The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-15 00:00:00

GROUSE SHOOTING AND DEER
STALK ING.
The following gleanings of sport from the moors
and deer corries have reached us since last week—at
Corrymony, Captain Downes shot, in one day lately,
16 brace ; at Dummaglass, R. N. Trumbell, Esq.,
on the 21st, 81 brace, and on Monday and Tuesday
following 1 1 and 9 brace; on the 10th, Sir H.
Meux and R.. Arabin, Esq., made out 21 brace ptar-
migan and 12 brace grouse—the same party's sport
for the season amounts to upwards of 800 'brace of
grouse, ptarmigan, and black game, together with
6 red deer. At Craggie, J. C. Freebairn, Esq.,
bagged 9 brace in part of a day; and at Lochtreig,
W. Clarke, Esq., has had some very good day's
grousing of more than average numbers. • From
several parties, who have closed their season, we
learn that all are highly satisfied, both with their
sport and Highland rambles. The game-book of the
Auchnanault party has entries of nearly 800 brace of
grouse and 7 red deer; at Scardroy, Captain Bon-
ham and Lord Beauclerk's returns were, 1,350 head
of grouse, about 100 of them hawked by Captain
Bonliam's well-trained falcons, which he brings every
year, to keep up the old sport of falconrie ; at Dalmi-
gavie, Mr. IVigram and friends shot 640 brace ; and
at Carr-bridge, Colonel Forbes and friends, upwards
of 620 brace. From the deer forests some very large
fat stags have been selected ; at Inverbroom, Sir St.
George Gore, Bart., got some first-rate shots, with
which he captured five stags, two of them very
heavy, and with large heads of horns, one set of
antlers 30 inches in length. From his forest at Rhi-
dorrach, J. A. Mackenzie, Esq., picked out two well-
antlered deer; one weighed, when cleaned, 30st. 31b.,
and the other 18st., 121 h. At Fasnakyle, J. W.
Eyton, Esq., and Mr. Gatacre, have stalked some
good stags, one with. thick beamed antlers finely
studded. R. H. -llalford, Esq., at Novar, has se-
cured 5 stags; and at Aviemore, S. Parnther, Esq.,
got one, and a roe deer. Some good specimens of
the brown and spotted varieties of fallow deer, which
at one time were preserved in several domains in the
north, have been shot by G. Stockwell, Esq., Braban,
J. Pell, Esq., and R. Reid, Esq., Castle Leod. Lord
Lovat, with his own gun, bagged, in one day last
week, no less than 38 brace of partridges, from his
preserves at Beaufort Castle.—Ross-shire Advertiser

DEATH OF MAJOR-GENERAL COTTON.—We hay.
to record the demise of Major-General E. R. Cotton,
who expired at Ellwall Hall on Thursday. The de-
ceased served at the Helder, including the actions of
the 2d and 6th of October, 1799, and in 1808 proceed, d
to the Peninsula, and served with much bravery and dis-
tinction in the Spanish army. his commissions were dated
as follow:—Lieutenant, 11th Oct., 1747; Captain, 9th of
July, 1803 ; Major, 4th of March, 1807 ; Lieutenant-
Colonel, 4th of June, 1813 ; Colonel, 22d of July 1430 ;
and Major-General, 23d of November, 1841.
RAILWAYS IN PORTUGAL.—A proposal has been
submitted to the Government of Portugal for the • con-
struction of a line of railway from Lisbon to Oporto,
through Santarem and Coimbra. The project has been
warmly taken up by many influential capitalists at
Lisbon, as also by parties connectei with Portugal in
this country. The necessary capital is to be raised, half
in England and half in Portugal ; the Government will
guarantee a fixed rate of interest until the line is com-
pleted, and certain privileges will be granted to the
company for a limited period.—Railway Chronicle.
JAMES COCKBURN BELANET.—Letters have been
received from the Home-office, expressive of the regret
of Sir James Graham at the outrages that have been
committed against the person and property of Mr.
Belaney since his return to North Sunderland. The
Government has joined in offering a reward of
100/. for the apprehension and conviction of
the offenders who set fire to his dwelling-house
on the evening of the 18th ult., and her Ma-
jesty's gracious pardon to any accomplice informant.
An inspector of police has been sent down to inquire
into the nature and particulars of the recent outrage.
He has been actively engaged for the last few days, and
on the 7th inst. laid informations against Mr. George
Gray Bell, the late clerk of the firm of Robson and
Skelly, and three other persons, of the names of
Steavenson, Brown, and Galligar, as principals
at the incendiary fire of the 10th ult. The
Rev. Dixon Clark, of Belford, a magistrate for the
district, after hearing a part of the evidence collected
by the inspector, granted warrants for the imme-
diate apprehension of the parties who will be brought
before a special petty sessions, . to be holden
for the purpose, this day (Wednesday) at Bedford. A
warrant was also granted to search the sdwelling-house
of Mr. Bell, for property belonging to Mr. Belaney,
which he is charged with having improperly taken away.
It is not true, as has been stated by some of our Con-
temporaries, that Mr. Bell had been appointed receiver
of the firm of Robson and Skelly by the Court of Chan•
cery, as no proceedings in that Court have been insti-
tuted. The subject is creating considerable interest,
and we are sorry to see parties of a respectable sphere
in life implicated in so serious a charge.— Tyne Mercury.
THE CUSTOMS.—A diversity of practice appearing
to have prevailed in remunerating tidewaiters boarded
on vessels allowed to discharge their cargoes before and
after the legal hours of business, when such permission
is granted, on special application being made by
merchants on the occasion of a vessel leaking or
being under contract or demurrage, or at the re-
quest of the dock companies or wharfingers during an
influx of shipping after the prevalence of contrary
winds, and consequent pressure of business, the ex-
pense for such over-time attendance being, on all occa-
sions, borne by the parties making the application ; and
the Board of Customs being of opinion that in all such
cases a charge at the rate of sixpence an hour should be
made, instead of a shilling, as has hitherto, in most in-
stances, been the case for a ticlewaiter working beyond
the hours fixed for the attendance of water-side officers,
and that when the services of a second tidewaiter,
on the same vessel, shall be considered ne-
cessary to assist in keeping an account of the deli-
veries, his over-time be also charged at the same rate ;
orders have been issued to the officers at the several depart-
ments in London, and the outports of the United Mng-
dom, to govern themselves in future accordingly. This
class of officers were not allowed any payment for extra
attendance till within the last year or two, when by a
new regulation they are required to keep an account of
the delivery of the cargo from the ship as a check upon
the landing account ; therefore, they are paid not so
much for extra attendance as for extra attention, to this
duty; their attendance on board the vessel being re-
quired day and night from the time she is boarded at
Gravesend till the whole of her cargo is cleared.
DREADFUL FIRE AT TOTTENHAM. —About four
o'clock on Thursday:mornine° a dreadful fire broke out on
the estate of Mr. Frederick Antenbring, of Farmwoods.
green, Tottenham, Middlesex ;From its first outbreak
there was not the least chance of saving any portion of
the property—.,A party =of fliiiaiowof Bodice soon
reached the rfieeWithiSklia‘Otteßham engine, but water
was such a distance from the farm, that during the
necessary delay that occurred in fixing the lengths of
pipe, the fire made the most frightful progress, and only
a short time elapsed before one-half of the farm-yard, 53
yards by twelve, was one burning mass. Two engines
of the London establishment from Whitecross-street
and Jeffries-square now arrived, when they were well
worked by the inhabitants and firemen, and it soon be-
came apparent that the firemen hail obtained the mastery.
Unfortunately, however, the brewhouse, granary, cot-
tage, cow-houses, calf-pens, sheds, &c., as well as several
hundred heals of live stock, were consumed. The pro-
perty is insured in the Alliance and Royal Exchange
Offices.

ROYAL ETIQUETTE.—The author of " Eveline,"
Frances Burney, or, by marriage with a French emi-
grant, Madame D'Arblay, complains bitterly in her
Memoirs' of the severe fatigue she underwent while a
Court lady. Her employment was personal attendance
on Queen Charlotte, to assist in robing, and keeping well
replenished her Majesty's snuff-box. It is contrary to
etiquette to sit or eat in the royal presence ; you must
not pass the royals on the road, nor any room in which
they are, if the door be open ; if met you must stand
still ; in retiring from their presence it must be back-
ward ; if they enter you must immediately rise, fall back
to the wall, leaving the centre • of the room for their ex-
clusive use ; you must not address them unless first
spoken to ; if a royal personage condescends to visit a
subject, be brings with him what- guests he pleases, and
has entire control during his stay of the mansion. As
princes are of ancient institution, all these rules have
doubtless a sage and politic meaning. They are chiefly
intended to maintain the personal dignity of the Sove-
reign, to present him being indecorously exposed, or
taken unawares, so as to betray weakness, or the appear-
ance of restraint on his will and pleasure. at as
princes are no longer considered divine or impeachable,
nor perhaps wish to be—for the assumption metdistinhare
been irksome—they might perhaps be
poor factory girl suffered mor.e than British Court, as they have been onnt
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world—want and
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this es es
and those dependent upon them.-IYeze .E." 4 inburg
Monthly Review.
WESTBROMWICIL—The thick coal miners of West-
brom jell and Oldbury have given notice for an advance
of wages of sixpence per day, so as to have four shillings
instead of three shillings and sixpence,
shall have the
presente,theirt
is
rate. The notice expired on last Saturday night.
generally believed by the men that.I
advance without any opposition on the part of the
7 a
,srtietres .—B
Russianirntiligotet:
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" That on the 27th of
June, in the district of Osselinsky and the govern-
ment of Georgia, a mountain, being nearly three wersts
in extent from the base to the summit, and covered with
trees, slipped, and did not cease to move until it reached
the hamlet of Seheleour, covering a space of twenty-four
acres of cultivated land. The hamlet, composed of five
houses and three mills, was driven, together with its in-
habitants, half a werst further. Fortunately, no lives
were lost."
'rho Collingwood, SO, flag of Rear-Admiral Sir G.
. Seymour, arrived at Madeira on the 18th ult., at tan
) :dock in the evening, all well. She performed the
voyage from Spithead in beautiful style, awl so steady
hat even the ladies on board experienced no inconveni-
itice from the voyage. Apprehensions were entertained
hat if' they were at sea long water would be scarce on
loard, as her hold was discovered to be less roomy tor
;towing than was imagined when she was victualled.
the was expected to leave fir Rio de aneiro, en route
t Valparaiso, the next day.—HompshiJ
re Advertiser.