The Condition of the Labouring Classes may be considered perhaps as somewhat better north of Liverpool, than between London and Banbury; partly from their being of a more frugal disposition and more intelligent, and partly also from their resources, in the manufactures of Preston and Carlisle, and their employment as sailors at the seaports. This district seems less a sporting country than those farther south or farther north; and there are, in consequence, fewer persons demoralised by imprisonment for poaching. Nothing in the whole course of our journey has filled us with more profound grief and indignation, than the sight of so many young persons confined in the jails for poaching, commencing with the jail of Aylesbury. We wish the supporters of the game laws could but see, as we have done, the evil they occasion. The time will come, however, and that we trust speedily, when the past existence of such laws will be viewed with astonishment and horror.
