The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-08-24 00:00:00

Scotlanti.

BAD NEWS A-FIELD.—Th• potato diseese hu ap-
peared at Dalkeith, and also in 'Banffshire, ver7
rally. Aberdeenshire unfortnnatoly Is aka showing
nnweloome symptoms. Disease among live stook has
been prevalent in the vicinity of Arbroath. Above
!Wigan cattle have been carried off from one park by
idenro-pneuinouia, and many horses from glanders and
other diseases,

THS Founts MAC:ENNUI ACT—The Forbes Macken-
tie Act is practically inoperative in Glitagow. The
041410 w Herald says :—"The sliebeens in Saltmarket,
High-street, Gallowrate, including the celebrated Black
Boy Close, are driving • roaring trade, and though the
license.' publican generally obeys the law, drunkards
are as numerous and as disputing on liaturday nighte
and Sunday morninp as they have been any time theme
last 20 years. This state of matters cannot last, and
vet Forbes Mackensie's Ant will not cure it. It annoys
the honest trader who can carry on his busineu decently
without being watched by any one, and it calls into ex-
istence bad- fosters • class of whiaky-hucksters whose
normal disposition is rather to break the law than to
raipeot it." At • meeting of the police board of Glee-
ow on Mondav, • committee was appointed to inquire
into the working of the Forbes Mackenzie Act, and to
take stringent measures for the protection of the per-
sons and property of the nitisens. This resulted from
• recent trisl before the sheriff, when a lieutenant and
inspector of police was found guilty of an aggravated
assault committed during a shebeen-hunting expedition.

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Tics 12TH OF AOGIUBT.--Sportamen began work on
Thursday, but the details of what has been done which
have reached us, as also thffie given in our contempora-
ries, are necesearily as yet very meagre. Aberdeenshire
and Banffshire are represented as fair. About Breuhin
grouse are represented to be very abundant and strong
in the wing; while the Inverness Courier of Thursday
sap, "We believe that the sport this season will be a
fair average on the lower ranges, and on some of the
higher, wherever there were sufficient stocks. It is the
remark of every sportsman that the birds are quite
healthy and strong. There is also a general feeling
that, whatever the sport may be, their expectations are
sot so high as to result in disappointment. Our list of
.hooting quarters let for the season is not of the usual
length, many of the moors being unlet. This is partly
owing to the disease of game last year and partly to the
effects of the great commercial crash of last year, and no
small number of our best eportainen are far away,
warring under the scorching rays of an Indian sun. To
these the thoughts of the heathery mountains and clear
glens of the Highlands must often call up scenes which
they and we trust may be soon and often renewed. The
amount(' from the deer forests are most flattering; stags
are in fine condition, with large, well-formed antlers.
The sound of the rifle has already been heard in the
curries, and haunches of fat venison seen in the larder.
Captain Baring, of Btrathgarve, shot a couple of stags,
right and left, both at • gallop—the first falling at 116
yards, the second at 124 yards. In Strathoonan forest,
Lord Lichfield Idled two stags, right and left, both in
excellent (*audition, one with a royal head, the other
with a head of eight tines. In Glenstrathfarar forest,
the Master of Lovat shot • very large fat stag, which
weighed 14 stones, clean. In the forest of Glendibidale,
Mr. Horatio Ross and Mr. Edward Roes shot each two
-stags." Last night we had accounts from Wardhouse
that Mr. Gordon and party killed 54 braoe on Thuisday,
and from the moors of Mr. Robertson, of the Royal, as
follows :—At Clashrusdarrooli, Colonel Clowes and
party, 114 brace Boginclough, the Messrs. Holden, 37i
brace: end Calram, Captain Gordon, of Fyvie, 10 brace.
—Aberdeen Herald.