The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-09 00:00:00

MANCHESTER, August 8.

EITOCE-EXCHANOL—There m a small business M pro-
woos peters. Dover Fours were a little higher.

BIRMINGHAM, Attjust 8.

Stoct-Excluagoa.—This market is still very doll ; very
little badness was does here today, and prim were without altera-
tion. Shrew..bury and Birmingham Preference Shares were done at
2i pm.; and Wolverhampton Water Wort at 61.

BRISTOL. Allots! 8.

BTOCit-BICHANGIL—Tha market was a good deal awe
active, theprimical dealing% however, being in Dock and other local
shares, mid in the Quarter ►hue+ of the Great Western Company,
which, ailer undergoing some variations In value, lett Wenner atilt d.

HAMBURG, August 4.

BosszweALLE.—Hamburg berg. 80; Ditto, Priority
ftar•kton 1021; Berlin and !Woburn. 68y 68 ; Ditto., Priority Shares,
931 931 ; Cologne Minden, 841 881; Ditto, Priority Shares, 96 931;
Mecklenburg, 34 331; Altcas YiN, 9: 964.

HAT.—SMITHIIIII.O.—Kraara. Cooper and Throb Mort
trade berry et the following quotations :
Anne litutlow, Gita to 761 gotten.. to rev .... 60a 66 84a
!Owlet sos. to 631. Clover .. 60s. to Ns. Straw.... 36a is 30.•
60s. to ea

MANUFACTURES. RUDDEESPINLD, Aug. 7.—Our
Cloth-hall newer linked as bare of goods as it did this nioralag; es,
haring warmly anything to show. very few could be sold. Our ma-
aufseuwers are all buoys° order, sad serer was the Wattle( is s mar •
grosrally hookby be imam than at prated.

Cite engtoo.

OUTGOING MAILS.

Mall. foe British North America end the Milted fiteriimai
made up 10-13101 row evening, the 10th or August.
The Wee ladle Mails, needing Berniuus, Banak
Boadurae, New Orleans, and Mello; and including gjateas._
Fakirs, St. Jaan.4...eiteregua, New Grenada, Chill, sag ii„;:
be made up on the 17tb of August.
The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisboa, Madera, cid* and think;
wain made up on the lith of August.
The main tut Gibraltar, Malta, tartan, the bean Isbads,
(won, led* sod Chins. aio eouthatortoa, wilt be Imes
the morning of the Nth of August.
Tbs nails, en Mantillas, to the Mediterranean, pm
India, Moog-Bong, fee., will be made up on the 2101 of Auspat.
me malls ice Modem the Brazils, and Buenos Ayres, lime,*
up an the 4th of September.

WIOR WATER AT LONDON DRUMM.
T.. Th., atm. pun 5. Miseso.s. 25 W. jag $
AIL. past 6 ; Mumma. 12 win. pug I.

LONDON, 211URSDAY, AUGUST 9,

SINCE the days when the ancient Israelites Ina.
dered in the Arabian wilderness, no spectacle eace,
touching or more marvellous has been beheld nem
that of their modern archety pee, who three year. v.
betook themselves to the interminable wastes ape).
tectionism. With solemn vows, and accents opt
akin to those of imprecation, they gat them oat f,
the official Egypt—the re gion wherein they had •
long bowed meekly to • perfidious despotism, d
where the end of all thtir profi!lets menairem •
and self-sacrifice was the remorseless adjurglia
" to make bricks without straw ;" bricks being oh.
vionsly a metaphoric Lame for high rents, god
the ancillary material signifying manifestly a cat

law.
Often had they previously threatezed to go egtk
and quit the sight and smell of the tantalising
pot., of the contents of which but few of them mix
vouchsafed any share. But habit, hope, tenor, tad
cupidity, still swayed the mutinous multitude
to
and fro ; and they hesitated long ere they
could muster resolution to quit for tee
the slimy land of conjury end conserratite,
and to seek for healthier and honester dwelling-plaeg
they knew not accurately where. One voice, indeed,
had long been heard bidding them begone. Failed
eloquence and daring, he had frequently offerelte
lead them on their perilous way. A cafe and pls.
sattland he confidently promised them, lying throe
indeed, but to be won without fail by the courage*
and the iscorrupt. How they were to get across the
intervening desert, how to subsist therein, what
enemies might await them there, or how union sal
order were to be preserved during the sips
timental interval, their BENJAMIN did not ay.
All that he undertook to tell them woe that he ma
BENJAMIN—that their king of granaries and eye
teries was a faithless tyratt, and that if they weals
only commit themselves with confidence to hie
gnidance, he would show them how to be avenged ea
their oppressor, and how to win the rich reward d
their fidelity.
The old men shook their heads, and asked
" Who made thee a judge and leader over us?'
The young men lausted, and entered with lets
feeling of jealousy into the spirit of adventure,
Finally, they all agreed to fling aside the yoke and is
be guided by the voice of their only seer. How
PHARAOH and his euchantments were baffled, sal
how they wended for a time their way in the wilder-
ness, it were needy so to recount. But weariness d
wandering and ill-humour under protracted privation,
are ineradicable tendencies in all flesh. Dr ughts of
the fleshpots they had left behind came over thee.
Day by t ay they toiled onwards, end still no pleaest
places floss leg with annual milk and honey apparel
in sight. Murmurings and repininge grew eve
louder, and fierce threats of mutiny and deartia
arose.
" Where—where's the land we've seen is drunk
Our destined hems or grave?"
BENJAMIN could only fling his bands aloft, protat
his whole unselfishness, and offer to give place to my
other guide whom they might prefer ; but lead the
over Jordan he could not. Conscious that to hie it
was not given to see the realisation of their hoper,ht
seldom feigned to try. Adverse possession was held
by an unhallowed and morally despicable crew in
constantly averred, but somehow they always seemed
to be ton many and too strong to be evicted. So she
much bickering and upbraiding, it always model is
the old story of tarrying another year in the vii.
derneos.
Under such circumstances, it were strange if the
more rash and the more unruly had not esseyed to
snatch the mis-leading reins out of the distrastei
(and in fact pretty well detested) hands. Firat, a
venerable elder tried it, but the best expedient it
could devise was to return—not into Egypt, but jet
to the border of that prolific land, and to try whether
a position might not be craftily taken up thee
from which they might at Rosst have the was
faction of seeing daily all they lost by thin
romantic exodus. Bat when the scornful epithati
"paltry device" fell from the exultant lips of Burr
MIN, the multitude shouted also in derision, and is
aged rival of the prophet hung his disparaged had
and utt. red not a word. Next theme arose a mend
wondrous volubility of speech, uttering unclean things
and saying and unsaying what seemed to be the seas
things is a quite marvellous manner. He had
ari-
ginally come of the Canaaeitish stock, and we
looked upon at all times with no ordinary ete
picion. But every body knew that his own peo-
ple would never receive him any more moue
them, and a renegade's zeal, it was hinted, had eaten
him up, or at least all the scruples or qualms which
he might ever have had. So for a season they gel
ear unto him ; hut by degrees it was discovered dig
the habit of faithlessness was too strong to be oar
quered in him, and that even when he volunteered to
lead a storming party spinet the most unguarded
outpost of his f irmer friends—called for that rests
the foreign or external office—this fickle and foeticide
guerilla was believed to be in secret correspondence
with the garrison. So the wanderers ware disap-
pointed in this man also; and BENJAMIN sat in the
door of his tent and eatdonically smiled again.
And thus at the end of their three years pilgtirasse
theme misguided men still find themselves as far
ever from the land of promise. In vain they tel
aside towards every dipLimatic or colonial tar*
whose delusive sheen catches their yaps
eye. Rest and refreshment equally elude thit
search. Many begin to faint by the way ; 00
have made up their minds to go back
they could only discover the road ; and some of te
stoutest hearts that set out on this fated expedites
have already perished in the wilderness. The drill!
of artificial granaries, eliding pyramids, and meet
making mysteries, does not appear to thrive. To
play the despot splendidly or successfully implies
widely-extended compliance and a meek mnluteda
Since the multitude levantei, magic and autocrat!
has waxed dim. There have even been rumoarser
formal abdication on the part of the once all-poteet
ruler. BENJAMIN has been indeed avenged on hist
but who continues to put faith in his propheciesio
to dream that we shall ever ace them fulfilled?
" a

IT most not be supposed that the game laws haw
been lost sight of, though no parliamentary !no!
ment against them was made last session. It out
not, however, to be concealed that the classes wed
interested, the English tenant-farmers, have rti
afforded to the public men, who have taken up this
subject, that active support which would have mho
them to force their question with effect upon an ter
willing house. There is nothing which denotes mew
unmistakably the dependent condil ion of the majoral
of English farmers than their apparent apathy 14
the game laws. We say apparent apathy, hwre
although they do not publicly agitate or peiri°
against the game laws, they are agreed as one mss
in denouncing the system of which the game laws
form the corner stone, as a grievous burden sod
a most flagrant injustice.
Why, then, it may be asked, do they not follow'
example of their brethren north of the Tweed, old
form associations for procuring the abrogation of de
game laws, or, at all even's, why do they not Cltidll,
parliament ? The explanation is easy. ' gl'
farmers are for the most part yearly tenants, or sot
so bound down by the conditions of their holding's,
to have placed the capital employed upon their faros
completely at their landlord's mercy, and not one te'
nant former in a thousand could make the slighted
public demonstration against the game laws withal
roducing an open rupture with his landlord. no
majority of English landlords actually preeervegsno
with more or less rigour; and whether they.pteterr
or not, they deem it an essential part of their preen'
etAry rights to reserve to themselves the complete roo

rodestve esterase in the game. The reservation of
isserted in all farming agreements as of
el:* and any objection thereto on the part of the
*sat wjU generally be taken by the landlord en ma-
ne of personal offence.
nu incident of recent occurrence will place this
teener is
a Coro point of view. A large landed
Puntiocist M P., " a fanners'
rZribil.; not a game preserver—stated, that a first
rate farmer tad been in treaty foe one of his (the
landowner's) farms, but no agreement had been oome
to, busses the fanner insisted on having complete
control over the game, and that he (the landlord)
should feel humiliated if he allowed any of his
tenants to have a right to the game upset their farms."
Here we have an indication of the semi feudal rela-
tion soteistieg between landlord and tenant in &g-
-land, which is so phi. g and pecuniarily isjut ions to
the tenantry, and which the landlords maintain
go pertinaciously. Now the practical effect
of turret, g the game to the landlord of
a farm, is to crests two ibcoosistest rights
over the seam land. The tenant hires the farm
with the belief, and upon the calculation, that the
rodeos be can grow, and all the animals be can
sisititate, upon the land will be his own. His profit
depends upon his doing so. But at the same time
the landlord retains an undoubted legal right to keep
upon the same land the largest "bead of game" the
ingenuity and vigilance of his gamekeeper can mina-
ble. Ilia sports depend on the maintenance of a
large head of game," and his pride must be gratified
by slaughtering hundreds of semi-wild creatures in a
three hours' buffo. But the produee of the soil, be
it ever so abundant, cannot support live stock and
game. The turnips and the tares intended, when at
maturity, to feed sheep and /settle, are eaten off pre-
maturely by the game ; the grain crops, in all stages
of their growth, are so mach damaged by game sea
serionaiy to lessen the remarries of the farmer ; and
constant disputes or smouldering discoatenta are the
inevitable result.
Everywhere amongst farmers the most deep die.
weirefaction exists about game,andthe more intelligent
members of the body are teenteriog, in the revision of
furnirg contracts now about to take place, to be re-
lieved from the cppression of game preserves. And
undoubtedly complete relief from the game nuisance
must be ob'ained by farmers themselves; but the
legislature is bound to repeal the odious and penal
laws which specially protect game. That is an India-
pessable preliminary to any general amendment.
Game, hares, pheasants Game, and the like, should have no
special law to protect them ; and if the landlord and
tenant like to enter into any contract omens*
these creatures, such contract should be enfueesd to
the some way as other covenants. Though the'
English farmers do not actively agitate against the
game laws, a settled conviction that the repeal of
Wee laws is essential to their welfare has taken
possession of their minds, and will be found here-
after to have a decisive influence on many county
elections.
In Scotland, however, the National Anti-Game-law
Association is doing good service ; and the progress it
is making in public opinion may be judged of by the
temper in which the subject is discussed by the organ
of the game preservers. In Blackwood's Magazine we
find an article upon " The Game Laws in Scotland,*
which, though sophistical and dosiogentious, is far lees
offensive than the manner in which the subject wee
treated in the same periodical some two oe three year.
ago. The writer argues after his fashion that the
game laws in Scotland require to be amended, not
repealed, and he shadows forth amendments which
would bring the game law north of the Tweed into
pretty nearly the same condition as it is in England.
Of onrush* dents largely in imputations against the
public men who have moved in this question. Thus
he ups :
The °mien of the soil have not yet bowed low enough to
the Beal of free trade ; their indurate le not altogether
obliterated, nor their privileges sullitiratly curtailed ;
tad, therefore. NIL Bright and the Aati-Gente-law
association have buckled on their among ease more,
and the tenantry are again invited to join is a
trends against these who, they are sword, bare always
been their inveterate oppresson ; and, to est off se much as
pewible the remotest chance of an amicable settlement, it is
preelalsed that no concession will be accepted—no proposal
of ethastmeat listened to—ehon of the spud and immediate
abolition of every statute on the subject of game.
This is sheer nonsense; sad nothing can be more
aboard than to-attribu'e the movement against the
game laws to anybody's desire to diminish the lode-
ellt3 of tie oeners of the soil. There is no doubt that
the pinion of the landowners for game preservation,
and the coasequences resulting therefrom, do greatly
lessen their influence ; and that nothing would do
more to set them right with the farmers than the aban-
donment of game and the abolition of the game laws.
So far from a demand for a total repeal of the game-
laws being urged to prevent an amicable settlement,
it is insisted on as the only way of effecting an ami-
cable settlement of the questions game has produced
between landloeds and Wants.
There are two aspects in which the game laws must
be regarded ; first, as demoralising the rural popula-
tion by facilitating the first steps to crime; and,
secoodly, as disturbing and injuring the cultivation
of the soil. Now the effect of game preserves in un-
dermining the morals of a rural district es faintly, if at
all, denied by the game preserver*; and the only
answer they make to the imputation is, that with or
without game laws the :andowners of Great Britain
would continue to keep up such a " head of game,"
sad would still produce all the evils now c implained
of. We very much doubt that; we believe that the
prettiest difficulty and expense of defending their
wild animals withent the aid of their forest cods
would soon lead the great majority of landed proprie-
tors to abandon game reserving. At all event., the
sanction of a special law would no longer be afforded
to an immoral practice, and we are oonvinced that the
game law advocates who assume that the proprietors
as a body would defy public opinion, greatly. belie the
class whcee " privileges" they profess to maintain.
' But se betweai landlords and tenants, the total abo-
lition of all game laws is indispensable. If game is to
be maintained at all, it must be done by the tenant
with his eyes open and as a matter of contract. There
must be an end of all shuffling and delusion upon the
subject It will not do for proprietors to treat the re-
St rvatios of game am a thing of course, as a necessary
part and parcel of their seignorial rights ; and at the
same time to tell their tenants verbally—they hive-
richly decline to commit to writing any engigement
about game—that " they shall not be injured by
game," that "no large head of game will be kr pt,
and so forth. We believe that no game, with, rrhape
the exception of partridges, can be permanently kept
upon well cultivated land, without the aid of game
laws, because, if suffic:ectly protected, they will in-
crease so rapidly by reason of the abandacce of food,
as to compel the occupier to destroy them, and that
each destruction will necessarily be extinction. This
was the deliberate opinion both of Lord HATEIERTON
and Mr. PUSET when examined before the game-law
committee, and its accuracy is unquestiouable. Good
cultivation and game cannot co-exist on the same
land, and where game preservation and cultivation
are carried on by one person, he of neceesity makes
either game or farming a secondary object. This, in
the case of the farmer, will of course be the game,
while not a few occupying preprietors preserve game
at all hazards and cultivate their land as they best
may. But where the farmer looks to the land for
cultivation, and the landlord to the same land to furnish
him game and tuatara, a conflict of inconsistent
objects ari-es which always ends to the detriment of
the tenant. Get rid of game laws and their anoma-
lies, and game preservation can only take place on
the land occupied by tenants under compacts
in which the modes, extent, and consequences
of preservation must in the subjects of con-
sideration and arrangement. Let that become neces-
sary, and game preservation will soon be given up.
At present game is in most cases preserved, so far as
the tenant is concerned, under Wm pretences. He
is told when he enters on the farm that there shall be
no great quantity of game, and, though his crops
may be constantly ravaged, and his farm constantly
made a baths field, both landlord and gamekeepers
protest most vehemently that "there is no game to
hurt." For the credit of the gentry, it is time these
things should cease; but the first step must be to
repeal, at once sad for ever, all gum laws.

EICBI.I FROM KINROSS JAIL—On Tuesday after-
sees, a man named Drysdale meaped from this jail. Bar-
lag limply been detected la trying to mw throsgh the iron
patios is the bark yard whither he was allowed to go for
air and immix, he was in lien of tbi., permitted the am of
the jsli garage, from whence he got into the debtors' room,
from the top of a bed in whims be broke through the minim,
led from thence gat to the belfry skylight, not secured It
..Mkt egret, sad Inia thence let Mime f down by mast of
his hammock rope. Having bees rase betas convicted, he
west* have been tried at the an* 'Wait at adding. Re
lias Rot yet been captiind.—North Dritig Mail