30 AUGUST 1902, Page 18

A RIFLE CLUB EXPERIMENT.

iTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The interest in the doings of the rifle clubs at Newlands Corner so ably described in the Spectator of August 23rd is heightened by• the remembrance that in the year 1848 the .A.lbm7 Rifle Club was formed by the late Martin Tupper, and that the rifle range was not far from Newlands Corner, where on several occasions I joined the shooting. Times are changed, for Martin Tupper failed to obtain the sanction of the then Lord-Lieutenant (Lord Lovelace, I think), who considered the club illegal ! Will this new movement become as popular as Tupper's Volunteers ?—I am, Sir, &c.,