The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-29 00:00:00

Those disreputable relics of feudalism—the
blood-stained Game Laws—are, as our readers
will perceive, powerfully-assailed by "A Farmer"
in another part of our present impression. The
monstrous injustice of perpetuating so rank a pre-
serve of robbery, demoralisation, and oppression,
has often been urged in our pages, and we natu-
rally hail with satisfaction the protest of our
correspondent, as a member of the agricultural
community, against it. The defenders of these
atrocious laws have, with a perfectly legitimate
effrontery, denied that farmers were sufferers by
them, and farmers as a body have hitherto been
too much under thumb to give the falsehood
the thorough exposure it deserves. Henceforth,
we trust, the agricultural community will labour
zealously to bring the' question to an issue, openly
when they may with safety to themselves, and
secretly when they can do no better. The
public have only to be enlightened by facts as to
the operation of these nu-English laws to pro-
nounce ou them a well-merited doom. One notice•
able feature in "A Farmer's" communication is
the waste of fertile soil • occasioned by the preser-
vation of game—a waste altogether intolerable at
a period when the price Of provisions is so high,
and the poor are stinted in their daily bread.
This is too important a matter to be overlooked
—indeed it involves a consideration which alone
is sufficient to cause the erasement of the Game
Laws from the statute-book. The mushroom
tyranny of Cockney Lords (as noisy and wide of
their mark as their gun-barrels), practised in
mosaic imitation of that of thelineal, at all events
gentlemanly, inheritors of Norman privileges,
calls loudly enough for repression ; but what
should resist a fact like this, if fact it be, and
"A Farmer" states Ire is.prepared to prove it,
" that directly and indirectly the loss on cereal
crop; one-fourth of the. ,Pntire crops of the coml.-
teg, besides the loss on turnips, and Swedee, and
•
other esculent crops, on which game is most de-
structiva"—in other words, " the labouring man,
losing one-fourth'of the produce of the country,
is paying actaall?! 2d. per partern more for his
bread Oil. account of Game Lam." Te not this mon-
strous ? " Aye," sighs the lad labouring at the
treadmin for putting a stop to the depredations
of a pheasant on his master's land, " monstrous.
Tell it tie the parson that sent me here all for the
love of— the Squire !"

ICE ON THE AMERICAN COAST,—TiIe Baltimore
American ,states that a number of vessels were ice-bound
in Chonape ake Bay, and that the Crews could walk on it
to the shot e.
VESSELS OF WAR AT SAN JETAN.—Advices by the
American,. :mail report the arrival at San Juan of the
has beeann,,dmplie-ci
united Btmtes frio•tte Potomac. Her Majesty's ships
Arab and EepiPgic;'were in the ort:
ma ALF-11oLIDAy r: THE LAW.—The Lori Chancellor
his lorishi,
the law to for his sanction to obtain for
j..ct. The co, :all 'era the half-holidays on Saturday., and
promisedinoznrae,nt. his best attention t 1 the sub.
able to the Dim
law judges are understood to be fav,:ur-
A
i n ;,inufsrtah ASTRAL 1.
kTudr't:iißalnCUALTlplAL COMPANY. —At a meet- 1
Itaveaacultural Company, held yes-
terday, Mr. .1. H. iiresiding, the report was
adopts3d. ( ;', 3nsiderable discussion,whowever, previously
took place (#i i the management an os pacts of the un-
dertaking. , rile groat power exercised
Brown-
rigg, the sup erintendont in Australaina4unaccompanied by
any responsible check on the spot, ty Capt.
e
nely partial
Auccess that has followed recent operations,appear to
have induce( lan impression among the
proprietors that
some change )in policy is necessary. It is also !Nested
that the ma chinery of the board in this countrsu
improved, i t being considered that the nurelajtslagrebe
tors is top 14 rge, looking at the profits which have been
derived t Nosn business. Although the property, includ-
ing the 1a , nd, agricultural stock, and collieries, is an.
kncervied. ged t 4 I be valuable, the expenditure seems ex-
cessive, ; mud it has been recommended that the accounts
shall in ' Oturc i. le presented in greater detail. The ex-
planatl: )0 Ot th 6 ' directors showed that they themselves
are not i
satisfied \ vith the ,results of operations, and it
was at Med on theit.' behalf that plans are under conside-
ration . which, it is Oought, will improve the administra-
tion '
4rl Australia. ~k.n3endrueuts, therefore, which had
bee- -proposed---one t'9 divide the surplus of profits ex-
h a _propo
1 sited in the balance- sweet, and another to appoint a
e
ornnaittee to co-operate with the board—were withdrawn,
arid a hope was expressed Ana the next report would be
i fovad more encouraging.