The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-27 00:00:00

NIGHT POACHING PIZUVENTION ACT.—An Act.

came into operation on the 4th of July last to extend
the Act of the 9th of Geo. IV., c. 69, which was passed
to prevent persons going armed at night for the destruc-
tion of game. It appears that the recited Act has been
of late years evaded by the destruction, by armed persons
at night, of game or rabbits, not upon "open or enclosed
lands," as described in the said Act, but upon public
roads and highways, and other roads and paths, leading
hlands, and also at the gates, outlets, and
t openingsrouh gsuch
between
such.
lands, Ere, so that not only has
the destruction of game or rabbits not been prevented,
but the risk of murder and other grievous offences in-
creased, and great danger and alarm occasioned to per-
sets utiltig such roads, highways, and paths. It is now
declared that the punishments and forfeitures imposed by
the recited Act shall extend to persons unlawfully taking
or destroying any game or rabbits on a road, highway,
or tiny path, end they may be seized without a warrant,
and dealt with according to the provisions in the statue
mentioned.
An alarming accident happened on Thursday last
to the second son of Earl Jermyn, a fine spirited youth
about seven years of age. He was riding a Shetland pony
in the park at Ickworth, in company with his noble pa-
rents, and had adeauced a little before them, when the
animal suddenly'ran away and threw him with great
force against the trunk of a tree. The Earl and Lady
Katherine hastened forward and found him in a sense-
lege state from A Tiolimt blow on the bead, and her Lad-
yship remained with him on the grass whilst his Lordship
hastened for the carriage, in which he was conveyed to
the hall, still insensible. The attendance of Dr. Probart
and Charles Smith, Esq., was procured as quickly as
as possible; and the latter gentleman was with the little
sufferer all night,
gent apprehetisione being entertained
for tdhaey,reasnualt,wbeutnhieoireaelltioediArthoetw he is likely to dourse of the follow
ing•
erell..Httre Peet; stpt;
DESPERATE Aktitir tit rOAdittfig.---in conse-
quence of a stispieitin that tine of the, plantations on the
Selteim property had beefi diettfela t~ itA mite by
poachers, a watch was set, and on Friday night ilet
poachers were met with, and a severe conflict ensued.
Otte of the tintke ltepeea; named George Saunders, who
first met With t. ell'etedeft, ftes lietieitsiy injured ;he
was beaten most unmercifully, and then gagged to pre■
vent his making any alarm which might bring him help,
The petechers no* fled, end hating crossed a field, were
Oimbitig a butt that they might escape into the turn-
pike road, when they were surprised by an attack from
the head gamekeeper and two of his assistants, who had
been lying in ambush: Here another fearful struggle
tbei Ade. i4hlcii ended in the eipLilre bt Mee of the
poachers, the fourth having escaped.
These were taken
to Saltram House, and confined there until the next day,
when they were taken to Itidgway before a bench of
magistrates, who fhlly committed them for trial at the
coming assize. The names of the captured poachers
don. The fourth party he hoty,
aying escaped his fellow-
poachers decline giving his name. A hare and two
the
are—James Saunders, Cleorg
snaring nets were found upon and John Lang-
person of James
Saunders, who is it) nO Way related to George Saunders,
his Lordship 'd keeper. Several of the parties, as may
be supposed, are very severely bruised and wounded.--
Devonshire paper.
RAILWAY THAvsmarivi.—The man who travels by
a railroad sees nothing, learns nothing, and is nothing,
from the commencement of his Journey to its termina-
don. Speed saves; or, it may e Raid, annihilates time
and dietatiteb but itt what cost ? We are not putting a
tnnney question. At what loss? should be the word.
He who reclines in a locomotive machine, going at the
rate of thirty miles an hour, is as insensible to the beau-
passing through, to its legen-
daryorigin of its hamlets and its sa-
eengine itself. In such a traveller
the poetic impulse must be chilled. If he be aged he
tcireesd of
attractions,
temples, the country
as
tn
the hthe is
must feel that old times have passed away; that father-
land, dear to his early affections, does not exist on the
line of railway; and that what he once saw with rap-
ture, and cherised in his memory, is now all blank—a
long line of cold iron, burning cinders, dirty smoke, suffo-
cating vapour, and eternal dreariness. On the other
hand, if the traveller be young, he has little to regret, in-
asmuch as he is deprived, by the modern process of fly-
ing over the land, of any opportunities of being conscious
of what is worth being seen, studied, and admired in
the rural retreats of England. This is a change which
few people think of. It is all very well to take a steam
flight from London to Liverpool. or Manchester, from
London to Bath, Bristol, and Exeter, or from London,
or from any one place to any other, by steam power ;
but it is quite another thing to consider of what vast ad-
vantages the rapid tourist is deprived, by not being en-
abled to see the beauties of the country, the gems of an
old land, the hoary ruins, and the temples gray, and the
historic spots, and the classic ground, and the once noble
castle, and the dismantled abbey and monastery, and all
tbat venerable time and tradition have sanctified in an
Ancient kingdom.—Liverpool paper.