The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-22 00:00:00

GAME.

Mr. Wright, bead gamekeeper to the Earl of Galloway,
reports to a friend as follows respecting his beat, one of
the most extensive in the south of Scotland :—l'artradges
on dry sharp land, a fair average crop, in good condition
as to size aid weight, while on wet ground they are not
only scarce in number, but small in size. Among the
extensive wilds of Miunigaff, which he has traversed
many a time and oft for the last ten years, be never met
with so many diseased grouse in all his experience. he
murrain, on examination, is evidently tape-worm, how-
ever contracted. The birds thus weakened are easily
obtained, although of little work; while healthy heath-
cocks are packed iniflocks of a hundred and upwards—.
their favourite resort being the patches of corn crop
growing among the moors. When in Minnigatf so late
as the sth curt., he found the tendency to packing ibr
mutual protection increased and increasing. Pheasants
are plentiful, well grown, and form a great ornament to
the woodlands of Galloway. Of hares no complaint is
made, whether of the smaller mountain breed, or the
larger which inhabit the plains below. During the whole
season the grass lands have thriven, greening apace,
even while other kinds of vegetation either remained
stationary or retrograded. Hence the number and
plumpness of the mawkins which, in stealing at dawn on
their early fare, are not necessitated, as yet, to make
marauding visits to kali-yards green. Mr. Wright has
about fifty young pheasants running about his doors, as
tame as the chickens with which they associate. But
they will be planted out by and by to their native
woods, there to shift for themselves, and increase the
number of beautifully plumaged breeders which had
become rather scarce in the noble pleasure grounds
around Galloway House. From the above it will be
observed that the south, as regards grouse, contrasts
rather unfavourably with the north of Scotland, where
so many notable feats of sportsmanship have been per-
formed since the campaign opened, some of which ar©
recorded in our present number. It seldom happens
in our varying climate that the weather suits alike
every description of cropping ground ; and the re-
mark, we suppose, extends to the winged tribes taken
under the protection of Acts of Parliament. Nor is
this all. The game on some Highland estates, includ-
ing deer, pays proprietors better than sheep—an advan-
tage that calls into action the most vigilant protection,
in maintenance of the character of the sportsman's
rounds. During the present season footpaths have been
shut up and guarded by game-keepers, previously open
to pedestrian tourists time out of mind, when in quest
of health, and the pleasurable emotions derived from
scenery by turns picturesque, sublime, and romantic.
And should these things be ? chiefly that such crack
shots as Mr. Campbell, of Monzie, may kill more than
200 head of game in one day, aided by servants, some
of whom keep relays of guns constantly loaded, while
others beat the bush in search of coveys, taking care
that not even fragments of time are lost. Such per-
formances are but battue work at best—wholesale
slaughtering, which is not the legitimate object of sport-
ing, compared to the health and strength gentlemen
fowlers acquire in threading the moors, by trusting
simply to the instincts of their dogs, and their own in-
dividual efforts.—Dumfries Courier.

ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAIre--
An accident occurred to the boiler of the engine attached
to the mail train, which left Paddington on Sunday
night for Exeter, between the Paddington terminus and
the Hanwell station, causing a stoppage of upwards of
an hour. The up luggage train, however, arriving with
two engines, one was got upon the down line and at-
tached to the mail train, which then proceeded safely on
its journey.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY A FEMALE FROM A
STEAMBOAT.—Yesterday afternoon, between three and
four o'clock, great consternation was caused on board the
Jessamine, belonging to the London and Westminster
Steamboat Company, and plying between London and
Westminster Bridges, in consequence of an elderly,
respectably-dressed woman jumping overboard, when the
boat was between Paul's-wharf and Blackfriars-bridge.
The Bachelor steam-boat passing at the time, the cap-
tain, after some trouble, succeeded in rescuing her, and,
upon arriving at the Blackfriars-bridge Pier, gave her
in custody. She stated that her name was Beach, and
resided in Chester-place, Herbert's-buildings, Webber-
street, Blackfriars-road. Thirty-four duplicates were
found upon her, some of which were for the most trifling

REMARKABLE PHENOMENON.—The sea, at a short
distance from the coast here, has presented some re-
markable appearances during the present week. On
Tuesday last, about four o'clock in the afternoon, about
low water, the sea, for about thirty yards from the
shore, and along the coast from the Cove to the bay of
Nigg, appeared of a purple colour, and continued to
darken as the afternoon advanced. Our informant, who,
with a large number of fishermen, observed the appear-
ance, thinking it might arise from any reflection of the
sky went out in a boat and examined the water. To his
astonishment, he found the boat actually in a sea of
purple, and the water of a glutinuous nature, containing
so much colouring matter that it actually died red what-
ever object it touched. No effluvia could be perceived
arising from the water. As the tide rose the coloured
water packed closer in shore, and continued to become
darker and darker. Next afternoon, the same appear-
ances were observed to occur, but not to such an sx-
tent. We wish some of our scientific friends Wild
afford us a clue to the cause of this phenomenon. Nothijig
of the kind seems ever to have been observed in this
quarter before, although, perhaps, in other place llech
appearances may have been witnessed. We may state
that, on Monday, the fishermen between this and the
Cove observed the sea, at about seventy or eighty yards
from the shore, breaking out in dark spots, which may
be supposed to have multiplied and magnified till they
presented the appearance above-mentioned.—Aberdeen
Herald.

DURHAM.—A MINER'S FUNERAL.— A distressing
scene is described by a correspondent as having taken
place on Tuesday evening, in the graveyard, St. John's,
Weardale. The body of J. Kidd, a ma,sterman washer,
and a man highly esteemed by all the miners for honesty,
sobriety, and orderly behaviour, was to be interred. The
Rev. J. Green, the curate, sent word to the friends of
the deceased that he would not allow him to be carried
into the church, as he had died of fever. His medical
attendant then certified that the disease of which he had
died was non-contagious; on which the reverend gentle-
man answered, that as the deceased never came to church
when alive, but did all he could to oppose it, he would
not allow him to come in when dead. The relations and
friends, not wishing for any unpleasantness on the occa-
sion, sent for the lter. W. Eckersell to perform a cere-
mony over the corpse before it was removed from home;
after which they moved with the coffin to the grave,
wishful to dispense with the latter part of the service,
as they were denied the first. When they got to the
grave they immediately placed it in the coffin, and com-
menced to fill it, on which the reverend gentleman in-
sisted that he should be allowed to perform his duty.
The men respectfully answered, that as he had refused
the whole duty, they would not have a part performed.
The gentleman, evidently greatly excited, called on a
policeman who happened to be present, to support him
in his duty; whereupon the mass of the people imme-
diately retired. and left the gentleman to finish his self-
abridged rites. Though he only performed half his
work, he claimed full pay—and the friends gave it.
It was a heart-rending scene to see the the widow with
her three children hanging over the grave, surrounded
by scores of the miners, while this altercation was
going forward. The excitement among the miners is
very great.
PADDY OUTWITTED.—On Monday morning a poor
Patlander went into the Gorbals Police-office, Glasgow,
to complain in the first place that he had been robbed
of six pair of shoes and one pair of boots, and in the
next place to solicit for himself a pass by NN hich as a
pauper he might be conveyed home to Ireland. He made
the latter application because he was starving, and had
not a single farthing in the wide world to help him.
Lieutenant Reid being on duty, at once proceeded to in-
vestigate the facts of the case, and in so doing asked
Paddy to lay down a large bundle he held in his hand,
to see it none of the lost shoes were contained in it.
This the complainer declined to do, at the same time
declaring on his honour it contained nothing of any
value whatever. After some discussion Paddy was in-
duced to give up the bundle, which being opened was
found to contain two bags, a milk jug, a considerable
quantity of horses' harness, and other articles, the pro-
perty of Mr. James Gray, farmer, Mains by Cathcart,
from whom they had been stolen. It seems Paddy had
been employed by Mr. James Gray at the harvest,
which accounted for his possession of the property in
question. Not being able to give any satisfactory ac-
count of how he came by these articles, he was detained
for examination. Previous to being locked up, Paddy'a
clothes were examined (much against his inclination),
when a purse tumbled out containing one sovereign in
gold and thirty-five shillings in silver. On this the man
who had been robbed, and was starving, and wished a
pass to take him home to Ireland, was passed into the
custody of the house constable, who brought him before
the sitting magistrate on Tuesday morning, by whom he
was ordered to be transmitted to the sheriff of Renfrew-
shire.—Edinburgh Advertiser.
LAUNCH OF THE "JOHN WESLEY."--We under-
stand that Wednesday next, the 23d inst., has been
finally fixed upon as the day for the launch of the new
ship which has been built by Messrs. White, of Cowes,
for the use of the Wesleyan Methodist Missions in New
Zealand, and in the Friendly and Fejee
Watchman.

ELECTION OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE COURT Or
REQUESTS, WESTMINSTER.—Yesterday the annual ap-
pointment of resident householders to act as Commis-
sioners for the Westminster Court of Requests for tho
ensuing year took place. The parish of St. Martin's-in-
the Fields appointed 40 ; St. Soho, 24 ; St. Paul,
Covent-garden, 20 ; bt• Clement 's
Danes, 24 ; and St.
Mary-le-Strand, 12.
REMOVAL OF THE CONVICT SMITH TO THE MILL*
BANK Ynisox.—ln the course of the afternoon of Satur-
day Mr. Cope, the Governor of Newgate, received from
the home-office a reprieve, and also the order of removal
to the Millbank-prison, for John Smith,
who was tried
and found guilty of the wilful murder of Susan Tolliday ,
at the Guildhall Coffee-house,
August. on Saturday, the Ist