The Sun.
London, England, 1829-06-02 00:00:00

SPITALFIELDS' RIOTS.

On a petition being presentedbyamaster manu-
facturer, calling for protection,
PEEL said, that if the police force should be
i‘ir.
found insufficient, the military would be called to
their aid. In fact, he had already written to the
commanding officer at the Tower to that effect.

(LEFT SITTING.)

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—(LAST NIGHT.)
The Royal Assent was given, by commission, to
the Exchequer Bills' Bill, the Consolidation Fund
Bill, the National Debt Reduction Bill, the Disem-
bodied Militia Bill, the Six Clerks' Office Bill, the
Insolvent Debtors (Ireland) Bill, the St. Dunstan's
Church Bill, the Clarence Railway Bill, and to seve-
ral other Private Bills. The Lords Commissioners
were the Lose
CHANCELLOR, the Earl of SIIAFTES-
BURY, and the Marquis of WINCHESTER.
SALE OF GAME BILL.
Lord WHAItNCLIFFE moved the Order of the
Day for bringing up the report on the sale of Game
Bill, upon which
The Earl of WESTMORELAND expressed his
strong opposition to the measure, which he consi-
dered would, if carried into effect, be productive of
poaching, and the increase of crime to an extent
greater than was hitherto known. Such he conceived
was the tendency of the project, and, therefore, in
resisting the measure, he trusted that he should have
the support of those wlio were rather willing to di-
minish crime than to give their sanction to a measure
*hose direct tendency would be an increase of it.
He objected to the Bill, first, because its principle
was false in itself, and because he thought that it
would be no less than committing an act of robbery
upon the lord of the manor; and, secondly, he ob-
jected to it from the reason he had before assigned,
that it would tend materially to the increase of the
clime of poaching, it would tend to lower the gentry
of the country, and totally to put an end to the
amusements of shooting and hunting. He never
kneW of a more severe or arbitrary enactment in the
whole course of his life. Let them look fora moment
at the provisions of the Bill. They were such as ena-
bled any man possessed of 100 acres of land not only
to shoot himself, but to depute others to shoot for
him. It also enabled any man to take another by
the collar whom he might find with a gun, and, in
case of his not giving him satisfaction, he had only
to impose a fine upon the other of .5/. The bill was
certainly introduced when the friends of liberty
were asleep. It appeared to him that by the laws
of England the Lord of the Manor was possessed of
sale- power in his manor. This, however, would
have a direct tendency to infringe upon and take
anti ay from him that right. What he asked of the
people of England was, that they should pro-
tect the laws of the land. He would take their
Lordships through the provisions of the Bill for a
I'm moments. Here, then, forty or fifty persons
from various parishes might assemble with their
aide-de-camps attending, each with a gnu. Who,
then, would be able to take those men into custody
if they were not aide to give a satisfactory account
of themselves ? These persons were the judges in
their own cause, and unless they condemned them-
selves they would be sure not to let any one else
condemn them. All he asked was, that their Lord-
ships would attend to their hunting and shooting
amusements.—(A laugh.)—And all he wished to

hose who supported the Bill was, that the next
time they should be setting out upon a good chase
ome person might stop them with the inquiry,
whether they were going fox-hunting or hare-hunt inn.
He again repeated that the measure was a most un-
just and injurious one, and was calculated to produce
the worst effects in the country. A Noble Lord, in
speaking of the increase of crime some days ago,
attributed it to the existing Game Laws ; but they,
he contended, were not the cause, and he could
prove it from the fact that crime had increased at
the r..te of forty per cent. in towns, whereas in the
eounties they had increased only three or four-and-
twenty per cent. The present state of the laws he
conceived rather diminished crime than increased it,
and it was because he looked upon the Bill now be-
fore the House as calculated to produce a very different
effect that he felt disposed to give it his most de-
rided opposition. The question came to this,
whether they were to diminish or to increase crime ?
Assembling with arms by night was an offence
which could not, and which ought not, to be per-
mitted in any country. He was also of opinion,
however, that in a civilized country no man could be
justified in killing another man for merely taking a
hare. Some people supposed that severity of
punishment would have the effect of preventing
crime; but he agreed not with those persons, and
in proof of the correctness of his own opinion, as ap-
plied to the present case, need only refer to an instance
of its insufficiency in that respect, namely, the fact
that no fewer than seventy-eight persons had been
apprehended and confined for deer-stealing within
the last three years. For those reasons he was con-
vinced also that to legalize the sale of game would
be productive of no good effects. The principle
had been already tried with regard to fish, rabbits,
and deer, and bad failed; particularly in the case of
rabbits, which were deemed the staple commodity of
the poacher. Upon the whole he thought the Bill
was one which ought not to be carried. He should,
therefore, move as an amendment that the report
be received that day three months.
Lord \VHARNCLIFFE contended that the
Bill ought to be passed without any limitation of its
objects, but admitted that he felt himself unable to
carry it in its present shape, and unaltered, through
their Lordships' House.
The Earl of TANKERVILLE suggested that
the operation of the Bill might be limited to three
years.

The Earl of MALMESBURY said that, should
the Bill pass through its present stage, he would, on
the third reading, propose an amendment different
from that proposed by the Noble Earl, for he thought
that the Bill, as a whole, was one which should not
be tried merely as an experiment: If it passed at
all it should be as a permanent measure. What
would the 13111 go to effect ? To attach game to
the soil —a measure of too much importance to be
adopted as a mere experiment. Many Noble Lords
believed and contended that the legalized sale of
game would diminish the amount of crime. On
that account he should not object to the adoption
of the first part of the Bill as an experiment, with a
view to allowing those to sell game who were sow
qualified to kill it.
The Marquis of SALISBURY thought that those
persons who possessed twenty acres of land ought
to be themselves allowed to kill game, they being
now competent to empower other persons to do so.
That change could not be considered in the light of
what his Noble Friend called un attempt to attach
property in game to the soil—it would only go to
render the enjoyment of it more complete.
Their Lordships then divided—
Upon the question that the Report be now re-
ceiN ed :
Contents—Present
Proxies
Not-Contents—PreFent .... 46
Proxies
Majority against the Bill 2
The Bill is consequently lost.
Thorndyke's Divorce Bill was read a second time,
and ordered to be committed on Thursday next.