From he Liverpool Commercial Chronicle.
BLESSINGS or THE GAME LAWS.
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out with his dog and gun, 7yih an intention
10 k1H game. The worthy magistrate COM
miserating the peculiarly hard case of the
Sh9rtSmdn, (who, it was evident, was in
quest of no other game but sharro7cS, for
those are the only game that exist in Old
ham, prevailed upon the informer, person
named Henshaw, to withdraw the conviction,
and the penalty was reduced 70 rs.


.fnother Poacier M0t.--On Friday night,
the 9th February, as the game keeper Of
Thomas Leigh, Esq. NJ r. Of Lime Park,
near Disley. was on the look out, he observ-
ed some men poaching; when they saw him
they cndcayered To make their escape, bnt
the keeper pursued one Of them, calling ont
TO him to stop. The man still continued q
run, and the Keepers gun Gcci4cntaHy Cat
least il is said so1 went off, and wodnael thc
poor wretch most dreadfully in the legs and
posteriors. He was unable 10 walk, but the
humane keeper and one Of his assistants car
ricd him to a farm house, and gave orders
for a surgeon 10 be brought; after which they
went in pnrsnt Of the unlawful depreditors,
INT could not meet with them. The follow.
ing day the unfortunate man was taken hone
in cart, where he now lirs, 10 a dlnsrrnuS
state. His name is - llInds. and he Is
by trade shoemaker. ot X ttleshume.


Manchester iQhrr.


Game LquS.-'rhc Duke Of Buckingham
and his friends closed the shooting season ~
Arlington with unparalleled success. On
the last day were haggcd, IN coppice alone,
$50 pheasants. 100 hares, and lis ra5bts;
which with thirteen previuns alrs' Sport.
made grand totll Of 5000 head --i15bea
in one copse This is the Kind II 6ftcll-
cry which makes it necessary u Suua0I't
game laws The system Of preserves, as thr
lord chancellor ouce observed, dcatravs TIC
true character of sporting, as we'll as the
character Of the pnlsanttY We shall soon
come to the continental STYLE ot sporting,
where tho game y driven into a pen, and
slaughtered by the noble spnrtSmen, who
are stationed around it. The system rises
ont at the same process Of reasoning whieh
induced the lrshman 70 wish for an apple
pic all Of ounces lift be pleasant 70 have
ones trouble repaid hy finding game every
half hour how deligNtful il would be to had
it at every step" 10 be able To slaughter
such number Of miserable ANIMALS IL NJ
narrow compass and without rxert;on.
has as little OF the use Of sporting, as Ill
exercise OF the body, and an excitement
to the mind, as the destruction Of the barn
door fowls Globe.


"a
persons who are permitted q Darttkeat the
greet baHRs given By the principal a1mc
preserves. when two or three thousand head
OF game are killed, that they cannot 81 ntuGH
IS procure a hareta send 70 a friend, "Nhat
becomes of all the gamts" Is question coa-
stantlv asked on such occasions; ard Il IL
sometimes answered in way not very cred
table to these great stiCkiers for the game
laws-lTormnE Mraid-[ Surely il caraot
be meant that they sell it, or send It tn their
poplterers IS SET off against their bills -
RI Lirerhooi ohromcle,1


PrtridgeS' EFgs i III our paper Of tlc
lJth inst. vas = short paragraph, stating thai
a young woman mad been committed to pris-
on III Nottlnghams fr taking a t.w
partridges' eggs from a nest. 'lau s.;i,e-
ment excited the notice Of one az at;- read
ers, gentleman whose aahorrenle ot ctcrl
kind Of oppression leads HIM 70 pay palticu-
lar attention to the acts Uf the country ma
gIstracv. This gentleman conceiyihg that
such a commitment was an exceedingly cru
el one, and grieving tll4t the poor giil should
be exposed to the communicating influence Of
Jail, wrote ta Nottingham, oI which tuwn
he is a freeman, to obtain the particulars Of
the case. Fr3m the answer which he re-
teIved. and which he had kindly communi
Gated to US we are enabled to give the fol-
lowing statement:


'I4ast summer Mary Marshall Young NO.
man of good character, was wedding il a
field, along with some other women, WHEN
4 they found nest containing some eggs. AS
they did not suppose there was any harm in
taking the eggs OF wild bird, they agreed
70 divide thrm. and AS She happened to have
a basket with her they were put in it and
carried home, when their labor was over.--
l'he circumstance coming to the know ledge
Of the game keeper, he LAID an information
against her, and the poor glrl finding that
she had committed an offence against the
game laws, and fearful Of the consequences,
left her home and went to Nottingham


where She was taken into the service ot Nh
r Swanwick OF the Kings Head lavcrn.--


Here her conduct was quite in accordance


with her previous good character, md il
this Situation she might have remained, with


credit to herself aud 70 the entire satiStdCt
! ton of her employer But Justice, it seems
# was not satisfied, no eXpiaton had beer
/, made for the hor,ibc crime Of taking tw,
h Or three eggs found in field; and the piac,
= OF her retreat being discovered. she wa
:, dragged away from her comfortable situa
t tion, AMI being taken before the Rev Mr.
e Lowe, OF Bingham, and the Rev. Mr.. Beau
e mont Of East Britgeford,. this respectable
II Young woman was by them committed TO
I, three months to the Southwell Honsc Of Cor
;, rection!"- Manchester Gazette.