NOTES OF THE MONTH. 587 



" Wanted, by a respectable house of business, two PERSEVERING SCOTCH- 

 MEN, to vend goods in and about the metropolis/' 



We have often been puzzled to know what description of men 

 could be found to tramp about from house to house, with pack on 

 back, and yard measure in hand, and knock at every door in every 

 street they pass through, regardless of the fierce looks of footmen, 

 and the shrill remonstrances of house-maids. We were not aware 

 that these peripatetic traders were all persevering Scotchmen; but 

 such is the fact. We could suggest another epithet for these northern 

 ambulators; but persevering is the prettier word therefore it can 

 stand. What pride ought that nation to feel, which can boast such 

 an army of philosophers we had almost said martyrs, from what 

 they have to endure. The angry tirade of the disturbed housewife 

 the bitter curse of the two pair of stairs tradesman the jeers of the 

 passer-by, as the door is slammed in his face the triumphant yell of 

 urchins, as a handful of potatoe-peelings greets his smug, well-trimmed 

 visage. All this would be enough to daunt the most impudent Eng- 

 lishman, or even Irishman, that ever robbed a church; but it is a 

 mere nothing to a persevering Scotchman. In vain do folks launch 

 their gibes and jeers, their kicks and cuffs a rude rebuff from one 

 door only stimulates him to try the next. It is impossible to say 

 whither this splendid quality of endurance might lead its possessor, 

 did he not sometimes cozen a purblind wight with a roll of glazed 

 calico for Irish linen, or occasionally find a stray silver spoon in his 

 pack-bag. We shrewdly suspect that these stray spoons have formed 

 a nucleus to the fortunes of many a civic dignitary. To such 

 heights do persevering Scotchmen arrive ! 



MR. JUSTICE BAYLEY ON GAME. This eminent legal character 

 has given a new proof of his humane and patriotic disposition, in his 

 recent charge to the grand jury of the county of Flint, from which 

 we gladly give the following extract : 



" Gentlemen of property and influence would consider whether they were 

 making the best use of the blessings and favours which Providence had en- 

 trusted to their care, by accumulating game in such quantities upon their 

 land as to afford an almost irresistible temptation to the lower orders for the 

 commission of crime. Whether the existence of game in large quantities was 

 not injurious to the morals and habits of the people in the neighbourhood of 

 their estates. I really think the amazing profusion of game, which is known 

 to exist, a great inducement to successful poaching among ignorant and 

 thoughtless youths, who too often terminate a career, thus commenced, by 

 the commission of a much graver offence/' 



Now this is going very far, considering that the speaker is a 

 judge : but we will venture to go a step farther, and confidently de- 

 clare, that by the encouragement and protection of game for dis- 

 graceful battues atrocities that would turn the stomach of a pig- 

 butcher, our aristocrats clearly bring to the gallows two-thirds of the 

 unfortunate wretches who are hung in assize towns. " Usque ad" and 

 " pro tanto" the privileged miscreants are remotely guilty of so many 

 murders. Crime in the country would diminish full fifty per cent., 

 if hares, partridges and pheasants were utterly exterminated. If 



