber anc vol E 
mimic rupe af erem | bable objection o 
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si Cover or Baxkruproy.—At the Court of Bank- € not leave Eng 
ruptcy on i Mob day Mr. John Edward Buller, péoneet ESTMINSTER 
of 56, Li ncoln’ s Inn Fields, v wap lia ibili ti ies hav ve been i — a reply to to Mr. 
nc eged defects in ied 
He stated his bell T^ t "his assets would realise — gs t the 
en to pay all his debts in full. On the p l of | Den 
assignees an adjournment for two . as char 
. larg the Court granting an allowance of 5l. a week | tinctly wi 
to the bankrupt and his family in the mean n time. vin 
City Ent telligence. reasons 0 f. policy w 
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Morty MARKET, FRRIDAY.—BITISH : Con- | M Co 
sols ped Š 955 for 1 and 96 for ie p Nov.;| Mr. Ayrton, 
Bank Stock, 2193 to LM ced and New Three per | rerice, and had 
me; Cents., 94$ to 1; New dian Loan (stock), 101j to|of the men. e 
é 7 Ditto — 102 Four per Cent. Deben- after ttendi 
oflast year, 96 to 961; Ditto 1859, 953 to 96; | persons, i 
2s. d ; Exchequer Bills, 25s. to | secretary 
21s. Fonton: Brazilian Four and a Half per graphed for f 
Cents., 1858, 951 to 951; Du a Half per | five hours i 
Cente, 66; Ditto Four per Cent. Certi 
to 100; French per 68£. 371c.; | renewed n 
i c t. Rentes, 
„ anh to 290; Ditto fo Acct., | would 
22$ to 22}; Portuguese Three per Cents., 1853, 46} ; | however 
