REVIEW.

Evening Star, Issue 4063, 4 March 1876, Page 2

REVIEW.

Our Land Laws: what should bs their basis ? hj, By;Charles.W. Burnell. Bimadit. a j The. pamphlet l Mr PumelLhas written «e----serves careful and impartial perusal ;On a ;lit|de understoodaapropertv/ui lapd, Mr Purnell yrity. find many with;him. 1 .We are,mot.bjr,apymeansprepared to endorse all his views, for we xemnl manVJ>f t,hMri «il.nQt.hy-any moß |nn proyofl iW tiie facts that he msnpport of them. Butiour divergence from his theories does opr acknowledging, the service he has rendered towirds placing our ing notions of properd in land The cause of mb* oft the errors Of our social arrangements lies-in our having Adopted tradifounded on first prmtajl*. We are content rough and tnm)% measures &J our t , Pother;, Julian . adbft spme rule, that,(pah, always, he, adjusted by reference ' to ah invariable standard. Little by,, little the peoples of the world are With which “.might ” has oppressed thlftu ißut they have; been worp by many nations at long thatJtheyihave ooineto be recarded is * Irighti” Ime Misfortuae is ) who wear them plant l Shoots in Other dOuntries—acclimatise them as they do birds and J fitiiea. • ito other 'acblimatisers.' ’ they hilpto fcropligate Much that is noxiOxw . ! with what is useful. Our Acclimatisation for instapce, haelpohbdmore to the interest of sportamen than of the i peofife. They have sprung from a class who. tie vote their. leisure time to) field shorts, abd tee more value in a covey of mrtndgea than in thesaihe’humbferof BrWah and haVe no objeotioh to hepds ofdcer competing for food on our mountain sides with wool producing floOks! They stem fe/IA. nkhiere/ruch Mta, hdtf fot hird-workimr. frirgiL thrifty farihfers andgrariers. Wehavp nolobjection. to the healthful excitement of partridge-ehootiug. or deeivttalking, ba many iyears, perhaps somt centurtS, before the grain or the 'gntSS is materially injured by hares or grain-leeding toUm(tiS£ yet in our sport-preferring fdTowOolohwlß W fepdfd land lordism-^apd, apd the few, labor fof the many. Mr PnnMU puts it fairly when he says - :.. —but tbosewhodesire to the the theory ttrrible r ei^w^r*sSt««3K wbefcastt troth It bum* ctttorbS ’ <j-nl •*’ TijrSPS*. ■