The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-16 00:00:00

THE GAME LAWS.

Th. war !Oust the game laws is b. ing carried on
with spirit in Salisbury and its. vicinity. A " rowel
sppporting club has been es•ahltshed in Fnherton, a
grahurb of Salisbury. TLere is an entrance fee of
je. 6d., and a weekly subscription of Is.; donations
are also rem ived from friends at a distance. The pre-
coeds an allotted, in the first umlaute, to the support
of the families of those who have been prosecuted
wader the game laws while they ars in prison. A
wanly audit is taken, and the bakeries for a.
.atb, if any, is appropriated to the pirchtse of
game certificates, all tied as the rides direr. The
society has also a weekly period cal, the Milts/sire
Oases Low Reporter, a very readable publication.
Efforts are making to establish similar clubs in
different localities. A missionary visit was paid in fur-
tterace of this object to Fovea% on Monday the sth
inst. The village had the appea•anee of a fair on the
omegas. The secretary of the Fisarton Club ad-
dressed a meeting of labourers and others, and was
warmly received. Three cheers were given for Mr.
Collett, of Cheltenham, for his benevolence in libe-
rating molly poor fellows imprisoned and r the game
laws, and for the large number of game certificates he
bid purchased and bestowed gratuitously. The
speech of tie secretary on this ceeasion, which we ex-
tract films the filth number of the Itriltshire Game
Law Reporter, will give a better idea of the objects of
the club and its mariner of going to work than any
cep not we weld give of them :
The Secretary said the object of the meeting was not to
'nemesis them in pose! ie g—nor to bled them to a dig-
basest mums of life, but to guard them spinat an evil hour,
when they may bus no work—no money—cot od nor
SKIM of support—srhen the board of generale,' may lavr
refused them any relief—whea their wires w re sulle• end
discootented (for they beer the old adage that Wile,.
poverty comes in at are dour love flies out at the window )
—end when their child,. n may be crying for bread—at
web • time se this, if they may hi compelled to khan
unnecemery law of man, and foe it seat to prison—rr.
the Rural Supporting Clab would secretly support
their elves and families, while they would at the same
time be emerged to ask r potash relief. The nieces
of the members wallet not be known to any one, ae
it would not be policy; every member would he num-
bered, rid his mmo6lloooB would be acknowledgeo!
not by Lame, but by cumber. The weekly centributioa
was one shialipg ; so that, if there wets 100 members, that
would be 201. per weekly month. The rate of sum rt
would be the same as the wages tamed by the convected
party, or the amount given in such parish where they lived.
Ihippoenig there was Lo proeecation the month airdrop,
then the 201. would be ezpeaded in same certificates
Now, every member curia not be supplied at once with
bowels, and therefore as essay game eerlificates as wield
be pre chased, so many tickets bearing their numbers would,
at the monthly meeting, be drawn from • beg by some
didaterested party, sad wbuseever's number was draws
would be entitled to the game certificate, and se from time
to time. The imanthly mostrage would be held alternately
ia the DINIIMIN village or town where there were mast
lambent resident. The subscriptions of gentlemen egg
farsene would be applied to two purposes, first to provide
bgal wistesee at the trials of the 'ceased, and then of any
rem lied to pay the Ines and expenses foliated on them No
doubt am a fumes would give hie mite " under the rout,"
be they dare not speak oat. He was egabi there wee no
tesaatafermer present. (Cries of "Yes, yes.' ) They knew
then where the shoe pinched. They knew that Is vein did
they Dow—in vain to them did an Almighty Provide are wad
them en abundant crop, while the trans eat up their clover.
sad the phenolate pounced down and consumed their grain.
They knew, too, they dared not to destroy the pore, for
bar of a lumber being concealed near their feet, or prowlir g
about the thicket like a beast of prey, bahisd them. It war
pretty certain there was no clergyman present—the duty of
dentition was to eahort mea to keep the Commaadments
of OA. cad ere of the commandments says, " Thou
shalt do so murder." Oce would think, then, that cler-
nem, above all others, would raise a cry against •
law whi:k bad hurried many • starving wretch
from time to eternity. Forest scud tell its areensfal
tale of poaching in the night. Now, If any member went
out poaching la the night time, he would not get any sue.
port from this
tiu aor if he violated the Sabbath. Having
made these menons, be would ask, who could say aught
to Its formation ? The first saactment of the game laws woe
Is the third century, when they wen Introduced into
lamps at the same time, and by the game policy, se gave
birth to the feudal system. When the leading of the northern
masers of Rumps d
It caste to settle the mummy of a van-
quished country, anwas done by a wet of chicasery to
deprive the people of their fire arms—but now they were
enacted end enforced for the pleasures and luxuries of the
rich. After some other obeervations, the Seuretery then de.
sired them to go home quietly—to get work and keep to ;
but yet to be prepared against evil consequences that may
sane.
There is en amusing audacity about these proceed-
imp, considering they are carried on in that hotbed of
high game preserving, the vicinity of Fordingbridge
and ltingwood. Toe system, if extended throughout
• the rural districts and vigorously acted span, is more
likely to reeks the eqoirearehy sick of the game laws
and game law prarecutirns than any plan that has yet
been claimed.

THE FREEHOLD LAND CONFERENCE AND THE
" DAILY Naws " Exenue.—The conductors of the Midland
C 011341688 1161Tild, with charsetrvistio literality, publish the
fallowing ecknowledgment of our exertions: As so is.
stake of extraordinary despatch in th- menumusication 01
intelligence, we may mentiun that the proceedings of the
ecteferance. meeting relative to free hold land soeieties, •tielt
took place at the t mn-ball on Tuesday. and which did not
terminate until nearly 'midnight. were reported,:to the extent
of eight colemna,ia tee Daily NOM of yesterday (ftte follow-
ky ramp), opium of which were gestecally circulated in
the town before 11 o'elock a.m."
DEATH or Cum.= LTZLL, Esq.—This gentle-
man, who was for many yens vieeliestenant of the sanely,
died at Kinnordey on the 8:h last. afterwards Le!' was educated
Is the College of Bt. Redrew's, and in the Uni-
versity of Custodies, at both of which mated imentine he wee
eminently distingaisha. For many yolk Mr. 14 ell's par-
asite were esieutille. He was the diremerer of a great sem.
bar of British pleats predated), unknown,Row mach
his labours is promoting botany were appreciated br
MSS of the fins salaam is proved by the feet
that two excellent works were severally dedicated to
him by botanists of no lON diatimeNes than Sim Williams
Hooker and Problem Lindley, and • prase of plat'
(Lyellia) named after him by Kr. Robert Brown. Is the
literary worid he is home by a traselation of the
lyrisel
poems of Dente, the int edition of villa, printed at his
own cost, was so well received by the pablie that a Leaden
publider elitahsed perededea to mud a semad oa his
own account. Mr. Lyelre eery ea " The Anti. Pepsi Spirit
of Dade" Mows • profeead knowledge of mod oral Italian
literature sad history, and is full at enlarged sad philoso-
phical views. Them studies be matiaud till wi hie a short
Crary,
of his death. He has bit ea extensive botasied
including analog deem several rare works of the
olds naturalists, and kW octlleetion of the various editiose
et Dante and the writing@ of his numerous eommen-
takes, and of authors Maenad,' of Dents sad his
times, are each as weld hardly be found in any other private
library in the kingdom.—Demdee Atirertiser.—(llr. LFell's
heir is, we believe, Me sea, Sir Charles Lyell, the erdelerated
geologish—limieassol
Jambi MONTGOMERY, THE POET.—On Sunday
week oar revered sad Okuda loaded towasmaa, Mr. Moat-
gerany, isenspleted hie 78th year and to emus= orate the
meat, sad to raise a mousiest to hie lose, his friends
sad wishbones, Mr. sad Mrs. Samuel Mitchell, and the
ether reddests at the Mew* invited Mr. Modgmarry, on
ilettodq diseases lad, to gloat a tree la the beautiful
gam& MissigiNg to that pra= Ifpl• beech was
mire*, whisk harlot been with suitable
falaielp amides sad newt to W..--411sanseatery, he
admeeitedgei Ike osamplimeat odor, said packed' ad-
ieus to his emembled ildeada-MgPrid hidopetwkst.
Burrito THE LATH MS. ea vv. Cooraz.—Ws
aiderstead it is the ialeatisa of the eimirees of this distill-
'sighed surgissi writer to have a lust orbits executed, to be
*Ned in the temaall-reent el the Royal College of Sodom.
where the barb of so way of his sesomporades dread,
"Pun
ADMISSION OF SOLICITORS Tr HILAIT
11110—From the list recently ridged hp the imeorporsted
irme Miley, it swam that the eteltkee sigenibmini seek
Its to he admitted to practise as stessaele ie. in nary
tom, 111111), Ind, belay • skims' of tea flour don opplyiez
far the pi meat term. The notion of eininies tor die last
asegf Mishaelmes terra are three s the agglisatisas ter
eat sad rearrwal of metineatas ea die less day et this
Issue mewl to daises ; sad tams to be mode to 'judge at
ellemlnesoa Mk et the dessat semetki sa ceder to
take sat awl renew aretileatee, forty. inking the total
Rushee ef games ea the list 248, thus ezklour, ihitise an omens
trwer the previous toe of simmers, it baring only 2.9 at-
leshall.
DISCOVERY OP A ROMAN AMPHITHEATRE AT
llacemouotion.—Mr. Rolfe. of Sandwich, wed known for
his eatiesoriaa pursuits Cm conjured& with Mr. Roach
Ilmitit sad Mr. Faisholit), has discovered the site and part of
the walla of • Remo amphitheatre. The circular depression
ea the 1111 es • little distance had been moojettured by
Illalti&y to be the site of an amphitheatre, and by the
iNSWernm new mode this is provedleyead a doubt. The
&MOW Of this Sue amphitheatre is unity two hundred
bk. At do last 'meths; of the British Lreimolonisal
Mr. Rolfe Rolfe eanosked his discovery at Riebbareugh
I=rii above, upon the hill ea the left of the read from
Sandwich to the foamrt coatroom Mr. Rolfe, by the leave
of Mr. Belly, the tweet, has tasted the truth ef preeediag
*aims by ensonag the ground, and the resale pores
that the hallow wee aomeetly called as amphitheatre. The
work is still ia agave prang lee, sad further disseveriee are
daily expected. Mr. Roasb Smith deseribtd partioalers re•
lative to the discovery of surly twenty early Seam gravel,
is a Geld Idiot Garfield. at Coven* seer Odeon',
Rotolo property of Mr. Becker. The graves, which were
. load by workmen employed In land iireiniag, were mood
tb flagetesee, sod mataleed skeletal', mere or lees peewit,
With midi were Oa resales of eeepose, ants. Roseau coins,
glees melds, Made, sad other objeets very Mailer to the con-
Nab of the paves at Oseagsl, which is about seven miles
awns trot the Copan* oesootory.—Xeree