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chilly, and we were glad to walk at a brisk pace ; 
the betel-cliewiiifj ganj,' foUowinj; excitedly heliind. 
As we approaclied the niliu, pigeons became 
more and more numerous. Every step sent 
squirrels scampering up the straight stems, and 
rats scurrying into safe cover ; for where the 
nilIu berries are ripe, there will these animals 
teem. But our attention was directed to the 
clusiering leaves above. There were pigeons of 
all kinds, and in any number, and after each report 
the air was lull of the clapping of their wings. 
But such plenty could not last for long, and they 
soon sheered oil', or circled out of shot, and arriving 
at an open glaJe we sent the coolies round to 
beat the patch in front of us. The first birds 
that came over were pigeons flushed from a dis- 
tance, and they offered very easy shots, just 
skimming the underwood and making across the 
sunlit opening. They soon found us out, how- 
ever, at.d Hew in any direction but ours. The 
jungle-fowl, wliich had been running before t!ie 
beateis, now began to m.ike their appearance. 
There was a sudden metallic outcry, and a cock 
and two hens dashed out of the jungle in front of 
me. I had both barrels at the cock, but he went 
away serenely, followed by his dowdy little wives. 
1 looked at Mac. for sympathy, but got none : he 
was busily engaged with two birds, which came 
down to a good right and left. A moment later 
and the cock ilew out on my side, and I duly 
missed him. Mac was smiling audibly, and re- 
membering my luck had always been bad with 
these birds, I snatched my ilask from Gregoris 
and toasted success to myself, and the nest instant 
had the satisfaction of crumpling up a cock, 
which fell wiih a thud in his glory of black and 
gold. Nothing succeeds like success, and as the 
beaters' din grew louder, and the birds Hew out 
faster, I got more and more on the spot. Many a 
wily old cock ran to the edge of the jangle, and, 
catching sight of us, disappeared again and broke 
back. But many another dashed out as straight 
as an arrow, and few of these got away. The beat 
came to an end, and some eight to ten couple of 
jungle-fowl were picked up, besides several pigeons. 
The next beat was less productive in numbeis, 
but n>ade up for lhat by the sporting shots it 
gave. We stood in a f mall ravine, and the driven 
birds Hew high overhead from one jungle to the 
other. The majority were out of shot, and those- 
within gave no time for hesitation. It was at 
the finish of this beat that Mac nearly bagged a 
coolie wlio was much in advance of the line. 
He received one pellet in the hand, and, giving 
himself up for dead, could only be persuaded to 
get up by tlie offer of some brandy. He then 
bouitd his head up, and seemed to forget the 
incident. It is euiious how a native will always 
bind up his liead if ill or hurt, irrespective of the 
locality of his ailment, and appears to derive 
comfort therefrom. The heat was bpcoming 
unbearable, and as perspiration running copiously 
into one's eyes does not improve one's shooting 
we returned to eamp, well satisfied with the 
inoruinc"s spoit. The afternoon beats found us 
in fair fettle, but we were in sore need of another 
gun. It was heart-rending to see birds in plenty, 
liying beautifully on either side, and nobody 
there to shoot them. 
That evening we dispensed with the services of 
home-bred fowls, and fed heavily on theii nillu- 
fattened confreres. A slight gun-headache that 
had bothered me wore oft' with ray appetite, and 
thee, stretched in our hammocks, we diseus.sed 
the details of the day, till the cheroot ends burnt 
our lingers, and we stared at one another through 
the bottoms of our empty glasses. Then once 
more in the solemn hush of i he mountain forest, 
a steady roar rose from the pool below, and the 
world seemed left to the creatures of the night. 
ToM-Tir. 
—Land and Water, Nov. 29. 
THE OCCUPANTS OF THE SEE OF CAL- 
CUTTA : THEIR NAMES IN CHRONO- 
LOGICAL ORDER, 
Steuart Place, Dec. 17. 
Sib,-— 1— The first Bishop of Calcutta was Dr 
Thomas Fanshawe iMiddleton, and was consecrated 
on May 8ih, 1814, t>y Archbishop Charles M Sutton 
and assisted by Bi>hop Williiim Howley, (of Lon- 
don) ; George Tomline (of Lincoln); and John 
Fisher (of Salisbury). 2— Heginald Heber, conse- 
crated on June Jst, 1823. .3 -John Thomas 
•James, consecrated on June -Itli, 1827. 4— John 
Mathias Turner, conseciated on May 171I1, 1829, 
-J— David Wilson, consecrated on April 29th, 1832. 
6— George Edward Lynch Cotton, consecrated in 
1858. 7 — Robert Milman, cons(crafed on Febru- 
ary 2nd, 1867. 8— Ed waul Ealph Johnson, conse- 
crated in 1876 9— J E C Welldon, consecrated 
in 1898. 10 — Keginald Stephen Copleston, trans- 
lated in 1902, and consecrated in 1875. 
The ruling Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon. takes 
his title from Kedleston in Derbyshire which was 
the birth-place of the riist Bishop of CHlcutta. 
He was the only son of llev. Thomas Middleton 
and was born in January, 1769. When he was 
offered the See of Calcutta, he had to resij;n the 
office of Archdeacon of Huntington, and the 
Vicarage of St. Pancras, ^Middlesex. His reputa- 
tion as a scholar, was very considerable ; but it 
was not until the year 1S03, that he more fully 
established that repat^ation by the publication of a 
" Treatise on the doctrine of the Greek Article 
applied to the Criticism and Illustration of ihe New 
Testament"; a work of great importance to the 
Biblical student, and which brought Dr. Middleton 
nioie prominently before the public. 
The great object of the Bishop, soon after his 
arrival in India, was the erection of a College, 
where the means of some scriptural education 
might be afforded, and where the risitig generations 
for the time to come might derive instruction, 
with more special reference to the Propagation 
of the Gospel. He saw that without the assii-iauce 
of native teachers, and the translation of the 
Scriptures into the languages of the counirj', little 
real good would be ellected, and, therefore, in reply 
to a letter from the Society for the Propagation of 
the Gospel, he strongly pressed the necessity of 
establishing a Mission College near Calcutta. To- 
wards the accontidisliment of an object so desirable 
in eveiy point of view, the Bishop directed all the 
powers of hii? active and comprehensive mind, and 
after some years' of patient labour, and no small 
anxiefj, he had the happiness of laying the founda- 
tion stone of the Calcutta Mi-ssion College on the 
15lh of December, 1S20 Last Monday, then, the 
lotli instant, saw the S2nd anniveisary of this im- 
portant undertaking. The building was designed 
in a manner well woithy of the iniportant object in 
view. It stands on the right bank of the Hooghly 
(nearly opposite Garden Keach) on a piece of 
