The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-28 00:00:00

GAME LAWS.

(From the Times.)
A return has been printed to an order of tli
House of Commons, requiring from the different
governors of prisons, or keepers of houses of eta-
rection, in England and Wales, an account of the
number of persons committed under the game law-,
in the three winter months of each year, for the last
three years. The months included in this return
are from the Ist of November, in 1829, to the 1•r
of February, 1830 ; from the Ist of November, 1830,
to the Ist of February, 1831 ; and from the Ist of
November, 1831, to the Ist of February, 1832
The operation of the new game law began only on
the Ist of November last, and a great diversity of
opinion prevailed as to its probable effect. S one
thought that by making game property, and by per-
mitting its sale in the open roarket, a great addi-
tional stimulus would be given to the sinister in-
dustry and nightly depredations of the poacher ;
while others as obstinately maintained, that by the
legal permission to sell game, its owners would
supply the market, to the comparative exclusion of
the contraband trader and the dishonest trespasser.
The subject is one of the greatest importance,
arid the experiment has riot yet been tried for a
length of time sufficient to warrant any definitive
conclusion. So far as it goes, however, it makes
out the new enactment to be unfavourable to the
amelioration of the poorer classes, and the reduc-
tion of game law offences. The number of com-
mitments in the months of November, December,
and January last, exceeds those of the correspond-
ing months in the end of 1829 and beginning of
1830, by 177, in all the counties in England. As
many of our readers may feel an interest in this
question, we have formed from the return a view
of the commitments in each county of England, in
the three months ending the 1s! of February, 1830
and 1832, omitting the intermediate year in which
the subject had been discussed, but in which nothing
had been done :

1830. 1832.
Bedford 43... 41

1830. 1832.
Lincoln
Monmouth
Norfolk
Northampton
Northumberland 6 ... 23
Nottingham
Oxford
IRutland

13 erks

Bucks 57... 31

Cambridge 37... :30

Chester - 26 ... 23

Cornwall

Cumberland

Derby
52... 24

Devon

9 ... 13

Dorset 22 ... 19

Salop
Somerset
Stafford
Suffolk
Surrey 27... 26
Sussex 40... 85
Warwick
Westmoreland 2 5
Wiltshire
Worcester l4 ... 18
York

Durham ll 9
Essex
Gloucester
Hants 54 ... 109
Hereford
Hertford 33... 46

Huntingdon 2
Kent

Lancaster - rift

Leicester

1,116 1,293
1,116

IR the first place, it must strike every man who
has any regard for the morals and happiness of his
fellow-creatures, that either the number of 1,116
or of 1,293 commitments in three months for snar-
ing hares or shooting pheasants, argues a monstrous
state of the law, or a most degraded condition of
the rural poor. Many of these offenders are of
course young men, who, having found their way
into the gaol as poachers, have lost their character
for sober industry,—have felt the contagion of prison
example,—and will soon be prepared to return to
their compulsory lodgings under graver charges, or
for more heinous crimes. Hence our hulks, our
penitentiaries, and our penal colonies, are supplied
with inmates or inhabitants, not to mention the
numbers who perish on the scaffold by the hands of
the executioner.

In the second place, a great deal of the efficacy
of the law must depend upon its judicious adminis-
tration, arid for that, unfortunately, no wise provi-
sion is made. Many, if not the most, of these
commitments are made by a single justice, who may
be swayed by capricious dislikes to the poor, or ser-
vile desires to promote the pleasures or gratify the
tyranny of the rich. Imprisonment is too great a
penalty to be awarded on the mere judgment or hu-
mour of an individual.

In the third place, though the law could not have
remained as it was before the late change, and
though, therefore, there were strong grounds for
changing it so as to permit the sale of game, it is
evident from its effects, that the late enactment is
still very deficient. The tenant, or occupier of the
land, should have had, in all cases, the power or the
right of killing game, unless where he made a spe-
cial surrender of that power or right in his agree-
ment with his landlord.
We need not remind our readers that commitments
and convictions are very different things. Still,
however, this return demonstrates the necessity of a
speedy revision and amendment of the Game Act ;
but in the mean time it should be recollected, that
the most salutary parts of the measure, as sent from
the House of Commons to the House of Lords, were
struck out by the conservative care of the latter, who
contended then, that there were vested interests in
birds, as they have since contended that there were
vested interests in boroughs.

WONDERFUL TIDINGS.-(From the Colombo
Journal, Feb. 4 )—Translation of a letter sent from
Heaven to VISHNOCANDASWAMY'S Temple, and copied by
a Brahmin named KOSSE A rroo :—" In the Hindostanee
year 1888 and Salewaham Sagabdum 1753, answering to
the year A. D. 1832, in the month of Februay, nn the
sth day after full moon, which will be on Saturday, and
at the hour of ten o'clock, a.m , when the sun enters
Capricorn, the present iron age of the world will be turned
into a golden age, which will continue for 1,000 years ;
when the general duration of human life will be 125 years.
And at the above-mentioned date, a Rajah will be bora at
the North Pole, about eight in the morning, of the race of
the moon, and that night will he lengthened to 131 hours,
after the expiration of nine hours of which, an earthquake
will take place, when all tyrants and wicked people will
be destroyed, but holy and charitable persons will be pre-
served. Those who receive this account with doubt will,
undoubtedly, commit sin; but those who receive and
transmit it to other countries, will perform as much cha-
rity as if they presented a thousand cows and horses."
On Wednesday afternoon, the 13th inst., as
WILLIAM CHAMBERLAIN, one of the post-boys belonging
to the Cock Inn, Eaton Socon, near St. Neots, was re-
turning from Biggleswade with a chaise and pair, he went
into the Ouse at Tempsford Ferry to water the horses.
The flood-gates being open, on account of the recent rains,
the current ran so sharp as to overpower the horses, and
all went down the sire lin, which irresistibly drove them
towards the sluice, (a distance of about 200 yards from
where they went in), CHAMBERLAIN standing on the bar.
In going through the sluice, a drover, who was inside,
sprung through the chaise window and caught hold of the
chain by which the sluice gates are fastened, and moat
providentially escaped; at the same instant CHAMBER•
LAIN was washed off, and though several persons were on
the spot, he was never seen to rise. It is supposed one
of the horses must have struck him, as at that moment
the chaise and horses were whirled over several times in
the sluice pit. The horses were got out alive, but one is
not expected to live. Though active search has been
made, the body of CHAMBERLAIN has not been found, and
we are sorry to add that he has left a widow and eight
children to deplore their loss.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—An inquisition was
on Tuesday morning taken in Aldgate workhouse, Hounds-
ditch, on the body of Joust COLLIS, aged fifty, formerly in
good circumstances, who died for want of the common ne-
cessaries of life. SARAH Haavav, of No. 6, Friar-street,
Stepney, knew the deceased, who had lodged in her house
for years. He was a single man, respectably connected,
and lived like a gentleman upon his property until
lately, when he became much reduced, being of
extravagant habits, but she understood he hail
considerable property yet undecided in the Court of
Chancery. He gave up his lodgings about six months
ago, and she had not since seen him. He enjoyed very
good health, and was stout and well at that time. Mr.
OWEN DAVIES, of Church-row, Aldgate, deposed that the
unfortunate man called at his house on Wednesday evening
last. He was so struck at his altered appearance, that he
was about to order him out of the house. As soon as he
was satisfied with his identity, being convinced of his
starving condition, he invited him to eat and drink, but he
was so far gone that be was unable to do either. The de-
ceased was a bashful man, and possessed too high a spirit
to ask a favour from any of his friends. Mr. DAVIS,
surgeon, examined the decased at the station-house, and
I.:and his pulse so feeble as to be scarcely percepti,le ; he
was covered with vermin, and altogether in a most de-
plorable condition. He died in the course of the day from
absolute starvation. Verdict—Died from starvation.

CHOLERA IN AN EMIGRANT SHIP

FROM NEW ROSS.

(From the Waterford Mirror of Monday.)
The Lord Wellington, Captain Calletott, dropped
down from New Russ to the Passage of Waterford
on Friday morning, bound for Quebec, with a great
number of passengers. She anchored at Passage,
and shortly afterwards reports were in circulation
that the cholera was on board. In the evening
those reports were powerfully strengthened by the
landing of several of the passengers, with their fa-
milies and luggage, stating the death of two men,
and abandoning all idea of returning to the vessel.
The man who died first was Martin Byrne, from
Shillelagh, in the county Wicklow; the second was
Mr. George Cook, a native of the county of Car-
low, returning to his residence at Pugwash, in Nova
Scotia; a little girl died on Sunday morning; the
fourth death on board was that of a fine young man
of the name of James Walsh, of Clough, in the
county Kilkenny. The vessel sailed on Sunday
morning for the quarantine station at Milford.
Three of those that landed at Passage were unwell,
a man arid two women ; they found it impossible
to obtain shelter until some clergymen charitably
interfered, and prevailed upon the inhabitants to
form a little temporary hospital for the sick strati-
geh.
Since the preceding paragraph was put in type
we have been enabled to give the following parti-
culars, from a report made to the Waterford Board
of Health by Dr. Macksey :
When Dr. Macksey, of Waterford, and Dr. Long,
of Arthurs.own, went on board the vessel, at half
past eleven, on Saturday morning, the dead bodies
of Mr. George Cook arid Martin Byrne were
lying on the deck. Martin Byre, of Shillelagh,
in the connry of Wicklow, aged near severity years,
the first case of illness that occurred on board, as
reported by the Captain, was attacked with the
symptoms of cholera at eleven o'clock on Thursday
morning, and died in twenty-seven hours.—No me-
dical man had visited him ; and, as he had received
some contusions in a drunken riot a few days before,
his illness at first was attributed to this cause. From
the appearance of the body, and the symptoms with
which he was affected, there could be no doubt of
his having died of maignant spasmodic cholera.
On the road, near Passage, Dr. Macksey visited
John. Holahan, one of the passengers of the Lord
Wellington, lying in a ditch, covered by some straw,
in the blue stage of cholera. The Rev. Mr. Paliser
had the man removed into Passage, to the house in
which Eliza Murphy was lying ill, where he received
every attention from Dr. Gore, the physician to the
dispensary. Holahan died on Sunday morning,
having been 28 hours complaining.
The Waterford Board of Health held its sitting
at Passage o►► Sunday. It issued a warrant for the
interment of the deceased, and forbad all unnecessary
communication with the temporary hospital. The
Mayor, at two o'clock on Sunday morning, had
despatched Joseph Watson, one of his city consta-
bles, to Passage, to urge the departure of the vessel,
and to report progress back.
In closing this distressful narrative, we are sorry
to add that the pilot who steered the Lord Welling-
ton out of the harbour on her way to the quarantine
station at Milford, reports two additional deaths,
and new cases were occurring.
Several of the passengers of this ill fated vessel
escaped back to Ross, and to different other parts
of the county of Wexford. One man died in the
hospital at New Ross; he had been severely maimed
during a dreadful series of fighting which took place
on board the vessel. The inhabitants of Ross were
on the gui vim to adopt measures to resist the
danger.

THE MARKETS.

COAL MAR

Per Ton. s. d.
Adair's 18 0
Bensham Main 16 0
Holywell
Pitt's South Moor 15 6
l'ontop Windsor 15 6
Shipeote —...---..—. 16 6
16 9
I'nwnlcy . 17 0
Wylam --,.—,.--. 17 3
Walls End Brown's... . 17 3
Ditto Bell, Robson, & Co. 16 9
Ditto Bewicke and C 0..., 19 6
Wall. En,l Callerton 16 6
Walls End Heaton .. 19 0
Ditto Killingworth 18 9
Ditto Newbiggen.- .. 15 0
Walls End N e ',Jaren— 18 6
Ditto Northumberland . 17 6
Walls End Riddell's . 19 0
Ditto Todd and Watson— 18 6
Walls End Walker 18 6
Bells Primrose l5 9
Ships arrived sing

:ET.—June 27.

Per Ton. s. d.
Walls End Hetton 20 6
Walls End Lambton 20 6
W. E. Russell's Hetton— 20 6
Walls End Stewart's...-. 20 9
Walls End Adelaide —. 16 0
Walls End Gordon..--. 19 0
NV. E. Old Etherley...—. 16 0
Walls End Tees 20 3
Walls End Elgin 16 0
. 16 0
Scotch Parrot—. 20 0
New Flockton, Milne,
and Co.
Silkstone Field and C 0... 16 0
Silkstone Holmes —...... 15 6
Walls End Selby —.—...... 15 6
Seremerstone Engine..... 15 6
Stavely---,—......... 15 0

GreenWich Hospital-,—..—. 16 0
Warde's 19 9
Tan field Trader 16 6

last market day. 89.

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK.

Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans.
Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. v. to s.
Abingdon--. 62 81 31 43 22 30 38
Andover 73 80 37 41 23 44
Birmingham— 56 66 40 44 124 32 52
Bridport 56 74 32 36 26 30 54
Cirencester 50 62 26 38 21 25 36 41
k aringdon—. 54 66 36 40 26 34 46
Guildford ..--...... 48 74 23 32 26 35 43
Henley 54 83 30 35 20 30 -- 40
Hereford 84 92 44 48 52
Highworth 62 80 32 42 28 34 56
Maidenhead .-- 56 68 34 44 22 30 36 37
M0nm0uth...—....... 56 61 39 --
Reading 65 90 31 47 21 27 34 42
52 63 34 40 120 26 36 54
Southampton 54 58 33 40 i2B 32 46
Stroud
Tewkesbury 65 74 30 42 30 38 44
Uxbridge 48 74 37 40 23 33 46
Wantage 5B 80 27 43 21 30 34 42
Warminster 48 64 30 44 20 28 34 45
Windsor _
Worcester—,...... 65 66 44 5! 31 31 50
LEWES 51ARKE1'.—June 26.
White Wheat (per quarter)---X3 4 0 to £3 8 0
Red ditto
Barley
Oats New 1 1 6 _ 1 2 0
Pease _ 1 15 0 1 14 0
Oil Cake. 12 0 0 per thousand.

115 0 1
12 0 0 per th,

HULL MARKET—June 26.
Wheat, Old —s. 58s. 60s. New —s. 58s. 638.
Foreign —s. 50s. 545. ln bond... —s. —s. —B.
Oats, Poland —s. 20s. 2.2 s Old —s. —s. 248.
Small or Feed.... —s. IBs. 20s —s. —s. —s.
Foreign —s. 16s. 18s —s. —B. --sr.
Barley, Norf. & Suf ... —s. 335. 365. Linc. & %Vold —s. 36s 383.
Foreign - 6. --s•
Beans 3os. 325. 31s. Foreign —s. 325. Sts.
Pease, White... —s. 38s. 40s Grey —s. —s. —s•
Tares —s. —s. —s. Foreign —s. 30s. 363.
Rapeseed, in bond n0ne.......... Free, par last —l. 20/. 271.

CHELTENHAM .
Per Bushel. s d. to s. d. d. to d.
Wheat
Barley 4 0 5 6 Mutton
Oats 4 0 4 3 Veal
Beans
Pease 5 0 7 0 Lamb 0 0
Hay 3/. lOs to 3/. 15s. Od. per ton. _

. A RKET.—June 26.
Pei lb.

DUMFRIES M A RKETS.—June 20.
s. d. s.d. I. (t. s. d:
Wheat, Imp. Bush... 7 0 to 7 8 Butter. 16oz
0 0 to 0 n
Barley
Oats ...., 2 3 2 6 Beef, per lb. . ........... 0 4 006
Flour, 1 Bb. 1 0 3 4 Mutton ....... 0 4 0
Oatmeal
1 9 2 0 Veal ....... 0 5
Potatoes, cwt.
1 4 1 6 Quartern Loaf 0 7 0 v

FACTORY BILL.--The petitions agreed 011
at the County Meeting, two months ago, have, at length'
been forwarded for presentation. The signatures, we ate
told, are 138,652 ; the petitions measure 4,509 feet, al,
weigh 1801bs. The number of signatures from Leeds ao
its neighbourhood is about 30,000; Huddersfield, 19,600;
FlAhfax, 18,100 ; Bradford, 15.000; Sheffield, 10,000.-""
Halifax Express. '

BIRTHS.
On the 211th inst. the Countess of Radnor, of a son, still-born,
On the 23d inst. at Holey hill, Rochester, the lady of capt3l
Thomas Baker of a daughter. of
On the fith in
at the Suffolk Asylum, Mrs. Kirkman
son.

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On the '2sth inst. at Brompton, the lady of Edward Gould,
EN, a daughter.
On the 2titit inst. at Southend, near Sydenham, Kent, the
of Donald Mackay, Esq., of a daughter.

MARRIED.
i iig
daughter Sutton,
011.1ii'v'
„nd
On the 26th, inst. at Northlieet, Robert Curteis, Esq., s"— e
son of Robert Curteis, Esq., of Tenterden, Kent, to Carolirie,
Mary, eldest daughter of John Russell, EN., of Manor.hou,
Swanscomb, in the same country.
Rector O the f
jr2,.6,tclei
aver
nß•rte. t theoii
Essex,ltey.
,os RobertarahN,Nroo secondd
late Thomas Hayter, 1_14q., of Brixton, Surrey.
DIED. C.
On the 20th inst., suddenly, in Cross-street, Islington, Miss
Main, of St. George's-road, Surre, ad 66. bird
On the 25th inst. at Cotinan Dene, near Dorking, Maria, the
On
of Richard Bush, Esq., of the Lower Mall, Ilarnfo-
smith.

.nst. in Leonard-place, K

Mr. Charles

on the 24th i, . --,-, Kensington, •• -
Audits, aged 68. , sc.,
On the 27th inst. in liork-street, Westminster, Mr. H•
Joshua, in the 25th of his age. •doll'
On the 24th inst., suddenly, Mr. Wm. Woo Wong!), of CO?, iji
On the 26th mst., suddenly, at Nutfield Rectory, SurWileo.
his 81st year, the Rev. Edmunu Sandford, ED., formerly
and Tutor of Jesus College, Oxford.

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