The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-20 00:00:00

POLICE IN NEW SOUTH WALES AND ENGLAND,—
f.1:11 interesting article, furnished to the Statistical Society
81'dneY, states, that at the three periods of 1828, 1833,
lattitt 1837, the strength of the police averaged to the pepu-
d I°ll as 1 to 1,444 ; at the census of 1814 it had dwindled
2.!fil I in 263 ; whilst during the last three years it was
~Tiy 1 to 341. The average of the first narazd periods
a_sl2l3wards of six policemen to eacl.: thQ1.18314 Of the po-
eirtion, whilst the present is 'less than three. In the
t Principal cities and. looroughs of nublin, Bristol,
Edinburgl, -Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, and
POrtic netr' the'i were in the ratio of 1 to 467 ; the pro-
town:
..-\',.'rever, of police to population in the different
point-o-faVimg from the low point of 1 in 854 to the high
tad, 14233. The number of persons taken into ens-
force ofairimo.f these towns, in 1841,
rate,l by a police
34 apprehensions""Men, which is at the of 1 policeman to
vary• The proportions in different towns
Prehec"lderably ; as in Leeds it is 1 policeman to 17 ap-
b Mnons, while in Glasgow it is only 1 in 49, these
bulale_ lethe extreme points in the scale. In 1843, the
LlnYedr sin which the Sydney police were amounted to 8,662, being persons taken into ens-
;vf '232, and ofsummonses 1,430 ; their effective
4nitt,h was 88,
which gon of 1 to
aPPrehensions; beingins preciselyproporti double that p
ofoliceman Glasgow.
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t rI HUNTING.—Who that is a sportsman has
and heard of the red-deer, that monarch of the forest,
Yet h-nsueen fired with a desire to capture him ? And
'ew are there in these days who have ever seen
klm in his wild grandeur ! Fewer still have joined in the
inPo„rt_rhich he affords, and marked his majestic step as,
tgesdielm from his lair by the music of the hound, he sniffs
tin` r
eeee, and coolly determines on his course. It is a
-,_blght to see with what ease he tops the bushes, and
as tbe boundary of the forest ; at first, slowly retreat-
ibefore the tufters ; until at length, the whole pack
to e:8 been laid on, be finds that he has no mean enemy
the—c4lliater. And now with what stride does he clear
far in and every obstacle to his course ! Soon he is
cln advance of the hounds, and begins his wondrous
Coverse o.f craft to elude them—sometimes. beating those
he knows he is most likely to find a
762::onldwboll
oickhe
and less wary deer, that he may send him forth
have it) " as his little squire to be sa-
th t d" anu Who, like Polonius of old, would soon get
a which was intended for his betters, did not the saga-
city of the hunter discover the manoeuvre of the old 'un
Who Meanwhile, with a prodigious bound, has safely en-
sconced himself in the midst of some high brake or cover,
ere he may lie concealed until free from the threatened
ganger. Sometimes he will mingle with the herd, when
it ts most difficult, if not impossible, to separate him. At
other times he will " take soil," as it is termed, and in
Walking or swimming a considerable way down
a stream,
keep the centre, lest he should taint the bushes in passing.
It is an old rule that

" He who his chase would find,
Should first try up the river, and down the wind ; "
and if the hounds but challenge a yard above the place of
his entering, you may be sure that he has gone up the
stream. He will not, perhaps,
" break soil" for a quar-
ter of a mile or more ; but wherever he does so, neither
horseman nor hound can fail to discover it. Not unfre-
Uently will he, in " taking soil" in a pool, sink his whole
body, and, by throwing his had back, keep only his nose
above Ivate,r, when it requires no little acuteness to disco-
ver him- To see this noble animal
.a l
makingo o
rihoisswasyighact rosscountry with the hounds in view, is g
in-
deed
laaa;ti on but hardly
t it equals the bay of an old stag, perhaps
te
some narrow projecting rock in the midst of a
ragged rushing river, with the whole pack around him,
each
ilabiluegc, the welkin answer him with his melodious.
music • the old and sapient hounds content to await their
the danger oPfPanttnelikt'
Not a few, holl e ^teeor,honfs
onnpithe bank of the stream, knowing
Lis long limbs r mg him in the element where, through
h the advantae of them.
relit, and strive .
from the s 'h
younger hhoeu stemsnodosn das h thees
them c u r-
Iln, woundedsealzed 'm
and stands alone the
master of the pool. Andn maimed,now fancy the excitement which
e
prevails amongst the field, each and all anxious tohheav
trkenidagstralail:ieesnutrreievaeiri
tz7it bon of taking him. I was quite young, w n I
l'articiPated in so grand a finale to the day g sport,
that forget the scene. The deer was swim-
that beneath us, in a pool so deep and
.dark
although • ent of the stream was
an,patrtly
it was
the 1
river supplied by large and deep fall of
a
scarcely perceptible,
hung • The hills covered with thick oaks (many of whiche_
Pathwayn a Over the pool) rose very abruptly from each
great height, and there was only a
their along which the horses could be ranged, whilst riders were actively engaged in capturing the Ewer ,
.7orne, usingtoose h. their stirrup-leathers and irons as a sort of
others' w
!.11.e
11)2411:1but as
. leh they endeavoured to throw over his horns;
riving o effect it with their whip-thongs, to do
was wide and long it was no easy matter
was
~, until at length he nea'red the bank, when ne
hi tf•i t' and soon laid panting on the bank, and borwnoeooff.
err, '111131311 to a small glade in the midst of these
.01
-wiled hills, .
ittagazinv. 8, killed, and broken up.—New Sporting
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