The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-25 00:00:00

THE GAME LAWS.

The Committee appointed to inquire into the operation
of these laws have made their report:—
"The Committee think that the statutes relating to
pursuit and sale of game may be so altered as without im-
pairing their-efficacy to prevent unequal or excessive pun-
ishment of parties contravening them. The committee
-think that the penalty for sporting without a certificate is
excessive; that the space of three days allowed for giving
notice of appeal against a summary conviction is too short;
that a moiety of the penalty ought not to go to the infor-
mer; that parties convicted of night.pna,,hing ought
not to be required to find sureties not to repeat the offence.
The committee are further of opinion that it is expedient
to abolish cumulative penalties for p3aching. They think,
considerations of revenue being kept out of view, that
owners and occupiers of land, having the right to kill
game upon it, should not be required to Ow out a game
certificate; that certificates ought to be abolished, in so
far as hare-hunting or coursing is concerned ; and that
the duties on greyhounds ought not to be higher than on
common dogs. But the committee are not prepared to
recommend that those who, in their pursuit of game, in-
fringe the revenue laws, or who, being armed, use violence,
should be exempted from any severe penalties.
" The committee regret to find that gre3t facilities still
exist for the disposal of stolen game, but are not prepared
to recommend additional legislative restrictions. They
are in favour of extending the power of constables to search
and detain parties found under suspicious circumstances
with game in their possession ; and to give constables the
power to, search public houses and buershops for game.
They recommend that the sale of each species of game
should be deferred until one day after the season for shoot-
ing it has commenced.
" The committee have received evidence to show that
the preservation of large quantities of game has frequently
dsmaged the neighbouring crops. It is their opinion that
a tenant's just claim for compensation is in such cases ge-
nerally allowed by the landlord ; hut that it is scarcely
possible to ascertain the amount of the damage. They
damagethink t causedbe
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Previous agreement. The extreme difficulty of establish-
ingaoef:
the liability of any particular party for the damage
done has induced them to reject the suggestion, that an
1
action on the case would be a fitting
In their opinion such damage is mainly, if or practicalnoentirely,t remedy.
to
be attributed to hares and rabbits • no appreciable portiwl
of it can be ascribed to tea thered came.

It is very generally reported in Dublin that Mr. Mor—
gan John O'Connell, one of the merntiere for the county-
of Kerry,
apKerproyin,
tamndennt ofephew to the " Liberator," has accepted
the
Poor-law Commitsioner for Irelalad,
in the room of Mr. Twideton. who succeed:. to one of the
vacant English commissionershiys.

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Ettrraturr.

N 0 'l' 1 C E S.

Dr. Jeffrey's Parnph:et on the Styptic and other Virtues
of the Matico Plant from Suuth America. Third
Editio.t. Keatings, London. •
The above pamphlet has reached another edition, which
is proof sufficient that the account of its medicinal virtues,
by the laborious researches of Dr. Jeffreys, has been in
extensive demand. The experiments made upon the
plant in the ..sistt.r kingdoms, as well as throughout Eng-
land and remoter countries, bear out the statements made
in this pamphlet of its utility as an article of the materia
ineclica. It it do not supersede the use of other styptics,
it well substitutes them ; and there are cases given where
its services have been successfully availed of where other
.styptics of the more powerful kind had failed.