The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-15 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLTGFNCFF•

HUNTING INTELLIGENCE. "—,rt ;,"'S4
APPOINTMENTS FOR THIS WEEK.
His Majesty's Stag-hounds, on Monday, at Maidenhead'
Thicket; an Friday, at the Crooked Billet, Iver Heath--
at half-past ten. If not prevented by the weather they
will meet at tke same place on the following day.
The Westacre Stag-hounds, on Monday, at the Kennel ;
and Friday, at Houghton-on-the-Hill—at half-past ten.
General Wm. fitzroy's Hounds, on Monday, at Mr.
Brown's, Weasenbam ; Wednesday, at Sporl Mill; and
Friday, at West Lexham—at eleven.
Tile Shropshire Hound., on Monday, at Connd Vil-
lage; Wednesday, at Halston ; and Saturday, at the fifth
mile-stone on the Baschurch-road--at half-past ten.
Sir Richard Puleston's Hounds, on Monday, at Enaral ;
Wednesday, at Acton Smithy ; and Friday, at Carden—
at eleven.
Mr. Meynell's Hounds, on Monday, at Holly Bush, at
half-past ten; Thursday, at Kedleston, at eleven; and Sa-
turday, at Langley Common, at half-past ten.
Lord Scarborough's Fox-hounds, on Monday, at Gate--
1,-,rd Toll-bar ; Wednesday, at Rossington Village ; and
Friday, at Haughton School—at half-past ten.
The Cheshire Hounds, on Monday, at Sandiwav
Dead; Wednesday, at Toit ; Friday, at Peavey; and Sa-
turday, at Kinderton Guide-Post—at half-past ten.
The Puckeridge Hounds, on Monday, at Wadesmill ;
Wednesday, at Stanstead, Essex; and Saturday, at Cum-
below—at half-past ten.

Mr. Boycott's Bounds, on Monday, at Chillington ;
Thursday, at Woodcote Green ; and Saturday, at Island—
at half-past ten.
The Warwickshire Fox-hounds, on Monday, at Snitter-
field ; Wednesday, at Wolford Wood ; Friday, at the Ken-
nel—at half-past ten; and Saturday, at Alveston Pasture,
at eleven.

The Brighton Harriers, on Monday, at Patcharn ; Wed-
nesday, near the Race Couree ; and Friday, at the Dyke
at half-past ten.
The Brookside Harriers will continue to meet every
Monday, r.t. Newmarket; Wednesday, at the Lewes Race
Course ; and Friday, at Tellescsmbe Tye--at half-past ten.
Mr. Lester's Harriers, on Monday, at Parkstone ; Wed-
nesday, at Corfe Hills ; and Saturday, at the back of Al-
derney Cottage—at half-past ten.
The Anglesea Hounds, on Monday, at Maenaddwyn ;
Wednesday, at Bodedern ; and Friday, at Llanbedr—at
half past ten.
Sir Rich. Sutton's Hounds, on Monday, at Skelling-
thorpe ; Wednesday, at Newsham Lodge ; Friday, at
Thonock Grove ; and Saturday, at Swallow Cross-roads
—at eleven.
The Gransden Hounds, on Monday, at Coton ; and
Friday, at Psitton Wood—at ten.

Lord Yarborough's Hounds, on Monday, at Ludbo-
rough ; Wednesday, at Newshani-lodge; Friday, at Tho.
nock Grove ; and Saturday, at Swallow-road—at eleven.
The East Sussex Hounds, on Monday, at Nutley;
Thursday, at Southease ; and Saturday, at Abbott's Wood
—at a quarter before eleven.

The Illackmoor Vale Hounds, on Monday, at Point-
ingdon Ridge; and Friday, at Holton-street—at ten.
Earl of Derby's Stag-hounds, on Tuesday, at Epsom
Downs; and Friday, at Foxley Hatch—at ten.
The H. H. on Tuesday, at Hinton; Thursuay, at
Preston Oakhills ; and Saturday, at Minehin'sßarn--at ten.
Mr. H. M. Chadwick's Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at
Bull's Head, Shenstone ; and Friday, at Cantwell Inn—at
half-past ten.

Tfie Lambton Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Rainton-
bridge ; Thursday, at Burnopside ; and Saturday, at Caw_
sey—at ten.

The Royston Harriers, on Tuesday, at Paper Mills,
Shepreth ; and Thursday, at the Red Lion, Reed Mill.
The Worcestershire Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Bishop's
Wood; and Friday, at Bredon-hill—at half-past tea.
Mr. Dansey's Hounds, on Tuesday, at Hope Turnpike;
and Thursday, at Westhide Village—at ten.
The Somerset Subscription Fox-hounds, o❑ Tuesday, at
Bagborough-house ; ailti Friday, at Week Park, Stogursey.
Mr. H. Villet..ais's Harriers, on Tuesday, at the Cock,
Methw•old ; ThUrsday, at Stoke Ferry ; and Saturday, at
the Kennel—at eleven.

The Badsworth Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Fenwick, at
half-past ten; Thursday, at Nostell, at twelve, and Sa-
turday, at Cudworth, at half-past ten.
'lle Cadbury Harriers, on Wednesday, at Silton ; and
Saturday, at the Down-house.

The Marquis of Cleveland's FoX-Lounds, on Wednesday,
at Nornan's Moor; Friday, at Pepper-hall ; and Satur-
day, at Leeming--at eleven.
Mr. Wiekstead's Fox-hounds, on Wednesday, at Heleigh
Castle; and Saturday, at Seighford—at half-past ten.
Mr. Meager'a Harriers, on Wednesday, at Addington ;
and Friday, at Crown Ash .bill—at half-past nine.
Tha Sanderstead Harriers, on Wednesday and Saturday,
at the Kennel—at ten.
Mr. Nicoll's Hounds, on Wednesday, at the Kennel ;
and Saturday, at Heathy Dilton.
The Hambledon Fox-bounds, on Wednesday, at West-
end Telegraph; and Friday, at Holyweil-house—at half-
past ten.

- H. Fox-hounds, on Wednesday, at Henley
house; and Saturday, at the Hermitage—at eleven.
Mr. O'Kelly's Buck-hounds, on Wednesday, at Huston
Down, at half-past ten; and Saturday, at Mill Down, at
half-past eleven,
Lord Harewood's Fox-hounds, on Wednesday, at Hook
Moor ; and Friday, at the Wild Man—at ten.
The Northumberland Fox-hounds, on Wednesday, at
Oakwood-gat :I and Friday, at Hartburn-bridge—at ten.
The Hayden Hounds, on Wednesday, at Corvie Syke;
and !Saturday, at Wood Shields—at nine.
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The Morpeth Harriers, on Thursday, at Pigdon; and
Saturday, at Newton—at ten.

The Sirm;ngton Fox-hounds, on Thursday, at Ricrall-
bridge-4a ten.
The Cleveland Fox-bounds, on Thursday, at Roseberry
—at ten.

The York and Ainsty Fox-hounds, on Thursday, at
Pill Moor ; and Saturday, at Strensall—at half-past ten.
The Surrey Fox-hounds, on Thursday, at Addington
Lodge Bottom ; and Saturday, at Litnpsfield—at half-
past ten.

The York City Harriers, on Friday, at Rufforth Toll
bar,---at half-past ten.
The Boroughbridge Harriers, on Friday, at Minekip—
at half-past ten,

The Llitrworth Fox-hounds, on Friday, at Low Mid-
dleton—at ten.

The Holderness Fox-hounds, on Friday, at Glans-
moor—at eleven.

Sir G. Sitwell's Fox-hounds, on Friday, at Ilandsworth
Bar—at ten.

The Concek Harriers, on Friday, at Haskings's Penning
—at eleven.
Mr. Codringtou's Hounds, on Friday, at Hurdeott.

The Lord Chanceller of Ireland has decided
that Clergymen may hold pluralities of livings, provided
they are thirty English miles apart. The judgment was
had in the case of the Primate of all Ireland, who refused
to grant a faculty to the Rev. Mr. Cotton, who was pre-
sented to the living of Thurles, holding at the same time
the Archdeaconry of Cashel. The decision is, therefore,
in favour of the Archbishop of Cashel.—Limerick Chron

The completion of the London University is
rapidly proceeding; workmen are now employed upon
the splendid dome.

On Wednesday last a Protestant Ascendancy
Meeting of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the towns of
Bodmin, Lostwithiel, and their vicinities, was held in the
Shire Hall, Bodmin. George 13ollase, Esq., was in the
Chair.

The new national Church in Liverpool was
consecrated with the usual ceremonies, on Tuesday last, by
the Bishop of Chester, in presence of a full and fashionable
assemblage of the neighbourhood.

The Board of Ordnance have given perrais.
sion to widen the battery at Brighton, thereby giving room
to the road ; it is to be hoped that the same permission will
be given to the town of Hastings.

The Macadamising system is proceeding ra-
pidly in Marylebone; at present the operation is going on
in Dlolles-street.
A person, Scottice, an auld wife, having heard
an advertisement read from a newspaper which ended with
this intimation, " Not to he repeated," exclaimed, " Hech,
sirs, that mann he a great secret!"—Saturday's Edinburgh
Post.

Last week a respectable inhabitant of South-
ampton was fined in three penalties of 5/. each, for having
three head'of game unlawfully in his possession.

Sunday last, a concourse of nearly 2,000
people assembled to fight at Askeaton ; two factions drew
up with about 300 at each side to commence the conflict;
at this moment the parish Priest rushed forward and ad-
dressed the multitude in the most earnest and impassioned
manner, against a violation of the peace. With infinite
difficulty he prevailed on the combatants to disperse, but
to render his appeal more effectual he were the recta
badge of the Order of Liberators..Limerich Chronicle.

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNA-LS.

Our extracts frOm the Irish papers are worths, '
of attention. It appears that the Lord Mayor.
and Sheriff's of Dublin have refused to call a
public meeting; on the requisition of many
Peers, Members of the House of Commons,l
Aldermen, and hundreds of the most respectable
persons in the Kingdom, desirous of addressing
his Majesty upon the rtimoured recall of cord
Anglesea from the Irish Government. The
excuse madeby the Orange functionaries of the
corporation of Dublin is, that they " had no
official notification of- the recall." Now the
requisitionists had not talked about any " official"
notification cf that unhappy circumstance. Their
desire to the Lord Mayor, &c., bad been to call
a meeting upon the " rumoured" recall of Lord
Anglesea. Do they deny the existence of such a
rumour, or the notoriety of such a fact, or the
sufficiency of the ground afforded by either, to
support the requisition for a meeting ? So much
for the fair dealing of official Orangemen in
the metropolis of Ireland ! But that is nothing.
Let us turn to a northern county, and see hole
Orangemen act upon their oaths. A Jury too—
a Grand Jury ! of the county of Longford. A
body of Orangemen, we are told, had been cele-
brating a party festival somewhere in the above
county, and spent several hours of the night in
firing along the public road, to the consternation
of the whole neighbourhood. The Catholic
peasantry having been previously frightened
by reports that the Orangemen, were about to
rise in arms and butcher them, took for
granted, when they heard the continued shots- and
imprecations upon ail "bloody Papists," that
the massacre was going to begin. Old and young,
women and children, accordingly fled from their
cabins; and half naked, during a winter night,
sought shelter in the-fields and ditches. Major
('Donoghue, commanding the police, —a hu-
mane,intelligent, and gallant soldier--represented
this outrage in its proper colours to his Majesty's
Government ; and an order was forthwith ex-
pedited, to prosecute the aggressors to convic-
tion. Major O'Donoghue retained counsel for
the Crown. The subject came before the quarter
sessions of Longford; bills were sent up to the
Grand Jury against five of the delinquents, in-
cluding two policemen, and though the clearest
evidence of their guilt was brought forward, the
Grand jury ignored the bills. After a due share
of wonder and consideration on the part of the
Bench, the bills were sent back, and thrown out
a second time. Faction can neither blush nor
reason. This is one among many illustrations of
the hopeless misery which results to say people
when party feelings usurp the place of social, and
where a man's • oily country is his clan. Poli-
tical -turbulence has arrived to such a pitch in
Ireland, that the most ancient and best esta-
blished laws have lost their natural sanctions.
The -ministers of justice conspire against the up-
right administration of it—the most solemn
oaths are disregarded—the most audacious vio-
lators of the King's peace are criminally with-
drawn from the risk of regular trial—the inno-
coat and unarmed are betrayed by their sworn-
protectors--and the impression is fixed upon the
mind of. every man, that as the laws of the
kingdom yield him no security, he must defend
himself by the arms and the law of nature. The
enemies of Catholic Emancipation will not deny,
for they cannot, that it is. the unequal condition
of the two sects of Irishmen which has pro.-
yoked these heart-burnings, and which conti-
nues to nourish and foment them. They can-
not gainsay that it is the eagerness of the Catho-
lic to be relieved from degradation, and the
resolution of the Orangemen to frustrate that re-
lief; which hare, in a measure unknown to any
other state of modern Europe, relaxed the ties
of citizenship, and dissolved the frame of poli-
tical society. Yet what is the purpose of these
heartless or thoughtless men ? To maintain, by
the aiatise of law, a position from which they
compel their innumerable and revengeful victims
to time them by an abuse of force. Every hour
adds force to the Catholics, and every addition
to the force of an oppressed people is an added
stimulus to the exertion of, it. Nor is there the
shadow of hope for the Orange party but
in Catholic freedom. When men have the en-
joyment of equal liberties with others of their
kind, whatever tiew advance they make in know-
ledge, in riches, in civilisation, and the arts and
comforts of life, is a fresh bond and pledge for
their loyal feelings towards the Government, and
fur their boldness and tenacity in its defence.—
But the Orange reasoners are mistaken when
they calculate that their worst danger is, from the
poverty and barbarism of the Catholics. So
long as the Catholics shall be excluded from the
State, all their moral and intellectual improve-
ments, the acquisitions of their industry, and ex-
tension of their natural capacity, must serve but
to aggravate the sense of their political inferio-
rity, to imbitter their resentment against those
who keep them down, and to act in a spirit di-
rectly contrary to the influence of growing civili-
zation upon a freeman, by reinforcing the mass
of his grievances and wrongs. This argument
has been put with striking clearness by Mr.
Blake in. his pamphlet to which we have before
alluded, and to which we shall refer hereafter,
as a workrecommended byaccurate and extensive
knowledge, by signal candour and good temper,
by unanswerable arguments ingeniously put,
and forced upon the mind by great variety and
pungency of illustration. We are pleased to see
the .subject in- such hands, and approve the
courage with which Mr. Blake has spoken out
upon the question of securities; that question
on which, as on a hinge, it is clear that emanci-
pation must practically turn. Some of the
Irish Papers hint that the Catholic rent has been
absurdly and ruinously squandered. We have
statad that for fair election purposes, the rent
0 iurrl t to be considered a sheet-anchor of the
Catholic cause. Latterly, it seems to have pro-
duced an average sum of above 40,0/. per week,
—that is to say, more than 20,0001. per an-
num. If this be not (to use the mildest ex-
pression) wisely administered under the under-
stood. auspices of Mr. O'Connell, it will be an
irreparable disaster to the community from whose
feeble resources it has flowed. The Journals to
which we refer have affirmed, that there is not a
balance in the Catholic treasury of more than
2001. or 3001. It is surely time to think of
" laying up something for a rainy season:—
Times.

At the Surrey Sessions on Tuesday last Mr.
Briscoe moved " That a Committee be ap-
pointed to communicate with, and prepare a re-'
presentation to, the Right Honourable Robert
Peel, his Majesty's Secretary of State fur the
Home Department, upon the crying evils aris-
ing from the present state of the Game Laws ;1
and to implore his Majesty's Government to I
make such alterations thereof as to its wisdom '
shall seem fit—and as may effect the diminution
of crime, and conduce to the general welfare of
the country." A pretty decisive proof of the
public feeling with regard to these Laws was

afforded by the circumstance that of the.assem-
bled Magistrates, all, with the exception of Mr.
Holme Sumner, approved of the motion. Even
Mr. Holme Sumner could not coucur in the
motion, because he thought it would be an
im-
peachment of the sincerity of the exertions here-
tofore of the immaculate -Mr. Peel. The
Speakers generally described the country as in a
state of open war. Armed gangs of poachers
were opposed to armed bands of keepers.
" It was frightful (said Mr. Denison) to con-.
template the-results to which this system -.led,
from poaching to other thefts and robbery,
and - often more serious crimes. The gaols of.
the country were filled with criminals whose
career of crime might, in most cases, particu-.
lady in country places, be traced to the practice
of poaching." Mr. Henry Drummond ob-
served—
" That the extent to which the evils ari%inz from.

the Game Lawn had been carried was dreadful, and
yet many who deprecated those evils daily contri-
buted to increase them by making themselves a
pdrty tO.the worst effect of the laws. Every man
who ,purchased a head of game should bear in mind
that he was accessory to the crimes by which it was
obtained—that lie was to a certain extent a purcha-
ser of human blood. The worthy Magistrate then
proceeded to point out and deprecate the practice
of rearing such vast quantities of game at the expence,
as it was in most cases, of the poor. One effect of
the Game Laws was to sever the ties which existed
between the great mass of the peasantry and their
landlords. He had observed this in several parts of
the country; and the Meeting might be assnrcd,
that if ever any.unfortunate events should cause the
bad feelings which existed in this respect to explode,
the landlords would find that they had not the hold
on the affection or sympathies of that body which
many of them now believed they possessed. It had
been said of the old French nobility after the Revo-
lution, that they had rien oublie—rien appris. The
English Aristocracy might learn a lesson from the
fate of those Men, which it would be well for them
to stusly. It would teach them to Ise more atten-
tive to the wants and the welfare of those large
bodies who were placed in a sort of dependence on
them. In conclusion the worthy Magistrate again
expressed his concurrence in the motion."
This is strong language, but we have heard
as strong language before. We have had Com-
mittees after Committees attributing the crime
which exhibited such a rapid growth throughout
the country chiefly to the habits produced by the
Game Laws. The aristocracy of the country
know that they are the cause of the demoraliza-
tion of the people; but what care they for the
crimes of the people ? Not more than the
people would care for them, should ever the un-1
fbrtunate events arise in this country (which
God prevent) alluded to by Mr. Drummond.
They who themselves outrage humanity have no
claim on humanity. Though the French pea-
santry suffered little from the Game Laws before
the Revolution, compared with the sufferings of
the English peasantry in tile present day, as we
shall show, yet we ail know the effect which
these laws had in exciting animosity against the
French aristocracy. The destruction of the
aristocracy was everywhere either promoted by
the peasantry, or viewed by them with indif-
ference. While they concealed their Priests in the
woods, and risked their lives in carrying food to
them, they shut their doors against the nobles. In
a very detailed account of a Journey in Finis-
terre, performed by order of the French Govern-
ment in 1794 and 1795; we are told that " the
spirit of all the Communes is nearly the same—
they care neither for Kings nor for Nobles—they
despise the 'Cures who have taken the oaths r;
but there is no cultivator who would not travel

ten leagues on root by night, and"sin the worst
weather, to join a refractory Priest, to receive his
benediction, to give him money and goo s.--
These Priests are concealed in forests, in the
hollow of rocks, in remote cabins—without
rest, pursued, wandering ; but satisfied with
their power, with the veneration which they in-
spire, with the injury which they do to their
country, to the Government of which they are
opposed." The French Gentlemen sometimes
neglected their peasantry ; but they never filled
the gcols with the victims of tyrannical laws, like
the Lnglish Aristocracy ; never looked on with
cold-blooded indifference while bands of their
armed hirelings were engaged in mortal strife with
the wretched creatures whom their Battues call
into action, We have said that the Game Laws
in France, before the Revolution, notwith-
standing all the loud complaints against them,
produced little mischief compared with the
Game Laws in England. M. de Pradt, in a.
sen.ible work on the agriculture of France, pub
lished in 1802, comparing the state of things
before and after the Revolution, says expressly
that " the Chace and Game were, generally
speaking, no impediment or injury to: cultivation.
We must distinguish between game and the pur-
suit of game, the chace properly so called.
Game was scarce throughout all France, except-
ing within twenty leagues of Paris. It would
be truly ridiculous to reckon among the number
of causes influencing cultivation, the game that
was to be seen in the provinces ; it was only very
abundant anti really destructive in the environs of
the capital ; there •it was crowded in a manner
truly insulting, which led one to think that, dis-
puting with man his subsistence, game was in-
tended to share with the cultivator, and that he
raised his crops as much for the sake of these
animals as for himself. However we must dis-
tiuguish between the sorts of game, Deer, the
hare, and its devouring family, are alone hurtful
to cultivation. Birds, less destructive iu their I
tastes and their arms, neither attack the roots nor
the fruits of plants ; plants suffer from hares and
the inhabitants of warrens ; these were truly the
scoufge of cultivation, and woe to him who
lived in their neighbourhood I The state of
game remains nearly the same in the departments
as it was in the old provinces. The change is
only felt in the environs of. Paris, whence have
disappeared these flocks of animals, which, fa-
miliar with whet is every where else an object of
alarm to them, covered the fields and the roads,
and teemed to sport with the traveller. The whole
question relates to the lands in the neighbourhood
of the capital." In England, we find every
county in nearly the same state with regard to
poaching, so that, instead of being an evil of 4
local nature, es it was in France, it is universally
felt. Whether we turn to the north or south,
east or west, we hear of nothing but poaching,
and battles between poachers and keepers. Sir
Thos. More observed that robbers made excellent
soldiers, and soldiers excellent robbers. It is
possible that armed bands of poachers, spread
over the face of the country, may give a military
spirit to the population, and may even, by afford-
ing a scope to activity and enterprise, have in.
some sort rescued the peasantry from the abject-
ness which follows in the traia of oppression.
The Poor Laws gave an English peasant a right
of habitation, so that lie can only be removed
from his parish by the sentence of a Court. He
has, therefore, in poaching, a sort of resource
against oppression ; and he has • the adventures
of a soldier's life, with perhaps better pay, cer-
tainly more liberty, and .less perhaps to suffer