The English Game Laws

. As these game laws are one of the great curses of England, 1 wil] quote a lutle fr-om Dr. Lee's speech iu regard to them. He had said that he was opposed to churcli rates, (tliough he is n church man,) and to the corn laws, and that he liad also opposed the building of an exl ravagantly large prison in tho county. He thcn said, - "One hundred and thirty of the prisóners who had been in the jail during that year, were poor laborers, who had been taken up for ofTences under the game laws. One half of the persons committed to the jail were men for taking a hare or a phëasant, and the tradesmen were forced to pay tho expenses of keeping them, for the amusement of some noblemán or sqiiire. Hè was pïaced in the ' squircarchy, but he was glad to say that ' li e had never prosenuted a fellovv-man for '' shooting game on his own estáte; he had giveri up his I censes, and had no game':eeper. He had told his tenánts that they might kill the game, or liéep it; if the bares carne to eat their corn, they might kill them if theyliked. Keeping game was a very great addition to the burdons of a county; but besides, what a position a gentleman was placed in when he found that his gamekeeper had been killed. - - Would he be able to sleep soundly when he thought bewas the cause of the death of one, and perhaps two, of his fellowmen, for the mere sake of keeping game for his own amusement? In the adjoining county of Bedford, there was a clergymán of the Church of England, who rented á mahor of a gentleman, and who kept a gamekeeper and his night watch. He (Dr. Lee) had seen hira driving thro' his parish, in a dog cart, with his dogs ! behind, with a sporting jacket and straw hat, going out to shoot game. Some poachers were caught on his manor by the gamekeepers, and a gamekeeper was killed - the man was triedfor themurder, buít a merciful jury returned a verdict of manslaughter. If he had been found guilty of murder, he would have been hung; as it was, he was transported for life. He was happy to say that he knew no dissenting minister who went out shooting, or who had been the cause of the death of a íellow creature. lfthose three tliings were doneaway with, hehad no doubt universal peace would prevail." God speed the day when England shall be delivered from such nuisances.