24 AUGUST 1867, Page 3

The Edinburgh Courant publishes an unusually long letter from -a

" Practical Man," apparently an educated gamekeeper, upon the 'recent disease among the grouse. The result of the letter, as far as we can see, is that he knows no more about the disease than -anybody else, though he has a lingering idea that it may be tape- worm, may be liver disease, and usually succeeds any exceedingly profitable year. Another writer thinks the number of wounded birds left after a successful season may have something to do with the matter, but the majority of correspondents write like physi- cians about a new dised.se, that it is very remarkable, that the -symptoms are so and so, that they know nothing of its cause, -and that early medical attendance is very desirable, all which does -not reassure sportsmen much more than it does patients.