Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1849-12-12 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

BRIGHT ON THE GAME-LAWS —Mr. Bright, M.P.. has written a letter, dated the Ist instant, to the secretary of the Edinburgh Anti-Game-Law Association, stating his unwillingness, for the present, to renew his motions respecting the Game-laws. The feeling of the house is wholly against Game-law reform. as the members are land owners, game preservers. sportsmen, or their fiatmediate relatives, whilst out of doors there is no movement to impel a reluctant legi.dature, as the townspeople do not directly feel the grievance. alld the farmers and agriculturists, who are the victims of the slattern, want power or independence to malice combined ettort. Bot I heopinions both of the towns and of the italustriona ,'lasses are for the reNrin. Mr. Bright says he dislikes discussions where reliance on votes is the rule, without regard to the justice of the case, and expresses his belief that a free trade in corn, with competition and moderate pr.e will command the attention of landlords and farmers. Even now the cure is working: farms in F.ogland cannot be let at the olfl rents in some districts; -yearly tenancies, restrictions on coiltivat ions, absurd covenants, and genie preservation viii become insnperable objections to all tomtits aith capital or spirit. With commercial priees land must be managed on commercial principles, and these will overthrow Game-laws, eanish gninekeepers, and terminate poaching. He (Mr. Bright) had asked a landlord. a member it Parliament, was it true he had destroyed the game on his estate? The answer was " Ito you think we shall he such fools as to pie'rye game when we are aukect to foreign competition ?" This was after the repeal of the Corn-laws. Ile looked therefore with confidence to the correction of the grievance from the necessities of the cultivators. But it was root tor for deliberation whether knottier discussion might no at least test the sincerity of " the farmer's friends,' who complained of the burdens on land, and on hearing from the association again, their opinion would have great weight. Charles Corby, an apprentice, aged twenty, has been Hoed at the Central Criminal Court, for cutting and wounding Mary Noble, with intent to murder her Corby h.id lived with the young woman ; • quarrel arose, and she left hirn ; _he went to her place of work, and, after some converse, the girl kissed him ; he appeared about to return the kiss, but drew a razor from his pocket and cut her throat. The prisoner was much excited at the time, with grief at Noble's leaving him. The Jury found him guilty, but recommended him to mercy on ahcount of his youth. Mary Noble got into the w tness box, burst into tears, and earnestly implored the Court to have mercy on the culprit. The prisoner wept. Baron Aide, son ordered judgment of death to be recorder in this " most dreadful case" ; but said he would intercede for a commutation of the sentence, though the prisoner must expect a severe punishment Mr. Tredwell, an Oxfordshire farmer, destr.,ved himself on Sunday week by discharginr a gun loaded with bits of glass, through his bowels. It appears that while his wife was for a few niinutes in the dairy he put the butt of the gun against the salt-box in the kitchen. resting the iniizzle on his stomach ; he survived only a few e had been in a low desponding way for some time, and although a man of substance, thought he should Genie to want.