96 SPORT. 



The hare is no longer his to shoot, and the ground 

 itself, we are being taught to believe, is no longer his 

 own either. No legislation has ever been so mis- 

 chievous and so useless as the above Act. It is bad 

 for landlord and tenant alike. Bad for the landlord, 

 as it takes away from him one of the inducements, 

 small though it may seem, to reside on his estate, and 

 from this very cause it has depreciated the value of 

 his land, just at a time, too, when land was sufficiently 

 depreciated already. 



I was myself informed by one of the chief auc- 

 tioneers and land salesmen in London, that this cause 

 more than the bad seasons, had made land unsaleable, 

 because, after the dangerous principle which the Act 

 established that no contracts between man and man 

 should hold good by law on this subject, purchasers 

 feared the extension of the principle to other matters. 

 He added that one of the main objects and ambitions 

 of those who had made fortunes in trade used to be 

 to buy a landed estate, with all the concomitant 

 sporting amenities which to many of them formed 



