The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-02 00:00:00

Naval and Military intelligence.

The Lords of the Admiralty continued their visit at
P irt.mouth yesttrday. They proceeded to the Royal
Naval Hospital at Haslar at 10.30. and vrere received
by Captain Superintendent J. R. Dacres, C. 8., and the
naval and medical staff. Their inspection of the hospi-
tal and the gun-boat berthing ships occupied them until
noon, when they left the Royal Marine Light Infantry
head quarters at Forton, where tbey were received by
Colonel-Commandant Graham, C. 8., and the divisional
staff. After an hour spent in the inspection of this
corps, the Board left and proceeded to the Royal Clarence
victualling-yard, Gosport, also under the buperinten-
de.nce of Captain Dacres. This establishment engaged
an hour of the official tour, after which they visited the
Royal Marine Artillery head-quarters at the Gun-wharf
Barracks, Portsmouth, whence they embarked or board
their yacht Osborne.

Yesterday morning the court of irquirv, composed of
of
ocers of the Royal Engineers, re-assembled at Bromp
ton Bsrracks, Chatham, under the presidency of Major
C. D. Robertson, R.E., for the purpose of instituting
some further inquiries into the circumstances connected
with the premature explosion of the mine, which occurred
during the late siege operations on Chatham Lines, be-
fore his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. The
court sat a considerable time, but the nature of the pro-
ceedings have not transpired.
Colonel Tuiloh, superintendent of the carriage square
in the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, who has been on sick
leave for the last two months, has announced his inten-
tion of returning to his department this week. On
Saturday last 260 artisans and labourers, whose sere `e .s
are not now required, were dismissed. A small portion
of them were re-engaged in the storekeeper's depart-
ment.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :
Captain Charles Barker, to the Retribution ; Lieut.
Thomas J. Young, to
,the Inflexible ; J. S. Murray,
midshipman, to the Recruit.

DEATH OF REAL'.-ADMIRAL SIR JOHN ROSS.
We regret to announce the death of Rear-Admiral Sir
John Ross, K.C.8., which mournful event occurred on
Saturday morning last,at 43, Gillingham-street, Pimlico.
We extract the following account, of the services of this
gallant Arctic voyager from 0 Byrng's "Naval Bio-
graphy" :-
"Sir John Ross, born June 24, 1777, at Balsarroch,
county Wigton, is fourth son of the Rev. Andrew Ross
(of the family of Ross, of Balnagown), minister of Inch,
and proprietor of Balsarroch, by ,Elizabeth, second
daughter of Robert Corsane, Esq., of Micklenox, in
Dumfriesshire, and sister of Robert Corsane, a captain
in the Foot Guirds, the last of a family whose repre-
sentatives had for 18 successive generations bean provosts
of Dumfries by the same Christian and surname, 'Robert
Corsane.' Sir John is brother of the late Major-General
Andrew Rcss and of Robert Ross, Esq., secretary at
the Cape of Good Hope and at Surinam, who died in
1837 ; cousin of Major-General Sir Hew Dalrymple
Ross, K.C.8., deputy adjutant-general of Royal Artil-
lery, and of Major General Sir Adolphus John Dal-
rymple, Bart., and a distant relative of Major-General
Ross, who was killed at Baltimore. His great grand-
father was aide-de-camp to Field-Marshal the Earl of
Stair, and fought as a captain in the Black Horse at the
battle of Culloden, in 1745.
"This officer entered the navy Nov. 11, 1786, as firet-
class volunteer on board the Pearl, 32, Captain Hen.
Seymour Finch, with whom he served in the Mediter-
ranean until December, 1789. He was next, from
Nov. 7, 1790, until Sept. 10, 1791, employed in the
Channel in the Impregnable, 98, Captain Sir Thomas
Byard ; and in September, 1799, after he had been for
several years in the merchant service, he became mid-
shipman of the Wenzel, sloop, Captain William D'Urban,
part of the force engaged in the expedition to Holland.
On his return from a voyage to the Mediterranean he
was received, in the course of 1802, on board the
Clyde, 38, Captain Charles Cunningham, and Dili-
gence, sloop, Captain Alexander Robert Kerr; in both
which vessels he acted fur a time as lieutenant. He wad
subsequently employed, on the home and Baltic stations,
as midshipman, in' the Zealand, 64, Kite, sloop, and
Grampus and Diomede, 50's, all flag ships of Sir James
Saumarez-as acting lieutenant in the Hydra, 38, Capt.
George Mundy-as acting lieutenant and commander in
the Liberty, 14-as master's mats, under Sir J. Sauma-
rez, in the Diomede, Cerberus, and Diomede again-as
acting lieutenant and commander in the Carteret, cutter
-as acting lieutenant in the Sylphe, 18, Capt. Wm.
Goate-a second time, as before, in the Cartaret-as
lieutenant (commission dated March 13, 180 E), in the
Penelope, 36, Capt. William Robert Broughton ; Suri-
nam, 18, Capt. John Lake ; and Prince of Wales, 98,
Hibernia, 120, Diomede, 50, and Victory, 100, all flag
ships of Sir James Saumarez-as acting commander
(order dated July 28, 1809), in the Ariel, 18, in which
vessel he remained upwards of two months-and again
as lieutenant, in the Victory. While attached to the
Surinam, Mr. Ross was severely wounded in the head
and body at the cutting out of a Spanish vessel from
beneath the batteries of Bilboa. For this he was granted
in 1808 a pension of 911. 55., increased in 1815 to 1501.
per annum. Towards the close of 1808 he was sent
from the Victory to act as captain of the Swedish fleet
on board the Swedish admiral's ship. Attaining the
rank of commander Feb. 1, 1812, he was in that capa-
city employed, March 31, 1812, in the Briseis, 10, in
which sloop, stationed in the Baltic, North Sea, and
Downs, he captured, Oct. 9, following, Le Petit Pouca,
French privateer, of 4 guns, 4 swivels, 23 men, and
drove on shore three vessels of a similar description-
June 7, 1914, to the Actaaon, 16, employed in the North
Sea, the While Sea, and on the coast of Ireland-Aug.
22, 1815, to the Driver, 18, attached to the force in the
North Sea and on the coast of Scotland-and Jan. 14,
1818, to the Isabella, hired sloop. In the latter vessel
he proceeded, in company with the Alexander brig, com-
manded by the present Sir William Edward Parry,
for the purpose of exploring Baffin Bay, and inquir-
ing into the probability of a north-west passage.
Shortly after his return to England he was ad-
vanced, Dec. 7, 1818, to post rank. The results
of ;his investigations are detailed by Captain Ross
in his " Voyage of Discovery," published in 1810, in
two volumes Bvo., with map and plates. He was after-
wards, from May, 1829, until Oct., 1833, employed in
the Victory, steamer, on a fresh expedition to the Arctic
regions, equipped at the expense of the present Sir Felix
Booth, Bart. He received the honour of knighthood,
together with the Companionship of the Bath, Dec. 24,
1834. On March 8, 1839, he was appointed consul at
Stockholm, where he remained several years.
" During the war Sir J. Ross, in three different ac-
tions, was 13 times wounded. In consideration of his
sufferings he was presented by the Patriotic Society with
a sword valued at 1001., and for services performed by
him in the Baltic he was nominated a knight commander
cf the Swedish order of the Sword, and presented by
the King of Sweden with a sword worth 2001. He is
also a knight of the second class of St. Anne of Russia
(in diamon.l,) ; of the second class of the Legion of
Honour ; of the second class of Red Eagle of Prussia ;
and of the second class of Leopold of Belgium. In com-
pliment to Isis services in the Arctic Seas S.r John has
received gold medals from the Geographical Society of
London, the Geographical Institute of Park and the
Royal Societics of Sweden, Austria, and De;,rnark ; the
freedom of the cities of L nion, Liverp Bristol,
Hull, &c. ; and six gold s=nuff-boxes from Russia, Hol-
land, Denmark, Austria, London, and Baden. He is
the author, among other works, of 'Letters to Young
Sea Officers,' Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral
Lr,rd de Saumar,z,' and a ' Treatise on Navigation by
Steam.' He ma, ried, fir't, in 1816, Christian, daughter
of T. Adair, E q , W.S., Ed:nburgb, and that lady
dying in 1822 ; secondly, Oct. 21, 1831, Mary, wily
daughter of retired Commander T. Jones, lt.N. BY,
his fir ,t marriage he has iikAte one son, a magistrate at
Cawnpore."
By the death of Sir John a good-service pension lies
at the disposal of the First Lord of the Admiralty.

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS AT SEA.
He'r Majesty's Government having undertaken to pro-
mote and take part in an extended system of meteoro-
logical observations at sea, and having caused the requi-
site instruments, forms of register, and instructions, to
he provided and placed at the principal seaports of the
United Kingdom for the use of the mercanti'e marine--
the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty direct that all
captains and commanding officers of her Majesty's ships
will co-operate in this undertaking whenever, and as far
as, their respective opportunities and means will admit.
Standard barometers, tested thermometers, and regis-
ters, with the necessary instructions, will be supplied from
her Majesty's dockyards, in the usual manner, on de-
mand. The observations are to be carefully made ; and
recorded in the mode pointed out in the instructions ;
and the registers when filled up are to be transmitted to
the Admiralty through the same channels as the ship's
log-books.
Stationary ships, or ships fitting out or refitting in a
home port where a regular series of meteorological obser-
vations is established, will not be required to make the
above observations while remaining at such port.
The order does not aff)ct Art. 1, See. ix., chap. v. of
the Admiralty printed Instructions, which still remain
in force.

The Assistance, iron screw troopship (officered and
manned by the civil department), will be paid oil,
and
the ship will be under the pendant, and very properly
too, for it does seem somewhat hard that while her
Majesty's ships are commanded by merchant officers who
are in receipt of 8001. per annum, a commander R.N.
is obliged to be content with 8001., and find an expen-
sive mess. Such a system is productive of heart-burn-
ings and jealousies, and fraught with mischief. We
have every respect for the merchant commander, but
the regular service should not be neglected, and many
an active and deserving commander is at this moment
ashore, on a miserable pittance, although desirous of
active employment.

T v
nit EMBELLISHMENTS OF THE BOIS DE BOULOGNE are
going on with unceasing activity. The deer, which pre
running about in the park formed for their reception, are
the objects of general attraction. The lakes are also
tenanted by ducks of every kind, and a variety of
Buis.oth
}'owesaquatic birds. At the different entrances to the
built in the most picturesque
style of architecture for keepers. The amphitheatre,
or tribune for the racegtrithnetyitiLs also in course of con-
struction. The famous
an
islandongehamps is being re-
paire I. It now stands on
is
ethein
turfwthheicuhppiserrelaackhee,danbyd
a bridge of rocks. The water
the gardeners are laying down
on the summit
of the rock, and forming the path, which are to lead to
the grottoes and waterfalls, and the masons
that the
cement in the basin below the cascade in order are
putting
water may not be lost, but may feed the river
the
lakes of the Hippodrome before it returns to thel
All these works will be completed by the end " eine'
next
month.— aalignani.

Sporting Intelligence.

TATTERSALL'S—Mom) AY.

The dullness which pervades the turf money market
was uninterrupted. Although bookmakers mustered in
considerable force yet there was a significant absence
of backers of horse!". The investments on Tine Leam-
ington Stakes were few and far between. Quince
steadily maintained his leading position, but layers were
shy, and 7 to 4 was with difficulty obtainable about him
—2 to 1 was, early in the afternoon, taken to upwards
of 100/. Announcement was second favourite, but ro
transaction about her came under our notice. Imogene,
Gaudy, and Lady Tatton, who had been talked, about
last week, appeared to be quite friendless.
For The St. Leger Fazzoletto and Ellington were
pretty equal favourites. The latter had perhaps a slight
" call." Offers were made to back him against Fazzo-
letto. Two to 1 was laid against him to a " pony,"
and, as nearly as we could ascertain, those odds were
taken to upwards of 1001. about Fazzoletto. Tho last
bet about the Malto❑ horse wail 75 to 40. Two to 1
was offered on two, 15 to 1 bar two, and 20 to 1 bar
three.

The other transactions do not require notice.

CLOSING PRICES.
LEAMINGTON STAKEX.
7 to 4 agst Quince (taken)
7to 1 agst Announcement (offered)
10 to 1 bar two (offered.)
ST. LEGER.
7to 4 offered on the field—offered.
75 to 40 agst Fazzoletto—(taken)
CESAREWITCH STAKE 4.
50 to 1 agst Imogene (taken)
50 to 1 agst Good Friday (taken)
50 to 1 agst The Trapper (taken)
THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE STA ICES.
50 to 1 agst The Trapper (takers)
50 to 1 agst Good Friday (taktm)
DERBY.
20 to 1 agst Schiedam (taken. to 251)
1000 to 15 agst Laird of Duff (taken)

ECCLES RACES.—MOVDA7.
Trial Stakes One MiLe.

Miss Tiff
Miss Birch
The following also ran :—Shelah„ Yentick, Bright
Eye, and Biron.

Gentlemen's Purse. One mile and three-quarters.
"Till" ..
Bright Eye
General Windham

Only these ran.
Inn keepers' Plate. Heats. One mile.

Yeutick
Miss Birch
Ch mare by Birdcatcher—darn by Barkstone...
Yeutick walked over for the second heat.

AQUATICS.

KEW ROYAL REGATTA.

A. very excellent regatta came off yesterday at the
above pretty place, and attracted a vast concourse of
spectators. For many years there has been no regatta
at Kew, and Messrs. Williams, Wise, and Wapshot,
watermen, feeling that such a thing was very much
wanted, went about, and by great exertion succeeded
in getting up such a day's sport as we hardly ever
remember to have seen at a waterman's wager. There
were no less than four different races, three of which
were arranged in heats, and the fourth a scratch match
—the whole being under the excellent management of
the watermen above•mentioned. The racing commenced
at one o'clock and lasted till dark, and was under the
distinguished patronage of his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge and the Duchess of Cambridge, Lord
Kilmorey, Dowager Duchess of Northumberland, and a
large number of resident nobility and gentry. Subjoined
is the sport :

WATERMEN'S SINGLE SCIILLBRS' MATCH.
First Heat.

Thomas Powell (White) 1
E. Mariner (Blue) 0
W. Franklin (Red) 0
The distance in all the heats was between Barker's-
rails and Old England, finishing at Kew•bridge. White
took the lead and kept it throughout, winning easily.
Second Heat.

W. Mancey (Red) 1
H. Berry (Blue) 0
Good race for one mile, when Red went away. Won
by six lengths.

Third Heat.

[FEARFUL SHIPWRECK AND LOSS

OF LIFE.

We regrr.it to have to announce the total los!, by
lightning and shipwreck, of the China ship Ben Avon
outward bound from London to Shanghai, attended'
with distressing sacrifice of human life.
The ranfortunate ship belonged to Messrs. Leslie and
Crl.' and was comparatively a new-built vessel, nearly
600 tons burthen. She was chartered by Messrs. W. 0.
Young and Co. for a voyage to Shanghai, and left the
London Docks, where she loaded, on the 9th of last
March, for her destination, having a valuable cargo of
merchandise on board ; Mrs. Scott, the wife of the com-
mander Capt. R. S. Scott, and Mr. Leslie a son of the
owner of the ship, going out in her as passengers, who
unhappily were among the number who were drowned.
The catastrophe appears to have occurred on the 16th
of June, when the ship had arrived within 40 miles of
Amoy, and is thus detailed in the protest made by Capt.
Scott of the vessel's loss, which was received by the re-
cent overland Indian mail :

W. Barker (Red) 1
J. Cripps (White) 0
W. Herbert (Blue) 0
Good race with all of them. Won by several lengths ;
same distance between the others,

"The Ben Avon proceeded satisfactorily on her voy-
age until the Bth of June. We then encountered dark
and cloudy weather, with torrents of rain. About one
o'clock on that day a tremendous peal of thunder broke
over head, and at the same moment the ship fore and aft
was struck by lightning. It was an appalling scene, every
one on deck was struck down with force, and the whole
vessel and rigging presented a vivid mass of fire. On re-
covering themselves they immediately examined the ship
to ascertain the extent of damage the electric fluid h
done. It had stripped most of the copper off the rig-
ging and mast, knocking off chocks, starting bolts, &c.,
descending to the main deck, set on fire some paper,
melting the lead that covers the rudder-head, and bent
the pivot on which the compass card plays. We imme-
diately listed the ship over, and repaired the damage the
best way we could. On comparing the compasses, we
found them very much damaged, yet we were compelled
to select one which we thought to be the least in error,
and proceeded on. Several days passed with the same
dark cloudy weather, with variable light winds from the
north to the south-east. On the 12th, about noon, we got
a very imperfect sight of the sun, which placed the ship
about 150 miles south of the Prates Shoal. We accord.
ingly shaped a course to pass to the eastward, about 60
miles, keeping the lead-log constantly going. From that
time, up to the 16th, on the night on which she was lost,
no further observation could be made. The weather was
similar to that which they had previously met with,
oppressively dark and cloudy, accompanied with much
rain. Shortly after midnight of the 16th the wind fresh-
ened up to a gale, increasing in fury hourly with inces-
sant heavy rain. At 3.30 a.m. the ship was felt to graze
as if she was passing over a shoal ; but directly after she
struck with great force, parting in two immediately, and
fell over with her deck to the sea, which broke furiously
over, sweeping everything from it. The mast soon gave
way, and in less than 10 minutes the whole ship was
broken up. The ship's company clung to the spars and
the fragments of the wreck that were floating about, and
in this way 23 out of 28 succeeded in gaining the shore.
All, however, were more or less wounded by the spars
and the breaking up of the ship. The whole of the cargo
was thrown out into different parts of the coast, which
was plundered indiscriminately by the natives, who mus-
tered in great numbers and beat off the men when an
attempt was made to rescue it from their hands. The
spot where the ship struck was on a point to the east-
wardlof Howtoo. The course we were steering, after
sighting on the 12th, was borrowing largely on the For-
moso, on account of our compasses being one and a half
points more easterly than the one steered by."
The names of those drowned are omitted in the pro-
test; but by private letters received, the melancholy fate
of Mr. Leslie and the wife of Capt. Scott is placed be.
yond a doubt.

THE
,SUN, LONDON TUESDAY RVEN I SEPTEMBEn 2 18td.

TEE WEAIIIIIh AND DIA CIROPA

be Oth, 21 br4ce grottse, 2 ptarmigan, 42 blue bares,
8 black g4mo, go:nis, and 1 duCk and on the 23d,
24 brace of grouse, and 6 hares. tit 144,4 An Prederiek
Milford, E,cl ,rand friends, bagged, in six
18i brace grouse, 7 woodcock, 1 snipe, 1 b!acke-,ck, and
tij hares. td.r. i/evvaf, Mai ir. 4yotnrni7lg Dewar, and
Wight, have taken the Enhies shoOtingd. Toe birCit;,
however, are said to be few and tar between, but fre-s
from disease. On the 12th, in one hour and a-half 5
brace of grouse and 1 blue hare fell to one gun ; on the
14th, in five hours shooting, 22 brace gr Age and One
hare ; and on the 18th, 7 brace grouser. and sevtral
hares.

ISTOADIA.MPTONSHIRE.—The past week has been
one of better promise for the harvest. Since yes-
terday week no rain of any amount has falloni and)
with little sunshine, the corn has lead the benefit
of strong daily breezes. A good deal of corn has
in consequence been carried, and in many cases in
better condition than was expected. We are in-
clined to think that, having been greatly blessed
by suns of enormous ripening power, the rains that
followed them have not done by any means so
much injury as had been supposed. That positive
benefit was conferred upon the turnip and mangold
wurtzel crops is certain, and has been made evident
by the rise in the price of stock accustomed to feed
upon those roots. The mischief that has been
done is principally local and individual. The barley
that has been laid is, no doubt, somewhat damaged
in that portion of it next the ground, but the
changes from south to north and from north to
south in the wind have prevented the barley from
being much laid. Mown barley has undoubtedly
suffered. Some of the early cut wheat may have
been a little grown, particularly in the bindings,
but not, we think, to any serious extent. The chief
injury has been to those that have been induced to
trry their corn, and that into barns, too rapidly,
and to the needy farmer, that was anxious to con-
vert his corn into cash iu a state fit for immediate
grinding. As to the community at large, they
have probably been benefited to a certain extent by
the increased quantity which the rains had given
to the corn that bad grown " too quick," and be-
come a little shrivelled. In this way also the far-
mers have benefited, in addition to the escape they
have had from an unnatural depression and fluc-
tuation in prices. Had the weather continued fine
a week longer than it did, we think the price of
wheat, from the hurry of agriculturists to realise,
might, and would, have fallen below 60s. the
quarter, only to rise again with unwholesome
rapidity. Upon the whole, we are inclined to
think that the British average of produce will be
rather below than above the ordinary amount, and
that till another seeding season has been followed
by anotlfbr harvest, the Russian territory must
prove less than usually productive.—Northampton
Herald, Aug. 30.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE.—The weather since our last
has been very showery and unsettled; still the rains
have not been of any long continuance. During
the intervals of fine weather a great deal of corn has
been secured in good order in this neighbourhood.
We are afraid, however, that in some instances
the wheat, being over ripe previously to being cut,
a great deal of waste has arisen in carting it from
the field to the rick. The unfavourable weather
which has thus prevented in some degree the in-
gathering of the wheat crop appears to have been
pretty general throughout the United Kingdom.
In the more northern counties complaints are made
of the cold as well as the wet, and the harvest is
not likely to become general in Yorkshire
and other parts adjacent for at least a fortnight
hence. The reports respecting the potato crop are
various, still, upon the whole, we are inclined to
think that it will be found that this precarious
root will prove quite as productive as last year. In
the neighbourhood of Hereford complaints are
made of the sprouting of the crop to an extent
likely to prove injurious ; this probably occurs only
amongst the earlier varieties, which, becoming
quite ripe and dry owing to the hot forcing weather
we experienced at the beginning of the month,
sprouted in the ground after the drenching rains
of last week. Under present circumstances it
would be premature to speculate upon the amount
of damage done in this vicinity to the wheat and
barley crops ; but from all we can gather, we be-
lieve it will be found much less than it was at one
time apprehended. We append the following com-
munication from a trustworthy source :—" A most
timely change in the weather took place on Friday
the 22d inst., and we have had good weather for
the harvest from that time till now, with the ex-
ception of a passing shower, which has kept us on
the alert to secure every available hour. Great
progress has been made, very many noble ricks
have been got together in good condition, and the
harvest prospects are decidedly cheering. The
stubbles will be ready for the sportsman by the Ist
September in this neighbourhood, but bagging,'
although an improved mode of cutting Lammas
wheat with a clean stubble, exposes birds to the
net of poachers."—Gloucestershire Chronicle, Aug.
30. -

In deer-stalking there has been much done this sea-
son. At Brat:tan Castle, the Duke of Hamilton, the
Right Hoi. Lord Lovat, and Mr. Keith Stewart Mac-
kenzie. have shot several bucks. Lord Dipplin, at Fan.
dich, killed 2 stags ; Mr. Vaughan, 2 stags and 1 hind ;
Mr. Watch, in Fannich, had 2 stags. At S:raiahvaich,
Mr. Pryar, had 1 stag ; at Garve, Captain 'Mackenz;e
bad 1 stag, and Captain Barring, a bind. Lord H.
B-ntinck, on the 18;,h, brought rh.wn 2 splendid stags.
At Invermoriston, Sir H. Meux killed 3 fine stags on
the 21st, at one stalking, out of a herd of 5 stags. They
weighed respectively 18 stone 3 lbs., 17 store 10 lbs.,
and 16 stone 12 lbs., all fat stags. In the forest of
Gildermory, on Thursday and Friday last, Lord Selkirk
shot four stags, one of them with horns of ten tines. At
Glen-Dibidale, &c., Mr. Ross and party have shot 18
red deer this season. They are in very fine condition,
and some have been shot with perfectly clean heals.
On the Strathconon moor, the deer are very numerous
and in fine condition. John La Touche, Esq., who has
been very successful, has alr, ad)* kited 13 stags, 11 of
them being very fine, heavy deer, and two or three with
royal heads. Only one, however, had a clear head, and
was a very fine animal, weighing 17 stone 8 lbs. ; another
killed the following day, weighed 16 stone 11 lbs.
On the 19th the parties from Castle Leed, Garve, and
Lochbae, met on the summits of Weavis for hare shoot-
ing, and killed upwards of 300 head.

THE MOORS IN THI NORTH.

(Prom else Inverness Courier.)
The experiences of sportsmen throughout the country
this season are not generally favourable as to the extent
of sport. The returns show that on almost all shooting
moors a great proportion of the birds shot are old ones,
and there is little doubt that the heavy rains in the early
part of the season did mach damage to the broods of
newly-hatched grouse. In some places the birds are
packed, and as wild as in the month of November, though
on many moors our reports show good sport. A corres-
pondent, writing from Caithness, says-" That for many
years past, grouse have not been so abundant as they are
this season. Some of the birds are weak, owing to the
cold and backward spring, which must have retarded
their breeding much, yet the sport has been goad. On
the Strathmore moors, Capt. Phslps, Mr. Dawson, Mr.
J. Dawson, Mr. Simpson, and Mr. Chandless, killed in 9
days'shooting, 801 brace (1,602 head) of fine birds-
each gun killing 13 to 30 brace per day. At Brawle
Castle, Capt,Fendall and Mr. Brown have had excellent
sport-killing 388 head in 7 days' shooting, on the 12th,
421 brace ; on the 18th, 361 brace ; on the 19th, Mr.
Brown was out alone, and killed 271 brace; and on the
20th the two guns were out and killed 36 brace. Birds
very numerous." On the Forsa moors (Caithness), onthe
12th, Major Stuart, of Edinburgh, had a good day's
shooting, having bagged 581 ; on the same day H. W.
P. Smith, Esq., of Oirtg, bagged 261 brace of grouse on
the Achalibster moors ; and at Langwell, T. E.O. Horne,
Esq., who usually makes a heavy bag, killed 47 brace.
On the Stirkoke moors on Monday, the 18th, Mr. Ken-
ney and Mr. Ogilvie shot 65 brace, and on the 19th Mr.
Kenney shot 23 brace after 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
Besides other weighty bags of birdstMr. Horne we learn
shot two handsome stags on the Glat Ground in Strath •
more, towards the end of last week. In Argyleshire the
birds have suffered more orless from disease, and young
birds are very scarce and small. At Knockdon, J. La-
mont, Esq., bagged 25 brace with his own gun on the
12t1a, 20 brace on the 13th, and 10 brace on the 14th,
after 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The birds were generally
strong on wing, bat fewer young birds than usual on
account of the early season being so wet. From Strath-
eonon, we learn that the grouse are very scarce. On the
kigh grounds there are no birds, old or young; and on the
low grounds only one or two young birds are to be seen
here and there. The old birds are also few, and many of
them still diseased. The black game and ptarmigan ap-
pear to have suffered in the same way. At Scatwell on
12th Aug., Mr. Mackenzie, of Muirton, and Mr. John
Mackenzie, shot 28 brace of grouse and 4 bares. Oa the
16th inst., the same party shot 23 brae' grouse and 4
hares. On the 21st, the same parties shot 2 roe deer,
8 bares, 5 brace blackcoek, 3 brace grouse, and 2 couple
of woodcock. At Lochluichart, Lord Sydney was out
on the 13th for a few hours, and killed 8 brace ; and on
the 14th, his 'lordship, accompanied by Mr. Milemay,
shot 16 brace. Oa the 15th, Mr. Milemay shot 11
brace. On the 16th, Lord Sydney, 131 brace. On the
18th, Mr. Milemay, l'7l brace. *a the 20th, Lord
Sydney and Mr. Milemay, 161 brace and 4 black-game.
The birds are generally very small. On the 12th,.Jarnes
Kaye, the Lochluichart keeper, shot 9 brace in a short
time. At Gladfield, Bonarbridge, Mr. Lamont, on the
lath, bagged 35 brace to his own gun, and on the fol-
lowing day 30 brace. On Tuesday last, at Shieldaig, in
Gairloch, Mr. Ward Hunt and Mr. Frederick E len killed
57 brace of grouse, 1 plover, and 1 hare. Since the 12,1
the two Mr. Hunts and Mr. Eden have, we hear, killed
379 head of game, 339 being grouses On the Hill of
Cahaan, marching with the forest of Strathconan, Mr.
Gordon of Nethermuir had three days fair sport, consi-
dering the season ; and Mc. a Gordon, in feur days last
week, bagged 491 brace of grouse and 8 mountain bares
-a very large proportion of the birds being old cocks.
From Knockie we learn that the birds are in a very good
condition, and the sport there has been good. On the
12th, Colonel Adair and Captain Grant shot, in two
hours, 12 brace of grouse ; on the 13th, Colonel Adair
and H. E. Adair, M.P., shot, in four hours, 22 brace of
grouse; on the 14th, the same two gentlemen shot, in a
few hours, 141 brace of grouse and some hares ; on the
16th, in two hours, 124 brace of grouse; and on the 18th
the same two killed 91 brace of grouse ; on the 19th,
Captain and H. E. Adair, Esq., shot 27 brace of grouse
and some hares ; on the 21st, H. E. Adair killed, after
1 o'clock, 181 brace of grouse and one bare; and on the
22d, H. E. Adair shot 161 brace of grouse. At Tulchen
Lodge the sport continues very good. On the 20th,
Mr. Wynn Williams shot 17 brace ; and on the 22d, 12
brace. On the 21st, Mr. F. Walker bagged 401, and
on the 22d, 24 brace. The salmon fishing is excellent.
At Glenlivat, Mr. Callwell had but moderate sport, the
grouse being very scarce on the high ground. On the
14th, in two and a half hours, he killed 111 brace; on
the 16th, 43 brace and 4 hares ; on the 19th, 311 brace;
on the 221, 23 brace ; and on the 23d, 214 brace. At
Glen-Rothes, Mr. Maclean and party shot, in six days,
247 brace of grouse and upwards of 24 harei. On the
Strathmashie moors, on the 12th, Mr. Fen wick killed 24
brace; Mr. W. S. Deacon, 29 brace; Mr. J. R. Edwards,
32 brace. On the 14th,Mr.R. Barnett,l9 brace; Mr. Fen-
wick, 29 brace; Mr. Deacon, 30 brace; Mr. J. R. Edwards,
22 brace; the bulk being old birds, and broods excessively
small. At Nuide, in 6 days'shooting, F.L. Bodeham, Esq.,
and party, bagged 207 brace of grouse. From Balbair
we learn that the grouse has turned out more plentiful
than was at first anticipated. Sir Philip Egerton and
Mr. Degh, in four days, bagged 118 brace. At Glendi-
bidale, on the 17th, Mr. Lamont bagged 33 brace of
grouse, with a good proportion of young birds. On the
12th, Mr. Ross shot 24 brace of grouse in a few hours.
At Tulloch Castle, on the 26th, Major Hirst,' and F.
11. Birse, Esq., in three hours, bagged 71 brace grouse,
61 brace black game, and 2 hares. On the following day
the same gentlemen were out for about five hours, and,
bagged 20 brace grouse, 1 brace back game, and 3
hares ' • and a considerable addition to the bag could
easily have been made. Oa the 16th, at Foyers, F. G.
Urquhart and brother killed 11 brace grouse, 1 wood-
cock, 2 snipes, 2 hares, 4 rabbits, and X roe-deer ; on