The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-16 00:00:00

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unsatisfied judgment or order for the payment of any debt,
or damages, or costs, may summon the party against whom
such order may have been made, and the party summoned
may be examined upon oath, touching his estate and ef-
fects, and the manner and circumstances under which he
contracted the debt, and as to the means and expectations
he then had, and as to the property and means he may
still have, of discharging the said debt, but if he shall not
attend upon such summons, or shall refuse to be sworn, or
to disclose any of the things aforesaid, or if it shall appear
that such party has obtained credit under false pretences,
or by means of fraud or breach of trust, or has wilfully
contracted such debt or liability, without a reasonable.ex-
pectation of being able to pay the same, or shall have
transferred any property, or concealed the same with in-
tent to defraud his creditors, orif it shall appear that he
has, or has had, since the judgment obtained against him,
sufficient means to pay the debt, and if he shall refuse or
neglect to pay the same, he may be committed to gaol for
any period not exceeding forty days.
And where the defendant in any suit shall have been
personally served with a summons to appear, or shall per-
sonally appear at the trial, and judgment shall be given
against him, the judge has the power of examining the
defendant as well as the plaintiff and other parties touch-
ing the several matters before-mentioned, and of commit-
ting such defendant as he would have had in case the
plaintiff had obtained a summons after judgment obtained
as before-mentioned. If any action be commenced after
the passing of the act in any of the superior courts, which
ought to have been commenced in the county court, and
the plaintiff shall obtain a verdict for less than £2O, if the
said action is founded on contract, or less than £5, if
founded on tort, he will not be entitled to recover any
costs.

An important alteration is also made in the law of land-
lord and tenant. Where the tenant of any premises of
the value of not more than £5O a-year shall neglect or
refuse to quit at the expiration of his term or interest
therein, or after the same shall have been determined by
a legal notice to quit, he may be summoned before the
court, and if he do not appear and show cause to the con-
trary, and shall refuse to deliver up possession, the court
may, upon proof of the holding and of the determination
of the tenancy, issue a warrant to give possession of such
premises to the landlord within ten days from the date
thereof.

The office of the clerk will be open daily from 10 o'clock
in the morning until 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

THE GAME LAWS,

It is proverbial that there is truth in jest, and we say
with Punch, in all seriousness, " It would be a delightful
item to read amongst the subscriptions to the Irish and
Scotch destitute fund :
" The Abolition of the Game-laws-2,000,000 bushels of wheat."
But great as is the amount of human food destroyed in
this country by game, that by no means measures the ex-
tent of the evil. There is a parliamentary paper lately
issued which discloses, in part, the wide spread demorali-
sation caused by the game-laws amongst our working
population in the rural districts. This consists of the ab-
stract of " a return of the number of persons convicted of
any offences against the game-laws at any petty sessions,
quarter sessions, or assizes ; specifying the penalties or
punishments inflicted, and in which county, and upon
whose property the offences were committed." This
is in continuation of a similar return made in 1844,
and shows a, number and severity of punishments in-
flicted for the preservation of game which is perfectly
astounding. During the year 1844, 1845, and part of
1846, '(for the return was made before last August,)
ILO less than ELEVEN THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND
NINETY-TWO persons were convicted in England and
Wales of offences against the Game-laws ! ! Of these,
11,006 convictions occurred in England, and 386 in Wales.
Of the English convictions, 209 took place at the Assizes,
and 10,797 at Petty and Quarter Sessions, or before judges
deeply, passionately interested in game preservation. The
number of poachers convicted by game-preserving squires,
sitting as judges in their own cause, in England, cannot
average less than 4,000 ; for the 10,797 of the return were
convicted in less than two years and-a-half, and the re-
turns from several of the counties omit altogether the
convictions at Petty Sessions.

It is impossible to contemplate the conduct of the
landocracy with regard to game and the game-laws
without wonder and awe. It is sheer fatuity. Thou-
sands are dying of famine in Ireland, because food-corn
cannot be obtained in sufficient quantities ; seed-corn is
not to be nurchased in Ireland for money. Yet landlords

persist in the preservation of game to the destruction of
several millions of quarters• of game yearly. Last year,
from the extreme dryness of the season, was peculiarly
favourable to the increase of game, so that not only was
there vast devastation committed by these noxious vermin

on the farmers' crops last harvest, tut we hear that the
injury _ the young wheats have received from game

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throughout the country during the late severe winter, is
quite without parallel. A tenant-farmer in Wiltshire,
for instance, writing to the Economist, says that he has
had seventy acres of wheat eaten completely bare by
rabbits and hares, and that with the most favourable

season for its recovery, his loss will cex
nost moderate estimate, twelve bushels per acre
beyond this destruction of produce, we have th

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by the returns above referred to, and all this for the pro-
tection of the sport of a few- persons who require such
barbarous means of dissipating ennui.—Daily News.