The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-15 00:00:00

(From the Elemental looodera News.)

The Inhere. the moans, the honk brown week
Sitheet fresh with the absentees Yemen,
and tick with their kindred &emaciation. of stag and &alma,
loch and glen, over which the eagle in it. eyrie, during ilia
long winter months, Is the majestic nolitary watcher. are
again to have their stillness broken. Even the knowledge
that there will be no great plenitude of birds, owing to the
utter failure of last year, when the hens eat week after week
in wale placer up to their neck. in water, watching patiently
for the brood which rotted in the egg, does net deter a whole
host of pilgrims, in leather leggings and felt hats, from once
mere journeying with Joe Manton, mho...Um-pony, and
team, towards their heather shrive. And whet a happy
life they will lead there, hurling their " bolts far below them
In the valleys," all day, with mountain dew for nectar, lying
at eve

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reclined
rte bit', like tv4..nvere-. cnrelce. of nnold Dd.
and holding no communication with the outer world, except
through the medium of a very occasional peat-beg, brought
by a bare-legged gillic or callant from the little post-ufiloe
some twenty mike away.
No man who hoe known the joys of "The Twelfth" could
fail to ewer allegiance to such a sport for ever, and it is no
wonder that even the ruing plearaws of Knaveamire pale
before it. The " Neigh •10-neigh lo la leap" of the falconer
woe • thrilling note in its day, when the " Hereditary Grand
Falconer" was something more than a mere name, or when
Washington Irving watched old Christy's falcon, after it had
mimed its carrion crow, wending its way beck in spite of him
and his bur, to plume ite wing. among its breery native
bowers of Wynnatay. Still, let antiquity protest as it likes,
that sport, with its paeturea, more, and stubble turnery, and
its " diversions of Porky" among the bowmen, own bear
no romparthan with the moors as seen at four o'clock en
a fine August morning. To us they seemed a perfect fairy
land, as utter a three-o'clock breakfast in our boyhood we
first threaded our way peat the silent tarn, up a fir-clad
went, behind a keeper on the atnrdieot of grey thooting-
ponfee, and nearly received an awkward double-barrel sedate
at the top, by way of " first blood." The chill wind
weeping by with a dull, damp morning; the cold grey
mist clearing languidly off at the approach of day, wreath-
ing and curling up the reeky heather ravines in many
a fantastic airy Blume away to the now
dieting fells, giving here and there a fitful peep of.a.plaid-
mated sportsman and his ranging doge; the tinklicirt. and
low blotting, of the Highland withers; the faint Stamina
of the thin smoke from the dying lard night's tee In the lug
of the drowsy watcher; the hurried whirring pest of the
startled blackoock whoa, boar was not yet come ; the short
low back of the fox (who knows no twit of hound or horn)*
se she listened beside her earth, with her keen-eyed mks
waning after each other of their own brushes at bee side
the almost indistinct bum of the Meade, am they seenebed
low among the brackens, before they took their last
mingled with the Frew: at " Right and left!" will ike
gruff reminder of "Down! Charge Dealt I" te the velmis.
and the thrill whistle to the drat-year dog, who wadi_ up
wide—all form features of the great sporting pancinina,widal
is se keenly deguerrotyped es ever on gar hearts, now that a
queries of a century has paned away. Then than we the
plea:ant dinner by the time-honoured spring, whew the
hare and chicken and the whisky punch lay
oat on the heather, biding our approach, and the we come
boor's snooze, with a game-bag for a pillow, after it.
Another four hews, and dogs begin to give in, and wish to
lap their porridge and heat only in drums the bothy
fire; and nee et recent purehase, who has bad the karma
applied rather freely, perchance Kampen straight away is
, and is no more seen and only beard of by User a
week on, se having turned up et the gender's after a drat
run, from fad to and, of some thirty Lim straight. Them
BMk disaster. would mew, and a gin might take to as kick-
ing" a tike in an inesperianced inane. lands.
And sew coma the moat btudnass-liie part of the day, as
the ferehery.leggrd victims tat Matched out, with thAr
mild Oozed eyes, inane long *boa, outside the Inthy, to
be pecked in thefts heather-lied banes. Haw*. dm*
who:weir:a thou:knees, inwitseed by the rawer peters.
whe levied such hick aril as them lag year, gag net and
tees per cent gar, as the selihmiewed oomplgateale et the
mem,
This over, the pheammt lawn IletheamOhe emprieme
etdog-notes. end the sang gem the oar
that they bare tease nay area game Ibei
setters he a dries, and abbe tiny will ly ”eat
till that, eyes awe Elm end they ema ling as now Ties
time was nor its "dee tachni Into ham-
mein rased Ms low lemet-nalleg guar mime we Slept;
whlb the meekbeesom they by neesit rte be em the end,
tali Irk eM beigettiq Merle, el .l bb reashed in the
eansaiseenthe OM Ikea veal le whet fee may • week to
won by the Adios at Damns Ina When cad a &aunt
ems le got *OM el Ile ant mg are et lige wank at ems-
ymeatively a ml ye*, we we wander mg lan masses
sat that the Ettglinal sleet** " we be brie end this
enena," or that me may of our fringe fancy they bare •
Weeks each Amen to frighten, if nein km, bleb ea the
English naceirads north of the Trent, end bay link tea-
mound ticket et here accordingly r'

Tin 14rn or AVOCBT.—Grouse shooting com-
muted under favourable auspices, on Wednesday, as far as
the weather wee concerned. Many of the sportamen made
good begs, end the birds generally were fine. Among the
=.l7oat we heard of Mr. Thomas Ferrer, Mr. Brun-
-1 party, who slot thirty bum on Potter Fell. Mr.
Jams Oddwd, who acocenpanied Mr. 0. A. Goldoni, had
good sport as Bsenied Fell. Mr. J. Christopher Wilms.
sad pity, Rigmaden Park were succaseful in
their and killed thirty braoe. Among tithes
trees Mr. W. Walloon, who bagged five and a half
Mee la 'antrum ; Mr. Joseph Wilson, Ire sad a half,
Castieks Fells ; and Mr. Unthank, do and a half
as the moon near Staveley.— Westmoreland Gazette.—
bad on Wednesday a beautiful day for the opening
rdir shooting soma The soa those minter-
Mktg the earlier part of the day, Ned the tem-
waters at these o'clock in tie aftwwwwa wee 98 le the its,
ad MY the sheds. From the moors we have se direst f-
lignee the opening of the me" fast preview se-
wadi favour the oommlualou that Yds are Quailed awl
well grown.—DtwArat

On Monday the London Unity Club row a four-
oared no bola Barnes to Putney ; and Greenwich hag Be
awed awiba. The liatebister and Salford Itersdet own.
pies tie bee three bye of the week ; and Dattrtbuth Royal
ea Tenthly, Bedford Onse on Thursday, ialkia Ten on
Tleendley and Friday, Tenby on Friday, and " alupparton
mi umbra.. on Saturday, are th 3 other matte allures.