The Sun.
London, England, 1825-05-12 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDING:.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Mercurii, 110 die Mad, 1825.
MESSAGE from the LoP.Ds—That they have agreed to—
Doddington (Cambridge) Enclosure Bill, withoutlamendment ;-
and to Liverpool Improvement Bill, with amendments.
ROADS—Little Sheffield and Dore, Sheffield and Glossop,
Amesbury, and Rochdale—Bills read a third time. and
passed. Worksop and Attereliff, Leeds and Halifax, King-
ston-upon-Hull, Denbigh and Llanwrst, and Renfrew, La-
nark, and Ayr—Bills reported, to be ingrossed.
DocKs_Kingston-upon-Hull—Four Petitions, in favour—to
lie on th,.: table. Leith—Bill reported, Report to lie on the
table.

NAVIGAT tox—Clyde—rr ree Petitions, against—referred to
the Committee on the Bill, Counsel ordered.
COUNTY COURTS BlLL—Petitions from the Clerk of the
Pleas, and Four Ushers of the Court of Exchequer ; and
Four Ushers, Court-keeper, and Porter of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas, for compensation—to lie on the table.
IMPROVEMENT—BUISIeM
GAS LIGII Ts—Rochester

HARBOUR—Pembrey Bills read a third time, and
B n IDGE—Athluneard (Ireland) passed.
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SETTLEMENT OF THE POOR -
THROWN SILK ACT REPEAL

PAVlNG—Banbury—Petition friim Inhabitants, against--to
lie on the table.
CHURCHES—PooIe, and St. Dunstan's .
in .the Last B iililisgrroespsoetrd, to be
TiTllES—Cockerharn
WITNESSES EXPENCES—Petition of James Sutcliffe and
John F. Taylor, Journeymen Woollen Weavers, Rochdale,
for remuneration of their travelling expences, they having
been examined before the Committee on Combination Lai"
—to lie on the table.
RAlLWAYS—Llanllyfin and Carnarvon—Petition of George
Bettiss, against—to lie on the table.
ANATomr—Petition from Liverpool Literary and Philosophi-
. cal Society, praying that the bodies of persons dying in hos-
pitals may be delivered over to Anatomiststo lie on the
table.
CORN LAWS—Petitions from Glasgow 'and Perth, for a revi-
sion thereof--to lie on the table.
BONDED CORN—Petition of Kincaid Mackenzie, of Etlln'
burgh, merchant, praying that Foreign Corn in Bond may
be admitted to entry for Home Consumption—to lie on the
table.
SALMON FISHERY BlLL—Petition from Clonmell, against--
to lie on the table. •
BASTARDY LAw—Petition from East Harling, for amend:-
merit thereof—to lie on the table.
COMBINAT; ON LAWS—Petitions from Manchester Burnley',
Wigan, Haslingden, and Rattenstall, against ; and from
Birmingham, in favour—referred to the Select Committee.
COUNTY TRANSFER OF LAND BILL—Four Petitions,
against—to lie on the table.
NEW STREET AMENDMENT—Petition from 11. S. Eyre/
against—to lie on the table.
CANAL—Western Ship—Petiaon from Birmingham, in fa'
vour—to lie on the table.
ROMAN CATHO C CLAlMS_Petition from Lickblea, Rath-
_garron, and Main, in favour—to lie on the table.
WAREHOUSED CORN—Bill to be read a third time on Friday"-

NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR THIS DA Y.
1. Mr. Wallace—Assimilation of the English and Irish Cur-
rency.
2. Sir George Hill—Select Committee on the Laws respecting
the Butter Trade of Ireland.
3. Mr. Monck—Bill to prohibit, in certain cases, the payment
of any part or portion of the wages of Labourers oat of
the Poor Rates.
ORDERS OF THE DAY FOR THIS DAY. • "
1. Special Juries (Ireland) Bill—Second reading.
2. Stealing in Mines Bill—Committee.
3. County Courts Bill—Report of ResOlution thereupon. -
4. Currency Assimilation—Committee thereupon. L.
5. Elective Franchise (Ireland) Bill—Further consideration CI
Report.
6. Exchequer Court (Ireland) Bill—Committee.
7. Apothecaries Bill—Committee.
8. Chancery Court (Ireland) Bill—Third reading.
9. Sealing of Writs (Ireland) Bill—Committee.
10. Excise Stamps--Committee thereupon.
11. Columbia Postage Bill—Second reading.
12. Disembodied Militia Bill—Second reading.
13. County Rates Mortgage Bill—Committee.
14. Bankers (Ireland) Bill—Further consideration of Report.-
15. Levant Company Bill—Committee.
In. Land Tax Assessments Bill—Further consideration of Rit.
port.
17. Liverpool and frelarid Bill—rteport.
10. Naval Asylum Bill—Report.
19. Pembroke Market Bill—Report.

PRIVATE BILL.
Second Reading
.for This Day.
Doncaster and Thorne Roads.

ASCENSION.—HoIiday at the Bank, Exchequer, East
and South Sea Houses.

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, MAYI2, 1825•

A few nights ago Lord DACRE, in the House
of Lords, moved the second reading of the Game
Laws Amendment Bill, hut, on the motion of
Lord WESTMORLAND it was rejected by a Oa'
jority of 38 to 23. We are divided in opinion
on this subject, as to the kind of alteration that
should be introduced. but feel fully persuaded
that something should be done to amend these
Laws, for as they now stand they are inad`
quote to protect the game from poachers.
The present laws have been represented as unjust
and unnecessarily severe, and we are inclined to
fall into this opinion, so far as theirseverity iS co"
cerned, but not as to their injustice. Certainly,
if this subject is considered only with reference t°
the prima facie right of taking such wild animals
as the law will not consider the property of 01
man until " reduced into possession by the Pei"
tentiality of" a dog, a snare, a gun, or otherwise'
there is no question that justice requires he
should be permitted to exercise that right ; but
if considered with reference to the long trait'
of evils sthat would of necessity follow the
unrestrained exercise of that right, the
question assumes an entire different Weer:
ance, and it becomes then equally clear, that
the prima facie right should be restricted. 'rite
proper medium of restriction is then the next
object to be justified. The evil dreaded by an
unrestrained exercise of this right, is the idle-
ness which it would superinduce, for it cannot be
supposed, that any person once accustomed
to the pleasures of field sports, would YerY