1828. J Notes for the Month, 



exposed in a speech from Lord Wharncliffe ; who took a brief, but bold 

 and constitutional view of the real policy of the question. Those who 

 hold this opinion will not be suspected of any desire to flatter Lord 

 Wharncliffe into liberality. He is an ass who imagines that Lord 

 Wharncliffe, or any other man of common intellect, can be cajoled 

 by praise into the abandonment of those immunities which he can 

 maintain, and fairly has a title to. But the difference between a booby 

 and a man of understanding, upon every question like this, is, that the 

 last has brains and courage enough to perceive the result which is really 

 advantageous to himself; and not to make sure that any course must 

 necessarily be mischievous to himself, because it happens to be acceptable 

 to others. The real cause of the inefficiency of the laws for the protec- 

 tion of game, is the detestation in which those laws are held by nineteen- 

 twentieths of the community. The dissenting party here are too many : 

 to make a law effective, the odds must be the other way. The effect of 

 the Marquis of Salisbury's bill would be, to make this state of things 

 even worse. As the case stands, no man but the great landowner, and 

 his handful of hired agents, will stir a point for the protection of game : 

 the effect of the bill proposed by the noble Marquis, would be to exaspe- 

 rate all parties but the great landowners, to such a degree -(it would, in 

 fact, be giving them a right of toll upon the lands of their smaller neigh- 

 bours) that we have not a doubt (from the encouragement that would 

 be afforded in mere revenge to poaching) that the destruction of 

 game would increase ! Fortunately, however, from the results of such 

 advocacy, the more reasonable part of the landowners will be protected. 

 Such a bill, if it passed through the Lords, would be kicked out (unless 

 we have retrograded most abominably within the last six months) in the 

 Commons. But a Committee is already appointed. 



Paragraphs, in several morning papers, copied from the Scotsman, an- 

 nounce a new discovery in the art of embalming, by Sir George Mackenzie : 

 one effect of which is, that i will preserve human bodies in a state fit for 

 dissection for any length of time : so that the ' f Home resurrection" trade 

 may be put an end to entirely ; and the whole demand of England for 

 " subjects," supplied by " importation." As there must be two parties to 

 a speculation of import the party that exports, as well as the party that 

 receives we are afraid that this importation scheme, at first sight, 

 rather resembles the plan that a morning paper had, for getting rid of 

 the stoppage which the stage coaches made on one side the way in 

 Piccadilly namely, sending them over to the other: the possible 

 prejudices of the good people who are to be sent over, to save us from 

 the necessity of offending against our own, do not appear to have been 

 sufficiently consulted. If France, or China, however, would consent to 

 such an application of the principle of " free trade," the details of the 

 new commerce would be singular enough. The commodity no doubt 

 would be subjected to a duty ; and the prices regularly quoted in the 

 market lists. As, for instance Brookes' s (in Blenheim-street) Tuesday, 

 24th December, per stone of 81b. Inferior coarse draymen, 2s. 2d. to 

 3s. 4d. Neat small linen-drapers, and banker's clerks, 4s. to 5s. 6d. 

 Prime venison-fed Lord Mayors and Aldermen- six years in office 

 5s. 9d. to 7. &c. &c. 



A Paris fenille declares that the ruin of the pickpockets in that 

 Capital is about to be consummated handkerchiefs being offered for 

 sale, at a. shop in the Palais-royal, at " a halfpenny a piece." At the 



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