The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-14 00:00:00

SPORTING-THIS DAY.

READING RACES—THIS DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
EAST HAMPSTEAD PARK STAKES.
Phemy filly ...................
Bloodhound
......
Flirtation
Five ran.
KINGS MEADOW STARES.
Jaek-in-the-Bor.
................
Parasite
............
...........
Commerce
Five ran. • ..
BERKSHIRE STAKES,

Costa
1
Watchfire
Conqueror
Three ran,
NURSERY PLATE.

Countess
Brother to Scent
3
Hilly Grove .........
Seventeen ran,
STEWARDS' PLATE.

Camperdown
.............
TTurn of Luck,
wilight
Seventeen ran.

PERTHSHIRE 2IfooRS AND FORES7S.

The " twelfth " of 1862 has been as remarkable
as its predecessor, but in a very different way. Last
year the 12th of August was inaugurated with a
perfect deluge of rain, which poured in torrents
during the whole day, so that even with the ordinary
elasticity of sportsmen's spirits on the first day of
their holiday season it could barely be tolerated,
and numbers had to succumb. This year a pro-
found stillness—a deep impressive quietness—per-
vaded all nature. Tuesday morning dawned
amidst fog and haze, which enveloped the hit
sides and valleys in a universal gloom. Not a breath
of wind, but a damp moist atmosphere gave every-
thing a cheerless aspect. Every blade of grass was
bending beneath a heavy dew drop, and later a Scotch
mist, which is so distasteful to Englishmen, wel-
comed them to their heather heights in the High.
lands. Nevertheless shooting parties were out early.
Never was there a new year's morning so eager:ly
hailed, after the clock had struck 12, than is the Il2th
of August among sportsmen. Many Ittra touched
a couch on Monday night. The enemy was em-
ployed in making the usual extens'lve preparations
for the campaign of the follow;ng day. Gans and
ammunition were carefully prepared and laid ready
to take up. The dogs themselves seem to have scent
of the coming day, and, amidst the bustle which
pervades the shooting lodge, manifest their impa-
tience with a growl. Occasionally, as the night ad-
vances, there is an examination of the barometer.
Twelve strikes, and between that and two many an
eager sportsman is scouring the heather. Owing to
the dulness it was late yesterday before it dawned,
I and it was four o'clock before a shot could be fire‘d.
The atmosphere was light, and towards six o'clock
the temperature rose a little, and the rays of sun-
shine were eagerly looked for te brighten the dark
heather mountains and deep sounding glens, at pre-
sent bearing their most beautiful appearance ; but
this did not occur till near midday. The fog was
very dense in some districts, so that scarcely a shot
could be fired for several hours. As the day advanced
however, it got clear; but there was throughout a
thickness and density in the atmosphere which
spoiled many a good shot. 'We are not yet able to
give any detailed account of the success of the open-
ing day. We have, however, gleaned a few parti-
culars as to the kind of sport anticipated, and of the
coveys as they appeared yesterday on some of the
moors, and on some of the previous days. Since
Monday week the weather has been wet and rainy,
though still there was a high thermometer, which,
of course, has been more favaurabie for the moors.
The want of sunshine has, however, this year been
injurious to the growth of the birds, and we have
had extremely little of it ever since the month of May.
When the hatching season commenced there was an
unusually numerous healthy and promising stock
of old birds. The tapeworm had committed ravages
on some districts and reduced the number of old
birds, but this was not general. Indeed, it has been
observed that in those districts where the disease
prevailed, the birds were in the habit of feeding on
the cornfields last autumn, both before and after
harvest, and it is conjectured that corn is the cause
of the malady, being an unnatural food for them.
'We found, however, this morning the birds very
lively and very wild ; indeed, so wild that it was
with difficulty we could get within 100 yards of
them. It is seldom the broods are so wild at the
commencement of the season. One party of four
bagged 20 brace before 9 o'clock, after five hours'
shooting. 'We have received a message from another
shooting party of two, 'who made 14 brace by seven
o'clock. A party of five, on one of the best moors
in the county, bagged 454 brace before eight o'clock.
These may be taken as samples of the shooting to
be got, which is under the average considerably.
Heavier bags were got last year in the same places
in much less time. A keeper informs us that on
traversing the Athole moor on Saturday, he raised
nearly 80 coveys in three hours ; but they were
smaller than usual, and not in so good condition.
Few of the broods exceeded four young ones, and
some packs of old birds were observed.—North
British Mail.

NORTHERN AND EASTERN RAILWAY—THIS DAY.
—The half-yearly meeting of proprietors was held at one
o'clock, at the company's offices, Bishopsgate-station—Mr.
Richard Paterson in the chair. The directors reported that
the dividend on the respective shares of this company for
the half-year ending the 30th of June last, will become pay-
able on and after Monday, the 25th instant, as follows, viz.
—On shares of £5O guaranteed 5 percent. per annum, £1 ss.
each ; on shares of £5O guaranteed 6 per cent. per annum,
£1 les. each, less property tax. The report was adopted,
and the retiring directors were re-elected.
ICIIARING-CROSS BRIDGE.—(THIS DAY.)--The
half-yearly meeting of the proprietors was held to day at
the company's offices, 9, Villiers-street, Strand ; -Mr. R.
Few in the chair. The report said that the half-year end-
ing 31st July yielded a total revenue of £3,259 ss. sd. with
an expenditure of £1,560 12s. 6d. a leaving
report, £1,698 12s. Ild. The directors ; a net income 03
recommended the deelara-
tmoonvedo ft
the
dividendoa do nof the ort
tio of7s , dp . ,
Per share. The chairman
The journals which was seconded, and
carried unanimously.
town was
of Courtrai state that the cause of
the fire which destroyed the fine oldchurch fSt Martin
650, but was partially in that
The tabernacle, the electric fluid which fell on the wood-
work of the steeple, The
oreconstructed
ruorecthe wasd in
horiginally built i
century.n
has been E 1 which is of carved stone, erected in 1285,
avetl, as well as the pulpit. The spire was
assured for 130,000 fr., and the other parts for 300,000 fr.
A MAN BURIED ALIVE IN A COALPIT.—A dread-
ful colliery accident happened at Mr. N. H. Brancker's
Walthew-house Colliery, near Wigan, on Monday last, by
which one man lost his life. and another received severe in-
juries, which, however, are not expected to prove fatal.
Four men were employed to widen and heighten the main
air way in the Cannel Mine, and were busy at work on
Monday, removing some metal in the centre of the air-
way, when a portion of the roof, 12 feet in length and 3
feet G inches in thickness, suddenly gave way and fell upon
them. Two of the men escaped without receiving any in-
juries, but a dataller, named John Isarkirson, a man about
60 years of age, was buried alive, and another dataller,
named James Sharrock, was buried under the debris for
about half an hour, When he was extricated, and it was
then found that, besides being bruised on various parts of
his body, his left arm was broken above the elbow. Some
length of time elapsed before Parkinson was extricated.
THE INTERNATIONAL EXIIIBITION.—YesterdaY,
as regards attendance, was a good average day at the build-
ing, though not equal to that which preceded it. Up to 5
o'clock the admissions were 56,276, of which 4,511 were by
season tickets, and 51,765 by shilling payments. Their
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Brabant were
admitted at 8 o'clock, and, accompanied by Mr. Linden, re-
mained until late in the afternoon inspecting every portion
of the building. At their request the agent of the \Venham
Lake Ice Companyshowed the operation of the patent
freezing prooess, and in the course of their investigations
the Duke anDuchess took out
d and examined all the chief
skins from the case of Mr. Lillicrap, the fur dealer, includ-
ing,
among others, some extraordinary furs from a cross
breed between the lynx and jaguar, the only hybrid of the
kind, it is said, that has ever been known. Their High"
nesses then visited, in regular succession, all the chief
foreign courts, leaving soon after 3, and expressing their
intention of again returning at 8 o'clock on Friday morn-
ing.

A country boy w
Was going up Westbury a fern
day ago, and
tossing up a couple
a duck, the
' ra.
property of Mr. Miles ran up of sixpences,
and before the boy could
swallowed one of
stop him, the The boy thrashed the
duck, but without inducing it to disgorge, and went away
bewailing his loss,.....eamait's Weekly News,