We could say a great deal more upon this subject; but we hope that
expansion is unnecessary. Throughout all Europe the right of passage
over waste and uncultivated land, where there never were and never
can be inclosures, appears to be universally conceded. What would
his Grace of Leeds say, if he were told that the Bernese Alps were
shut up, and the liberty of crossing them denied, because some Swiss
seigneur had taken it into his head to establish a chamois preserve?
The idea of preserving deer in the way now attempted is completely
modern, and we hope will be immediately abandoned. It must not,
for the sake of our country, be said, that in Scotland, not only
the inclosures, but the wilds and the mountains are shut out from
the foot of man; and that, where no highway exists, he is debarred
from the privilege of the heather. Whatever may be the abstract
legal rights of the aristocracy, we protest against the policy and
propriety of a system which would leave Ben Cruachan to the eagles,
and render Loch Ericht and Loch Aven as inaccessible as those mighty
lakes which are said to exist in Central Africa, somewhere about the
sources of the Niger.
INDEX TO VOL. LX.
Abd-el-Kader, sketches of, 348.
Adelaide, Queen, anecdote of, 584.
Advice to an intending Serialist, 590.
Affghanistan, sketch of the recent history of, 540.
Agave Americana, the, 266.
Agriculture in Mexico, 266.
Aird, Thomas, a summer day by, 277.
Aire, siege of, 529.
Algeria, 534.
America, effects of the discovery of, 261.
Americans and Aborigines, the, a tale of the short war--Part
Last, 45.
Anhalt, Prince of, 529.
Annals and antiquities of London, 673.
Anti-corn-law league, the, 250.
Arabs, sketches of the, 341.
Army, the, 129
--present defects in, and their improvement, 131
--punishments, 133
--rewards, 136
--sale of commissions, 137
--education, 138
--dress, 142.
Arras, siege of, 527.
Ascherson, Herr, 101.
Badger, habits of the, 497.
Barrados, General, defeat of, 274.
Barrett, Miss, poems by, 488.
Bautzen, battle of, 579.
Ben Douda, an Arab chief, 341.
Bethune, capture of, 528.
Blanco, General, 2.
Blidah, town of, 339.
Bocca di Cattaro, the, 431.
Bona, town of, 344.
Boston, town of, 474.
Bouchain, siege of, 537.
Bright, Mr, on the game laws, 757.
British Association, remarks on the, 640.
Burnes, Sir Alexander, murder of, 553.
Bustamente, president of Mexico, 274.
Cabanero, General, 302.
Cabellos' life of Cabrera, 295.
Cabrera, sketch of the career of, 293.
Callao, fort of, 3.
Canada, sketches of, 464.
Carbunculo of Peru, the, 193.
Carlist war, sketches of the, 293.
Carnicer, Colonel, 293, 294.
Carnival in Peru, the, 9.
Castel Fuerte, viceroy of Peru, 7.
Cathedral of Mexico, the, 269.
Cattaro, town of, 431.
Cerro de Parco, silver mines of, 182.
Change on Change, 492.
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