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OVME,LAWS.

Mr. O. llamas moved the secoud reading of the Bill for
Preventing the sale of Clause. •
Mr. Cuawea considered this Bill highly objectionable,
and would not answer the purpose of the Hen. Gentleman.—
Ile hoped the House would pause before itadopted a measure
which would increase the number of unfortunate persons con-
toed under the Game Laws. He therefore moved that the
Bill •he reacla secoud time that day six months.
Col. WOOD was adverse to this Bill. Nothing could prevent
poaching, butssakiag game private property.
Sir S. ilositssy considered the number of penalties con..
tained in the Game Laws as a great evil; but at the same
time be thought this Bill would materially amend the present
system. if it•was illegal to sell ganse,whlch it was, surely it
was illegal tolny it. ,If there were no purchasers of game,
there would be no sellers of it. He put it to Gentlemen them-
selves, if it was fair to encouragepoulterers to sell game, by
refusing to deal with them if they did not supply them with
• game, thereby exposing the poor trideantesto heavy pessalties.-
"That system was also au encouragement for poaching, which
led them to bad company, and perhaps made them thieves.—
• Gentlemen felt no compunction, or any stain on their morality,
by violating the Game Laws, while they themselves punished,
with unrelenting rigour, the poor for similar violations. Hit
agreed that these penalties should be dote away altogether I
but ,sintil that was done away, it was absurd, that such as
-inconsistency should remain man the Statuteillook; and that
as the receiver of stolen goods is puisistied more than the thief,
so onght•the purchaser ot game to be punished more than the
• seller.

Col. Wool) said, be voted naiad ibis Sillebecati he•wall
onnwilling to prop np a bad system.
Mc. LAMB could not vote for this Bill; and be hoped the
lion. Member for Hertfordshim(Mr. Brand) would bring in
his Bill.to amend the,whole system of the Game Laws.
Mr. G. &Wean thought it right thati be the inconvenience
of the Game Laws what they mayYthe rich ought to be liable
to them, and the punishment consequent on them ns the poor.
It was with this view :bathe bad brought in this Bill.
The House then divided—For the second leading 116—
A gaiust it 21—Majority 97.
EDINIATION OF TfIE POOR.
Mr. BROUGHAM moved the further:. eonsideration.of the
Education of the Since the last thicussion of this
aubject a vast fund of information relating to abuses in the
funds of the Poor had been received. At Hartly there is a
' free GrAnmar school;having some Scholarships at Cambridge;
but for $n years no scholars had been sent there. For the
co.inty of Essex, there was a legacy 01200 acres of land for a
school ; hut no sehool had been erected. He mentioned other
*miler instances iu Devonshire, 'and Dorsetshire. In the.
. former county, an estate of 10001. a-year was left for a school,
and the Worshipful Corporation appropriated 41. it-year• fa,
that purpose. In some places, Sehuktrships were left to he
. up by Garn•ke epe is.. In Leieraterahire, a School Charity
of 1001. a.year hail lately been pnblicly advertised fur ',deb);
aitzt.on. ‘Another.iii Nottingham kW been let on a peppers.
re,:! !ovine) Testi. There were estatewer.joyedis43 or
.v a yearoaellittr:rch were worth it:Di:sands. Ho hoped that

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many dais would out elapse, l,efure the Gomanatee would
•trake a specific Report •lo Me House. ir'or the sable 01 Cl.l'
terting these abuses, he lipped the House nook' pass the
--He hoped uu party or jultholg, would itilitieore the
choice of Any of thesis. He nift•reil hiui lI to Miiiistzrs, as nue
of the six Conttniasioners ; mid if evrii that duty should be
ith-oinpatiLle with his scat to Parliament, he even then .visited
lo have the refusal of it. He did this, hecousr he was con-
vinced the Hun's was 'sever engaged in so iniportaat au in-
vestigation. If the Hill should ;).Is4 that Muse, lie trusted it
would meet with ha oppusition,clsewhere.
The Hill then went through a Hr-Coasinittoe, aatl was
dered to be reported Imm:army.