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MISCELLANEA. 
There was another indictment against the defendant, in which he was 
charged with the offence of larceny, arising out of the same transactions; 
but no evidence was offered in support of it, and the jury therefore 
again returned a verdict of Not Guilty, and the defendant was ordered 
to be discharged from custody .—The Times. 
MISCELLANEA. 
REMARKABLE INSTANCE- OE CANINE ATTACHMENT. 
A circumstance occurred very recently at Portree, Isle of 
Skye, which may be added to the many chapters recording 
the fidelity and attachment of dogs to their masters. A 
rumour spread through the town one morning that on the 
previous night the dogs had torn open the grave of a young 
man who had died of fever, and was interred some weeks 
previous. So painful and shocking an occurrence caused 
great excitement in Portree ; but in the course of the day 
Sheriff Fraser and others, having inquired into the facts of 
the case, found the facts to be not only of a less revolting 
nature, but fraught with the deepest interest. When the 
young man was buried, his dog followed the funeral to the 
churchyard, and was with difficulty removed. It returned 
again and again to the spot, and, unobserved, had dug into 
the grave until it reached the coffin. At Portree, as in many 
other parts of the Highlands, the people bury their dead in a 
very superficial manner, making only shallow- graves. The 
dog had gnaw T n through the coffin when the fact was 
discovered, but the body of its dead master was untouched; 
and there the faithful animal w T as found eagerly looking into 
the grave. “ I doubt,” says our correspondent, “ if there be 
on record a more striking instance of canine attachment; for 
you must bear in mind that four or five weeks had elapsed 
since the interment, and the churchyard is six miles from the 
house where poor Normals father lives .”—Inverness Courier. 
SALE OE MR. JONAS WEBB’S STOCK. 
Owing, we deeply regret to hear, to his failing health, Air. 
Jonas Webb has determined not to breed or let any more 
Southdowms, and to sell his ewes and rams, amounting to 
about a thousand, without any reserve, and Messrs. Strafford 
and Carter Jones (to whom the sale is jointly intrusted) have 
