The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-17 00:00:00

THE MOORS AND FORESTS.

(From the Banffshire Journal.)
The late rains and great dearth of birds have caused
sp irtsmen totally to abandon the grouse beats. Those
who had not the privilege of deer•stalking or cover
shooting have returned south in disgust. The number
of game kilted clearly shows that this season has been
the worst ever seen in the north. Nor need ninth better
sport be expected next year, let the remaining stock
breed ever so well, as the bags made this year have been
almmt entirely filled with old birds. The are princi-
pally cocks, from which it appears that the tape proves
more fatal to the female bird than the male.
In the forests, the stalkers are doing excellent avork,
although they have had to contend against excessive
rains and changenhle winds for the past fortnight. The
distinguished party at Glenfiddich have dosed their
shooting for the season after enjoying unprecedented
success among the deer. On Monday, the 6th inst.,
Lord Littowel brought down a stag of 9 points ; and
the same day Major Armitage had two of 8 and 10
points. Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar was out four
days, killing in that time six stags, all of them heavy
animals, with fine heads. The Earl of March went out
two days, when four stage fell before his rifle. Major
Granville was out on Friday, and knocked over a pretty
stag of 10 points. The party at Glenfiddich have, in all,
killed this season no fewer than 70 stags, and three binds,
their average weight being 14 stones clean.
Lord H. BentinCk has returned from Ardverikie:
Lodge to his shooting quarters at Lagganauld, and en-
joys good sport at deer-stalking. On Friday, the 3d
inst., his lordship went to the forest and brought 'down
a royal stag, which has been seen in the forest for some
time past, and considered the King of the Forest. On
Saturday, the '4th, his lordship was out, and brought
down two stags. On Monday, the 6t,h, his lordship had
three stags ; on Tuesday, the 7th, three stags, weighing
'front 14 to 17 stones atter being cleaned out ; and on
, Wednesday, the Bth, another stag—thus, in five succe?-
sire days, bringing down no fewer than ten splendid
stags with his own rifle. ,
In Ross :shit*, in the deer covers, some splendid sport
has also been enjoyed. Our enrritspondent in that quar-
ter, writing on Saturday, stye- John La Touche, EN.,
is prosecuting this laborious and exciting amusement
daily with most excellent allows& In Stratho nnan, on
tie 9th, his success was still better. At the first shot he
11 ought down a Royal deer, which had beautiful palmated
cups at the extremities of the horns. A second Shot from
the same rifle sent its fatal contents through the heart of
a noble stag of 10 points. This animal had finely forked
antlers, the head being considered superior to the Royals.
It was sent the following day to Inverness for preserva-
tion. Next day the same sportsman shot another 10-
pointer. Mr. La Touche's total number of stags up to
Friday evening, the 10th, was 42, amongst which a
great number were Royal 'ln Mr. Murray's deer covers,
at Craigdarrach, some fine spurt has been got. In one
day's drive, Captain M'Kenzie, of Ord, shot down 6 head,
consisting of 4 roe, 1 stag, and 1 bind. Captain Baring
and Mr. Murray shot each a roe deer the same day. Oa
the 4th the party at Coul House made a first-rate bag to
two guns. They shotjl34 Alpine hares, 4 brace of grouse,
3 pheasants, 5 rabbits, 2 woodcock, and 2 roe deer,
being 154 head in one day."

THE TYNE SAILORS' 110413.—This noble institution,
which is completed and furnished, will be opened at
North Shields on Tuesday next by his Grace the Duke
of Northumberland, and presented to the port. It has
cost his grace between 8,0001. and 9,0001., and will fur-
nish most ample accommodation for 108 seamen. 2,0001.
has also been contributed by the shipowners and mer-
chants of the Tyne for an endowment. The extension of
those institutions to the principal towns in Great Britain
promises in a few years to vastly improve the habits of
the seafaring population. There are now Sailors' Homes
in Well-Qtreet, London ; Poplar Sunderland, North
Shields, Liverpool, Bristol, Cardiff, Falmouth, Daven-
port, Plymouth, Dover, Portsmouth, Dublin, Belfast,
Cork, Queenstown, Limerick, Glasgow, Greenock, and
Leith; and others are building.
LADY NovnisTs.7--The fair writers have evidently
never talked to a tradesman except from a carriage win-
dow ; they have no notion of the working classes except
as " dependents ; they think 5001. a year a miserable
pittance ; Belgravia and " baronial halls" are their pri-
mary truths, and they have no idea of feeling interest in
any man who is not at least a great landed proprietor, it
not aPi ime Minister.. It is clear they write in elegant
boudoirs, with violet-coloured ink and a ruby pen ; that
they must be entirely indifferent to publishers' accounts,
and inexperienced in every form of poverty except poverty
of brains. How admirably mid is the following :—Greek
and Hebrew are mere play to a,beroine ; Sanscrit is no
more than A B Cto her ; and she can talk with perfect
correctness in any language except English. She is a
polkiug polyglot, a Creuzer in Crinoline. Poor men !
there are so few of you who know even Hebrew ; you
think it something to boast of, if, like Bolingbroke, you
only " understand that sort of learning, and. what is
writ about it ;" and you are perhaps adoring women
who can think slightingly of you in all-lhe Semitic lan-
guages successively.— Westminster Review.
IMPROVEMENT OF AIODLCRN LONDON.—Spsaking on
this subject at the opening meeting of the Architectural
Association on the 31 inst., Professor Donaldson said
he recollected London some 25 years ago : there was
then hardly a straight street in it. The streets Were so
narrow that two omnibuses could hardly go abreast.
The streets were dirty and the Thames was filthy, and
there was hardly a garden around London. But since
that time see the progress that bad been made. The
president had said that London becomes more and more
intolerable. He (Professor Donaldson) said that it be-
cern° more and more tolerable ; it improved every day.
Look at Cannon-street. Was it not large and broad ?
Were not those great mercantile magazines worthy of
being palaces ? He might allude to a large number of
other buildings of modern structure around London,
and ask whether it really became "more and more
intolerable as a place of 'residence ?" Regent-street
did not exist 35 years ago: the Strand was not then
as it is now. Let us have a century or two, as had
been passed by foreigners in improving their cities, and
London would be able to vie with any c ,pital in the
world.— The Builder.

THE NEW METAL ALUMINIUH.—It will be interesting
to both commercial and scientific men to learn that, in
June last, Messrs. E. Hald and Rahr, a Danish house,
sent out their brig Sonderjylland, Capt. Brocksdorf, to
Arksuk Fiord, in lat. 61 deg. 20 min, on the west coast
of Greenland, for the purpose of bringing back minerals,
and especially cryolite, for the obtaining of which pecu•
liar privileges had at different times been granted by the
King of Denmark to individual and associated miners ;
ann that Messrs. Held and Co. have received intelli-
genc) from Messrs. C. F. Fisgen and Co., to whom the
brig was consigned at Copenhagen, of her safe arrival in
that city on the 21st Sept., after a voyage of only 12
days (tie shortest on record), with a full load of cryo-
liw. This is the first cargo of cryolite received from Green.
'land; which is the only country where, as yet, it has been
tound. It is a mineral composed, we believe, of sodium,
aluminium, and fluorine ; but the results of analysis are
given in Moh's " System of Mineralogy." M. de Lille,
of Paris, has discovered a process by which aluminium
may be obtained from cryolite, so as to afford it at as low
a price per ounce as silver ; and, since an ounce of the
former has four times the volume of an ounce of the lat-
ter, it will of course give us articles of plate of the same
size so much cheaper, that is, at one-fourth the price.
Besides this metal and crystals of soda, a clay is obtain-
able, which, will be valuable to calico printers as a sub
stitute for a compound of alum and sugar of lead.
PLATING AT HANGING.,--A preliminary examination
was opened yesterday before Mr. W. 11. Maude, West
Riding magistrate, at the Leeds Infirmary, into the cir-
cumstances which had resulted in the injury of a boy
named John Maris, who is now lying dangerously ill
at that institution. The examination was opened an the
suggestion of the medical man having the charge of
Harris; and from Harris's deposition it will be seen that
three buys, named J. Firth, B. Preston, and A. Sharp,
are charged with having caused him serious bodily harm.
The deposition of John Harris was as follows :—" I am
12 years of age. My mother's name is Ann Harris.
She is a widow residing at Batley. I have worked at
Mr. Jubb's mill at Batley abcut three weeks. On Fri-
day, the 3d inst., I went t ) work at 7 o'clock. I worked
until 8, and then gave up for breakfast. I gotmy break-
fast in the top storey of the mill, wherel worked, and in
which there is a crane. Near the crane is a trap door.
There were three boys besides myself, named J. Firth,
Benj. Preston, and Abraham Sharp, who also reside at
Batley. I have been told that Firda is 16 years old,
Preston 15, and Sharp 13. With the exception of
Preston, whom I have known about two months, they
worked at the same mill with me, and I have known
them about two years. About 9 o clock the boys were play-
ing, and said they would hang Palmer, and Firth said
they would hang him with me. I said, 'You shall not
bang Palmer with me, and I set off and ran to my work.
Preston ran after me, caught me, and brought me back,
and then Sharp tied a rope under my arms, round my
body, the others assisting him. The Firth tied the rope
to the crane. I tried to get loose, hut coniG not. I
told them to let rue go, but they never spoke. There
was no one in the top storey of the rniil but ue, and I had
not time to call out. The mill a-as at work. When t e
repo was fastened to the crane some one was drawing a
sheet of wool up, and that set the crane agoing. I was
drawn up to the beam, about two yards from the floor.
The two boys Sharp and Preston then ran away to their
work, and after cards Firth went down stairs. The
chain of the crane caught me, and folded round me.
The chain squeezed my body, and I could nut ca"l out.
I was sick with it, and I think I remained an hour, but
cannot tell. I was then insensible. I found myself at
home afterwards. They put leeches on my head, and
brought me down on Wednesday to the infirmary. I
am sure I did not play with the other boys, and they
tied the nape round rue against my wish. Firth has
thrashed me many a time when I have gone for water,
but the two others have never thrashed me." On cross-
examination by Sharp, Harris said that no one had hold
of the rope when he got fast. After remaining sus
pemied for a short time, Harris was taken down by one
of the workpeople, and on examination it was found that
he bad sustained a fracture of one arm, and such serious
spinal injury as to cause para!ysis over thedower
After taking the deposition, the three boys were reman-
ded until Tuesday next, but admitted to bail.