The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-23 00:00:00

CEIMFICATES.

A conellt. Adonce has lately Liken place bctwcen
three firm. • of Marley. in this county, and the Hoaoserd o
of
f
inland He renew. and is now made pubiie for the purp
afforiliiti inform diem on a subj.:et eestaietint which it
mould appear to be greatly needed. Hitherto, it has been '
generally supposed, that not only occupiers who found their
land swarming with rabbits to the injury of themselves or
thedr neighbours, were permitted be law to
hut that destroy
otherthem
without taking nut a game certificate,
persons acting similarly, under
ral theirterhr d
ms tirection (even a
thi by
rd
a
verbal message conveyeal in geneough
party), were also e semot from the penalties usually attach-
ing to persons in pursuit ut gaot not having a certificate.
This view seems to be a donrrous one, according to the
corn•sprinelenee alluded to, fur the commi.aioners
London say, that they consider parties ought tt
have been convicted whom the district commissioners in
Derby decided were not halite. his impossible to deny that
a state of the law, so full of doubt and injury, is bad for
everybody hut common informers, and not always good even
for them; and, accordingly. referring to the ease mentioned
below, we are told that it is non in contisnplation by some
friends of the farmers who have had DO narrow an escape to
promote a petition from this ni ighbouthentood to the Ho
ur
the
COMMOUS the neat session of parliam, praying f
total abolition of the tan on persons for destroying rabbits
in any manner whatever. The correspondence itself is of
too great length for entire insertion here, but a portion of
it is selected with a sil-IN of convincing the public that some
change in the principle and administration of the law on
ii 111,14 .I,ritable. In the memorial tu te
board of Island Hi.venue, which is dated May 8. 1851, the

staTed
I. That T. O. Bateman, Esq., is occupier of • wood
Called Cloves WOW, in the said pariah of Morley.
"2. That your memorialists are farmers in the said
parish. John Hardy living occupier of 200 acres, Christo-
pher Shepherd Otelliiier of 130 acres, and Johnhen Scatters
-
good owner and occupier of 274 ants, most of t land
being adjoining to the said wood.
"3. That by the general leave and direction of the said
occupier, giveu through his gamekeeper, John Crossley, and
in pursuance of an annual custom, your memorialists pre
credo d to the said wnwl, on the fah of March last, fur the
purpose of killing rabbits.
" 4. That late un the 3rd of April lust, each of your me-
morialists was served by Mr. Ilebron, surveyor of taxes for
the Ueeby district, with notice of surcharge fur a game err-
acronipaniecl with a notice that such surcharge
would be mailroom), except an appal (subject to the usual '
notice of tea day and to the s,usual penalties in the event of
confirmation) were made on the Iroth of the same month.
That may one I ear dry War thus given to your MC-
within which to lodge notice of appeal.
ss Si, That the said surveyor, un the 3rd of April, endea-
voured to prevail on one of your memorialist,' (John
Hardy), to allow a surcharge to he coutinnell against himself,
by promising to free the others ; but your memorialists
being COloehilli of not king Justly liable to the surcharges,
gast' notice of ap:eal, and appealed awunlingly.
" 7. that on the day 01 appeal, the said sure, yor did not
produce any wino,. in support of his surcharges, but at-
tempted tio establish them against your memorialists by
cvidenie ra•orted from tin nowise, and their witnesses:
sue", extortion being a. cording to law, as your memorialists'
are informed.
h. 'I hat thereon it appeared that only one hare was
kilhel by the undersign' it Christopher Shepherd, on the
oceasion afloat, to ; and that no other game (except rab-
bits) was killed by your memorialists, either then or at any
ether time within to, lee months previous to the said day
of appeal ; awl it npriartd to the satisfaction of the district
conitnissianen that this hare was killisl by mere accident,
and thereon the surchege was on far dismissed.
" 9. That the sail surveyor then proceeded to require a
eonfirmation ~f the surcharges on your menionalnut fur
having killed rabbits uu the occasion alms raid.
" 10. That it further appeared on the said appeal that
Hardy bad then killed only three rabbits, Shepherd 'oily
three Tablets, and Scattergood only one rabbit; and that
the, win dimr by the have sad direetion of the occupier of '
the gmunil Oven through his goniekeiper.
" 11. That the district connainioners dismissed the Furs
chortle for this cause also.
"12. Viler trotinorialista sulomit to your honourable board
that the produce of the heel in their occupation has hereto-
ken been sestiely input dby rabbits issuing from the ad- '
joining worm • rend it li a teen nerally understood of late
years, but rimn:llly one the passing of the act I l & 12
Vie., rap. '29 (ensannonly rdled .• Mr. Colvile". Art"), that
lit is the objected the law to jirollloo, pea agriculture by re-
lasing the nstrolonos on Lilting animals injurious to it such
as rabbets. Ily the common riestorn of the country 31111 the
ordinary constructom ot tle. alone laws, nut only occupiers
of land are il..miot from Millie duties for killing rabbits on
birth lands, but the est Inptloll further extends to any per-
sons introluts .1 by them tor that purpose."
The farmers c Imle their memorial by saying—
s. That they has,- in this fa,' been put to • considerable
Ism of time. money, and person's' inconvenience in order to
wive them. Ives from penalties to which they were not justly
Whir, and they hog the 'marl to give such din mite's in may
teed to Ware there front ',slitter molestation fur such a
nne, sad farther to mse them such general reply 01 the
justice of the rem may me in to n•quire.
The board replied, on the Ilth of June, that, " under the
terianntreres, thy wiil out perm the CAW demanded fur the
viI:WM of the ••••
tilt the 17th .4 July the farmers again addressed the
board, rare-sing the ir 111411kii id being relieved from fur-
ther moltstatom, and disiriog to know. fur the future
guldens of thelleiciel, and their isighleurs, what were
the special cir, most now which indoor' the twillnlelviOnerS
hoe iniefihew in their heir; to whteln they received
the foaming reply
Inland Itorewsei Beinerset-houw, London,
211th July,
Sir,—The conirainiimi•rs of this revenue have hail before
1b.,. your lett, r ol ths• 17th twit., in n-firence to the recent
charge is oi. on tau and Christopher Shepherd under the
liana Certifiente holy .dots 1 am dirtvtell to inform you
that the boon' eon...lir that you were habit to the penal- ,
tow for killing rabbits Walken( a certificate, unless you Were
0wn...1y meerel or rmuntandisl to do so by the tenant of
the hoofs or who', tlor rablots Were killed. The word
woonsawled neceloartly emplx s authority over the persons
as to whom, it is Wail, awl therefore noavin general, be
supposed to refer to rerr.iliti.; but the word directed, which
is the insly tow that coot hose any application in the present
Caw, dots not MA in to 'Wet the circumstances, as it is tic-
k...hag, d that los such dinvtiam w,kaltivtn to you by Mr.
Ilatenuut, the all, grit tenant of the lauds.
I ;zits. Sir, your obedient servant,
TIIOMAS KEOOII.
Mr. John Hardy, Mehl, war Derby.
In this Inter the Board decline to pave the informationl
,s
asked, lie rely non-song their opiniou that two of the
farmers ought to have been convicted ; and :Ili to Mr. Scat-
tenons', who, according to evidence tit the Appeal at Derby,
VMS exprewly directed by the occupier of the land to destroy
his raloms, no reference whatever is made. If the London
eilninietioner• are rittlit,illitialst every grAinekeelicer arinnint
who ferrets a rabbit out of a hole, is
balm., un the inforniation of • bad neighbour, Or even 00
his own rnmpul..ry critterne, to 20!. Or 10!. penalty ; and
he is not merit% liable, but rather likely to lx• amerced in
that amount. it he meets With persons such as these Morley
lanni is liass• met with. Perhaps it is not wonderful that
ouloorditiot.• offeem alloratt be 'Misery zealous; but it does
Verlit lalkirsittlif id a gnat public department to give any
degree of root two to ouch attempts towards raising reveuue
and inflating penalties.

I'A.NADA AND NEN BIWtttWICK FIOCND tRY.-111y
an art passed ou tin 7th inst., the boundaries between tl e
prosiness of Canada and New Ilrunswick are settled. The
matter was referred to the arbitration of hr. Lushington
and Dr. Twee, who made tin it award on the 17th April
last The award is now confirmed and the boundaries
settled. 'The funds whirl, hose accrued are to be expended
in defraying the espenses, and the surplus in the improve-
ment rat land and water communication.
'Fur :•••11,.%)3L114.--With micrence to the
letter of Sir J. EnvinemonTennant respecting these steamers
running alternately to lialway and Liverpool, we have
authority for stating that neither tender, offer, or any kind
of proposal, to rust the royal mail steamers alternately
between Galway and New York, and Liverpool and New
York, has ever been MAC by the Cunard Company. The
other part of the statement, that the Cunard Company's
vessels are inferior and slow, is not worth contradiction. as
all the world knows it is not true.
L'NIVENSITY lloserrAt..—The committee
have merited notice of a legacy of &XX, free of duty, be-
imitated by the late Mrs. Mary AIM Bentham, of Cpper
Dower-stmet, and directed to be paid within sax months
• der her funeral.
NATIONAL l..tsu DINSOLAINIJ COMPANY.—An odi.
eial manager to wind up the affairs of Mr. Feargus
O'Connor's land scheme is to be appointed on the 4th of
seat month. _ _

At.t.m; .)IANSIAIIiIITER AT MANCHESTER.—
Teatir.lity John 'lampoon was charged, at the Borough-
court, Marichister, with haviug caused the death of his
wit. ft appeared that late on Sunday night they were
quarrelling, and that the noise of a person falling down
stairs in the building in which they lived was heard by the
avighlioura. 'lampoon affirmed that the woman hail fallen
down. bat she declared that her husband " had done it."
Her death took place on Thursday morning, a medical man
who had not been called in to her assistance until Tuesday,
deposed to her being covered with wounds on the head,
seek. legs, &e. Ile attributed her death to injury done to
the brain, but had not made a post-wadem examination of
it. The bruises appeared to ham to have been caused by
kicks, though same at thmn might have been the result of
•GU down stairs. The prisoner, who denied the charge of
ill-usage to his wife, was remanded for further investigation.
HtlitirN He tTII.—On Tneeday even ins an in-
quest was held by C. C. Lewis, Esq., at Use w nite Horse
lan, Great Itaildow, on the body of John Henry Walker,
bred IT, the sox of the Rev. Robert Francis Walker, for-
merly curate of Finkle'. Mr. Walker, premed upon by
sr sad iainniti.a. hue retired from kis eure, sad
resides at Beddow vicarage, to whir* the deceased, with his
brother and • friend, was hastening as Buada , *maw le
avoid a storm. having that day attended awe *Ye meal
health, when the exertion of naming milistad the bass% glad
ha fell and died. Mr. H. Ham, : I wee Galled be
the deceased on Sunday, end halal 'al dead ; thin tem
aothieeztersally to accusal for as* ; hem MI azddina•
tke I have made to-day 1 lad the ingest death IRS verso
of the Mart; there wee vahular
The krzy returned a *TAM " =lllPrit
ktast"--Olebrqfirff Morrie&