The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-06 00:00:00

LION SHOOTING.

Two of our military Nimrods, Lieutenants Stacey and
Tinling, have been lately to the Joonaghur geer, or forest,
in quest of large game. The latter officer, before leaving
the geer,in company with his brother sportsman, managed
to bag two lionesses and a large lion. The latter, a
huge monster, measuring nearly eleven feet from the
tip of the nose to the shaggy end of the tail, appears to
have tried the patience and mettle of its antagonists. At
the first meeting the encounter ended in a flesh wound,
which made the "lord of the forest" scamper into the
jungle, leaving a gory track to mark the path. The pursuit
was about to be given up, after a long search, when a native
discharged a "Manton" into the brushwood, and the lion
reappeared and made a dash at the two officers, who allowed
the brute to come pretty close up before firing. The
simultaneous volley, so far, however, from slackening the
elocity of the charge, accelerated the motion. In the
twinkling of the eye both sportsmen bounded a few paces on
each flank, leaving a passage for the infuriated beast to
pass, and immediately after, on the lion refacing, planted
a bullet (Lieutenant Tithing, I believe) between the brute's
two eyes, which brought it lifeless to the ground. The
triumph was signalised by a bumper of iced champagne.
Lieutenant Stacey, since the return of his companion, has,
it is said, bagged two tigers, a tigress, and two cubs, and
some half a dozen panthers and cheetas.—Correspondent of
Deccan Herald.

At a special general meeting of the London Unive-
rsity College, on Saturday, Professor Grote, the historian
of Greece, was elected president, in the room of Lord
Brougham, deceased. The high literary attainments and
position of Mr. Grote eminently fit him for this distin•
guished post.

Mr. Longfellow has, it is understood, put a
veto upon the acceptance of invitations to public enter-
tainment. His objection, however, does not extend to
Trivate invitations, such as that which he has received for
hursday next, from the distinguished American artist,
Mr. Bierstadt, to a banquet at the Langham Hotel, where
he will meet a distinguished party of literary men, among
*hom will be Mr. Alfred Tennyson.

THE DEPARTURE OF HER MAJESTY FOR
OBBORNE.—Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by their
rtoyal Highnesses Princesses Louise and Beatrice, Prince
Leopold, and Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse,
attended by the suite, is expected to leave Windsor Castle
about Wednesday for Osborne. Her Majesty will travel
ty special train over the Great Western and South
Western lines to Gosport, and cross thence to Osborne.

Circulars have been issued by the great beetroot
sugar refinery at Itzehoe, in Holstein, to the farmers in
the vicinity of Eutin, inviting them to cultivate beetroot
on an extensive scale, and binding themselves to erect a
new establishment in that town capable of working up
200,000 centners of roots annually, provided the pro•
prietors of at least 1,000 acres of land are willing to turn
their attention to that species of cultivation. They offer
to take any quantity at a certain fixed rate, and the cost
of the new works at Eutin is estimated at 200,000 dollars..
—The Grocer.

EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT OF A BAPTIST
MINISTER.—At the Newport Petty Sessions, William
Jenkins, Baptist minister, has been charged with felo-
niously shooting at Sarah Green, at Risca, on the 26th ult.
Complainant was a domestic servant in the employ of Cap.
taro Jacobs, of Holly House, Risca. On the day named she
was in the garden when prisoner called out to her, and
immediately fired at her. When the police searched his
room they found a six-barrelled revolver, five of the,
chambers being loaded with ball, and one discharged, the
empty case of the bullet being found in the discharged.
chamber. A few days previously the police suspected the
prisoner of being of unsound mind, and sent him to the
union to be examined by the medical officer of the union,
but he was discharged. He told the magistrates he shot
the girl out of humanity. He was committed for trial at
the assizes, bail being refused for his appearance.
DEFEATED ATTEMPT AT Alur.DEß..—On Saturday
morning, at about two o'clock, at Newark, a most daring
and diabolical attempt at murder was made. It appears
that an old man, a retired publican, named Gee, who resides
in Queen's-road, and who was supposed to keep a consider.
able sum of money in his house, was confronted by a,
would-be murderer, wh o had effected an entrance at the back
of the premises. A struggle ensued as the desperado endea-
voured to cut the old man's throat ; but the old man, who
is a cripple, used his crutch with such vigour that he not
only, except a few scratches, kept himself out of the way
of the knife, but he also struck the knife, which caused it
to enter the ruffian's own hand. Gee also knocked his
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