The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-20 00:00:00

VONDERFUL SPORT IN ABYSSINIA.

Sportsmen are noted for the vigour with which
they draw the long bow. lii all ages man has
allowed himself the greatest latitude when describ-

ing his exploits in the field, more especially as a
huntsman. When the sporting character gets into
unknown wilds, then indeed on his return he is
something awful, but many in these days of news-
paper correspondents do not wait for their return,
and cannot be circumscribed by a narrow audience,
so they soar into print, and make the world ring
with their deeds. At the same time it not un-

frequently happens that really truthful narratives
are delivered through the pure ignorance of the
public of the country and the scenes described. We
remember an English officer telling an adventure to
an unsophisticated English circle. Ile described
five tigers as being in the bush, a statement received
with winks and nudges, as the " bush" suggested to
the English mind was that of a gooseberry bush,
and they were not aware that the story-teller was
speaking of a dense Indian jungle. Dr. Boustead's
tale is worth repeating, and we give it as we found,
it in the Pall-Mall of Tuesday last :- —"R. Boustead
surgeon to the Abyssinian field force, has sent to the
Field an account of a day's sport in Abyssinia which
eclipses all other African travellers' tales on record.
Mr. Boustead went out one day accompanied by a
Shoho guide, a dhoolywallah, and a soldier servant,
"to _try and bag a lion." The soldier soon knocked
up in consequence of the tremendous nature of the
country to be clambered over, and was left behind ;
and Mr. Boustead, finding no lions, proceeded, in
company with the Shoho and the doolywallab, to hunt
for elephants. After incredible labour he came upon
a herd of five "huge brutes, two with large tusks, one
with medium, and two without any perceptible." He
stalked the largest till within ten yards, when the
elephant charged and, receiving a bullet in its fore-
head, dropped stone dead. To the next largest
elephant Mr. Boustead administered " a right and
left slick through the shoulder, both bullets well
placed," and finished it up with a third bullet from
his "little Mortimer (Enfield bore)," which smashed
the animal's limb to atoms. As the Shoho and the
dhoolywallah were dancing a dance of delight
around the bodies of the fallen masters, a third
elephant, an old bull, made at them, " galloping
like a racehorse and screaming furiously," the Shoho
shrieking, " Abiet, abiet, mundelli," which, being
interpreted, means, " Lord, master, save me," ran
straight up to Mr. Boustead, br;nging the infu-
riated brute upon him, and in passing accidentally
knocked that gentleman down with the butt of a
spare rifle he was carrying, and nearly fractured
his skull. Mr. Boustead, nothing daunted, arose,
calmly planted an '6 Enfield-sized bullet," also
and cal
from his " double Mortimer," through the elephant's
brain, at a distance of five yards. The animal fell
dead at two paces from the spot on which the ad-
venturous hunter was standing, and rolled over a
tremendous precipice, carrying away large trees in
his fall as if they had been rotten reeds. No sooner
had this feat been achieved than a fourth elephant
entered on the scene, " blowing and trumpeting
hideously." It was received by the undaunted and
unerring practitioner at twenty-five paces " with a
heavy ball in the head, very high." This having
no effect on it, a second barrel was administered
rather low," and its course was for a moment
checked. But on came the wounded brute again.
The Shoho and the dhoolywallah had by this time
bolted, ash-coloured with affright, and Mr. Bou-
stead stood alone. He motioned to the cowards to
toss him a loaded rifle from the high rocks
on which they had taken refuge. The rest
of the story shall be told in his own words.
Sir Samuel Baker never shot closer or more accu-
rately, or depicted his own feats more dramati-
cally :—" They chucked it down, and I caught it in
the air as it fell, and gave the elephant a No. 12
through the shoulder, which disabled him. He
tried to get up to the path where I was standing,
but tumbled back, and in his rage commenced
smashing to pieces everything in his way, making
fearful noises. It was a rare sight to witness his
wonderful strength ; he bore down trees of consi-
derable thickness by sheer strength and weight of
body, and smashed their branches into thousands
of atoms. Every bit of jungle was knocked to
smithereens and trampled to pieces all around him ;
and his vain endeavours to get at us, and his terrible
rage at being foiled, were really most exciting to
witness. He nearly succeeded in getting up the in-
cline to where I was, when I gave him the last
bullet I had. His legs gave way, he staggered back
on his hocks, and then rolled over heavily with a
terrible groan. I can assure you I was thankful
when it was all over, and that I was out of the row
BO well." The fifth elephant appears to have
escaped with its life.—Anglo-American Tunes.

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC, JOlfftlatS.

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The Emperor of the French has just attained his six-
tieth year. The Times, in calling attention to this asks if

there is during the whole of his reign to be Imperialism
in France. Should there be no limits to power where
there are confesses' limits to the faculties of him who

wields it ? The Emperor has lived many years as a pri-
vate citizen. He is a man of the world, a cool, shrewd
observer, and could form a correct estimate of whatever

came immediately before his eyes. But for the last twenty
years he has been labouring under the " curse of kings.',
Since his accession to power he has never- beheld France

'ace to face.

He must either take her at a rude

guess, or see through the medium of that cumbrous
scaffolding of official administration which he has

reared between himself and the nation, instead o:
the regular edifice of a representative government such a
France as M. de Persigny or M. Rouher choose to describe
to him—a France ready to uphold Imperialism against
the Emperor himself. Would it be impossible for the

Emperor, on his sixtieth birthday, to turn over a new

leaf ? Could he not extricate himself from his present

embarrassing position by the partial abdication of his
absolute power? Could he not atone for any error thaA
may have occurred in the past by relinquishing undivided

responsibility for the future? With all that may be
deemed problematic and unsatisfactory in the Emperor's
character, it would be impossible not to credit him with
cenerous impulses. Something like regret and misgiving

seems at times to assail Lim in the dreary solitude of lis
elevation. It was not for his own sake, as he has often

hinted, not for the gratification of personal or even dynasti4
ambition, that he accepted unbounded power. Ete has
described Imperialism as by its nature progressive ; as a

temporary structure ; a means to the end ; the application
of force to the establishment of legal authority: When
the end was attained, when order could be pronounced

secure, the superstructure should be removed, and the
" crowning of the edifice" would follow. There never,
perhaps, was a moment when the fulfilment of these
promises would come with a better grace. We would not
presume to suggest what institutions may best suit the
French temperament, though something might, perhaps,
be contrived better than a State constituted in the shape
of a pyramid, with nothing between the electing masses at
,the base and the elected autocrat at the summit.

The Post is of opinion that the period for which the
militia is called out is insufficient for drill, manoeuvres,
and musketry practice. It points out that this latter might
be attained by calling them out for rifle practice by com-
panies, and for two or three days beyond the usual time of
training. It is certainly most unsatisfactory that this force
should have no ball practice whatever, and the com-
paratively small sum required to effect this could not be
refused by Parliament if the case were properly represented
to it. Before the Easter recess there were undoubted in-
dications in the House of Commons of an earnest desire
to adopt whatever measures were likely to be advan-
tageous for the militia ; in fact, the feeling was strongly
in favour of this great and truly national force,
and .therefore there are really r o grounds whatever for the
assertion, now frequently made, that the force is likely to
suffer irom neglect. The volunteers, from the very nature
of their being, from their" marvellous and unexpected
development, from the sustained energy of the movement,

and from the novelty attaching to the force, are undoubtedy,
and very rightly, great public favourites ; but the militia
occupy a very different position, and can afford to be quite
above tbesmallest trace of jehlousy. The tendency of

modern military organisation is entirely in the direction of
the appreciation and development of just such a force as
our own militia, as a support of and an auxiliary to the
regular troops, and occupying a distinct and honourable
and superior position between them and the volunteers.
The weekly article of the Daily Eon on trade and
finance deals with the recent Railway Conference at Man-
chester. Our contemporary observes as remarkable that
little stress was laid upon the power of a railway company
(that is, the direction) to pledge the credit of the under-

Eking in indirect debts, by Lloyd's bonds, temporary

loans from bankers, overdrawn balances, financial transac-
tions, and the whole machinery for going to ruin. Rail- -
way finance has always been discreditable. The practice
has been to borrow from the banker upon future traffic
receipts. The banker naturally lends upon a good margin,
especially to a railway company receiving each week a
large revenue ; but the principle is the same as in private
life, and fundamentally wrong : it is the anticipation of -
profits, instead of a prudent reserve from those already
gained. Year after year the balance-sheets of dividend-
paying railway companies are accompanied with
additions to capital, which make the practical reader
ask himself wistfully, " Has any dividend been really
earned ? " It is impossible at present to foresee what will
be the end of such practices, although some of the inevit-
able consequence to shareholders it would be equally im-
possible not to perceive. One thing is certain, that unless
a complete revolution takes place in railway management,
ordinary shares in this class of property, which the public
has been for thirty years learning to regard as capable of
being held as a security only a little inferior to consols,
will before long be avoided by all but the speculator. It
would be a great misfortune, and a great disgrace to Eng-
land, if so vast a system of administration were to be thus
discredited, and a legitimate business capable of being re-
duced to the simplest administrative rules depraved by
-vices of management, and on that account every serious
endeavour to bring it again under the control of sound
principles should be applauded.
The Herald remarks that nothing is more obvious or
more certain than that, as far as legislation is concerned,
the Whigs hive never been in earnest ; and the Radicals
—whatever we may have to say of them—always have
been. The Radicals seriously and honestly wish to
extinguish the House of Lords, or to turn it into such
a Senate as one may see in France or America; seriously
and honestly wish to alter, not only the constitution
of the constituencies, but also that of the House of
Commons ; not only to give votes to working men, but
to send working men to Parliament ; seriously and
honestly wish to destroy the royal supremacy, to secu-
larise the universities, to destroy the union between
Church and State ; in a word, to Americanise the land
and its institutions. The Whigs, on the other hand,
do not seriously and honestly wish to accomplish these
results, but they pretend to wish to accomplish something
like them—something that shall be thought by one set
of people to help to bring them about, and by another set
of people to help to stave them off—in order to keep them-
selves politically going. That is why they are invariably so
anxious to get hold of Radical schemes, to toy with them,
to parade them, to pretend to be half in favour of them,
all the while that they cut their claws, stop their growth,
and virtually immure them. No doubt they thought to
do this with the question of the Church in Ireland. Earl
Russell's speech of last year and Mr. Gladstone's letter to
one of his constituents at Oxford three years ago, are there
to prove it. But this time the Radicals overtook them,
and were not to be trifled with. The Irish Church ques-
tion had to be surrendered to its real parents. In Radical
hands it now is, and naturally enough is growing apace.
Let there be no mistake. It is not the Whigs—it is not
Earl Russell and Mr. Gladstone— who are the real parents
of the famous resolutions. They were conceived by Mr.
Bright and Mr. Miall ; and it is by them, and in obedience
to their instincts, that the joint production of revolution
and nonconformity is let loose upon the empire.
The Telegraph replies to the criticisms of certain papers
to the effect that there is something rather odd, not to say
unworthy, in this relish of the Irish people for royal
courtesy ; but in truth the English nation is just as suscep-
tible of what seems like slight, and just as ready to recog-
nise good feeling. The very organs of opinion that express
surprise at the success of this visit expressed themselves in
language hardly loyal because Queen Victoria, with only
too sufficient cause, withheld from London for a few years
the light of her countenance ; and we can easily imagine
the tone and thoughts of all Englishmen if her Majesty
thought proper to live entirely in Scotland for ten orfifteen.
years. Can we wonder that in Ireland the traditional
feeling of estrangement from English rule has been
deepened by the absence of the sovereign, and that a
people swayed by sentiment and apt to give way to
emotion has felt sorely the slight indicated in the continued
absence of the Queen? The Telegraph has never joined
with those who wished to degrade Royalty into a mere
social figure-head, and who thought that the Queen's
highest function was to receive young ladies at drawing-
rooms or to give grand balls. But a sovereign is above
all things the personal representative of the nation—she
stands for the Empire. She is the sole " institution," to
use the cant phrase of the day, that unites Englishmen
. Scotchmen, Irishmen, and Colonists in one Imperial feel-
s
of
ing ; she is the outward and visible sign of unity
tc
which the majority of us are, and all of us
ogr her
be, proud. As such a symbol her
ethldnesnterseomn,oniys theand ilrleugsatrridortrie,
n imperial nationality.
representative taltvier es
surround
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is indirectly an exaltation of our ow

The Winchester has so far recovered
from h Bishop
islaite)
attackof as to be able to take an airing in his
His lordship has not yet, however, recovered
the faculty of speech.
TRIPLE BIRTH. —The wife of a joiner, uamed
Whitehead, residing in Calverley's-yard, Knaresborough,
nas given birth to three children. They are all girls, and
along with their mother are doing well.
THE CITY RATCATCHER. Samuel Humm
petitioned the Court of Sewers on the 7th inst., that he
might be permitted " to go into the City sewers to catch
rats, in which he has for the last eighteen years been en•
gaged," and the surveyor having been heard thereon, the
said Humm was solemnly informed by Alr:'De Jersey that
he must not in future go below the surface.