The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-25 00:00:00

THE MOORS.

PERTHSHIRE.—Sportsmen could not have obtained a
day more favourable than the 12th for their first opera-
tions, and the success that has attended some of them
shows that they must have been diligent in improving
the favourable opportunity. The birds are represented
as being as strong as they were ever seen at the-season
of the year ; and, on the whole, the sport has been
reckoned as good as could be expected.
INVERNE=S —ln this quarer sportsmen found the
12th all that could be desired. rape-worm, we are
sorry to learn, is prevalent this season—fatal to the
birds in some moors; on others it is only suspected,
from the grouse being less plump than usual. The de-
mand for shootings continued to increase as the 12th
approached.—lnverness Courier.
STIRLINGSHIRE.—On account of the previous rains,
the grounds were uncommonly wet, and the birds, al-
though not scarcer than Jest year, wild, would not allow
.4 near approach. The sportsman had thus to be con-
tented with single birds, and the numbers bagged were
not numerous.—Stirling JournaL
AsaSHIRE.—In consequence of the soaked state of
the grounds, wherever the heather was burned or short,
-the birds took instantly in packs to the low grounds,
where they were seen in flocks of from twenty to fifty.
•On such moors or hills the best shots had no chance; and
we have notice of several parties of two each, some of
which never burned powder, and others that got only a
brace or so each, afterhard fagging. On strictly protected
grounds, owing to the wetness, the birds, though more
plentiful, were also wild. In the vicinity of Barrhill, on the
confines of Ayrshire and Galloway, game is abundant,
and sportsmen are enj'ying much better sport than
Was anticipate 1. On th 2 12th August, one gentleman,
along with a ~f!Lwkeeper, on a single firm of no great
extent, bagged 4(4 hrace. Another sportsman, on thy!
same day, higgerl-121 brace. The birds, however, are
in rnoral interior in quality to those of last year.
Ar Advertiser.

Tau BEV. JAMES FORMBY V. THE GRAVESEND AND
RoaitirrEa. RAILWAY COMPANY_—The dispute between the
Rev. J. Formby and the Gravesend and Rochester Railway
Company was brought to a conclusion about a month ago.
It will he recollected that in the month of October
last some labourers of the company were brought before
the Mayor and magistrates of Rochester for cutting down
some trees, the property of the reverend gentleman,
when the parties were fined, and it was afterwards settled
that all matters in dispute between the parties should be
submitted to arbitration. The wall which the company
had built for the Rev. Gentleman, who had given some
land up to the company for the purpose of making a coach
road from the station at Frindsbury, the award ordered,
that as it was not built properly
dint)i slcmild be
taken down and rebuilt, which rgy has been
done, and in addition a gateway of the Reverend
Gentleman's has been blocked up by the company, by
placing a nine-inch wall between the piers of the gates.
which has mach annoyed Mr. Formby, and as the work-
men had been found to have done some damage to the
gates, the subject was brought before the Mayor and magis-
trates of Rochester, on Saturday, the 22d inst., and John
Parkes and John Ashdown, bricklayers, were charged with
wilfully and maliciously damaging and spoiling two gates,
and two piers thereof belonging to the Rev. Mr. Formby,
which, under the Wilful Damage Act subjects the of-
fenders to the penalty of 5/. Mr. W. Hay ward appeared for
the Rev. complainant, and Mr. Wickham for the defendants,
this
who pleaded not guilty. Mr. Hayward, in opening
case, said his client bad acted through all the proceedings
from first to last with the greatest forbearance, and was
about to enter into a brief history of the long
pending
disputes between the parties, when the Bench observed
that they had nothing to do with any dispute between
the Rev. Mr. Formby and the Canal Railway Company, that
took place six months ago. Evidence then was given by
Mr. Formby's gardner, that the two defendants were on
Saturday, the 15th, building a wall between e the
apnidersisofnit
waster', gateway. The gate was painted,
smeared over with mortar. The damage done may be 1/. or
5/. lin the part of the defendants
at Dartford,, Mr. Georgdeposede Ward,
that an i
he
dependent gentleman,
living
rave orders to stop up the gate, and it was done according to
Isle ins'ructiens. The bench convicted the defendants, 6d,
damages, and costs 14s.
• NINETY-SECOND MONLA.NDERS.—The head-quarters
division of the gallant 92d Highlanders, under the Fotmnand
of Lielztenant-Colonel lll`Donald, marched into this city on
ThArsday, en oute from Belfast to Enniskillen, to relieve the
26411 Caraeronians. ordered to Dublin from that garrison.
The men were billeted through the city for the night and
proceeded on their march on Friday morning. The regi-
ment is composer) of fine soldier-like athletic young fel-
lows, and the band is one of the best, it is said, in
the service. Our Belfast contemporaries express great re
Bret at the departure of the gallant corps from that garrison.
As their conduct, while quartered there, was most regular and
exempla/T. It is on the march that the irregularities of
any corps, inclined to be irregular, will be most observable,
.and if the conduct of the regiment was such, while in Belfast,
.as we observed during the short stay of the head quarter;
division, and the other divisions that preceded it, in our city,
to gallant regiment deserves all the encomiums the Belfast
pesos has bestowed on L.—Ulster Gazette. •