Sporting.
( From the Ason 7ts of Sportinpad Fa;yGlGaizet-c.) The months ef.Mav and Juie are hightv iiteresting to theSports- man, particularly to the shooter; not, howeve-, on account etf any active employment they may afford him, but inasmuch as his future hopes materially depend on the kind of weather that occurs during this period. Grouse are, in a great degree, an exceptiop, as the breeding seaoon fbr these birds may be calculated a month e?.rlier at least than that for either the partridge or the pheasant. Grouse, also, trom their nature, as weU as frv' the circurstance of their nesr. being formied among aimost impenetrable heath or ling, are Icss liable to be influenced hv the wfather. and cannot fail to be abuntant. in regard to partridres aadl pheasants, which are morc gen-rally stread o'ver che face of the country than -rouse, it has been '.rp eAtl observed, in ouir annals, that the welfare of the tising ~~ ~ ~ ~ ,i.~J-& nd n the stAte of the wea- ther during dternonnth of Aiay _nd Jane. This period cannot be too dry for the breeding of these birds, however unrnpopitiorus sucha state mav be to the hopes of the husbandtmn. The earlier part of the spring was, grenerally spealuing, cold anC et ; but towaris the latter end oftApril, the weither bec:ame very fine, interrupted occasior,ally by well-timed showers, which, hop - ever they might annoy the pedestrian, could not fail to hc highly gratifying to the agriculhurirt and the grazier. The weather in the early part of Mfay was unconmmonly ?ne; and, on the 7th of this month, at half-past eleven in the evening, the writer listened with delight to a i.umber of tnightirnrales in \N hittlebury Forext. These tdeliglrtful warblers seldom p,oceed mrir.h farther north than this place; buit they appeared more nuurerouLtr than usual on this occa- xsion, ;,nd the writer was therefore disposed to consider it as an earnest of a fine seasen. That annual visiter the corn.crake was tearti rather earlier thtast usual. Ott the northLwest coast, little rain fel! daring the month of lav titougit itn tile woore tuthttern parts rto want of this refreshing fluid was experienced, ot the niglrts oi the l9di and 20b of iMay, very severe frosis occurred, so nmch so indeed, am to dcatrry all the early potatoes in Lancashire and i1L neighbourhood, wvhith were not pro- tected by the weather; it was dry in these parts till the 30Lt, when sonic drizzling rain fell Sl'ORG rhc. FIELD.SPORTS FOkJ JUIA.