The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-05 00:00:00

GOLDEN RULES IN SHOOTING.

" Never take a tihnt, from your neighbour ; although,
%i ot.ld he be a hunglt r, be always prepared with a barrel
"c vt• 1' c et it:) de grace. Never walk with the muzzle
o gu., -x( e;)t. towards the ground or to the
Ai ei.cock eur weapon in crossing a ditch,
0.. gettiti through n tense, or over a g Ate. After firing
one barrel, nevi r fail to ram dock n the other, as the
mnay have got loose. Never load one barrel with
the other ceckt.d, or the ramrod down it. In cover
shooting be putieularly careful to asem rtain dhere your
companions, beaters, and dogs are, so as not to mistake
them for game. Always unload your own gun, or Eee

it done yourself. Keep your powder and copper caps
dry'. Never put your hand or arm over the muzzle of a
gun, or lean over it. Never blow into the barrel of a
gun ; and always treat it as if it was loaded, for no
sooner does an accident take place than the first excla-
mation is, had no idea it was loaded.' Never take a
loaded gun into a house ; I remember hearing of one of
Lord Anglesey's brothers walking across the hall, at
Goodwood, with both barrels loaded, and the cocks
down ; in a second, without any apparent reason, both
went off, and might have caused considerable havoc ;
fortunately no one was in the hall at the time. Be par-
ticularly careful where you keep your powder, for house-
maids and children will poke their noses into cupboards
and drawers with lighted candles. Never fire near a
hay-rick or any out-buildings. Whenever you come to
a difficult pass, such as a large ditch, stiff fence, high
gate, stone wall, or very thick cover, take off your copper
caps._ In the event of your ramrod sticking fast in your
gun, do not allow a clod to try to extract it with his
teeth, but having removed the cap, force the ramrod
home by knocking the end of it against a tree. To these
I will add two maxims, the one trom Hawker, the other
from Daniel. The Colonel thus writes Never suffer
a gun at any time to be held for a moment so as to be
likely to come in the direction of either man or beast.'
And the author of • Field Sports' gives the following ex-
cellent advice In shooting with a stranger, who
perhaps keeps his gun .cocked, and muzzles usually
pointed to the left, plead for the right hand station, and
urge that you cannot hit a bird flying to the left : with
a gamekeeper take the right hand without ceremony."'
With its usual statistics and light reading, the
Sporting _Review is almost worthy a Jewess' eye.

THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE REVIEW.
We cannot possibly coincide in the strictures con-
tained in this monthly organ upon the very liberal
scheme of education for the people, propounded by Dr.
Hook, the clever and industrious Vicar of Leeds.
There are undoubtedly many incongruities in his pro-
position, but nevertheless they are such incongruities
as might be modified. It is not surprising, how-
ever, that an extraordinary diversity of opinion should
be entertained upon a matter so peculiarly difficult to
adjust to the satisfaction of all In a country where
there are so many varieties of religions as in Eng-
land, and in a country where there is both a church
establishment, and a sincere yearning for the attain•
ment of civil and religious liberty, it is but natural
that an endeavour to concoct some universal plan of
education should be hampered by prejudices against
this point, and partialities in favour of that. How-
beit it is neither for a single pamphlet like that
written by Dr. Walter Farquhar Hook, excellent as
that pamphlet is in itself, nor for an anonymous con-
tributor to a monthly periodical, to fabricate any
scheme likely to be precisely fitted for the adoption
of the Government. It is for a variety of ideas to
be elicited from the intelligent members of
the community in this and various other ways,
and for the Ministers to arrive at some ultimate reso-
lution through the guidance of their own wisdom and
the collation of those different ideas. The plan which
must in the end receive the approval of the Legisla•
ture for the education of the people will have first to
pass through the crucible of public discussion, then
to receive the profoundest consideration of our cabi-
net councillors, and finally to be tested in the alembic
of the two Houses of Parliament. We cannot anti-
cipate, neither can we have the temerity to hope, that
this most difficult problem can be solved with any-
thing like precipitation. The ultimatum must be the
result of arduous inquiry and protracted investigation.
Still it must be matter of congratulation to all those
who are interested in the well-being of their fellow
countrymen to reflect that the present Administration
is the one most peculiarly identified with the progress
of national education. Entering office at the moment
when monopoly is for ever annihilated, and free trade
incorporated with the spirit of the Constitution, the
noble Premier, now ruling the destinies of this coun-
try, finds himself pledged, not merely to promote
those commercial principles, but to watch over the
sanatory condition, and to insure, if possible, the
better education of the inhabitants of Great Britain.
Knowing the lofty expectations formed for his admi-
nistration, and looking forward upon the mysterious
futurity of his Government, he might exclaim, in the
words of

. Major rerum mihi nascitur ordo;
Majus opus moveo."
Let us have no trepidation ; but bide the time, san-
guine and confident as to our ulterior success.
Among the other interesting contents of the Oxford
and Cambridge Review, we must particularly men-
tion an article upon " The Colliery and Mining Dis-
tricts," an article brimming over with benevolence.
A " Sunny Spot" at Sermione is an elegant and
classic chapter.

THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE.
What with a portrait of Pyrrhus the First, the
winner of the last Derby, and the limning of a
Galloway Bull, the Farmer's Magazine has no evi-
dence of falling off in the way of illustration. It is •
gratifying to find it proclaimed that "on the whole
there exists little reason to complain of the result of the
wheat harvest." After all the apprehensions raised by
the exceeding drought of the summer, and the heavy
rains that were experienced before the harvest could
be gathered in, and bearing in mind the terrible
failure of the potato crop, that announcement re-
specting the wheat is to a great extent consolitary.
A mass of valuable information upon agriculture is,
as usual, condensed into the pages of this worthy pub-
lication.

CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL.
A perennial spirit seems to animate the editors of
this very admirable periodical. There is nothing
mawkish or affected in the contributions ; they have
always a moral purpose and a virtue. Although the
quantity of original writing, which is incessantly
being published in its columns is something surpris-
ing when the price is remembered, there is never a
sentence which can be said to verge upon twaddle.
The Edinburgh Journal is still the worthy representa-
tive of the house from which it emanates.