The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-29 00:00:00

The Moors and Forests in Scotland.

Our reports from the hills are gradually decreasing in
numbers and importance, but the extreme wet and stormy
weather of the last week sufficiently accounts for this.
Grouse are not scarce ; they are, however, very wild, and
difficult to find them within gunshot. The forests are well
stocked, but few deer.stalkers have ventured out for some
days past. Sport, however, has been obtained, as will be
seen from the following notes :

The following is a note of game killed on the Dalnawillau
and Dorrery moors prior to the sth inst., viz. :—Grouse, 624
head ; hares, 43 ; snipe, 39 ; golden plover, 4; wild ducks,
4. On Saturday week Captain Marshall shot a white grouse
on the Glencallater moors.

In Perthshire, the great majority of sportsmen have
abandoned grouse-shooting for the season, after a months
good sport on the principal moors, and generally there
has been a good stock left for breeding. On the shooting-
grounds where sport is still continued considerable num-
bers of grouse and other game are killed daily. On the
Drummond Castle moors, on Wednesday, Mr. Knightlysho t
10i brace of grouse and 1 brace of blackcock. On the
moors of Findocb, on Wednesday, Mr. Hall shot a number
of grouse, 8 brace of partridges, and 4 hares. On the banks
of the Earn and other districts, where the grain fields have
been cleared, excellent sport has been enjoyed at partridge
shooting. On Thursday a party of three guns bagged bh
brace of partridges and 25 hares ; and on Friday one gentle-
man shot 13 brace of partridges and 4 hares. In Strathtay,
Strathearn, Strathallan, and other districts of the county,
the stock of partridges is unusually plentiful, and the birds
are in fine condition. Pheasant shooting opens next week,
and the prospects in many preserves are highly encourag.
ing, the broods numbering from 12 to 16 birds each.
Down to the 7th inst. Lord Galway and son shot 11 stags
at Langwell, in this county, in addition to capturing 14
beautiful salmon. Last week Capt. Marshall brought down.
another stag in Glencallater forest. Col. R. Farquharson ,
of I nvercauld , on Monday week brought down two fine stag,
and one on Tuesday. The latter possessed a beautiful head.
Mr. H. Snowie,Chureh-street, Inverness,notwithetanding
the very unfavourable weather which has been experienced,
has received a number of stags' heads for preservation since
our last report. J. G. Leigh, Eq., forwarded a very fine
head of 10 tines—the animal weighing 18st.—and also a
royal head, taken from a stag of 19st. The Earl of Dudley
also sent one the span of which was 25 inches, length of
horn 32 inches, and girth 6 inches ; the head bore 13 tines.
A fine head of 10 tines was also received from Col. Baker,
,
Lochmore; two were sent by J. F. Basset,EN Kinlochewe,
one of them a splendid royal ; a fine roe head from the Hon.
F. T. Freke ; a second from Col. Fraser ; and a third from
Lord March, Gordon Castle.
Within the past week Mr. W.
A. Mackay, Church-Bt.,
has received 13 capital stags' heads,
sent for preservation
—two of them from the Earl of Seafield ; one from the
Rev, T. J. Prout, at Sir J. Stuart's Lochcarron ; one from
Mr. Fitzgerald, Braemare; and two from Mr. Hutchinson,
Rticlarroch ; also, two very beautiful roebucks' heads front
Cawdor Castle.

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He hos the flag cap-
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FATAL SACRIFICE.—Apropos of " outing out the
poetry," so much dreaded by poetic dramatists, I
may tell a story of an author, now deccasvd. He was a
regular writer for the theatres, but had not yet ventured on
such high flights as tragedy. One day he said to his
manager, " I'm going to say something—l know you'll
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which I should like you to see." He was asked to send it ;
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My dear —, Ot all the prepostorous things I ever read,
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feelings in the tenderest point, and then tries to wipe it out
with the dirty bribe of a dinner. However, I went. He
told me to cut out all the poetry, and send it to Astley's.
I did ; and it ran a hundred nights. So you see what a piece
it must have been."—" Cornhill Magazine" for October, just
published,