The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-09 00:00:00

the public ask themselves where lies the blame ? Ycu
have no right to cant about either the imprudence or
the unprincipledness of authors till the obstacles are
removed, whose removal would open for them a safe
and honourable career. Till then, many of them will,
like other men, yield to temptation ; they will mislead,
mystify, and bamboozle you ; and you will deserve
to be misled, mystified, and bamboozled. Why
should you not ? You curl the lip at the man of
talent for not being careful of his cash. Can you
complain should he consult his interest, and curl the
lip at you for not being careful of your intellects, but
swallowing the lies and sophistry which you tolerate
his being tempted to serve up to you for facts and
logic ? To despise them tends to make them despise
you. Pray have, good Public, a little of the pru-
dence you require in them ; render them justice ;
hold them in proportioned honour; protect them from
plunder ; deal with them as you deal with other pro-
fessions or occupations, which relate to your food,
clothing, health, property, and other tangible inter-
ests, and you Rill find your account in it, even upon
the most selfish principles.

PCBLIcoLt.

THE MOORS AND RIVERS.
(From the Inverness Courier.)

GROUSE SHOOTING.—We learn that the gentlemen
milting shootings in the neighbourhood of her Mi-
jesty's royal residence, "Balmoral Castle," Dee-side,
report favourably of the healthy state of grouse in that
locality. Amongst the returns are—Lord Elcho, on
the 12:h, bagged 80 brace on the Moss of Monaltrie ;
Sir Ricbsrd Fielding, on the Carbrae, on the 12th,
56 brace. Oa the forest of Birse, rented by E.
Laverack; E q., himself, J. Robinson, Esq., of hove-
ran, and Drs. Maxton and Gordon, bagged in sixteen
days 1,823 head of grouse and a large quantity of
mountain hares. Birds were never known so strong
and wild, at so early a period, by the oldest sports-
man.

DEER STALKING.—Two heads of stags, both shot
in a remarkable way, were sent the other day to be
preserved. One of them was shot last Thursday
by S. W. Hurrell, Dn., in the woods at Carr-Bridge;
being in pursuit of black game the gun was loaded
with No. 6 shot. The deer started up at a distance
of forty yards, and before be reached one hundred
yards, fell to a double shot of common-sized grouse
shot. The other was shot at Foyers (see annexed
paragraph). Though the antlers of the latter were
untouched, the bones of the head were broken into
small fragments—pounded like lump sugar—by the
fall.

Lord Malmesbury has received a succession of
visitors at Achnacarry Castle during the last fort-
night. Lord and Lady Canning, Lord Eddisbury,
Lord and Lady Jocelyn, and Lord Edward F.
Thynne are at present at the Castle. The fishing has
not been very extraordinary—the continued rain for
the last two weeks keeping the rivers in a very
swollen state. Lord Canning, however, fished a good
day's work on Wednesday, and his basket had, with
other fish, a salmon weighing 14Ibs. The grouse
have been a failure this season. The best day's sport
did not exceed six or eight brace each gun, so that
grouse-shooting may be said to be finished for the
season. In the forest, however, better success has
attended the sportsman. Lord Edward Thynne
brought down a very fine stag. The head being soft
and covered with its velvet was the only drawback to
its royalty. Yesterday Lord Jocelyn and Lord
Eddisbury shot each a noble stag, and on Saturday
Lord Malsnesbury brought down a very fine stag
within a short distance of the house. Some good
sport in the forest may be anticipated, there being an
abundance of deer.

On Saturday, the 24th ult., Sir Arthur Chichester
killed a royal stag in the Lochcarron forest, which
weighed, clean, 23 stones, and as it fell 29. On
Motday following Mr. Kenneth Mackenzie, yr. of
Applecross, brought down a fine stag; and next day
Mr. Frank Mackenzie captured a large hind in the
Applecress Forest.
Lord Anson has bad very fine deer-stalking in the
west of Sutherland.

CAITHNESS.-Mr. La Touche (the tenant of Aus-
dale and Braemore moors) brought down two fine
stags last week. Mr. T. E. 0. Horn shot a good
stag in the Lang well preserve, on the 15th ult.
Grouse shooting has been pretty fair, considering the
disease of the last four years ; but the birds, though
not so numerous as should be, are exceedingly strong
and healthy.

THE Niss.—This river is now of good angling
size, and the members of the club have had fair sport
during the week. Sir J. R. Canute and party on the
upper waters, have been particularly successful.
THE RIVERS IN THE NORTH OF SUTHERLAND.—
Never in the memory of man have the rivers in this
part of the country afforded less sport to the angler.
From the 2011 of May to the 18th of August the
rivers were so very low for want of rain that not a
fiih could ascend them ; in fact, they were more like
small burns than good-sizA rivers. On Sunday, the
18th, the wind blew a strong gale from the west, and
in the evening it commenced to rain in good earnest,
and continued till Monday evening without any inter-
' mission ; the rivers that mere so low on Sunday
mornit.g came down iu torrents. On Monday they
had subsided a little, and though too high for good
sport, yet J. V. Machin. E q., killed two fine salmon
the largest weighing 19.b5.; since then the different
gentlemen anglers have had good sport, each killing
from one to three fish a day. The Messrs. Chandler
have killed one or two each day, and on Monday, the
26th, two fine salmon and one grilse were taken. The
Laxford river afforded no sport whatever up to last
wer k.

A LEAP OVER Foraas.—On Friday, tlie 30th ult.,
John Fowler,R.q., who leases the shootings of
Foyers, stalked and shot a large stag in the wood ad-
joining the Falls. The antlered denizen of the forest,
though apparently dead, soon recovered, and bound-
ing away towards a precipice which projects over the
lower Fall, in an instant leaped for the opposite side
of the frightful gorge. He failed in the attempt, and
was carried down by the impetuous torrent and im-
mediately thereafter was seen wheeling around in
"the boiling cauldron below." Mr. Fowler's gillies
were soon at the spot, and having procured ropes,
Alexander Fraser, gamekeeper, with a daring which
emulates the inhabitants of the lonely isle of St.
Kilda, was slung down the face of the precipice and
soon secured the stag, which is the fifth that fell under
the unerring rifle of Mr. Fowler.

HORRIBLE MURDER IN NEW
ZEALAND.
The family of Mr. John Ellis, a greengrocer and
stable-keeper in the Commercial•road, East, have just
received, per the Cornelia, Captain Mickleburg, from
Wellington, New Zealand, the melancholy tidings of
the murder of John Ellis, son of the above, on board
the ship General Palmer, in Port Nicholson, in the
early part of the month of April last, and the commit-
tal for trial of four persons concerned in the atrocious
deed.

It appears that Ellis, who had served an appren-
teship to Messrs Somes, the ship-owners, of Rat-
cliff, and had been out of his time about ten months,
was appointed to take charge of the General Palmer,
after the crew had quitted her, and she was laid up in
Port Nicholson, in consequence of her leaky condi-
tion. Great confidence was reposed in Ellis, who
was a young man of much promise. lle had charge
of all the stores on board, and was in the practice of
coming on shore every morning to transact busi-
ness with Mr. Kenneth Bethune, a merchant and
agent of the ship, residing in Wellington. He became
acquainted with four men, named William Good,
alias William Frederick Henderson, a deserter from
the 65th regiment ; M. Coslin, John Jones, and Thomp-
son, and they were in the practice of visiting him on
board ship. Knowing that he had above 201. wages and
other property in his possession, they resolved on his
murder, and the unfortunate young man fell a victim to
their treachery and cupidity, and to his own mis-
placed confidence in their integrity. Ellis was mis-
sing for a week, and Mr. Bethune, fearing that be
had been the victim of foul play, went on board the
General Palmer, and saw Thompson on board, who,
on being questioned, said the shipkeeper and Ellis had
gone ashore some days previou.. Mr. Bethune hav-
ing reason to know the contrary, gave Thompson
into custody, and upon proceeding into the cabin was
annoyed by an intolerable odour, which caused him
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brine, with the head downwards. The corpse was
dreadfully mutilated, the head severed from the body,
and upon a post mortent examination by Dr. Mon-
teith, a resident in the colony, it was ascertained that
he had been disposed of as the Mannings disposed of
their victim O'Connor, he was first shot and his skull
was beaten in by a hammer. Suspicion felling upon
the men who were in the practice of visiting him, and
who were last seen in his company, they were sought
after and found to have absconded. They were sub-
sequently apprehended in different parts of the colony
by the police-officers and natives sent out in pursuit,
and after several examinations before the resident ma-
, gistrate, and many witnesses, the circumstantial evi-
dence was so conclusive that they were all committed
for trial at the Supreme Court, which was to hold its
sittings in June.
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RrriusENTATioN OF MONTGOMERYSHIRE -It is
said that Captain Herbert Wynn, of the 7th Ful.iliers, will
offer himself as a candidate tor the county of Montgomery,
on Protectionist principles, inconsequence of the death of his
'uncle, the late Right Hon. C. W. Wynn.

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