The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-10-18 00:00:00

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THE SALMON FISHERIES AT PERTH. --The fishing' in
the Tay And Earn, belonging to the Earl of Weyniss,
have been let this week at • reduced rent from that of
Last years. The rent last season wall £2,434, and for the
next £2,372 being • reduction of £62 on the aggregate.
DEER-STALKING. Lord H. Bentinck, in 23 days'
stalking in Lawn Forest. killed 43 atags. His lord-
ship returned to Glenavon Forest on the 3rd, and up to
Friday week brought down nine of its antlered denizens.
In Mar Forest, Lord Fife has finished stalking for the
season. His lordship and party have been very success-
ful, not fewer than MO deer having fallen to their
rifies.

MUIDZIIB IN SCOTLAND.—A young MILO named Wylie
was beaten to death on the road near Hamilton on
Wednesday week by four miners, James Anderson,
Joseph Anderson, John M'Plice, and James M'Phee.
The parties had been entertaining themselves at • pub-
lic-house, and on the road home a quarrel arose.—
John O'NeiU, an old farm labourer of seventy-two,
living at East Kilbridr, Lanarkshire, is in custody on a
charge of beating his wife to death.
THE EDINBURGH ANNUITY TAX.—Orders have been
issued by the Crown Office for the apprehension of seve-
ral persons who assaulted and deforced the Sheriff's
officers in the collection of the annuity tax on the 17th
Wt. On Saturday the city officers, aided by the police,
proceeded to the premises of Mr. Hunter, • confectioner,
where the dcforoement took place, having warrants for
the apprehension of Mr. Hunter and Thomas Peacock,
his foreman. Hunter was absent at the time, but Pea-
cock was taken into custody. He was afterwards libe-
rated on finding bail for rill. On the first occasion Mr.
Hunter made the utmost resistance to arrest, in which
resistance he was aided by severalotber persons, the result
being that be escaped. There has been no attt zupt since
to inforoe papoent of the tax against him.

S*sBATAItI..zI IN SCOTL:ND.—A letter appears in
the Daily Scobrut,l4 complaining of the intolerable
tyranny practiced in Scotland on such persons as may
be compelled through necessity to travel on Sunday. The
writer nays : —" Not long since I arrived at Edinburgh
on the Sunday by the mail Irmo the north. When I
took my seat I could not but collect from the language
and grim countenances of nutolry guards and ttokersthat
tliiitravellin Ii the Stuoday was 4em:m.414 them a most
profane awl irreligious 11C1. Wlll,ll 1 arrived at Edin-
burgh I went to my usual lodging and begged fur some
dinner. Unfortunately, nAlting was to be had at so late
an hour. I thenappliedatsundry hotel= forsomething to
eat, hut was refused at all albeit', unless I was prepared
to take up 107 lodging under their roof, and I weld home
•rless. The day alter I walked into hours the ern-
feetiuner, intending to purchase some biscuits, and to
take them 11,111 C in a paper. I was informed that this
Wai nut allowed ; I must not tali.: them away." The
writer adds further on :--" True religion does not consist
in outward obeervauces, nor in its ostentatious parade
before men on any particular day—too frequently used
as a mask to cenceal the most serious breaches of God's
law every other day in the week,—but in the uniform
practice of sobriety, chastity, charity, and kinditens
to our • fellow-creatures throughout the seven
days."