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London, England, 1846-09-22 00:00:00

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orders, end proceed to the' Medway, and cut out all the
ships in ordi-mry without much risk; the flag-ship at
Sheerness being of no use except to give a passing broad-
side to the steamers employed upon that service, as at
the present poriod there is not h war steamer of sufficient
power to assi-a at that stition. Under these circurn-
stanets Woolwich possesses immense advantages, owing
to the vicinity of the dockyard to the gal rison? and the
great resources of every description at the head-quarters
of the Royal Artillery. It was no doubt desirable to
select the Medway as an eligible situation for ships in
ordinary, before the introduction of steam navigation;
but since the introduction of that power, and the facili-
ties with which vessels of the first rate can be towed to
the Downs from Woolwich, the advantages and security
of the letter naval depot are unquestionable, and have
attracted a great share of attention om the part of the
authorities, who appear now to be actively engaged in
the adoption of measures which cannot fail to be of the
utmost importance to the country.

SPORTING IN THE HIGHLANDS.
" Did you ever see finer weather?" is the constant
remark of sportsmen; and certainly few can remember
s.) many weeks pass over with to tree a shower to wet
a jacket or gun. Be the days fair or wet, however,
grouse do get wild; and by the middle of September
grouse shooting is a different kind of sport from that
during the first week, when dogs go straight to the
coveys, rousing the birds in a compact cluster. Later
in the month, they have to maintain a quick pace to
keep up with the running broods, which often give dogs
and men a march bofore a shot is fired. This is a
" great fact;" but still the sportsman who r%nges over
the flat, round the hill side, and up and .down all the
chclivities_ of his moor, can, in many places, carry home
his twenty or thirty brace of full-grown birds; and we
know of the larger number being more than doubled in
one day of late. Deer-stalking has not, on the whole,
given an average number. The noble animals have been
greatly molested by swarms of flies, which abound in their
retreats in thehot weather, causing the stags to leave
the corries and take to mountain ridges, where the bails
whistle round them in vain ; for only the stalker's skill
and patience can bring his rifle within shooting distance.
In the forest of Achnacarry, we hear that Mr. Tomline
and friends have killed 11 stags. At Glengary, Lord
Hatherton, Mr. Littleton, and Mr. Ellice; shot 2 stags
and five roe deer in one day. On Monar Hills, H. W.
White, Esq , shot a couple of stags, one of them with
large wide-spre4d horns. Oa the 10th instant, Lord
Claude Hamilbei shot a stag in the forest of Lochlui-
ehart ; and on the 11th, Sir James J. R. Mackenzie,
Baronet, killed a stag with ten antlers, in fine condition.
At Garve, a red deer and a roe were shot by A. W.
Mackenzie, Esq., yr. of Ord ; aho alund and roebuck by
others of the same party. At Rhidarroch, Mr. Hay
Mackenzie of Crom,:rtie shot a very fine stag, which
weighed, when ch aned, 22 st. 9 lbs., and possessed a
very handsome royal head of antlers. On the sth inst.,
Sir St. George Gore, Bart., captured near Inverbroom
the largest and finest stag ever seen on the grounds. At
Stra.thvaich, Sir St. George shot in one day lately 90
brace of grouse, a snipe, and 2 hares; and on the 7th,
76} brace of grouse and 5 hares. A roebuck, with horns
curiously differing from the natural form, was shot
lately by Mr. Petre, Scatwell. The horns are full-sized
and completely palmated—the front and back antlers,
including the centre one, being a solid mass of bone. A
very beautiful specimen of fallow deer was killed the
other day by Robert Reid, Ezq., Castle Leod. The
head had eiehteen branches, and was a rare trophy of
a variety of deer nearly extinct in this part of the
country.—lnverness Courier.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

3flN-CHESFER, SEPTEMBER 21

STOCK ExcirexcE.--The sales are—Birmingham and Dudley, 1%
p.—Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North Wales, 1 4 dis.—Blackburn,
Darwen. and Bolton, % dis. —Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham,
9s. 6d. dis.—Eastern Counties, York Extension, 1% p.— East Lan-
cashire (late Blackburn and Preston), 8% c. p.—Edinburgh and
Glasgow,. Halves, 8% p.—Ditto, Quarters, 17% —Huddersfield, Hali-
fax, and Bradford, 2% p.—Leeds and Thirsk, 44 dis.—Leicester
and Bedford, % dis.— Leicester, Tamworth, Coventry, &c., % dis.--
London and Manchester (Rem.), 2 7-16 dis.—Manchester and Leeds
Extension, 1 15-16 p.—Manchester, Midland, and Grimsby, % dis.—
Manchester and Southampton, 74 c. dis.—North Eastern, 1% dis.—
Oldham Districts, 3-16 c. p.—Oldham, Birkenhead, &c. 9.16 dis.—
Sheffield and Manchester, Quarters, No. 2, 234—Ditto, ditto, No. 3,
5-16 dis.—Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, 7-16 elis.—South-
Eastern and Dover, Halves, No. 4, % p.—West Riding Union,
2 7-16 p.

LEEDS, SEPTEMBER 21.
STOCK EXCLIANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, York Ex-
tension, p.—East Lancashire, 8% p.—Great Grimsby and Shef-
field Extensions, 20s 6d. dis.—Huddersfield and Manchester, PA c.
p.— Leeds any Dewsbury, 21. 3s. Gd. p.—Ditto, Branches, 17s. 6d. p.
—Leeds and Thirsk, 4% dis.—Ditto, New, 3% dis. s.—Manchester and
Leeds Extensions, 1/. IBs. p.—Newcastle and Berwick, 12% c. p.—
North British, Carlisle Branch, 555. Gd. p.—South-Eastern and Dover,
No. 4,10 s. p.—Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 12s. dis.—
Clitheroe Junction, 18s. Gd. dis.—Lancashire and North Yorkshire,
15s. dis. s.—Leicester and Bedford, 11s. dis.—Liverpool, Ormskirk,
and Preston, 4% p.—Malton and Drifileld Junction, 12s. 6d. p.—Man-
chester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 275..6d. p.—Midland and
Thirsk Junction, 16s. dis.—North Staftbrdshire, 31. I Is. p.—North
Western, 4s. Gd. s. p.—Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham, 18s. 6d.
dis.—Shropshire Union, 7s. 6d. dis.—South Midland, 10s. p.—West
hiding Union, 433.

HULL. SEPTEMBER 21.
STOCI Y.:REPIANGE.—The sales are —Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush, 7s.—East Lincolnshire, I3s.—Hull and Selby, Halves,
5034—Leicester and Bedford, 12s. 3d.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and
Preston, 43 p. —North British, Carlisle, 80s. 6d. —North Western,
4s. 3d.

YORE, SEPTEMBER 21.
STOCK Excusuoz.-The sales are -Ipswich and Bury Extension
(Norwich), 2-Ditto (Cambridge and Ely). I -Leicester
:and Bed-
ford, lls. -London and York, 21. Is. -Manchester, Buxton; .Matlock,
and Midland, 31. 9s. Gd. -North British, Half Shares. 15 44 -Ditto,
Carlisle Extension, 41. is.-Welsh Midland, 165.•-West Riding Union,
41. 9s. -York and Newcastle, 41-York and North Midland (East
and West Riding Extension), 125,(,. '

PHENOMENON AT WAINYBROLCIX, MONMOUTH-
SHIRE—Oa Monday the bees and wasps congregated
from east, west, north, and south, and engaged in deadly
warfare. They appeared in swarms as far as the .eye
could see, and the ground for a large space underneath
was covered with the dead. mostly wasps.
Loss OF MAIL BAGS.—On the arrival of the Mail
cart from the Swindon station on Sunday morning, it
was found that the bag containing the letters, &c., for
Aldermaston, and other places around here, was mizsing.
Immediately the man was dispatched back to make
inquiries, when no tidings could be had of the same.
Several large dealers were at the Hind's Head Inn,
Aldermaston, awaiting the mail, which should arrive at
ten o'clock, when it did not arrive till one o'clock, and
then without the letters and papers so anxiously looked
for. It is feared the loss will be severely felt, as to-
morrow (Monday) being the great Reading horse, beast,
and cheese fair, many of the large cattle dealers stop at
this place, Aldermaston, the day before, it being ten
miles only from the fair. At this place the stock rest,
and money, with orders, are transmitted to the dealers.
Sir Howard Elphinstone and party, and Captain
Macdonald and p irty, left Blackwell on Sunday in the
General Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship Soho,
for Ostend.
Boy DROWNED.—Yesterday evening an inquest
was held before W. Baker, Esq., at the Bunch of Grapes,
Broad street, Rateliff, on the body of John Digby, a boy
aged ten years. James Winn deposed that he and an-
other boy were with the deceased on the Thames in a
boat on Sunday afternoon, about half-past four. The
deceased had his hands against a barge pushing the boat
off; when he lost his balance and fell into the river.
Charles Bigg, a waterman, stated that having been told
a boy had fallen into the water, he went to his assist-
ance ; but as he had disappeared he could not recover
him without the aid of the drags, and as there were none
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near, to his knowledge, he pulled across the river to
obtain those which are kept there, and immediately re-
turned and succeeded in bringing the boy to the surface.
He was quite dead. The boy had been under water 20
minutes or so. He felt quite sure that if there had been
drags near the spot he could have saved the boy's life.
The jury considered it very desirable that drags should
be kept at the " New England Lighthouse,' and the
Coroner said he would write to the Humane Society on
the subject. Verdict—" Accidental Death."
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evening last, by means of breaking some panes of glass
in one of the windows. Having gained admittance in
this way to the outer apartment of the office, the thieves
next forced open two doors, which enabled them to get
across to a room in which some boxes, containing wear-
ing apparel and other articles, were deposited. These
they appear to have at once removed to the outer room;
and, while looking about to see if anything else could 'be
added to the plunder which they had collected, before
making their exit they would seem to have been attracted
by a large package, securely wrapped up, and appa-
rently placed with great care in a quiet nook of the
apartment. Curious to know what was in it, they im-
mediately unloosed the cords and unfolded the sheeting,
when, to their extreme horror and alarm, the pale
visage of a human form was revealed. Without waiting
another moment, they appeared to have darted out or
the window, perfectly terror-stricken at the sight, leav-
ing all their booty behind. It turns out that what ex-
cited their alarm was the model of a statue, which an
artist had left fir safety with some of the officials con-
nected wsth the distillery, while he was on a short tour
on the continent. —Scotsman

SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. -- A. grand fire-
, work gala took place last night at these gardens, when
the skill of the pyrotechnic artist was tasked to the ut-
most for a surpassing display of the powers of" Nature's
free daughter," fire. After a few preliminary fiery
fountains end burning bouquets, a mimic natimachia, or
sea-fight, between a British man-of-war and a piratical
schooner, was exhibited. This was followed 'by the
descent of Signor Farinelli in a flaming car, surrounded
by fireworks ; the spectacle concluding with the erup-
tion of Vesuvius, and destruction of Pompeii and Her-
culaneum. This was excellent, and quite supersedes
the necessity of visiting Naples, as we are sure the real
affair cannot be half so good.
INFORMATIONS UNDER THE FACTORY ACT.—On
Monday last Mr. George Fester, of Horbury, manufac-
turer, was charged before J. F. Carr and T. 11. Mar-
shall, Esqs., at the Court-house, Wakefield, by Mr.
Bates, the sub-inspector of factories, with neglecting to
perform certain duties enacted by the Factory Acts.
The first information against Mr. Foster was under the
21st section of the Act, which orders that the machinery
shall be properly fenced off to prevent accidents. The
magistrates inflicted upon the defendant the mitigated
penalty of 5/. The second charge against Mr. Foster
was for employing a woman named Tamar Ilept-onstall
near the machinery not fenced off, and which he had
been ordered to do by the inspector, from which neglect
the poor woman had been seriously injured, from her
clothes getting entangled in the machinery. The magis-
trates considered the case to be a flagrant one, and, as it
proceeded from the neglect of the defendant, they would
inflict a penalty of 201. Mc. Samuel Lee, of Thornes-
lane, Wakefield, manufacturer, was charged by Mr.
Bates with having employed four children without sur-
geon's certificate=, as directed by the 11th section of the
Act of William IV., and also with employing the same
children before being duly registered. Mr. Lee was
fined to the amount of 2/. for each child in each offence,
making altogether the sum of 16/,