*** Nothing has yet been done with the game laws ! the new 

 bill having been thrown out in the House of Lords by a majority 

 of fifteen. Instead, therefore, of having any new acts to abridge, 

 I have only to reprint again my former extracts from the old 

 rhapsody. 



IT is much to be lamented that these laws, as well 

 as many others, are not brought under a revision by 

 the legislature, and reduced into one act of the pre- 

 sent reign, sufficiently comprehensive to include every 

 thing that is useful or desirable in such a code ; and 

 to exclude every thing that is obsolete, or inapplicable 

 to the present time, which is only calculated to mis- 

 lead, or ensnare the unwary ! 



No matter what any laws were; the desideratum 

 is to know what they now are. But, from a super- 

 fluous introduction of repealed statutes, it not only 

 becomes a business of time to wade through volumes 

 on the subject, but it requires some attention to dis- 

 criminate, which of the laws are in force at the 

 present day ; and they are sometimes misunderstood 

 from the very preambles, that are intended to prevent 

 their being so. It is, therefore, much to be wished, 

 that some gentleman in the profession would favour 



