The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-06 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 6,

PERU.
(From the Times.)
VALPARAISO, AUG. 22.—This goes by the American
steamer destined to occupy a position in the line be-
tween San Juan del Sud and San Francisco.
Much excitement has been produced by the false
report that the United States Government had ordered
the Commodore to take possessio❑ of the Lobos Is-
lands, or sustain American ships in getting cargoes of
guano.
The American Commodore arrived yesterday ; he
has not been at the Lobos Islands, nor has he received
one word of communication from his Government on
the subject.
It cannot be presumed that the United States Go-
vernment would attempt to take islands recognized
always as belonging to Peru. They are visited con-
stantly by boats from the main, and frequently have
residents upon them.
The Education Bill, referred to in my last, is still
before the Senate; it excites a strong interest among
foreign Protestants, who will never consent to have
their children at schools under the surveillance of
Catholic priests and Jesuits. The Bill was denounced
by one of the senators as monstrous, and it is not
likely any action on it will be had this session.
We are to hope more liberal measures will prevail ;
parents would otherwise be compelled to educate their
children in other countries, which would check immi-
gration, close up the avenues to intelligence, and re-
tard the progress of the country.
The snows have nearly closed the Cordillera ; never-
theless we have late dates. It is much to be feared
that Buenos Ayres will not enjoy that quiet and re-
pose which all desire; there are strong symptoms of
disorganization.
Emigrants are leaving this for Australia ; they
have done so well in California that it is not impro-
bable many ship-loads will leave Chili for the new
El Dorado.
Our direct dates from London are to June the
17th, via New York, June the 26th, again antici-
pating nine days by the latter city.
As spring opens more activity is observed in busi-
ness. Large supplies of remittances have brought
exchange to 460., and it will probably reach 47d. to
48d.

Flour is at 8 dolls. 2c. and firm, the last quotations
from San Francisco 20 dolls. per bag ; copper is 17
dolls. 2c. per 100 lb., the maximum price it has ever
reached in Chili. An impetus has been given to
copper mines, and the export from this country next
year will be much increased ; the want of labourers
is the great drawback.
The clipper American ship Palmer put in for water,
86 days from New York. She reports meeting Flying
Cloud off the River Plate, and very heavy weather off
Cape Horn. A large number of ships are overdue here.
The late scarcity of coal on the coast has given
action to the mines of Chili, and, although the qua-
lity is not equal to good English coal, it answers well,
and will be better when mined deeper. The best
mines are found in the Bay of Arauco, near the
shore ; the veins about 5 or 6 feet wide ; and may be
shipped at about 10s. sterling per ton. Total con-
sumption 300,000 tons annually.
(From the New York Journal of Commerce.)
Immediately on receipt of dispatches at Lima, the
31st of July, sent by the Peruvian Minister at
Washington, the Council of State clothed the Execu-
tive with extraordinary powers. One steamer and
two ships of war were sent to the Lobos Islands, and
three more were to be sent immediately after. Ge-
neral Destua was at the island with a force of 300
men.

The English steamer Lima, that left on the 11th
of August, landed 515 men, well officered, at Payta,
on the 14th. They would leave the next day in the
steamer Bimae, for Lobos Island.

Orders have been given to station 2,000 men at
Lambayeque (coast opposite Lobos Islands). The
Lobos Islands would be strongly fortified, everything
being prepared for so doing.

_ - -
JAPAN AND THE JAPANESE.
(From the New Fork Journal of Commerce, Sept. 16.)
The following narrative of a visit of Captain Welsh,
commander of an American East Indiaman, in 1850,
to the Island of Japan, has been furnished to the New
Orleans True Delta, by A. D., a California corre-
spondent :
" The expedition which has been recently fitted
out to Japan has awakened some interest towards
that comparatively unknown country, which has been
so long almost sealed to the civilized barbarian of the
west, and of which, in this age of progressive know-
ledge, so little is known. During my residence in
San Francisco I became acquainted with Captain
Welsh, of the ship Merlin, an ludiaman, and he gave
me the particulars of a visit he made to Japan in
1850, which were highly interesting. With great
personal courage, Captain Welsh possessed a superior
education ; he was a man of discernment and obser-
vation, and was, withal, a gentleman, with that frank
hearty manner which is so characteristic of our Ame-
rican captains. His statements may be implicitly
relied on. While sailing off the coast of Japan some
casualty occurred, which rendered it necessary for
him to make the nearest land for repairs, and he ac-
cordingly put in.
" On arriving in the roadstead, he took a boat
with a crew armed, and pulled towards shore, which
was lined with thousands of people, many of whom
were apparently soldiers, and he was a little apprehen-
sive as to the nature of his reception. He lay to a
few minutes in consultation with regard to the course
he should pursue, when, on looking a little higher
up, he observed on a point or bluff, where the crowd
was not so great, a man waving his hat, and appa-
rently making signs for him to come there. Ac-
cordingly he pulled in that direction, and recognised
by his dress a European ; and, as he approached
Within hearing, his ears were saluted in English with
Corse on, come on, for God's sake come on I Take
me off, or I shall be murdered 1' Although there
were many natives at that point, no obstacle was
offered to his landing; and on going ashore he was
met on the beach by the European, who proved to be
an Englishman, and who, as he told him, was a mis-
sionary, and had resided there three or four years.
After repeating that he should be killed, he assured
Captain Welsh that there was no danger, for he
would be well treated, and that the natives were
friendly and well disposed. In the interior, two or
three miles distant, was a large city, which, from sea,
struck Captain Welsh with surprise by its magnitude
and the number of its domes and spires, and where,
he learned, on landing, the governor of the province
resided.

"At first, he availed himself of the missionary as
an interpreter, but, subsequently, learning his charac-
ter, he would have nothing to do with him, but
depended on a man he had on board, who could speak
Chinese, which was understood by many of the
Japanese. He was soon waited on by au officer,
dressed in a peculiar costume, who inquired what he
wanted, which, after disclosing, the request was
transmitted to the governor, who soon returned an
answer, that ' all he desired should be complied with.'
The necessary arrangements were soon made, the
ship hauled in to a safe place, and the work begun.
"The intercourse between the crew and the natives
was so regulated by Captain Welsh, that no cause of
complaint should be made by the latter, and very soon
the most friendly relations existed between them. In
a few days, the governor sent the captain an invita-
tion to pay him a visit. Of course this was joyfully
accepted, notwithstanding the missionary had endea-
voured to fill his ears with their treachery and faith-
lessness. At the hour appointed Captain Welsh was
received on the beach by two or three thousand sol-
diers, dressed in quaint and strange uniforms; the
officers wore gorgeous robes, trimmed with crimson
silk, gold and silver, bearing wands in their hands,
tipped with gold. As they approached, the crowd of
natives drew back respectfully, the soldiers formed
lines, and the officers saluted him with reverence,
bowing almost to the ground.
"He was conducted to a splendid covered sedan,
highly decorated and trimmed with silk, and when
seated, he was elevated upon the shoulders of bearers,
and the procession, with numerous flags and banners,
moved forward to the sound of gongs, trumpets,
drums, and instruments for which he could find no
name. By a beautiful and well paved road, lined with
trees, they reached the city (the name of which I
have forgotten) where the number and magnitude of
its public buildings, the splendour of its houses, the
amount of its merchandise,, the neatness of the streets,
with the general order and strange beauty which
seemed to pervade the whole, struck him with surprise
and astonishment. He estimated the city to contain at
least 200,000 inhabitants. They were met by dense
crowds of men, for not a female was to be seen in the
streets ; but the waving of the wand by an officer in
advance, instantly opened a passage ; and as they
passed through the throng of animated beings, he was
saluted by the multitude reverently bowing almost to
the ground.

without looking up, announced the presence of the
distinguished stranger.
" Captain Welsh then approached the centre of the
room, and giving his High Mightiness a decent
Yankee bow, which was cordially returned, at a sign,
advanced and took a seat beside this Brother of the
Sun and Cousin of the whole Firmament, while the
attendant officer backed out, without looking up till
he got to the door, when he got up without raising
his eyes, and with a low salaam went into the ante-
room. A familiar conversation now ensued, through
an interpreter, during which Captain Welsh took
occasion to speak of our own country, its institutions,
the goodwill of our people towards the Japanese, and
our desire to be on good terms with them, and in such
a way as was calculated to leave a good impression ;
and, so far as he could judge by subsequent events, he
succeeded in this.

" Sweetmeats, confections, and various refreshments
were introduced ; and at the close of the conference
he received permission to visit the city freely, when
he was dismissed with much courtesy, and escorted
again to the beach with the same ceremony with
which he was received on landing.
" His future intercourse with the natives was con-
tinued with the same friendly demonstrations, and his
descriptions of their manufactures, their high ad-
vancement in many of the arts, of their customs, of
their agriculture, their horticulture, were highly
interesting, some of which I would repeat, but it
would make this communication too long. He found
that the self-styled missionary had rendered himself
obnoxious by his extreme pertinacity and meddling
disposition ; that he was a drunkard, and made many
false statements, and it seemed to be his particular
aim to bring about some collision between Japan and
his own Government. Captain Welsh offered to
bring him off; but he refused to leave, and the people
were anxious to get rid of him. There seems to be
but little doubt that if such men as Captain Welsh
were to visit Japan frequently, a favourable opinion
with regard to our nation would spring up, and a
friendly communication might be opened with this
strange people.
" I saw the shipwrecked Japanese frequently at
San Francisco. They were gentle and agreeable in
their deportment, and appeared highly delighted at
what they saw, and with the kind treatment which
they experienced from the citizens generally. They
differed in appearance from the Chinese as the Ger-
mans do from the French, being broader shouldered
and of heavier frames, though not taller, and the most
of them had their heads shaved smooth, some leaving
a scalp lock.

" The above account was given me in the fall of
1850, and although I cannot pretend to give all the
facts, nor clothe the description in the strong and
clear language of Captain Welsb, it is substantially,
though briefly true."

" Arriving at the palace he was met by an officer
splendidly attired, and conducted with much respect into
a large ante-room, built and decorated in the style of
Eastern architecture, where he was politely requested
to take off his shoes, which he complied with without
hesitation, but inwardly resolved tnat he would submit
to no farther humiliation. Soon be was conducted to
the door of the reception-room, which on entering he
was almost dazzled with the splendour of its decora-
tions. It was covered with a carpet of surpassing
richness—the walls were hung with crimson silk in
the most gorgeous manner, glittering with spangles,
and gold and silver trimmings seemed to be lavished
in such profusion, that it reminded him of the tales of
enchantment of the Arabian Nights. At the further
end was a raised form, and seated cross-legged on a
cushion, under a splendid canopy of silk, was his
Highness the Governor, dressed in a gorgeous oriental
costume. From the door to the throne stood several
officers, richly dressed, holding wands of office in
their hands, who, as he entered, made him a low
obeisance. His attendant officer, on entering, fell on
his hands and knees, and crawled to the throne, and

1852

hand, and succeeded in cuttieg and tearing my way
through, and reaching the bottom or centre of the
valley. Here 1 found a small path which I followed
at random, till by good luck I stumbled on an old
solitary native, herding buffaloes. I immediately
pressed him into my service, and under his guidance
succeeded in reaching the spot where the pursuit had
come to a check, and my companion, perched on a
rock overhanging one of the little tributary ravines
which dinted the upper part of,the mountain sides,
was beleaguering the bear.
Before long the beast was dislodged, and, as he
was skulking off for the bottom of the valley,
wounded by a rifle shot, I gave chase at full speed,
and, preceded by a villager, and followed by my gun-
-1
carriers, went tearing, skipping, and diving through
the jungle with such effect that on reaching a little
narrow path which, hemmed in and darkened by the
thick dry overarching jungle, traversed the mountain
side not far from its base, I
und that I had outstrip-
ped the game, and got below him. As I ran along
the path, I could, by the crashing of the bushes in
the Jungle above me, trace the bear's course, which,
although not very far from parallel with mine, was
such as to bring him every moment nearer and
nearer. I fully expected to come into collision with
him, and was not disappointed ; a loud crash close at
hand, and a horrid yell from the natives cf "Ba, be,
able be, ba, ba l Ahla, I, !"_and before the niggers
had time to make a good bolt of it, he was in the
midst of us, jumping, grunting, and roarin and
looking in that gloom g,
y, overshadowed path,
amongst the crashing ' bushes, like a small
hippopotamus. My guide, 'who had been leading the
way, dashed by me in full flight, bringing the
bear's charge on me. I fired one barrel with the best
aim I could get. I cannot say whether I bit him,
but he came on as viciously as ever. I shoved the
muscle of the gun at him, aolapin the blaze of the
powder lighted up -the dark path, and for the mo-
ment hid him in the glare. Under eover of the smoke
I made a dash at the jungle on the upper side of the
path, and was immediately pulled up short by the
wall of dense bushes; the bear, apparently stunned
and confounded by the last shot, was jumpinA
and roaring in the path just beneath me.
he had cast his eyes up hill instead of down,
he would have had nothing to do but to pick
me out of the bush, and take his revenge ; fortunately,
all he saw was the downward slope clear of enemies,
and with a furious plunge down he went, crashing
into the thick underwood, and vanished from sight. I
hastily collected my scattered flock of followers, who
had carefully carried themselves and the guns out of
the battle, and made for the bottom of the valley. By
this time the beaters began to close up from all quar-
ters, and to appear in little parties in Indian file,
threading at a trot the narrow jungle paths, flocking
in all haste to the scene of action. lishikarry amongst
them halloaed to me that the hear had fallen in a
dry rocky nulla down in the bottom of the valley. I
pushed on into it, and for a few moments followed
its course without catching sight of him. He did not,
however, leave me long in doubt, for he no sooner
saw me than he picked himself up, and, with his
muzzle all bloody and his tongue out, evidently
feeble and desperately bard hit, but savage to the last,
came up to the charge at a slow canter, with the
greatest determination. I took steady aim, and
knocked him over ; he rose again as if to charge,
but before he could get under weigh, I hit him
again, and down he went, struggling in,,,death.
I got another gun from the natives, who, as usual,
were dancing about at a prudent distance on
the borders of the skirmish, and putting it close to his
head, finished him, just as my companion, who had
been by some accident thrown out in the chase, came
up. We were both greatly amused at the speed and
ingenuity with which the shikarry, a decided
"enemy to strife," and his long-legged lanky son, a
stilt more promising member of the Peace Society,
contrived to show up the instant that the bear was
floored. Ido not mean to accuse the race of profes-
sional shikarries in general of this little weakness, but
certainly these two, not only on this, but on many
occasions, showed a curious precision in making their
appearance just as the last breath left a beast, and not
one moment before.

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intelligence
BEAR HUNTING IN INDIA.
(From Eraser's Magazine for October.)
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ately started in pursuit.
The scene of action was a narrow path or track
running along the face of the Ghaut overhanging
the Concan ; to our left rose a scarp of rugged
black rock, in many places overhanging the path ;
to our right the mountain side went down in a fall
which, if was not perpendicular, was not very far horn
it. Beneath us a deep ravine ran to our rear into the
angle formed by the intersection of the face of the
cliff we were standing on with that of another cliff
projecting forwards into the Concan. The bear was
said to be lying on this path, under an overhanging
point of the scarp. The shikarries' plan was to drive
her down upon us, and they accordingly pointed out
to us what they considered a good post for us to take;
but I, being anxious for " first blood," pushed on
ahead ; my companion pushed on ahead of me again ;
I followed him up, and it ended in our getting very
near to her den, which, however, was concealed from
us by a jutting shoulder of rock, round which the
path wound. If we had exerted our ingenuity to
find a bad place, we could not have done much better,
for the projecting rock cut off all further view, and
gave the bear the best chance in the world for ad-
vancing under its cover, and then making a sudden
dash at us, with the least possible exposure to our
fire. Immediately under the point where we stood
the fall to our right hand was for a short distance mo-
derately sloping, fringed with bushes, and bearing one
small tree, in which my companion, like a wise man,
instantly ensconced himself, thereby gaining the double
advantage of being able in some degree to see round the
corner, and of being out of the beast's way. I stood
right in her path, to the great disgust of my shi-
karry, who thought long shots by far the pleasantest
way of fighting, but who, in the execution of his
duty, was bound to stand close behind me with the
spare guns. For some time we;waited in a dead silence;
then rose the yells of the beaters, strangely echoed
back from the projecting mountain side in our rear
and the deep ravine beneath, out of which they seemed
to come surging and whirling in strange tumult, so
loud that I could scarcely help believing that; they
really were men yelling.
I bad before this been in at the death of several
bears, but had never seen one charge, and conse-
quently had no very clear idea of its style of execut-
ing this performance, beyond an idea which I had
picked up from books and pictures, that on ap-
proaching within a moderate gun shot it would
rear itself on its hind legs, and waddle up to me
after the fashion of a tipsy man, with the in-
tention of " hugging," thereby giving me every
leisure and convenience for taking a cool shot.
Fortunately, I was not so persuaded of this fact as to
neglect to cock all barrels, and to keep my finger
on the trigger of my rifle, and my eyes rather anxi-
ously fixed on the turn of the path. Suddenly my
companion fired, and I heard two savage grunts round
the corner ; still, for a second or two—two very long,
unpleasant seconds—l saw nothing. All at once my
shikarry, in no end of a fright, sang out, " Mar, mar,
sahib " Fire, fire, sir !" and a great bear dashed
on to the path at a hard gallop, grunting furiously.
She came so suddenly, and charged so savagely, that I
had barely time to fire my rifle and fling it down before
she was close on me; another spring or two would have
brought her to close quarters, when I snatched my
second gun from my shikarry, and took a regular snap
shot at her head. One does not very clearly know
how things happen on such occasions, but Ido not
believe that I even had the butt of the gun to my
shoulder, but just threw it out like a great horse-
pistol and fired; and at the same time making a
step sideways, to carry me clear of her charge, I
lost my footing, and went scrambling and tumbling
into the bushes which fringed the lower side
of the path. In the midst of my down-
fall, however, I just cast a glance at the
bear ; saw her, on receiving the shot, contract her-
self convulsively into a ball, and, with loud grunts,
go rolling head over heels down the slope, bound-
ing from one projection to another like a great bundle
of dirty clothes, till she went clean out of sight. My
next glance was at my shikarry, who bad preceded
me in the tumble into the bushes. I caught a glimpse
of his face before the delightful expression had worn
off—his great cavernous mouth wide open in huge
horror, the long bristles of his moustache standing
straight on end, and his little eyes nearly starting out
of his head—he looked like the frightful hairy Jack-in-
the-box, all mouth, teeth, and bristles, that they some-
times sell in London toy-shops. We lost no time in get-
ting into the ravine below to ascertain the fate of the bear,
and found her quite dead, just where she had fallen.
with her upper jaw smashed by the concussion. Both
my bullets had struck ; the first had been too low,
had raked her along the belly, and lodged under the
skin ; the second had entered behind the head and
gone completely through the neck, coming out at
the throat. She had two cubs, they said ; one we
caught, a little savage beast, about as big as a
terrier dog, who made the forest echo again with
squalls that would have beaten out of sight the
united screams of all the parrots in the Zoological
Gardens.
I confess that, on this occasion, I was not very far
from being, as the natives assured me, " eaten ;' and
it was not the only time when I escaped more by good
luck than good management ; but, nevertheless, I be-
lieve that of all big and savage game, a bear is the
one which can be encountered with the most safety,
and which requires the least amount of good shoot-
ing on the part of the hunter ; that is, if he can
only make sure of his own coolness and steadi-
ness ; if he cannot do that, he had better stay at
home, or, at any rate, never trust himself out of a
tree. Some animals are so hard to kill that a ball,
unless administered with the utmost exactness, pro-
duces for the time being no effect ; and they are, at
the same time, so swift in pace, and crushing in
weight and size, that few men would have the nerve
to let them charge up within the very short distance at
which alone a bad shot could, with any certainty,
reckon upon putting his ball where he wanted.
With a bear this is not the case. In his hinder
end he would carry off the fire of a battalion, and
seem rather the better for it, which is one reason
why a "stern chase" after a bear is of even more
than the proverbial length ; but a ball anywhere in
the neck or chest floors him at once ; and though his
charge is as savage as that of a bull-dog, neither
his speed nor size are such as to prevent the hunter
from letting him come within a few yards of the
muzzle before giving the last shot. If he should fail
in that, and still come out of the scrape unhurt, he
may consider himself a very clever or a very lucky
fellow.

I once, and only once, saw a bear show decided
want of " pluck;" once, too, though I did not
actually see it, I knew beyond all doubt, of a
wounded bear, in the very act of closing with a
hunter, being turned by a dig on the snout from
the muzzle of the gun. The first instance was a
most clear case of faint-heartedness. I and an
army of beaters had beleaguered a small patch of
forest, in which two bears were lying. One
of them was dislodged in front of me, and seeing me
in his path, stood and gazed for a moment, as a bear
usually does, and then, breaking into a canter, came
down at the pas de charge in the most valiant way in
the world. There happened at the moment to be a
good many scattered beaters about, and I was just
in the act of calling to them to clear the way and
let him come on, when, to my amazement, the brute
pulled short up in his charge, began ramping and
jumping and roaring at us, with much the air of a
bullying cowardly dog, who barks and jumps without
any intention of really attacking, and then quietly
turning tail, trundled back by the way he came. I
was so much taken aback by this performance that I
had not the wit to fire till he had got his troupe well
turned towards me; I then sent a volley after him,
which may have nettled, but certainly did not stop
him; and he not only had the baseness to run away, but
further, to save his life and get clear off by so doing.

STATE OF -TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—An improvement in the
weather affording a better prospect of a full crop of
cotton, appears to have rendered the market dull at
New York, and rather in favour of buyers in the
south, particularly at New Orleans, where the arri-
vals of new cotton are heavy, and where opinion
is becoming favourable to a crop equal in
magnitude to that of last year. During
the last day or two business was unfavourably
influenced by advices from Liverpool of the Bth Sep-
tember, showing an increased desire to sell, but a di-
minished disposition to buy. The buoyancy which
showed itself up to last evening in the Liverpool
cotton market is evidently checked by these accounts,
but no change is reported in prices. The effect in
our own market is a somewhat subdued
tone of business as compared with last week,
—a disposition among the buyers to hold
back, in the expectation of some little advan-
tage in price. Beyond this there is no change in
the least degree unfavourable to prices ; and it does
not amount to more than a quieter state of things
than we had to report in our last publication. The
spinners of mule yarns for the east do not flinch from
the advance previously required ; no abatement is
made from the full rates of Saturday for warps and
cops ; and the producers of reeled water twist will not
relinquish the small fraction which was last week re-
covered. The firmness of the yarn department of our
market remains, therefore, unimpaired. Indeed, for the
finer spinnings, from Sea Island cotton, the quota-
tions have been again advanced to-day. The Ame-
rican advices have affected goods in a less degree than
yarns. There continues to be a good general de-
mand, fully sustaining the previous rates in general,
and imparting a hardening tendency to those of some
descriptions. The accounts from India, which are on
the whole favourable, as will be seen by the extracts,
have led to an increase of transactions in shirt-
ings, madapollams, and jacconets, as well as in yarns,
and to some improvement in prices.
ROCHDALE, MONDAY.--We have bad but a dull
and inactive market to-day. The manufacturershants
re-
_e advance
re-
fuse to sell at their former prices,
and the merchants
are unwilling, except in few cases, to
required to leave them a remunerating
t profit.h The
price of wool remains firm and the manufacturers
purchase sparingly. The attendance in our
HALIFAX, SATURN&
piece-hall to-day has,
beoern, veryL slender ; and but few
worsted goods of any
loave been disposed of.
The demand for for Germany u
yarn ermany is languid, and,
although the spinners
are fully employed, it is at
rates which are not adequately remunerative. The
transactions in wool have been more extensive ; and
an advance in the quotations has been established,
equal to the ye advance asked by the growers.
t not
HoenERBFIELD, advance
has been a fair
amount of business done in our market to-day, chiefly
in seasonable goods for the winter markets. We have
bad a quantity of buyers in the town, and on the
whole a good business has been done. The ware-
houses have been pretty well employed during the
week. Most of the shippers are beginning to be
busy.

I once failed in bringing down a charging bear at
close quarters, and escaped untouched ; ,partly, I
imagine, because the bear, although not dropped by
the shot, felt :himself severely hit and his strength
failing; partly from sheer good luck. We were in
pursuit of a bear in a large thickly-wooded valley,
hemmed in by mountain-sides and hill-tops, and were
posted so as to command two passes, which, at about
a gun-shot distance from each other, formed
the only means of egress from one end of
the valley. We had been compelled to
choose our own posts, for our shikarrries were
down in the valley with the beaters, and our chief
guide, the village patel, a most unwarlike character,
who used to amuse us by shaking from bead to foot
as if in an ague-fit whenever he got within hail of a
bear, had shown himself utterly inefficient. For
some time we watched the operations of the natives
below, and at length had the pleasure of seeing
the bear get up just out of shot, in rear of the
line of beaters, out of a piece of jungle which
they had beaten carelessly, and quietly walk off to
the far end of the valley, where there was another
pass. My companion, who had with him several
village guides, bolted off in pursuit. I, although not
a rifle •shot off, was impeded by a deep
narrow ravine
choked with dry prickly bushes, which detained me
so long that before I could get clear of it he was out
I had brought with me from cantonments,
of sight. My gun-carriers were, unfortunately, all
andme ranwwehoinconsequently as little acquainted with the
jungle as myself, 80 that I had nothing left but to
follow at a venture in the direction the bear had
taken, choosing what bore the greatest resemblance
to a path, and keeping a course along the steep hill-
sides which bounded the valley, half•way between top
and bottom.
My path, as jungle paths taken at random usually
do, soon vanished, and left me climbing amongst rocks
and thorns to such a disagreeable extent that I gave
up the pursuit as hopeless, and struck down for
bottom of the valley, hoping to get on better
deeperg I
considerable'
In this I was grievously disappointed ; the
more
plunged into the jungle, the thickermy
way
with the
fainter cries of
andround.
to grow
impassable I found it ; and after making
with much labour and pains over
tract of ground in pursuit
the beaters, which began
fainter in the distance,
quiteu r
sick
following
I"me
tothicket, aregular
a f thornyher
stand-still in front of
seemed effectually to stop tI was
the
bs which, made, as I imagine,
deceitful jungle pat , have
at my wits' end, and being
by wild beasts, seemed to nave an especiai talent for
going round and round, and leading
into a thick bush, I quietly sat down, and set my
gun-carrier
to holioa for assistance to the look-outs
perched on the hill-tops. They heard us, and in the
obliging manner peculiar to the gentle Hindoo, hol-
loaed in return, but not a step did they move,towards us,
and finally, as the bear pursued his course, they walked
off in the same direction, leaving us to take care of
ourselves. By this time the cries of the beaters had
sunk into silence, and I, in an awful state of mind,
hot, dirty, scratched, and almost visibly smoking with
mingled heat and wrath, began to think of laboriously
cutting my way up to a bill-top, and thence striking
for the tents. As a last effort, however, to rejoin the
hunt, I Went viciously at_the thorny thicket, knife in

ELAYS IN THE COURT or CHANcEity.—The new
Act " To Amend the Practice and Course of Proceeding in
the High Court of Chancery" will remove several causes of
delay which have hitherto obstructed suits in equity, espe-
cially with regard to having all parties before the Court, and
also as to hills of revivor and supplemental bills on the
death, marriage, &c., of any of the parties. By the 61st
section of the 15th and 16th Victoria, c. e 6, the Court may
decide between some of the parties without making others
interested parties to the suit. In case of abatement (by
another provision), by marriage, or otherwise, the Court
may make an order which shall have the same effect as a
bill of revivor or supplemental bill. The order SO made is
to have the effect of making the persons named parties to
the suit without the delay of a supplemental bill. There
is another clause to prevent supplemental bills. New facts,
after the commencement of a suit, need not be stated in a
supplemental bill, but may be introduced as amendments.

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FREE-TRADE PiticEs.—There was lately sold a
large farm in Anglesea at for-four, and an extensive landed
fort'
estate in Carnarvonshire at thirty-four years' purchase upon
rack rents. Cattle and store sheep change hands at prices
that quite satisfy the sellers. One extensive corn grower in
Anglesea last week sold all his wheat at 475. The corn crops
are unusually good, and, generally speaking, well secured.
It was reported last Friday week that the average return of
70 acres of wheat grown upon Ty Newydd, the property of
Colonel Pennant, was 61/2 quarters per acre. In the face of
such facts, surely no one can have the hardihood to maintain
that free trade has destroyed all agricultural prosperity.--i
Carnarvon Alerald.

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