THE BAT TUE.
THE battue system of sporting seems likely to expire from awer-inilidgence. At Stows the game was so packed to be shot at, that the keenest sports- men, not mere hardened poulterers or servants in the interest 'of the void, terer, must have been disgusted. Fifty beaters beat a thick cover, " While the shootin. g-ptuty were stationed in positions from which the-game might most edmveniently he destroyed, as they were Admen forth into the open apace .of the park. Out-scouts WRIT appointed to drive back the bares vatic' h issued forth hefore the fiportsmen took up their positions" The cook-pheasants "were heard -crowing like domestic fowls as their nume- rous tribe retreated before the sticks of the advancing army of ho,tt.v." "The ground -immediately in front of the shooters became strewed with dead and dying; Within a semicircle of about sixty yards from Ins' Read Highness the havoc was evidently greatest." Mares ran limping iff,tObC despatched by the keepers. The lefvrntug Chrome& calls-for int alteration of The game-laws, scandalized at their being maintained for this 'kind of rational enjoyment:" We suspect Hail enjoyments, find the laws to back Them, will Ise kept asp while so marry less mgly and mischievous zujnyments are prevented by other laws anti euStonas. It is not so wide a leap as it looks from Pharisaical restrictions So the battue. And the battne is act tabooed by the Chineh.
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