The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-31 00:00:00

THE MI

(RESTS.

(Front the Inverness Courier.)

We have little to add to the reports from the
moors and forests which we have already given,.
The sport is generally above an average. Disease
is an exception, and its prevalence is very irregular.
For instance, the following statement refers to a
shooting soath of the canal, where the disease was
expected, and is the midst of an affected district—
" Our grouse, as I expected, are numerous, and very
good and healthy. We have been out six days,
two guns shooting together, and have killed
on an average each day 23 brace of grouse,
besides hares and small game, including four
brace of woodcocks in one day. Black game
is a little better than last year ; the grouse are very
strong." (►n the other hand, some very unfavour-
able accounts have been published. We observe by
a letter in the Pie/4/ that Captain Horatio Ross lays

it down as an invariable rule that disease recurs at
regular inter vals of 7 years. The experience of the
last few years, and particularly of the current sea-
-800, in this neighbourhood, does not warrant any
such position, as disease has appeared and disap-
vkmacyteespteel
rerstytteor which Captain
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orpeared in this county with an irregularity and
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alleges baffled
against. sportsmen and
likely to be the case, namely, that few people
whatl ilia a vperriy:
know at the commencement of an attack when the
birds are diseased. lie says, "If I see even one
feather near the tail of a particular colour, I
certain to find the worm in some part of the ain
en-
trails. I have seen my keeper wrong a dozen times
this year. He has fancied the bird all right, and
on dissecting it it was diseased." By accumulation
of minute evidence of this sort something may be
ultimately discovered which may throw light on
the subject,
Among notes of sport we have received the fol-
lowing :—At Easter Kyllachy, Mr. Kidston and
Mr. Ellis shot 32 brace of grouse on Monday week ;
231 brace on Wednesday ; and on Thursday 18
brace. On Monday, 24th inst., Mr. E. A. Latham,
M.P., Mr. Tew, Coul Cottage ; Mr. Fenton, and
Mr. Macleod of Cadboll, shot 49 brace of grouse,
1 snipe and 4 hares, on the Alness moors. Mr.
Fraser, of Bunchrew, at Upper Duman, on the 12th
bagged 16 brace of grouse, and on the 14th, 16f
brace. On Thursday Major Wardlaw of Bel-
maduthy shot 9 brace of grouse and 2 black game.
Up to Monday Messrs. Bulteel and Hartman, at
Dunmaglass, shot 320 brace of grouse ; and up to
Tuesday Messrs. Macdonald, Morris, and Mackil-
lop had bagged, at Wyvis, 450 brace.
A correspondent, writing from Ballater, says—

Your sporting readers will, no doubt, like to hear

that the finest stag ever seen in this part of the
Grampians was killed on the 11th by Mr. Naylor
Leyland, on Ben-na-Bard, which is part of the
forest belonging to the shooting of Corindaven
Lodge. It had a fine clean head of 15 points, and
was a remarkably heavy animal. Mr. Naylor
Leyland's sport since he has been down is as fol-
lows :—August 11, two stags, one of eight, the other
of 15 points, both with clean heads. 12th, 19 brace
of grouse and 2 hares, in two hours' shooting.
13th, 41 brace of grouse, in an afternoon's
shooting. The grouse are plentiful and well grown ;
and there are more clean heads in the forest than I
ever remember at so early a period of the season.
This shooting has been rented for the last 20 years
by Captain Leyland, who shoots it every season."
Lord Cowper arrived at Cluny Lodge, Glenmoris-
ton, on the 20th, and has already had good sport.
On the 22d he brought down two stags. On Fri-
day the Hon. H. Cowper killed three stags. Up
to Saturday last Captain Horatio Ross and
party had 22 stags. The Earl of Stamford shot
at Kinrara a fine stag with a head of 11 tines ; Sir
A. Chichester, Bart., one at Glenelg ; and Mr. H.
Akroad, Aultnaharra, two stags, one of which had a
fine royal head: these four heads have been for-
warded to Mr. W. A. Macleay, bird-stuffier, for pre-
servation. Oa Monday, at Guisachan, Mr. Majori-
banks succeeded in bringing down a stag with a
head of eight points. Mr. Basset also shot one at
Kinlochewe. The animal had a beautiful head of
11 long, beautiful tines; the horns which were
of 32 inches span, were perfectly clear of
velvet. Thu other day at Lockmore, Colonel Baker
brought down a fine stag with a head of eight
points. At Invereshie, on Tuesday, Henry Chap-
lin, Esq., shot a large stag, with a royal head of
the following dimensions, viz. :—Span, 31 inches ;
length, 34i inches ; thickness, 51, inches. The whale
of the 12 tines are very long and much tapered, and
the surface of the antlers is as rough as those of
a wood deer. The head has been sent to Mr.
Snowie to be preserved. At Guisachan, on Friday,
Mr Pullenie shot a stag while on a visit to Mr. 1).
C. Marjoribanks ; Mr. J. G. Leigh brought down
a fine animal with a royal bead at Strathconon ;
Lord Lovat and the Master of Lovat shot five stage
in Glenstrathfarar last week.

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Constantinople journals to the 20th have reached
us. According to letters of the same date, Turkey
is determined to guard a strict neutrality in refer.
ence to any political complications that may arise
in Europe. The Sultan was present the day before
at a regatta held on the Bosphorus, but no details
of what took place are given.
A new congress has commenced its sittings in
Germany. That of the lawyers assembled at Mentz'
500 members being present. The number will, it
is expected, be considerably increased before the
termination of the sittings, as any one provided with
the diploma of an advocate has a right to attend.
The duration of the assembly win not be more than
five days.
TAXES UPON ENJOYMENTS.—In the financial year
ending with March, 1863, tax vas paid upon 343,285
of the dogs of Great Britain ; the amount paid was £205,785.
More than this number of dogs travelled by railway in the
course of the year—that is, counting as one every journey of
a dog. Tax was paid in the year upon 571,189 horses, the
amount reaching £384,641; of this sum £179,295 was for
170,757 horses used for riding and for drawing taxable car.
riages, £71,421 for 136,041 horses used by farmers, clergy.
men, and surgeons, £100,597 for 191,613 horses used in
trade, and £33,328 for horses of all these classes not exceed-
ing 13 bands. Duty amounting to £6,422 was paid also
upon 1,668 racehorses. The tax upon carriages (other than
hackney and stage carriages) produced £350,083; it was
paid upon 269,443 carriages. The sum of £209,896 was paid
as tax for keeping servants ; the taxable servants were
245,380 in number; 939 persons paid tax for using hair
powder, the duty amounting to £1,203 ; and 48,995 persons
paid £60,086 for using armorial bearings. All these taxes
are confined to Great Britain, and unknown in Ireland.
The produce of all is increasing, except in the instance of
hair powder. The produce of the duty on gold and silver
plate is declining ; last year it brought only £67,354. The
tax paid on cards and dice fell to £9,269, but may recover
under the new mode of taxation. Game certificates and
licences produced but £128,415.
CHARGE OF MURDER ARISING OUT OF A DREAM.
—The man named Gurrety, who has been
in the
custody of the Liverpool police for the last week, has been
discharged, there being ne evidence to support the charge
of murder preferred against him. The circumstances under
which the man was taken into custody were moat extraor-
dinary. A woman named Heckle, with whom the prisoner
cohabited, dreamed that ho shot a man in Ireland, and
shortly afterwards the prisoner told her that he had shot a
magistrate named Bell in Ireland eighteen years ago. An
Irish detective officer stationed in Liverpool happened to
have a copy of the _Hue and a y, in which a murder corre-
sponding iu its details with the one described by the prisoner
was mentioned. The real murderer,
however, is much.
older than Getrety, and his hair is of a different colour,