The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-15 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

SOLAR Srors.—We (Wasgete ratzen) arc iuformed thst
there are now visible on the sun's disc one very Loge spot in
N. declination, near the sun's western limb, followed by
several large depressions of the luminous disc ; three spotlit
S. declinatieu, nine digits advanced on the sun's disc; thy.*
spots in low south, four digits Lilt anead on the disc; and a
yr oup of seven or eight sp in N. declination, about three
digits advanced on the sues disc. The leading spot of this
group is very large, at.d several of the others likely 110A1 to
be united into two or more large spots.
POACH IVG S mum-a Alf le Y.—On the morning of Sab-
bath last, Alexander Bain and Matthew Kirkland, game•
keepers to the Right Hon. the Earl of Eglinton and -Wiu-
tun, eliscavered five men on the farm of Lswthorn, parish of
Irvine, in ptersu't of game, titer the destructive fashion of
using a couple of dogs to scour the fields, and nets on the
Gates to entangle and secure ill:, hares. The keepers en-
deavoured to apprehend one of the parties who carried
a net; Met were immediately set upon by the other
font, who forcibly rescued their companion. The keepers
seeing that it was impossible for them rumen-
fully to contend egait,et so unequal a number,
and being reluctant to make any attempt by which blood-
shed might ensue, prudently followed the poachers at a dis-
tance, in the hop 4 of olf lining sufficient assistince for their
capture. In so doing they were subjected to considerable
annoyance, being frequently threatened and assailed
by the poachers, who ull carried heavy bludgeons, and
one an open knife, and in one of these scuffles olio of the
poachers' does was shot, and one of the keepers
severely cut in the face. The keepers has iug been
joined by a young man named Fisher, and by Mr.
Dunlop, farmer in Lawthorn, succeeded in securing
four of the five poachers, and the fifth was apprehended
nn Wednesday morning in Kilmarnock. They are
all in Ayr tiaol, and the case is now undergoing investiga-
tion by the authorities here. The whole circumstances
hiving been made known to Lord Eglinton, we hstrie that
his lordship was so mech pleased with the fortitude of the
keeper., but more purtisularly with their forbearance, in
refraining from using their fire-arms under such provocation,
that he presented each of 1:1,-:u with let., and the lud Fisher
with M. ; while to Mr. Deulep he tendered, in writing, his
thanks for Mr. Dunlop's timely assistance, and sent it. to
each of his men who a !listed in taking the poachers to
I rvine.—A yr Adrertisvr.
Centeus Sene-raet.e.—On Wednesday evening, about
7 o'clock, a rather singular procession appeared in Argyll-
equate, consisting of upwards of 70 " liaVitl," in lute,
three deep, following a coffin, without n mortcloth, borne
on spars by eight of their number. On reaching the top
of the College Wynd they halted, seemingly at a loss where
to deposit their charge, and stating that they wished to be
directed to the dead-hent.e, in order that the hotly might
under:o a coroner's inquest. The coffin, it app. ars,
contained the corpse of a young woman who had died the
previous evening in child-birth at Slateford ; but as they
were impressed with a suspicion that she had not been pro-
perly treated, they had brought the body to Edinburgh.
Citiniately they deposited the collie in a house in College
Wynd, with a view to having an investigation made as to
the cause of death. The men, who were dressed in working
clothes, conducted themselves with becoming decorum.—
Edinburgh Advertiser.