Note 10 — THE GAME LAWS IN SCOTLAND.
Reading edition
Counties.1846.1847.Per cent. (both years.)
Total cases.Game cases.Total cases.Game cases.
Aberdeen,683280050.4
Berwick,31710342163.9
Edinburgh,33612475143.2
Haddington,45633572336.4
Fife,8621381961.1
Total,2654703008742.5
Compare these facts with the preposterous statements which the latest orator of the league, Mr M. Crichton, has been repeating to listening zanies at Greenock, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, that "the commitments arising from game laws amount to ONE-FOURTH of the whole crime of the country."