The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-24 00:00:00

The Derby authorities have, it seems, employed
the town police to watch the suburbs of the borough
at hours when, we should say, they ought to
have been looking to the state of the towns-
men's shutters; and to take from persons whom they
found bringing them into the town all the
hares, rabbits, and other game they might
have with them, together with the nets
and other implements they had employed in
catching them. Of the illegality of such a step we
believe there is no doubt. The Game Laws them-
selves, disgracefully one-sided as they are, do not
authorise any one to seize at his pleasure game
and implements for catching it, when away from
the manor on which the game could be taken. On
the manor, the lord or his authorised agent has the
legal right to do it. Elsewhere, if we understand
the law aright, no one can interfere with the sus-
pected poacher. We may admit that the presump-
tion against the man is of the strongest kind, it may
amount to moral certainty, still it is not English to
strain the law against " suspects." Such a policy
may suit the despots of the Continent; it is alien
to our habits, as well as to our laws. The very boys
in the streets, here, know that it is se, and will
escape from. the police across an imaginary line,
and dare them from the other side of it to do their
worst. If we mistake not the very way to secure
sympathy for poachers is to strain the law against
them. It is well known that the Game Laws are
amongst the most oppressive and unjustly adminis-
tered laws of any on the Statute Book, and to make
such intolerable relics of feudalism more stringent
than they already are is to raise the victims of
such oppression to the rank of martyrs. Those
who have no sympathy with poachers, sympathise
with poachers, badly, illegally, used.
It may be quite true that poaching trains to
other crimes; it is said that the unsuccessful poacher
will, in returning home, rob the hen-roost, or carry
off a duck or a turkey. It may be so in some cases,
yet, if it be, it would afford but a vivid illustration
of the difference between poaching and theft. It
is an undeniable fact that all a poacher's neigh-
bodrs of his own class sympathise with him if " the
poor fellow " gets six months for catching some
game. But if he got twelve months for stealing
what they recognise as property, they only ex-
claim, " Serve him right." If laws ought to have
regard to the moral sentiments of those whom
they are to restrain, nothing can be more
certain than :that laws to punish poaching
more severely than theft will never accord
with popular instincts. Why, indeed, is a special
name assigned to the deed—crime, we ourselves
cannot call it, of killing a hare or a pheasant—
why is it not left to the laws against trespass and
the laws which protect other moveable property, to
repress the practice. The chief answer is, that no
lawyer can define whose property the creature is—
to which may be added that the landlords are far
more bitter against a killer of wild animals than
against " the robber of a hen-roost"—and have
established a far more stringent code against him.
We have not the slightest knowledge of the
personal or social relations of any of the
Corporation of Derby with the adjacent
landholders. But, we must confess that,
writing thus remotely from the scene of action,
we should say that their conduct looked as if they
were under some measure of Landlord influence.
They complain that there are some fifty persons in
Derby who get their living by the demoralising
i
means of poaching ; and, in kindness, they say to
these very men, they will break them of such bad
habits by taking from them the proceeds of their
midnight toil. They will thus drive them to better
employments—a result, we fear, not very likely; for
we suspect that the men will only manage a little
better next time. But the grand error of the Cor-
poration is, their indulgence to the tempters, and
their severity to the tempted. How much
honour might the Corporation have gained,
and how much good might they have
done, by appealing, as a grave municipal
body, to the authors of the evil. Suppose they had
made a formal investigation into the effect of game
preserving on the character of these fifty men ; had
drawn up a report ; had passed an appropriate re-
solution ; and had, then transmitted these to every
game preserver within fifteen or twenty miles of
the town—suppose they had added a municipal
petition, on the evils of game-preserving, to both
Houses of Parliament —they Would then, as it
strikes us, have taken the manly an.d useful course.
:Denounce game-preserving and b t a tucathooting
las social evils; proclaim to all England that crime
in the rural districts, and therefore the cost of re-
pressiDg it, is chiefly due, directly or indirectly, to

regard, that because of this system, of which
HAVELOCK was the victim, a nature in every
way so pure and lofty should have been
held so long in subjection, should have remained so
long unrecognised, should only at last have seen
recognised when worn out by protracted years of
wearisome and harassing disappointment. Know-
ing now what was then in that man's heart—what
heroic valour and what simple piety were animating
the every thought and action of that good soldier,
what uncomplaining endurance was secretly enno-
bling the patient hero's character—one's own heart
burns with indignation to remember that during
twenty of the most laborious years of his career in
his profession, as an officer in one of the regiments
of the Royal army stationed in Hindostan, he re-
mained uncared for and unnoticed among the
lieutenants of the regiment ! At the end of that
full score of years' hard service in a climate
singularly detrimental to the health of an European
—at the end of fully twenty years of this hard
service, in a climate thus notoriously insalubrious=
he was still (in 1835) no more than second on the
list of the lieutogants. This, too, after having
signalized his ability in a sufficiently conspicuous
manner, by serving through a campaign in the
responsible capacity of deputy assistant adjutant-
general to a British army in the battle-field !
Striplings in abundance, the " curled darlings" of a
happier fortune—happier, at least so far as relates
to the larger share thus obtained of the bonbons
of life—purchasing over that pale, studious,
religious, thoughtful, uncomplaining soldier who,
all the while, only required (what certainly
could not be said of them) for the manifestation
of the noble qualities of genius and heroism lying
latent in his almost recluse nature—the opportu-
nity ! That opportunity came at last—England
thrilled to recognise in HENRY HAVELOCK some-
what of those grand and lofty characteristics pecu-
liar to the great warthies whose names and deeds
form the most resplendent adornments of her
annals—England recognised these peculiarities in
HAVELOCK, but only, alas ! when too late for the
expiation in his regard of the cruelty of her mili-
tary system and of the blunders of its respcnsible
chiefs. Remembering HAVELOCK'S career as a sol-
dier, and the career of Lord COCHRANE, the late
&rim Earl of DUNDONALD—we have before us
at a glance the folly and cruelty of the miserable
old system of promotion by interest and by pur-
chase, we have before us at a single glance the
cruelty and folly of the two extremes resulting
from the working of that insensate system—we
have this cruelty and this folly brought before us
at a glance by those two startling illustrations. In

the instance of HAVELOCK—there was the man
without money and without interest, who
was left for years and years to eat his
heart out with anguish in undeserved
obscurity, without a chance of gaining anything in

the way of promotion. In the instance of Lord
COCHRANE, there was the scion of a noble but
impoverished race, a Lord by courtesy, an heir
to an Earldom, who, without money, possessed in-
terest, at any rate, so far to have his name placed
upon the books of the royal navy even in the days
of his early infancy ! And yet one, who, with this
unnatural " start" in life given to him was, in spite
of far, far more than any interest that any man
ever possessed ; in spite of qualities the loftiest
and grandest ever given to a great sea-captain ; in
spite of a valour that was never surpassed,
and a warlike genius that it would hardly be
extravagant to say was never equalled upon the
deep—was thwarted, and restrained, and held back
doggedly by the powers that were, upon every pos-
sible occasion, and this throughout the whole of a
life so long that, when at length the great Earl
breathed his last at Kensington, he was one whole
lustre beyond the age of an octogenarian. The
cruelty and the folly, in fact, of the two extremes
of this most execrable system have, we may con-
fidently assert, never been more painfully
evidenced in all our annals than in the memorable
instance of Sir HENRY HAVELOCK and of THOMAS
COCHRANE, 10th Earl DUNDONALD.

His Serene Highness Prince Leopold of Hoheng
ollern has arrived at Maurigy's Hotel from Berlin.

Viscount and Viscountess Lismore arrived at the
Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, on Thursday, from Paris.
The Count and Countess Manzoni have arrived
at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Italy.
Lord and Lady William Powlett have been enter-
taining, at Downham, during the past week, a distinguished
circle of friends, including the Earl and Countess of Strad-
broke, the Countess of Jersey, Sir Edward and Lady Caro-
line Kerrison, Hon. Robert and Mrs. Lawley, Hon. Francis
and Mrs. Stonor, Lord William Osborne, Hon. Gilbert
Heathcote, M.P., Mr. H. Milbanke, and Colonel Augustus
Meyrick.
Lord Stafford has arrived at Maurigy's Hotel,
from Cossey Hall, Norfolk.
A French imperial decree annuls the prohibition
hitherto existing against the export of iron ore, and permits
it to be taken from the country free of duty.
The Minister of Marine has just given orders at
Rochefort to put on the stocks an iron-cased frigate, and
two steam transports of 400 horse power each.
There were no bullion operations of importance
at the Bank of England yesterday.
The rates of discount on the Continent continue
to show a remarkable disproportion to those on this side.
At Paris, in the open market, transactions are effected at 4
per cent. At Amsterdam and Brussels, the charge is 3 per
cent., and at Hamburg it is only 21 per cent.
An order of the French Prefect of Police enjoins
the immediate introduction of the diapason fixed by law in
all concerts, balls, and places of musical entertainment.
The Emperor of the French has decided that of
the million francs disposable through the death of Prince
Jerome, three hundred thousand shall be added to the
dowry of the Princess Mathilde, and that the remainder
shall return to the treasury.
THE EMPEROR AND THE CHURCH.—A letter
from Paris says :—" It is said that as the Pope refuses to
consecrate Monseigneur Maret, the Bishop of Vannes, the
Emperor has resolved to dispense with the Papal exequltur.
It seems there is a precedent by which the imposition of
hands by three bishops can be substituted for the consent of
his holiness, but the episcopal body does not furnish the
requisite number of docile prelates."
EXPERIMENTS WITH THE ARMSTRONG GUN.—
Some weeks since we gave an account of the experiments
carried on at Eastbourne for the purpose of testing the
breaching power of the larger descriptions of the Armstrong
gun, and it will be remembered that the trials resulted in
the complete demolition of a martello tower, on the side
exposed to the fire. Experiments have since been made on
a martello tower near Bexhill, in every respect similar to
the one at Eastbourne, to Ascertain the effect of common
artillery, the guns employed being two 68-pounders and two
32-pounders, and the distance from the tower the same as
in the trials with the Armstrong guns—namely, 1,032 yards.
The firing commenced on Saturday, the 10th inst., and con-
tinued up to Wednesday, the 14th. Both shot and shell
were used, and the entire number of rounds fired exceeded
by one-half those delivered by the Armstrong guns at East-
bourne. The effect, however, was very different, for the
tower remained tenable to the last, no breach having been
effected; and, in fact, only four shots penetrated into the
interior, and no shells. The result is admitted to be com-
pletely decisive in favour of the Armstrong guns; but it is
intended to pursue the experiments with the smooth bore
cannon at a reduced distance of 400 yards.
THE SUICIDE AND ATTEMPTED MURDER IN
SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE.—On Thursday afternoon, Mary
Lewis, the woman whose attempted murder and the suicide
of her v,,eul4-be murderer we noticed yesterday still remained
alive. Her ultimate recovery, however, is scarcely possible.
She is unable to articulate, and continues to make known
her wants by motions and other proceedings. She remains
sensible, and is able in the way noticed to reply to the inter-
rogations put to her. The room in which she is lying is
said to be very small, leaving only a small space between
the bed and one of the walls. In this space she has re-
plied that she was when Stephenson came upstairs. The
wall here is bespattered with blood. Stephenson had
lodged with the family 12 months. Having obtained work
some distance away, he came to their house on Wednesday
to fetch some of his clothes, and took dinner with them.
Lewis, ongoing to work, left him in the kitchen with his
wife's sister, a young woman of weak intellect. It was
after this that Stephenson would seem to have gone up
stairs. The poor woman says that ho never before made
such an attempt as that which she resisted so heroically.
MURDER IN THE COUNTY DONEGAL.--LONDON-
DEnuY, Thursday night. —An adjourned inquest was held
on the body of James Murray, at the petty sessions court,
Church-hill, at 12 o'clock to-day. The jury unanimously
returned a verdict that deceased was feloniously, wilfully,
and maliciously murdered by persons unknown. Mr. Adair
has offered a reward of £lOO for the discovery of the per-
petrator of this brutal murder.

- MANUFACTURE OF CONDIMENTS FOR CATTLE.—A long
experience gives Mr. Thorley many advantages over his
rivals in this new and important branch of intiustry. The
first of the Cattle Food patents dates January 30, 1855,
while Thorley was successfully at work in 1850 manufac-
turing Thorley's Mixture, a farinaceous compound, at 14s.
per cwt. This is a long start ahead. This mixture was a
compound of our different kinds of corn, including Indian
corn, ground or kibbled, and well mixed together; and
Thorley's success in Hull depended upon his using nothing
but the best qualities of coin he could get, and the frank,
honest, and John Bull manner which he assumed with his
customers, often personally kibbling and mixing his com-
pound in their presence—thus securing to him many excel-
lent and valued friends. Some five years' experience,
however, taught Mr. Thorley that he had only taken
the first step in the great march of improvement upon
which he had entered ; hence the conclusion of a condiment
at which he arrived, the new experimental career upon
which he entered to obtain this, and the result the Cattle
Food Condiment ho now offers the public. The success of
Thorley's Cattle Food, like the success of Thorley's Mix-
ture, depends mainly upon the quality of the materials of
which it is composed, coupled with its honest and proper
administration, and the compounding and mixing of the
several ingredients, soas to prevent the loss of aromatic and
volatile elements, and that without regard to the heavy loss
by waste of raw materials ; for so long as this is attended
to, opposition may retard, but cannot stop, tho Wheel of
progress,