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LANIERT ON DEBILITY, NERVOUSNESS. AND ALL
DISORDERS ARISING FROM EXCESS, &c.
" He who in pleasure's downy arms
Ne'er lost his health or yeuthrulcharms,
A here lives, and justly can
Exclaim, in me behold a man I"
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fly SAMUEL LAMERT, Consulting Surgeon,
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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—Game-preserving is, no doubt, espe-
cially in the case of country gentlemen, a great allevia-
tion to the miseries which flow from idleness and in-
digestion. Even our gravest senators find the slaughter
of the battue a very agreeable recreation after the
fatigues of a Parliamentary campaign. We would
not needlessly curtail the amusements of the
rich, any more than we would deprive the
poor of those sports which tend to re-
lieve the monotony of continued labour. It
is well, however, to inquire, in all cases where
simply the amusements of life are concerned,
whether they are, in any way, prejudicial either
to those who indulge in them, or to those who
are not permitted to partake of them. If an
amusement be found the subject of very stringent
legislation—an amusement to be exclusively enjoyed
by the wealthy—above all, if we find this amuse-
ment the source of a great amount of crime—it is
well, under such circumstances, to reflect whether
right feeling and sound policy—both which will inval
riably aim at securing the good of the community
do not indicate the abandonment of what is a mere
selfish gratification, seeing that gratification can only
be obtained by the infliction of suffering, and the
prompting of crime in others. We do conscientiously
believe that never, in modern times, was a series of
enactments framed of a tendency more injurious to the
morals of the labouring classes in the agricultural dis-
tricts than are the existing game-laws. Well did the
late justly-venerated Dr. Arnold demand of our
whole
National Church, why it shrunk from " exposing the
wickedness of the spirit which could maintain the
game-laws
bitter dregs of that system which, in days of yore, laid
waste
m al by a peasant
il l
aHagneeoswffteeonl well knewe to
extendbe ttehhxeepiini
"game
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of some local tyrant, and made the pursuit of a wild ani-
mal
late years there has, happily, been a considerable
amelioration of the criminal code. There has been an
increasing feeling that the ends of justice may be
attained more certainly by lowering the amount of
punishment, as much as is consistent with the purposes
for which penalties are inflicted on offenders against
the laws. As regards the most venial offences, how-
ever, there has not hitherto been a proportionate
relaxation in the penalties. A child is detected in
picking up a few apples from under the trees of an
orchard, and is sent to prison for a month, there to
associate with hardened offenders, and to be trained for
the adroit commission of frauds and felonies. Scarcely
a day passes, but the reports of the police-courts and of
the quarter sessions supply instances of the dispro-
portion between the wrongful act and the amount of
punishment inflicted for minor offences. It is, how-
ever, to the game-laws that we at present confine our
remarks. The ferocious statutes which disgraced our
land in days of comparative barbarism have, it is true,
been repealed. But much, far too much, of their exe-
crable spirit still remains. The trespasser on the
rights of game is still classed with the hardened
robber, and treated as if their crimes were
equally prejudicial to the welfare and stability of
society ! Can any human enactments ever persuade
the poor—nay, will they ever convince candid and
considerate men in any walk of life—that their cases
are similar ? We earnestly hope the day is not far
distant when the example set by some patriotic noble-
men and gentlemen will be pretty generally followed.
We shall then see landlords discharging their game-
keepers, and freely allowing their tenantry to
share in the amusement of destroying those wild
birds and animals which frequent the lands they
cultivate, and often consume a considerable por-
tion of the fruits of their husbandry. The Duke
of Bedford, it is stated, has given his tenantry
free permission to treat rabbits as rats ; and to
shoot, or take them in any way, as marauders whose
ravages are a fearful drawback from the farmer's
gains. If really desirous of improving the condi-
tion of the poor, Lord John Manners, and the other
leaders of the " Young England" party, should
assail the game-laws, as among the worst engines
of oppression, by which the poor are ground down
to the earth by the unthinking rich. So sanguine
are we as to the feeling which now pervades the more
enlightened portion of the community on this
subject, as to feel assured that, were a Bill in-
troduced in the next session of Parliament—providing
proper securities against trespass upon private lands,
and other necessary protection against the wilful inva-
sion of personal property, but at the same time greatly
modifying and ameliorating the game code, as it now
exists—it would have the support of' a majority in
both Houses. Notwithstanding the force of deeply root-
ed prejudice with which it would have to contend, the
voice of public opinion would be raised in its favour.
This would sustain its advocates in the conflict, and
obtain for them and their measure a certain triumph.
The Government, through Sir James Graham, is
Pledged to inquiry. If the inquiry• be an honest and
searching investigation into the whole question, the
result, though attained by a long preliminary process,
will be convincing to all who are not pre-determined
to oppase the force of evidence. Thu humanity of
the age will not longer permit the game-laws to work
the extensive demoralization, and other forms of
miseq, c.f whiali they are uotgriollsiir the soure.';,
STANDARD.—A few days ago we announced
that hsr Majesty had been graciously pleased to
onnfer upon the Earl of' Fowls the order of the Garter,
vacant by, the Duke of Graftqlf death. One would
think that this simple affair of a kvour, which the
queen must confer upon some one, being conferred
up3n a nobleman, it is by all admitted every way
worthy of it, might be suffered to pass without pro-
voking malignant commentary ; but no, one of
the " Nothing if not critical this morning makes