The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-02 00:00:00

re. State of the Weather at
at Nine o'clock yesterdal
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Oosne of Wind. Strength o Wind. mate of Weather.
S.W. Strong Breeze. Ovc mat.

The returns from the following places did not reach this
office in time for publication yesterday ; they therefore in-
dicate the state of the weather on Tuesday awning at nine
o'clock.

Cosi
C•aum
Poogs
UTWOOL.
Isar

Straw Bros
Wait Breese

FN.
W.
S.W.

Nam
Scud—Rata
Man
Scud—Rain
Clawless
Overcast
Overcast
/Wildly Cloudy

Hard Wthl
Gentle Bt
Gentle Omer
Calm

Matloiters

LORD MACDONALD'S PROPERTIES IN SKYE AND
Ulm—A correspondent of the Inverness Adett tiler writs,
—" lewd Macdonald has executed a trust deed in favour of
James Brown, Esq., accountant, in Ediaburgh. It is under-
stood that his debut, secured over his properties in Skye and
Met, amount to upwards of 200,0001. North Mat will rot
bring more than 80,0001. of that sum."
MODERATOR OP NEXT ASSEMBLY.—It is nid that
the Rev. Dr. John Smith, first minister of the parish of
Monsrose, will be proposed as Moderator of the next
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.—. Scotch
paper.
MCRDEK OP A GAMEKEEPER AT ELVEDON.—
The prisoners, seven in number, poachers,-who killed a
keeper at Elvedon, Suffolk, some days since, were examined
at Mildenhall on Tuesday week. Before the investigation
commenced, the magistrates refused to allow the examination
to be reported, believing that the ends of justice might be
thereby frustrated. It is impossible to state any new face. The
prisoners were remanded until the 31st ult., when they were
brought up for re examination, but only with • view to • fur-
ther remand. It is intimated (says the Bury Post) that when
the final examination takes place there will be no objection
to the publication of the proceedings. In reference to the
statement as to the hint previously given of an intended
atta:k upon the Election preserves on the night in quest
tion, we understand that the prisoners are not of
the gang in the habit of mustering at Thetford, to
which the party referred, but inhabitants of Islam, at
which place, it is said, there are nearly 90 men having
so resource but poaching at this season of the year; and
it was the conviction of the keepers and their assistants
before the capture that the parties whom they en-
coact. red were Cambridgeshire men. Indeed, it was in a
great measure owing to the keepers having been put upon •
wrong scent, and expecting the incursion from the other
tide, that they were not better prepared to meet the in-
truders. It was incorrectly stated in our remarks last week,
that the deceased William Nspthan was unprovided with a
stick. It was the wounded man Allen who was witheut
even this defence. A correepondnt of the Bury Post says
in a letter : You lately showed that Thetford was adoes-
tion or rendezvous for men who had been no doubt that
treated (victims of the law of settlement), and to the
lamentable occurrence at Elvedon, may be added others
in the immediate vicinity of the town mentioned. A
party of pricker* entered the game preserves at night;
one of them straggling rather wide of his companions,
was intercepted by the watchers, who commenced collar.
log and dragging him along the road. "My gun is
charged," said the poacher, "and as I neither desire to
shoot you nor myself, give me leave to stand back and
discharge it." lie did so, but it was for • signal for his
comrades to has-en to his assistance and rescue, and they
drove the keeper into a holm, with a positive injunction
not again to stir out that night on peril of the worst betiding
him. The poachers then stole ail the keep, is fowls, and
concluded their battue in the preserves, bagging a handsome
quantity of game. On en adjoining estate, during the early
days of the same week in which the sad affair took place It
Ensile's, there was shooting every night in the preserve, and
one night • gang were shooting within thirty yards of the
whereabouts of the watchers, who saw the Rath from every
gun; but either waiting for an opportunity, or judging " dis
cretion :o be the better part of valour," slid not encounter the
invaders. On • previous cecasicn the poachers seemed
to desirous of coming into C Irsion with the keepers, that
they actually searched about for their lair; on finding
which, and the keeper gone away, they cut his watchcoat
into shreds, as • memento of their visit. Anl affair of this
sort could not remain unknown, and the keeper, chagrined
and maddened at the insult, determined on doing something
to some infringer of the game law, as a counterbalane. Like
Mr. Midshipman Easy's boatswain, in the triangular duel,
"somebody had • shot at him, and he'd have a slap at
eomeboly," and the keeper eliding into the comfortable
assurance that he would otherwise "do his duty " with less
danger than in fighting with poachers, laid an information
against two tenant farmers for haying shot a here without tale.
ing out a certificate—an offenceagairst the letter, not the spirit
of the act, they having leave fr:m their landlord to kill the
same ; 1151 on the parties appealing, he declined to come
fcrwsrl to substantiate the charge. I am also credibly
; informed that the only night poacher taken here this season
; was by cue of the principal tenant farmers, wi:o, hearing a
gun late in the evening in a cesert, volunteered,
handel, a parent:, and captured the man, gun in hand, with
the pheasant he had shot in his pocket. It is as well to
make • memerandum of each acts as thcs., wken gams-
kee rs are too often found sowing dissension betwixt the
and the tenant.