The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-03-11 00:00:00

Emptrial V arliamtnt.

HOUSI OF LORDS.

MOX DAT —Lord Cannata proposed an addrens to the Crown.
praying that all treatise or conrentlonis by which disputed
questions between this country an a foreign Power 'nicht be
rtferrni to arbitration ebould be laid upon the UN* of both
houses six weeks before they were delinitely ratified.
The motion was °owned by Lonl Liesnettte, chiefly because
It twoul.l be an Interfererce with the acknowledged prerogative
of the yrown.

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Motion negalferd without a division.
RAM OW GAM. 111111, AND lUalnet.
Ti EaDAT.—Tbe Earl of NlALNlllarne moral 1,,,. return of
Ito number. cf gme, will fmi harm, and rabbitc mid by
Ltannal game dealer. in England, Wale., and Srathind during
the year 1872 ; •1.0 of the number, of the no Imported and
exported Into md from the United Kingdom during that year.
It had been mid by Rome that the working of the gnme laws
waa such Ls to prevent the produeti..n of • sofOcient supply
of food for the nrameltieu of the people. No doubt the price
had immensely ineremod during Or last two years, but
Locher,' emu had increased In prie^ by 2d. In the pound,
and other artiele•of food bad increased In price In the same
ratio. The accordion bid been made that the game law, had
cairn! this Increase of mice, ant it loam .sio that them laws
belonged to feudal lima, and ought not to exist at the pee-
went time. It was hardly worth while arguing that point;
but there was something more plausible In the statement.;
that had been made with respect to tim game destroyed which
might have been made available for public use: But the
question watt whether them otaternents had not been made on
iratifficient grounds. No lioence tam required for oelliog
rabbits or rum, and in Ilighrtniet, Puldiugton, many
thousand. of robbita might be mu espord for Me.
Ile an told that the consuMptaalt of thaw animals in large
town. like Bilmineham and Manchester was enormous.
In Wolverhampton and Nottingham there eree an immense
consumption. A gentleman liming in Somonerhire bad in-
formed him thst from Birmingham aka, he had received
radon for 10.000 rabbits in a week. Mr. Brooker, of Lead...
hull-market, etattsl that he reeeMod 1,500 mem of rabbits, each
can mate/MDR 100 Manta, from Orend alone In a week. and
it vas well kno, n that the poorer clam.. highly primed this
kind of food. A letter receivod from • furrier rmiding in
Ilmhatrest, Soutliwsrit, stated that the number of here and
rabbet 'MOS mar n treured Mimi war rine upon wo mil loro:
They wore marls all Engirt. rabbit., for foreign AM. did not
make such good fur as the English and Scotch rabbit skim.
The hams and !Obits billed for thole skins In this marmot
would on tbs whole produce about 43.500 tons of foil, and
estlinathr them at the low value of It mob, they wosild
amount to LI,ItOn.OOO. These soltnale were too frequently
as intschlrame vsando, which °tight to ho rarer-
rzirrn.rd, and hni object had hen to chow how mogul they
were both for food and manufacture. Ile hared that the
Board of Trade returne could not be very acenrate. Masons
be had asoortained that one tradesman In London alone

received 41000 rabbits in the tear. If the game .aw were
abolished It must be membered that • temps.. act would
Immediataly be necessery. In lee:: Slr Robert Peel raid, " 1
cm not prepared to defend the game laws in the abstract, hot
If the country devil*. their &trainee it must be born. In mind
that parliament must p.m. ,ery stringent tree. am net, unless
It is poi pared to we the country o, rrrUla by day and by night
In armed marauder," Another rc.olt would be vett airass-
able to the tenant fanners, tircaur their farmt w. uld have to
be revalued, end probably hert root would he inereara by
26 per cent. A third c,rypf ,11111;, noiiiit he.,, 111,1110.1 Ili the
rural police, for it prevent 10,000 and 15,000 tee..
employed In tt.e pr3tection .1 game also protected other
PetTertY•
Eat Climattue mid be highly appreciated rabbits,especially
for culinary pummels : but he could not agree in the opinion
he had heard, that they were useful in plantation.. He was
far from aen)ing that in otos, parts of the country It was wry
adrantsucous to hive hares and rabbits for foot but he
entirely absented fern his noble friend If he thooglit that the
preservation of rabbits ,n the coni.try generally would tend
St ell to entment the •arerate amount of food available for
human uholpirtice. Wi!h recant to th• motion, he had made
heist:rim of the Inland Revenue and the l'ustom Howe. and
ho found that the latter WOlll4l not be able to give returns of
the exports and Imports of rabbits, brassier, ae no auty was
mild upon them, they sem u•ually Included awonest the goods.
The Inland Revenue would have no great ditleult• In
obtaining returns in London. weber* the dealers kept their
book very carefully ; but It was very doubtful whether the
country dealers would he able to supply the same accurate
Information which the noble earl rearmed to have collected for
himself ; and, n. h. had elated, It was tropo.lhie to Ilet retor.a
from ',seism mid mineral shopkeepen. They sere willing to
attempt to get approMmate return., If those would satisfy
his noble friend.

The Kari f Llfnielli explained thst his noble friend
had misunderstood his meanie Viith reference to the prem.
ration of rabbits, for be himself by saving that they
might be dilatable In tracts of country eller* there were no
farm..

—The motion Ints agreed tn.
DermaDaY.—Their lordship. read Lord ChelmalsrA bill,
which enables the widow or ehlldera of a permit dying Intes-
tate, where the properly Is of ratMl amount, to app4 to the
tiftr:ro of ttfilounlyth.Court of lthetodletrlct for a certt..lficet•
F.IDAT —7ls• mooed r:Pbtror of the 'flionr Allolmmte
Management Bill Ina moved by tins Duke of RICIII10111),
aerated to by the Earl of iiolllT, on the part of the Goren*.
inert, end armed to. .

The Drainage and Improvement cf Land (lreinnd) Pros.-
Menai Order. Bill puead through committee %h. Lola
Govarnineut Provisional Order. Bill yrs. read a seerind time
the Waitaki Widows and Children's 811 pared through
conunlttae.