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

['PRIG., 4D. STAMPED SD.

THE MOORS AND FORESTS.

(From the Banffshire Journal.)
The late rains and great dearth of birds have caused
sportsmen totally to abandon the grouse beats. Those
who bad not the. privilege of deer•stalking or cover
shooting have returned south in disgust. The number
of game killed clearly shows that this season has been
the worst ever seen in the north. Nor need much better
sport be expected next year, let the remaining stock
breed ever so well, as the bags made this year have been
almost entirely filled with old birds. These 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.,work,
although they have had to contend against excessive
rains and changeable winds for the past fortnight. The
distinguished party at Glenfiddich have closed their
successsla o o t i shooting
among g for theth
ed
seasoneer.
On
a ft
er
Monday enjoying,l
unprecedented
Lod Li,towel. brought down a stag of 9 points ; and
6th inst,
,
the same day Major Armitage had two of 8 and 10
p dints. 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 stags tell before his rifle. Major
Granville wag out on Friday, and knocked over a pretty
stag of 10 points. The party at Glenfiddieh have, in all,
killed this season no fewer than 70 stags, and three hin.is,
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 6th, his lordship had
three stags ; on Tuesday, the 7th, three stags, weighing
from 14 to 17 stories atter being cleaned out ; and on
%Yednesday, the-Btb, another stag—thus, in five SUCCNi•
sire days, bringing down no-fewer than ten splendid
stags with his own rifle.

In Russ shire, in the deer covers, some splendid sport
has also been enjoyed. Our correspondent in that cigar-
ter, writing on Saturday, says--" John La Toucbe, Esq.,
is prosecuting this laborious and exciting amusement
daily with most excellent success. In Stratbc moan, on
the 9th, his success was still better. At the first shot he
brought down a Royal doer, which hai 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 preserve.
lion. 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. In Mr. Murray's deer covers,
at Craigdarracb, some fine sport 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 hind. Captain Baring
and Mr. Murray shot each a roe deer the same day. On
the 4th the party at Cool House made a first-rate bag to
two guns. They shotjl3l Alpine hares, 4 brace of grouse,
3 pheasants, 5 rabbits, 2' woodcock, and 2 roe deer,
being 154 bead in one day."

THE TYNE SAILORS' Holm—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 100 seamen. 2,0001.
has also been contributed by the shipowners and mer-
chants of the Tyne for an endowment. The extension of
these 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-street, London ; Fouler, Sunderland, North
Shields, Liverpool, Bristol, Cardiff, Falmouth, Devon-
port, Plymouth, Dover, Portsmouth, Dublin, Belfast,
Cork, Queenstown, Limerick, Glasgow, Greenock, and
Leith; and others are building.
LADY NOVELISTS.—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 100/. 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, if
not a Prime 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 said is the following :—Greek
and Hebrew are mere play to a heroine; Sanscrit is no
more than A B C to her ; and she can talk with perfect
correctness in any language except English. She is a
polking 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 the Semitic lan-
guages successively.— Westraineter Review.
IMPROVEMENT or MODERN LONDON.--Speaking on
this subject at the opening meeting of the Architectural
Association on the 3d inst., Professor Donaldson said
he recollected London some 25 years ago : there was
then hardly a straight street in it. The streets vs, re 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 had been made. The
president had said that London becomes more and more
intolerable. He (Professor Donaldson) said that it be-
came 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 pita' its the
world.—The Builder.
THE NEW METAL ALUMINIUM.—It will be interesting
to both commercial and scientific men to learn that, in
June last, Messrs. E. Held and Rehr, a Danish house,
sent out their brig Sonderjylland, Capt. Brocksdorf, to
Arksuk Fiord, in 1at..01 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-
gence from Messrs. C. F. Fisgen and Cu., 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 (ti e shortest on record), with a full load of cryo-
lite. This is the first cargo of cryolite received from Green-
land, which is the only country where, as yet, it has been
found. 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
atitufe for a compound of alum and sugar of lead.
PLAYING AT LIANSING.—A preliminary examination
was opened yesterday before Mr. W. M. Maude, West
Riding magistrate, at the Leeds Infirmary, into the cir.
cumstances which had resulted in the injury of a boy
named John Harris, who is now lying dangerously ill
at that institution.. The examination was opened on the
suggestion of the medical man having the charge of
Harris; and from Harris's deposition it will be seen that
three boys, named J. Firth, B. Preston, and A. Sharp,
are charged with having caused him serions 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 about 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 got tny 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 Firth 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
hang Palmer with me, and I set off and ran to my work.
Preston ran after me, e,aught.me, and broughtrombendbamcky,
yFairrtmhstied the aud then Sharp taisesdisatibrgopbeimun. deTrhme
body, the o
rope
to the crane. I tried to get loose, but could not. I
told them to let me go, but they never spoke. There
was no one in the top storey of the mill butus, and I had
not time to 0111 out. The mill 'was at work. When Vie
rope was fastened to the crane some one was drawing a
sheet of wool up, and that set the crane aping. 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 afterwards Firth went down stairs. The
chain of the crane caught me, and folded round me.
The chain squeezed any body, and I could not call 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 rope round me 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 tnat no one had bold
of the rope when -'he got fast. After remaining sus
pended for a short time, Harris was taken down by one
of the work people, and on examination it was found tbat
he had sustained a fracture of one arm, and such serious
spinal injury as to cause .paralysis over the lower -limbs.
After taking the deposition, the three boys were reman-
ded until Tuesday next, but admitted to bail.