The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-18 00:00:00

severe sentence, which the poacher probably feels to
be unjust, when he remembers what his- neighbour
had for half murdering his wife, commits him
for a lengthened period to the company
of hardened ruffians and professional thieves.
There his education is soo❑ perfected, and he emerges
a reckless and unscrupulous outlaw, whose whole
career in life has been blighted and darkened by the
fatal facilities attending the capture of a hare
or a pheasant, and the value attaching to those
useful and profitable creatures in the eyes of our
British legislators. Meanwhile the wife and family,
deprived of their bread winner, probably share the
sentiments if not the power of expression given to
the poacher's widow in Kingsley's stirring
lines. It is of course not to be supposed that
we ad vocate the encouragement of poaching
or the removal of all penalties attaching to it, but
we do say that it is the duty of our legislators to
see that the Game Laws are framed in fair
acOorthince with the general tone and
spirit of our present English code ; that
the facilities and temptations afforded by the
immense preserves so properly deprecated by
Sir G. GREY should ba discouraged by every possi-
ble means; that the constabulary force of the
country should not be diverted from public protec-
tion to private interests, thus producing an anta-
gonism never before existing between the officers
of justice and the great body of the poople.
We say, too, that the punishment inflicted on
poachers should be commensurate to the offence, and
should not equal in severity those ezntences awarded
to manslaughter and burglary. Most excellent and
advisable is the proposed transfer of such cases
from the bench of county magistrates who preserve
game, to the juries at the quarter sessions, leaving
the prisoner the option of a summary disposal of
the charge. Such changes as these are urgently
called for, and we trust that the good sense and
spirit of Englishmen will not consent to abide by
the decision of last night.

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, March 17.

The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness
Princess Louise, walked and drove in the grounds
this morning.
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice took a
carriage drive.
Her Imperial Highness the Duchess of Brabant,
and his Royal Highness Prince Louis of Hesse,
rode on horseback.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales arrived at Windsor Castle to-day from
Osborne, attended by the Countess of Morton,
Lieutenant-General Knollys, and Lieutenant-
Colonel Keppel.

Her Majesty the Queen, with the Royal family,
and the Duchess of Brabant, attended by the ladies
and gentlemen in waiting, received their Royal
Highnesses, who arrived at 10 Tektites past 2 o'clock
in an open carriage, from the railway station.
Lord Rivers has succeeded Lord Camoys, as Lord
in Waiting.

The Danish Royal Family.
(From the Court Newsman.)
Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess
Christian of Denmark received a deputation of
Danes yesterday morning at the Palace Hotel,
Buckingham-gate. The deputation was headed by
the Danish Consul, and was introduced to their
Royal Highnesses by M. Torben de Bille, the
Danish Minister.

The Princess Christian, with other members of
the Danish Royal family, partook of a dejeuner
with the Duke of Cambridge yesterday, at Glou-
cester House, Park-lane.

His Royal Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse-
Cassel, and his Serene Highness the Duke of
Holstein-Glucksburg, attended by Lieut.-Colonel
du Plat, visited the Tower of London yesterday.
The prince and duke afterwards were conducted
through Barclay and Perkins' brewery. In the after-
noon their Royal and Serene Highnesses visited the
South Kensington Museum.