The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-20 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

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A Yaw AGITATION.—Titre FARMS'S of Doesetshire have
taken a step which is likely to be imitated by agricul •
turista in venous parts of the country. At Wareham, on
Tuesday, a considerable number of yeomen and others
sembled, for the purpose of presenting to the Rev. N. Bond,
of Orange, "a tostniel, for his having kept down the
game on his estate." Various speeches were made upon the
occasion. Mr. Clanhallsay, the chairman, alter some com-
plimentary remarks in presenting the testimunial—a highly-
wrought valuable silver bowl—spoke of the very serious
injury and loss which the farmers Mlle sustain. where
the landlord is so forgetful of the mutual interest that
should subsist between him and his tenant as to carry the
game-preserving system to an extent that in many cases is
ruinous to the hopes of that tenant. Mr. Newberry said
game was a question affecting the whole country. Land-
lords who preserved gams could nut be acquainted with the
whole effects of the system. They could not be aware of the '
injury dune to the tenantry or to the labourer. Were they
acquainted with the consequence, they surely would not
run counter to the opinion of at least two-thirds of the
whole community with reference to game preservation.
Tenant farmers felt the annoyance in the destruction
at crop, and the loss of their profits. Yet they were told
to go forward. Agriculture was now held up as a science and
not a mere matter of farming, and it is now necessary they
should ceutend with the whole world. But really he knew
not how this emulation could be continued. All obstacles
should be removed from the farmer if 'hey were to contend.
To keep tip the game laws was no aid to them. (Hear.)
The system of game preservation hail risen to so great a
height that the farmers of the neighbourhood must really
keep down the game, or quit their localities. He denied
that fanners were enemies of fair sporting, but they desired
the abolition only of those extreme practices now carried on.
They were accused of throwing down the rights of property,
but in asking what they did, they were, on the contrary,
protecting property. (Cheers.) Sacrifices were being daily
made, and the mouths of horses were to be shut in order to
keep down extreme consumption. Men in private stations
were making individual sacrifices, and should not the game-
preserver do something? Should not the crops be pre-
mend for next year ? " I tell you in truth, gentlemen
(continued the speaker), that the game is gnawing away the
vitals of this country." (Hear, hear.) Farmers had no
cause of complaint with their landlords beyond that bone of
contention the game, but game was a fruitful cause of quar-
rel from one end of the kingdom to the other. (Cheers.)
Could not landlords take a hint ? In old times it was suffi-
cient to plough, to sow, and to reap, In the present day
fanners had other expenses ; they had heavy and increasing
rates, families to maintain, and labourers to keep. (Hear,
hear.) Perhaps all gentlemen in that room did not live
in the Isle of Purbeck, and, ilia refore, he would tell them
that, as far as he had understood, there was but one
landlord in that neighbourhood who would not meet the
question, and that was the Earl of Eldon. (Hear.) There
were many minor observations upon which he could en-
large, but he would not consume time by descanting
on them. He thought fanners, for instance, should be
allowed to kill without certificates, and landlords also.
Mr. Joseph Willis said he was one of those who had been a
great sufferer " through the ravages of that detestable
vermin the rabbit." (Hear, hear.) He had taken every
care with his crops, yet they had been eaten from him by
the vermin he had named. Such lessee should not be
allowed to continue, for in some instances, and indeed to his
own knowledge, they had amounted to more than the cost of
labour oar the farm. (Hear.) It was too bad to forbid the
killing of rabbles, it was as bad as objecting to the destruc-
tion of rats. (Several voices, " Worse, worse.") The
proceedings of that evening, through the medium
of the press, would go forth to the world, and
he hoped they would open the eyes of game preservers.
Mr. W. Voris had had much experience in fuming. On
one farm where the game was preserved be could state
that whole crepe had been taken away. That would
lot do. He then took the whole of the game, on the under-
standing th it he should supply the table of the landlord, but
he did nut like that plan. He held another farm where it
was agreed the landlord should pay all damage, hut that
plan had given no satisfaction to either party. (Hear, hear. )
Perhaps few persons had calculated the difference between
the value of rabbits and the havoc they made. A rabbit was
worth sixpence, and the animal would eat a bushel of wkeat
worth six shillings, a differinee of 600 percent. (Hear, hAr.)
hie now rented the game on one farm, and on another the
landlord kept it down. The game laws fostered poachilig.
Two poachers bad lived in his village, and both had been
transported. One progressed from killing a hare to killing
and roasting a pig on the hills of Lulworth and the other
went a few steps further, committing highway robbery.
(Hear, hear.) He was quite convinced that to keep down
game would prove a great benefit to this great and flourish-
ing country. (Loud cheer.)—The Rev. Mr. Bond, in re-
tenting thanks, said amongst other things, he Mt more
satisfaction in looking ticatazZilip than on a pheasant or a
bare. He felt far more plums in regarding well-cropped
fields than is possessing a overflowing with the fruits
of the preserved cover. The memorial of their liberality
would be most highly esteemed and preserved than heir-loom
(a most valuable one), by every member of his family.—
Abridged (ruin the Poole and Dorset Herald.
I,MOAMUTRR

IBINOULAR INGENUITY OF A SIWPLIFTEIL—A shopkeeper,
named Edward Marsden Chadwick, has been apprehended
at Manchester, eharrd with shoplifting to an extra-
ordinary extent, which he had accomplished with much in-
genuity. Toe culprit has a shop at Ashton-under-Lyne,
where he sells cigars and snuffs, and he has been in the
habit of going to make his purchases of stock at wholesale
shops in Manchester, and, though enspected, could not, though
watched, be detected. Yesterday he went into the shop of
Mr. Newby, tobacconist, Manchester, and a watch was filed
upon him. He had entered with &small brown paper parcel
under his arm, apparently secured by a strong cord, and
thi. he placed on the counter while he made inqniries about
goods. On leaving he took up his parcel ; the ahopmen *ere
mire he had taken nothing off the minter, but the parcel he
put on it, and Rill then was a box of cigars deficient :
Mr. Newby, however, seised the mysterious parcel,
and th mystery was at 0006 revealed. The parcel was a tin
cam Leis* larger than a cigar-boa, nicely covered with brown
paper, and corded on three sides to resemble a parceL The
fourth side was open, and the shoplifter carried it under his
arm, with the open aide oe mouth downwards, and on
enteriag a shop placed it over a box of cigars. On leaving
he lilted his case and the box of cigars together. He was
given in charge, and the police, on going to search his shop,
found 42 boxes of cigars which had been stolen from Mr.
Newby, and 68 boxes stolen from Mr. Nevin, %ohm onist,
six barrels of snuff, also stolen from Mr. Newby, a liu/e
quantity of pigtail tobacco, stolen from the shop of Mr.
Campbell, and other articles, in all nearly a cart-load of
goods, and valued at upwards of 12411. Tin cases, covered
with brown paper and cord, suitable to the purposes of COVel,
ing and carrying off barrels of snuff and packages of tobacco,
were also found upon hie premises. The prisoner was com-
mitted for trial. -

YORKSHIRE.
COMMISSION HT THE LORD-LIBUTENANT.—W. B. Fer-
rand, Eq., to be deputy-lieutenant.
CHESHIRE.
ADMIRALTY INQUIRY, BIRKIINHEAD.-04 Wednesday,
Mr. Abernethy held an inquiry into the two hills for which
the Birkenhead Dock Commisssonershave applications at pre-
sent before parliament. Mr. Lloyd appeared to support of the
measures. The town. clerk,.Mr. Nelson, and Kr. ap-
to watch the proceedupin, and, if nearwary, to oppose.
RasTelquiry lasted the entire day. It appeared, from the
that the asensaissiemen have had three bilk be-
forree The int authorised them to raise a nom of
400,0001. ; the snood 000,0001. ; =lithe present biU3OO,OOOl.
They admitted that they emporiums& a 41mIty in raring in
money, and that dry requied pewees le impel the wain
of And frontioq Wilms,' peel, to amble them to west the
wall upon the swirl& It ma eameended upon the other
side that they eosin to woke their IMEbieße dock Dales
to met a custom-bones or graving-dosice, lir
to
=Ware near es hung poems, end that the Lai
°mune amnia Mari Mee advaatageemely eirmusisteneed
ander the Strew kite than under the peasant After re-
dim iloom Mo. Lind. end eapiesedem from Mr. Mendell,
inquisy tenelussed.
IItAPPOIDIEMZ.

1110111COLUISME ATMMITALL.--Goversl mesa of ineen-
dieeina ham May disposed this district One eesuned et
. Tnneill on Meals/ *hi
_bet The perpetrator of the
=appears is lame effieled hi penises, and this to ham
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Out a imastabie, oneihnsed ids -iiketh_end somandered
' Mama The velf-crindmiell firmness'; William Johann.
i • eakineamelmr, *view a was hat no children, and is
saki leis a quiet isoMm urt of a men, when sot seder
the hillosses of limier. It appears that Miami }lit been
drialdng hard en Monday, and that, timed& Is 11
o'clock IS that
_kigitt, he set fire to a Mock of straw, the
trd LO W. Mir. Batt After having eimmillod this
y? doliherately se spit oat Miami, apt mentable ;
told him what Ira bad dose, sad Malted apes Using taken
into •wanedp, gm the Alms Ilium would ma, at first,
.oreaft the sloasmint of Jansen, who told hie to look oat
bierr tb.o. UMMWim in width limy were, and he would me the
did w thaftig tie soienment et the psi-
War inalreal, le fediend idea in damps. Jaime& then said
Main haw los imLikilthe ete•homi that his otgoot was
to be traasperted it ilk or es he afterwards Mated. to pt to
Australia, or Tea Ma a% land, and be was tetermined
that gosernment Emil& pay hi mirage. Johnsen deem sot
wvair to have bats prompted by viodlative Issilafg. towards
Mr. Mein, who he said, had sever dose Na any injury. but
aa cha lesarmy, had always been a tried to Mee. The
yitrea
c4ti over 111;
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titie
Willtiltitio d:
OM his st;o Is 7 sal tin
ems . mid sulaillyb2ated that his genie
t eat tam Mee to Ma kniftwel, oil
the remaledarot the peewit o'er to hi wits.—He
wee Irmaimitliod kr triplet' Too=rig.
Camarimairsel mosso sr rat Loan Lizarrinwr or
Lulficallammit—D. H , Heti end G. T. W. Bibthorp,
;0117:is Geptdat J. P. Gent, W. B. ahoy.
Gent.. end W. J. Gramm, Gent, to be Ensigns of
the iffirth Lincoln Matti..-0. B. Tathwell, Esq., to
be CNitaln ; I. B. Loused*, Gent., E. H. Peel, Gent.,
H, H. Tennant; cent., to be Lieutenants ; W. 8. Clark,
Gant., to be Ensign, ,athe Royal South ,Lincoln Militia.
w&IINVICIESIIIRE.
VO3OOlllOlO CIONID V nil Loan LIRVIWANT or
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