Mr. Cross has rebound the Scotch counties to - the Liberal
party. If there is one subject upon which the-Scotch farmers are determined, it is that the ground=game shall-belong to them, and not to the landlord, who has no -more right to turn rabbits and hares among their crops than to turn wolves loose in Princes Street, Edinburgh. Mr. McLagan on Wednesday moved the second reading of his Bill for abating the nuisance, but Mr. Cross opposed it, saying there must be one law for the Three Kingdoms,. and that the game question could not be settled without a re- vision of the law of trespass. Mr. McLagan's Bill was therefore thrown out by 192 to 127. The farmers of 'England, who return the county members, will take notice that their especial friends do. not intend to get rid of their especial enemies, unless indeed-they can get a law passed which will make England impassable. Mr. Cross admitted that Mr. McLagan's Bill madeavinged. game more safe, but it took hares and rabbits.out of .the category of.game, and "the Government objected to the vital ,principle of the measure."
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