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SHOOTING AT DKUML^NRIG.—At the close of the ten sou the Duke of Uuccleucli, and a party of lour others, bad six days' shooting at Drumlanrig Castle, where they had excellent sport. His Grace having unfortunately got bis baud severely hurt by the falling uf a stone from a dyke the ifr>t day, the number of nuns for the next live days was reduced to four. I he following was the result of the six days' shooting, iz. -Piw:\SaBts, S.j(); rartrid. I; wtmd(ocks. II wild fowl, 12; hares, 45S; making a total of 832 head.— Edinburgh Advertiser. PliElk4A%rs v. FoxEs — Wehnve frequently endea" voured to show thai ihe opinion (or rather prejudice) which is entertained, to the effect that foxes and game cannot cohabit in sufficient quantities, is not only unfounded, but also ridiculous. We lately proved that, in a cover belonging to the Hon. Neville Gren- ville, Mr Tudway found a brace of foxes, in which ) cover no less than seventy three pheasants were shot on the day following. We arc now enabled to stfitt- tlj:it, oil III(,- four l.ist (I;ii-s' sitootiiiu in tljc! and celebrated Stock Woods, in which covers, it is well known that foxes are more strictly preserved by Mr Yeatman than, in any other cover in tin- West of Kiigland, and from which covers the finest runs are seen year after year, and within these ten ) days, no less than 895 shots were fired by 18 gentle- men, who were invited to bring their guns on stated days, according to the list. and that 5GJ betid of game were killed, including 130 pheasants. We can also add that, in a plantation not.exceeding fourteen acres (in which Mr Drax found his first fox when he lasl inet -it Stock Mouse, prior to the late frost), no less ( than 91 pheasants were found and counted, out of which number 58 were shot, viz.:—on the 29tli Jan. last 30 hares h iving been also seen and accounted for on tllis Same M acres of cover; and, lastly, that on I he 1st of Feb. 50 pheasants were killed in Slock Wood (311 shots having been fired by the party on ( this occasion in that single cover), out of wbj h wood ) the markers counted four foges dii-tinctly, and saw ) them go away in different directions. Well might we exclaim, and invite others to exclaim, With these authenticated facts before us, and in the words of our Uncle Toby, The world is wide euough for us all." -Era, i

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