The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-15 00:00:00

LAW FOR THE POOR.

(From the Examiner.)
In our observations on the " private arrangement" in
favour of L. rd Waldegrave, we promised to watch the
issue of other prosecutions for the same offence, the parties
in which might not happen to be lords.
The first which has occurred since the Waldegrave case
is the prosecution cf Stephen Hodge, on the Western cir-
cuit, for assaulting a constable in the exercise of his duty,
and cutting him with intent to do him grievous bodily harm.
The judge in this ease did not sugge t " api irate ar-
rangement."
The trial proceeded, and it appeared that the prisoner
bad a scuffle with the officer, in which he struck him with
some cutting instrument. The act of violence was not
wanton; it was committed in the heat of blood, and in
an attempt to escape from apprehension. It was not an
attack on the person of the officer for the sport of cruelty.
The constable was not injured for life ; at the end of seven
weeks he was able to leave the infirmary. The prisoner
was of course convicted, and Mr. Justice Erskine passed
sentence of fifteen years' transportation.
Such is law for; the poor 1 What law ft,r the rich is,
Lord D.•nman has shown in a far worse case, and we may
now more emphatically repeat the words of Lord Wt•lde-
grave's counsel, that he has reason to fdel " greatly in-
debted to the Chief Justice."

Lord Brougham has left Paris for his estate near
Cannes.
THE GREEN PARK.—It is probably nothing
more than natural that the public should be sensitive and
susceptible cn a subject so litally affecting the health and
the enjoyments generally of the inhabitants of the metro-
polis as the appropriation of the Parks, and it is to this
only that we can attribute the very hasty and unfounded
surmises which have been so freely hnarded of late re.
specting the alterations now in progress in the Green
Park. We have made inquiry as to the real and ultimate
object of these so much de;ti eca'ed alteration., and the re-
sult is this ; that there is no intention whatever of shutting
up any portion of the park, or of erecting loege..s, or of
planting it, to the exclusion or to the slightest abridgment
of the comfort of any party, be he rich or poor. The
whole object of these proceedings is to level and drain the
surface of the Park, which has heretofore been little more
than a swamp ; to improve the herbage, to make paths
which shall be dry and available at all seasons ; and, in
short, to realise the many advantages of which the site is
admitted to be susceptible for the benefit of all classes.—
Observer.

FARMERS AND MASTERS OF HOUNDS
1. Hodgson, Esq., of Quorondon Hall, has, it is reported,
determined on disposing of his pack of hounds and hunting
stud, immediately after Croxton Park races, in CONSC-
quence of the numerous insults received by his friends and
himself, from the farmers of the district on the occasion of
the pack passing over their grounds. Mr. Wells, of See-
grave, farmer, and Mr. Hodgson, are said to have quar-
relled on this subject. On Tuesday, the 2d inst., a fox
being driven into a slate pit at Swithland, Mr. Hodgson,
according to the usual custom, left a guinea at a house in
the village for the men to drink. Notwithstanding this, a
number of the men who pretended to give no credit to his
repeated assertions that he had left the money, followed
him for a considerable distance, shouting that he might
keep his guinea to buy him a new coat. 0.) the 4.h
instant Lord Gardiner was following the same pack over
a field at Hotton, occupied by a Mr. Lacey, when he was
assaulted by Mr. Lacey's son, and floored with a rail or
some such weapon, Some of the other huntsmen coming
up, they so belaboured him with the handles of their whips
to cause him to require surgical assistance.--Leicester-
shire Mercury.