exclusion, should have the right to sell |able Member considered this provi

it, was what would be too monstrous to endure.

Mr. Peel said that he wished the experiment to be limited in the first instance.

Sir John Sebright said, that to make game saleable for the benefit of one class of the community, to the exclusion of the other, was what the country would not bear.

Mr. William Bankes said, that the House ought to pause before they throw open to the great class of the people a right, which, from the numbers, the power, and disposition of that class, they never afterwards could recal. He was one of those who considered that a species of property, which had been enjoyed for ages, ought not to be lightly dealt with. He did not conceive that the proposed alteration would have the effect of making the gaols less full, or the people more moral or more contented.

sion most unjust towards the occu piers of farms, as it not only deprived them of a right they now possessed, but conferred it upon their landlords. Mr. J. Smith supported the Amendment. If tenants were thus deprived of vested rights, some compensation ought to be given to them,

Mr. S. Wortley vindicated the clause as it stood, contending, that if it were not inserted, landlords would in all cases be warned off their own estates by their tenants.

Alderman Heygate insisted, that to pass the clause as it stood, would work most scandalous injustice; it would place the landlord in a far better situation than that he occupied at present.

Mr. Goulburn supported the rights of Lords of Manors.

Colonel Davies agreed with the Honourable Proposer of the Amendment. If it were agreed to, tenants would be just as ready to allow their landlords to sport, as they were under the existing law.

Lord Binning said, that the state of things under the Game Laws was so abominable, that any measure Mr. F. Lewis suggested, that if a which would afford a chance of es- tenant were legally qualified to kill caping from that state he was dispos-game, he ought to be allowed to posed to consider a benefit. If he were sess the right, notwithstanding this convinced that legalizing the sale of Bill, in any case where it was granted game, without introducing the princi- by his lease. The Lord of the Manor ple of property, would prove effectual, ought to enjoy a concurrent right. he would willingly agree to it; he A clause, he thought, might be could not indulge that hope. He worded to avoid the difficulty at precould not help saying, that what had sent started. fallen from the Honourable Member for Yorkshire, had gone a great way to reconcile him to the clause.

After a few words from Lord Milton, Sir John Shelly, Mr. Evans, and Sir John Wrottesley, the House divided on the clause.

Ayes, 82.-Noes, 29.-Majority, 53.

On entering the gallery, we found Mr. Bernal upon his legs, proposing an Amendment to the clause which gave to landlords the power of sporting over the grounds of their tenants in all cases, whether such a reservation of right were or were not made in the leases. The Honour

Sir J. Shelley instanced his own case, arguing that if the clause passed, as now worded, he should be ousted of an important right, for which he had paid a considerable sum.

Mr. Bernal could not consent to any compromise like that proposed by the Honourable Member for

Beaumaris.

Colonel Wood was of opinion that if the landlord possessed the right of shooting now, he ought not to be deprived of it. Nevertheless he supported the Amendment, because it was only just to preserve equally the right of the tenant.

Lord Binning said, that as the

question was intricate, it ought to be left for decision on a future day.

Sir J. Wrottesley maintained, that there was no intricacy at all in the point. It would be a monstrous inJustice to tenants to pass the clause, as it would give landlords a power they never designed to possess.

Thus, then, though the Bill had gone through a first and a second reading. Though a great majority of the House, had at the second reading, approved of that which the slang calls, the principle of the Bill; though the Bill had been amended in the Committee before; notwithstanding this, here goes, smack, black game,

woodcocks, snipes, quails, landrails, wild ducks, teal and wid

Sir T. Acland thought that it was necessary to give landlords some protection, or they would be not in a better, but in a worse situation. He was inclined to leave the parties as nearly as possible in the state in which they at this moment stood: heath and moor game, bustards, he would not confer upon the landlord any new right, nor allow the tenant, upon whose farm the owner might at present come under the terms of the lease, to warn off the owner. He wished that a declaratory clause upon the subject, should be introduced into the Bill. In leases in general, the landlord reserved the right to sport; but old ladies, and infirm persons, did not always insert a clause for this purpose. As the law stood, the landlord enjoyed certain valuable privileges, and the House ought not, with a suicidal hand, to destroy them.

Mr. J. Martin had supported the Bill in principle originally, but if this clause were inserted without Amendment, he would'vote against the measure in every future stage.

Mr. S. Wortley expressed his readiness to postpone the further consideration of the clause until another day. He was satisfied that it ought to be introduced into the Bill in its present shape, in order that justice might be done to all parties. He proposed that the Chairman report progress, and ask leave to sit again to-morrow (this day).

Mr. B. Wilbraham supported this suggestion..

Mr. Brogden accordingly left the Chair, and the House resumed; he brought up the Report, and obtained leave to sit again to-day.

geons, out of the list of property. The amended Bill had swept them out of the list of Game; but here they are swept out of the list of property; and (hear it, ye gods who preside over Country Gentlemen's brains!) rabbits are left in

the list of property, though it is notorious that they feed upon one man's land and sleep upon ano

ther's, and that they are no more under the control of any owner than a snipe or a widgeon is.

"The principle of the Bill" is a sort of slang; and you always find that the slang which the newspapers put into the mouths of Members of Parliament; for, observe, it is as much as my life is

worth to say that slang ever comes out of their honourable mouths: this slang is the very thing that all your political prigs delight in; all

your conceited asses, who affect

to be familiar with things which was, that leases should be openly their modest neighbours make a violated in the face of day, in subject of inquiry. I have heard every case, to the advantage of of a prig or two of this sort, down the landlord and to the injury in the Country, who, with straigt- of the tenant; the seventh prinened-up neck and half-shut eyes, ciple was, that a small landowner and voice and manner of London should neither keep a snare, nor footman, talking to the carters, permit his friends to sport on his upon his return amongst the land, and that a big landowner smock frocks: I have heard of a should do both; an eighth principrig or two of this sort, dressed ple, and the last that I shall menneither like gentleman nor like tion, was, that, for being in pursuit farmer, saying that they "ap- of Game an hour after sunset, a proved of the principle of the man might be torn from his family Bill." Principle of the Bill! and punished as a felon; and that -Pray, Mr. Prig, what does the too, observe, by JUSTICES OF word principle mean? The devil THE PEACE AT THEIR a bit do you know; and you only QUARTER SESSIONS; that make use of the word, in humble is to say, by men who are apimitation of your betters, the pointed and removed at the will newspaper reporters. There are, of the ministers of the day; by man, several principles, in this that same description of men who Bill. The first is, that the privi- sentenced JOSEPH SWANN; and, lege of the landholder ought to which is more than all the rest, cease; another is, that Game by the very men to whom chiefly ought to be made an object of pur- the game belongs. chase and sale; a third is, (or -was, when these prigs approved of the principle of the Bill,) that Game should be made property; out of. All these, therefore, the a fourth was, that rabbits, wild political prigs in question apducks, and other things, should proved of! be added to the list of this species of property; a fifth principle was, that this property should be vested in the landowner, and not in the land occupier; a sixth principle the prigs in question approved of

These are so many principles, each of them is a ground of proceeding; a root for detail to grow

Some of these principles have already been swept away; and the Bill can never pass both Houses without the whole of them being swept away; and yet

the principle of the Bill. It is worthy of public attention. This
most likely that by principle of used to be a great man against
the Bill, they meant the pulling Jacobins and Levellers, and par-
down, in this one respect, at any ticularly against Radicals. How
rate, of the Lords and Squires to changed! How amiable, nay, how
their own level. They do not humble become! The " respect-
seem to have cared about the trans-able tradesman," he wants to see
porting of their poor neighbours; with a qualification to hunt and
and, indeed, they seem to have shoot, that respectable tradesman
wholly overlooked the oppressions having, perhaps, waited with great
intended for themselves. In their patience for his bill! As I read
excessive eagerness to see the pri- this speech of Sir JOHN SEBRIGHT,
vileges of others abolished, they who made a monstrous good jest,
overlooked Clause 6, which would of the "Esquire's son now in the
seize them upon the lands which workhouse;" as I was reading
they themselves rented; which this speech about the "respect-
would seize them as trespassers able tradesman's amusement;"
in the fields or garden of their own as I was reading this speech; this
renting; which would punish them amiable instance of self-abase-
for a trespass on one of their ment, I could not help asking
fields; which would send them myself, what Mr. WINDHAM Would
three months to the Treadmill have said of it, if he had been
for such trespass: the prigs for- alive. Sir JOHN seemed quite
got this, in their great eagerness weary of all worldly power and
to pull down the Lords and the
Squires.

superiority, for, in another short speech which he is reported to It is impossible for imagination have made, he took occasion to to portray what this Bill will be observe, that, "the possession of before it be done with. It will be" tithes gave a man great power a curious thing, if it should pass" over the property of the parish: at all, to compare the Act with the " a power which was, indeed, so Bill, as brought in by its author." great, that he, though a great In the meanwhile, I cannot help" tithe-holder himself, thought no remarking on two or three things" man ought to possess it!" Well which occur in this newspaper pub- then, this bright member (I do not lication. Sir JOHN SEBRIGHT has mean a pun) will, doubtless, surimputed to him, what is very well render these tithes; for, if he be

convinced that they give a power | The papa of the Bill, is, in the which he ought not to possess, he above-quoted report, stated to will hardly continue to hold them. have said, that he voted for the Sir John observed, that, as the Bill of last year, as a step to Jaw now stood, a man could not wards the removal of all the shoot a hare, in his own defence, Game Laws.. Well! thus goes on which, indeed, is very true, even the revolution. This relic of the if she were going to jump upon feudal system, as it was called in him and bite him. This Knight of a late debate, once taken away, the Shire for the county of Hert- other relics will follow. It is ma ford (a county famous for bright nifest, indeed, that the landowners geniuses) added, that a system have long been sinking under the so fraught with illiberality ought Jews and Jobbers; here they to be mitigated; and, indeed, he come now to make a surrender of talked in a very stout style about a really valuable privilege atthe right of his good neighbours, tached to the land. At the same the respectable tradesmen. He time that great injustice is con said they could buy game, that templated with regard to the they would buy game, and that tenants and with regard to the they ought to buy game, where labourers, here is a great offering they could and how they could, made at the shrine of the mammon "in spite of all legislative enact of the funds. However, as I ob ments;" that is to say, here is a served in my Letter to Sir JoHN Member of Parliament declaring SHELLEY, these things follow one that the people ought to disobey another very naturally. PITT the law, ought to set the law at decreed a revolution for England, defiance, whenever they could and when he embarked in a war of however they could; and this de-eight hundred millions of expense. claration he is said to make at I shall here leave this Bill for the same time that he is repre- the present; but stick to it I will sented as voting for a Bill, which It will, by the time that it is done makes it penal to purchase game with, enable us to form a just of an unlicensed person, a Bill, judgment with regard to the wistoo, which enables justices of the dom of Mr. FREDERICK ROBIN peace to transport men for seven son's Parliament. What shape years for being out in pursuit of it may be in before this paper game an hour after sunset! comes from the press, I cannot