The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-08 00:00:00

SHOJTING.

The gay and festive scene of the Northern Meeting
hist week brought together.agreater. number of aports-
men than was ever seen at once in Inverness. Although
for a time the moors gave place to the bail-room, still
the deeds on the mountains were not forgotten. The
subjoined notes of sports have been received since our
last notice :—On the Eskadale moors, Mr. Hutton shot
on the 24th, 30 brace of grouse, on the 25th, 37i brace,
and on the 26th, 224 brace. At Invercassley, Ross-
shire, Mr. Robertson and the Messrs. Christie have
bagged 700 head. During. a few days tour in the island
of Lews, Major Houston and Mr. Denys bagged 210
brace of grouse. Iri the Curries of Dundreggan, Sir H.
Meux, Bart., stalked and shot 2 stags. At Lochlaggan,
the Marquis of Abercurn captured 3 stags. From the
forest of Fasnakyle, Lord Bateman took 2 deer, killing
them right and left, at once. In the forest of Glen-
Strathfarar, Lord Lovat, the Master of Lovat, the Hon.
A. Fraser, and Captain Mostyn, have had excellent sport
among the red deer-12 large stages, one of them with
14 antlers, were stalked ; and on the moor, in one day,
Captain Mostyn bagged 54 brace of grouse ; the fol.
lowing day, 43 brace and 2 hares. The sport at Invere-
shie has been first-rate. W. Evans, Esq., M.P., and
friends, have bagged nearly 800 brace of grouse, and
have stalked 13 stags on their deer ground. On the
Diebdale moors, Mr. Forde shot on the 12th, 42 braes
of grouse, 3 plovers, 1 hare ; on the 17th, 37 brace, and
on the 19th 35 brace of grouse. At Strathvaich, Sir St.
George Gore, Bart., continues to get excellent shooting.
On the 22d, he shot 64 brace of grouse and 13 hares ;
on the 24th, 90k brace, a snipe, and 6 hares ; on the
25th, a double shot of stags—killing both ; and on the
27th, 81i brace of grouse and,6 hares. At Belleville,
Mr. Mackildowny and friend, on August the 12th,
bagged 65k brace of grouse and 2 hares ; Mr. M.G.
Casement and friend, 52} brace ; 13th, Mr. Macgil-
downy and friend, 341 brace and a hare—Mr. M.G.
Casement and friend, 41 brace ; 17th, Mr. M'G. and
friend, 73 brace and 2 hares—Mr. M.G. Casement and
friend, 51 brace and a hare ; 19th, Mr. Macgildowny,
30k brace and 2 hares—Mr. M'G. Casement and friend,
43 brace and a hare ; 26th, Mr. M.G. and friend, 19
brace and a hare—Mr. M'G. Casement and friend, 11
brace and a hare ; 22d, Mr. AVG. and friend, 36 brace—
Mr. M.G. Casement and friend, 34 brace ; 24th, Mac-
gildowny, 31 brace—Casement and friend, 37 brace ;
23th, Mackildowny and friend, 16 brace.— Inverness
Courier.

I LORD ROSSE'S MONSTER TELESCOPE. —ln the
course of the lecture on Lurd Rosse's Monster Teles-
cope, delivered a few days ago at Whitby by the Rev.
Dr. Scoresby, of Bradford, the reverend gentleman
described the appearance of the heavens, lie remarked
that the nebulae a!ready observed were between one and
two hundred, which was a great deal, considering how
often observations were prevented by cloudy nights ;
and that the telescope, although erected about eighteen
months, had not yet been in complete operation more
than three or four months, already several of the nebulae
hitherto not fully examined were discovered to be a col-
lection of suns ; and with regard to the moon, the
Doctor stated its appearance to be magnificent. It
appeared like a globe of molten silver, and every object
of the extent of 100 yards was quite visible. Edifices,
therefore, of the size of York Minster, or even of the
ruins of Whitby Abbey, might be easily perceived if
they had existed. But there was no appearance of any
thing of that nature, neither was there any indication of
the existence of water nor of an atmosphere. There
was a vast number of extinct volcanoes, several miles
in breadth; through one of them there was a line in
continuance of one, about 150 miles in length, which
ran in a straight direction like a railway. The general
appearance, however, was like one vast ruin of nature ;
and many of the pieces of rock, driven out of the
volcanoes, appeared to be laid at various distances. The
Doctor said he expected it would soon be competent to
Daguerrotype the image of the moon upon the speculum,
which could not be done at present, as the moon was not
stationary, but the Earl contemplated a piece of mecha-
nism to move the telescope to a certain distance, with a
motion corresponding to the movement of the moon. The
Doctor enlivened the lecture with many interesting
anecdotes of the Earl, all of which were calculated to
raise him in the estimation of his countrymen, and con-
cluded with en exhortation to the upper classes to sup-
port institutions like the present, as calculated to promote
good feeling and to benefit society.
EXTRAORDINARY INTREPIDITY.—A correspondent
in Se an iea gives us the particulars of a remarkably cou-
rageous action performed by a Mr. Thomas Shepherd,
lately a chemist, in that town, who, returning to his
lodgings, on la-t Tuesday evening, was surprised to find
his family, and that of Mr. Rowe, in whose house he
lodged, shut up 'in different rooms, from which they were
afraid to emerge, in cons:quence of a dog belonging to
Mr. Rowe having suddenly become rabid. Mr. Shep-
herd instantly determined to attempt the destruction of
the furious animal, and having provided himself with a
heavy hammer, arid guarded his hands, he scaled the
garden wall, am', watching his opportunity, threw some
bed furniture over the dog, and while entangled in it,
grasped him by the throat with his left band, and in-
flicting sev, ral heavy blows on his head with the ham-
mer in his right, speedily dispatched the ferocious
animal, to he great delight of the household Ond his
neighLQUM—Sunday Papa