know if he required hospitality. It is not now the gate which is shut, but the moor; and that not against the depredator, but against the peaceful wayfaring man. Nor can we as sportsmen admit even the relevancy of the reasons which have been assigned for this wholesale exclusion. We are convinced, that in each season not above thirty or forty tourists essay the ascent of Ben-na-Mac-Dhui, and of that number, in all probability, not one has either met or startled a red deer. Very few men would venture to strike out a devious path for themselves over the mountains near Loch Aven, which, in fact, constitute the wildest district of the island. The Quaker tragedy of Helvellyn might easily be re-enacted amidst the dreary solitudes of Cairn Gorm, and months clapse before your friends are put in possession of some questionable bones. Nothing but enthusiasm will carry a man though the intricacies of Glen Lui, the property of Lord Fife, to whom it was granted at no very distant period of time out of the forfeited Mar estates, and which is presently rented by the Duke of Leeds; and nothing more absurd can be supposed, than that the entry of a single wanderer into that immense domain, can have the effect of scaring the deer from the limits of so large a range. This is an absurd and an empty excuse, as every deer-stalker must know. A stag is not so easily frightened, nor will he fly the country from terror at the apparition of the Cockney. Depend upon it, the latter will be a good deal the more startled of the two. With open mouth and large gooseberry eyes, he will stand gazing upon the vision of the Antlered Monarch; the sketch-book and pencil-case drop from his tremulous hands, and he stands aghast in apprehension of a charge of horning, against which he has no defence save a cane campstool, folded up into the semblance of a yellow walking-stick. Not so the Red-deer. For a few moments he will regard the Doudney-clad wanderer of the wilds, not in fear bit in surprise; and then, snuffing the air which conveys to his nostrils an unaccustomed flavour of bergamot and lavender, he will trot away over the shoulder of the hill, move further up the nearest corrie, and in a quarter of an hour will be lying down amidst his hinds in the thick brackens that border the course of the lonely burn. We could say a great deal more upon this subject; but we hope that expansion is unnecessary. Throughout all Europe the right of passage over waste and uncultivated land, where there never were and never can be inclosures, appears to be universally conceded. What would his Grace of Leeds say, if he were told that the Bernese Alps were shut up, and the liberty of crossing them denied, because some Swiss seigneur had taken it into his head to establish a chamois preserve? The idea of preserving deer in the way now attempted is completely modern, and we hope will be immediately abandoned. It must not, for the sake of our country, be said, that in Scotland, not only the inclosures, but the wilds and the mountains are shut out from the foot of man; and that, where no highway exists, he is debarred from the privilege of the heather. What ever may be the abstract legal rights of the aristocracy, we protest against the policy and propriety of a system which would leave Ben Cruachan to the eagles, and render Loch Ericht and Loch Aven as inaccessible as those mighty lakes which are said to exist in Central Africa, somewhere about the sources of the Niger. INDEX TO VOL. LX. Abd-el-Kader, sketches of, 348. Agave Americana, the, 266. Aird, Thomas, a summer day by, 277. America, effects of the discovery of, Americans and Aborigines, the, a tale Arras, siege of, 527. Barrados, General, defeat of, 274. Ben Douda, an Arab chief, 341. Blidah, town of, 339. Bocca di Cattaro, the, 431. Bona, town of, 344. Boston, town of, 474. Bouchain, siege of, 537. Bright, Mr, on the game laws, 757. British Association, remarks on the, Burnes, Sir Alexander, murder of, 553. Cabrera, sketch of the career of, 293. Canada, sketches of, 464. Castel Fuerte, viceroy of Peru, 7. Cerro de Parco, silver mines of, 182. Charles Russell, the gentleman com- Commissions, sale of, in the army, 137. Cookery and Civilisation, 238. Cortes, armour of, 270-conquest of Coursing, passion for, in Peru, 15. Dance, the, from Schiller, 480. Dead Rose, a, by E. B. Barrett, 491. Death of Zumalacarregui, the, 56. Dedomenicis, Signor, 103. Dejazet the actress, 413. Denmark, sketches of, 645. Diseases of Peru, the, 179, 181. Ditmarschers, the, 646. Dost Mohammed, sketch of the life of, Douay, siege of, 525. Drama, the romantic, 161. Dress of the army, the, 143. Dudevant, Madame, 423. Dumas, Alexander, notices of, 417. Education of the soldier, on the, 138. I., 19-Letter II., 327-Letter III., Imprisonment as a punishment, on, 722. Inns of Peru, the, 181. Jamaica,Metcalfe's government of, 662. Jesuits, expulsion of the, from Peru, 6. English Poor laws, operation of the, Jews in Algiers, the, 344. 555. Epic poem, on the, 163. Espinoza, Major, anecdote of, 303. Fergusson's notes of a professional life, Fishes of Peru, the, 18. Flogging in the army, on, 133. France, state of criminal procedure in, Free trade, on, 249. Gaming, prevalence of, in Mexico, 267. Guano deposits in Peru, the, 17. Heron, habits of the, 397. Hidalgos, insurrection of, in Mexico, Juan Fernandez, island of, 3. Juan Santos, insurrection of, 190. Kennedy's Algeria, review of, 334. Kleist, General, 579. Kohl in Denmark and the Marshes, Kulm, battle of, 581. Lal, Mohan, Life of Dost Mahommed Last recollections of Napoleon, 110. Life at the water cure, review of, 376. Lima, town of, 5. Lodge, A., the Minstrel's Curse, by, London, annals and antiquities of, 673. Louis XIV., character of, 517-con- Lowe, Sir Hudson, 122, 126. Lutzen, battle of, 578. Malplaquet, battle of, 33. Man's requirements, by Elizabeth B. Maude's Spinning, by E. B. Barrett, Medeah, town of, 340. Mesmeric mountebacks, 223. Metcalfe, Lord, government of Jamaica Mexico, its history and people, 261- Military Education in Prussia, 573. Montalban, siege of, 305. Montenegro, visit to the Vladika of, 428. Montholon's Napoleon, review of, 110. More Rogues in Outline-the sick anti- Morella, capture of, by Cabrera, 301. 221. - - Morning and other poems, review of, Mules of Peru, the, 12. Russell, the gentleman commoner- Nogueras, General, 297. Peel, Sir Robert, policy of, 249-his fi- Pellicer, Colonel, cruelties of, 306. Peru, 1-the mine, forest, and cordil- Poaching in the Highlands, 403. Poetry-The minstrel's curse, 177-a Poor-Law, operation of the, 555. Pulque, manufacture of, 266. Punishment, state of, under the English Punishments in the army, 134-of the Quebec, city of, 465. Quesnoy, capture of, 694. Rahden's wanderings of a soldier, re- Raven, anecdotes of the, 402. Reed, a, by Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Reichenbach, count, anecdote of, 577, Requiera, Padre, 15. Rewards for the army, on, 136. Roads of Peru, the, 80. .Robbers of Mexico, the, 267-of Peru, Romantic drama, the, 161. Russell minstry, the, 257. St John's wild sports of the Highlands, St John's, town of, 464. St Juan D'Ulloa, fort of, 265. St Magnus', Kirkwall, 753. St Marie's Algeria, review of, 334. Short enlistments, advantages of 132. Index. Silver mines of Mexico, the, 271-of Smith, Hannibal, letter to, 590. Summer day, a, by Thomas Aird, 277. Thames, Lays and Legends of the, 729 Things in general, 625. Tournay, siege of, 28. Tower of London, the, 732. Tschudi's Peru, review of, 1, 179. Turenne, Marshal, 704. Uhland, the minstrel's curse by, 177. Visit to the Vladika of Montenegro, a, Von Rahden's wanderings of a soldier, 757. 123. West Indies, recent history of the, 662. Wild Sports and Natural History of the Wild swan, habits of the, 398. Woman's shortcomings, by E. B. Bar- Woods of Peru, the, 192. Yanez, colonel, death of, 268. Yussuf, an Arab leader, 347 Zumalacarregui, death of, 56. 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