The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-05 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY. OCTOBER 5.

Tun legend tells us that Friar BACON wished to
'surround Britain with a wall of brass as a protec-
tion against intrusive foreigners. As we have
managed to da very well without the wall of metal,
the chance is that the failure of the arch-conjuror
was no such great misfortune after all. A point of
much greater importance to us is, that a portion of
our countrymen, who have had the power and the
will to inflict noel more evil upon us than any equal
number of foreigners could, have long enjoyed a
protection from the punishment due to their iniquity
as secure as that aft,rded by a wall of brass or any
other material. The difference is the two cases is,
that a hereas the Friar intended to wall foreigners
out, the metaphorical wall which we have alluded to
has served the purpose of walling honest English-
men in, and preventing them from overstepping a
boundary which separates them from foes of their
own blood. In plain English. the state of the law
has been such that a fraudulent debtor, whose
property would have been justly sacrificed to satisfy
the demands of his creditors, if he remained in Eng-
land, had nothing to do but to evade the service of a
writ by creasing the Channel, and his person would '
become inviolable, and his property intact. By
stepping out of the kingdom, he inclosed those foes,
his creditors, within an impassable barrier. An
agent might transmit to him the proceeds of property
he possessed here, and he would be allowed the
pri-
vilege of spending, in elegant indolence, once again,
a fortuue which, Tint for the protection afforded him
by the defect of the law, would have been in the
hands of rude, unrelenting creditors.
Alas for the change that a slight alteration in the
law will make in the fatesof various ingenious andble-
resting swindlers. A fiat has Irene forth whist ban
produced wailing and woe in the breasts of human&
of bad debtors. On the 24th of October down gess
the wall of separation which kept the eager creditor
from pouncing upon the man who has been "in his
books' for years, and who intended to remain there
for ever. lioulogne tears something like partial de-
population, now that one means of swindling are
about to be wrested from the bands of well-drama
English scamps. Sadao and Homburg may look
ruefully upon bare tabise no longer glittering
with the gold tranaherod from the pockets
of honest English tradesmen. Tbe loungers at
Boulogne, the rattlers of dies at Hades and Homburg,
are waiting with dismay the arrival at the fatal day,
the 24th inst., which will let loose upon all ei the.
who have property in England the horrors of English
law. Their imagination wont now be peopling the
shone of Albion with prooseswerwen,all redo to
spring forward when the time shall weirs. hey
may see with a prophetic eye the day coming when
an ungrateful country will no longer afford its pro-
tection to swindling absentees; they watch esearn-
tally the sacrifice of their property to creditors, who
hare so shadow of a title to the same except the jus-
tice of their claims.
The act which is to effect this great change in the
circumstances of the truants is entitled "An Act to
amend the process, practice, and mode of pleading in
the superior courts of common law at Westmin-
ster," &c. ; and a clause which is to bear so hardly
upon the men who "can pay" but "won't pay," runs
es follows:
" In case any defendant, being a British subject, is
residing out of the jurisdiction of the said superior
courts, in any place except Scotland or Ireland, it
shall be lawful fur the plaintiff to lame • writ of
gammons in the form contained in the schedule (A.),
which writ shall bear the indorsement contained in
the said form, purporting that such writ is for see-
Tit* out of the jurisdiction of the said superior
warts, and the time for appearance by the defendant
to such writ shall be regulated by the distance from
England of the place where the defendant is re-
siding ; and it shall be lawful for the court or judge
on being Wisfied by affidavit that there is a came
et action, &c. &c., and that the wed was personal!
saved upon the defendant, or that
'Sorts were made to effect personal service
upon the defendant, and that it came to
his knowledge, and either that the defendant
wilfully neglects to appear to nosh writ, or that
be is living out of the juristiffibei of the said
courts, in order to defeat and blip Ids ereditors, to
direct from time to time that the *Mir shell he
at liberty to proceed in the action INA isiasser
and subject to such conditions as to ale Mater
jufte shall seem fit."
Here is a successful attempt made to Mtge pew.
tied swindlers in their strongholds. Hiewailisle •
fraudulent debtor, by. transferring his pee= Wiwi
the boundary of the country, in nallikelelle
preseryed his ppert. This priillsge
MI as
It
longer. A residence abused Ober the MI If
October will avail bat la puled do pmts.
As the person, bewires4 k se se wilds
um to any one but Ss- debts liklssi-4,
whom ev it is Ale reillamelle
that is en
necessary kr lir plinths at eredieses is
gained. A swindler miffing bersod the sea, re-
coves at the hand of Ibe procese-emeter a writ con-
taining a message few' tie Quads desiring his
premises in court, and ssillig with tbs tiAie "take
notice that in default d yes se ill jib: said
A. B. may, by leave of the Melt Pro-
seed to judgment and exesidise lb value et
this change in the law, as a poilimehm to areillhem
is very great. Many a fair Mate which is new I
supplying • dissolute absentee with the sew d
continuing a course of extravagance abroad, miss.
tar to that by which he has rained sew
Soling tradesmen at home, will fall into the
hands of its rightful peemenwe—thses who
have supplied such present owner with goods far
which they have never received an equivalent. The
est will operate, in a small way, as an boomtown&
Rotation Bill—only always against the millet the die-
booest owners. They will now be head to de what
all honest men do without forcing—pay their debts.
The we is also another step in the donation ci
es-
swing an unfair advantage possessed by the rich
ass war his poser neighlosur. frepeety bus
sew usual privileges, that there is so monolll7
In Amid go oat of our way to endow it with sob
es es set essentially belong to Under ew
=state of "the kw the pegehiler el
be shoes to be distrust, bad Make is le
list is change his puss of habitation, and be might
bilge in his visions peepserities to his hisrt's sew
Nat His estate email be managed as welly an
east as by isiessi4 and his press was nadir the
Crige of a foreign state, whilst est et EagWnd
übilnst les served with a writ. A tembweas, es
suay, is unable to leave the an whisk
hie
fame iatrar carried am if be &oats sped his meditate, he
fame pay and abide the inst. His absence would
ti swim While the Risk awn. therefore, escaped the
pnikshest doe to his nisiseds. the poorer man was
obliged to slay and nib the weakly he hod in-
dented. Though we are be hew Weis that a poor
mug abseil he allowed bums the rich
ftne ewe prawn it, we WE
sod WOI that a
boots state
if-the law whisk pay term; buisroshiedrhile It
kis vapory in sspeiss sloth •
sine free, is mieshisesee the degree, as it
begalrs that leverage. ass be law btfebaada
tea if all scant mkt.

IT will be admitted that the eigelmdteral interest
has a claim upon the leghlature ihr hir play, and
that an burden really pessiag *lady upon it
eisould be inquired iota The present goverment
have 001110 into at the immediate instance, and
es the eithments, of the owners and owe-
piers the soil. The prthdpal inensnre which they
have hitherto adreested with Mosses to this, their
seeding past, was
peed a
isdieserel tax ea the eenseraer for
the btu& the hut dientheriewdosied
VW therm as en %dr oteinek. to
=tt e re, bags set added the
d flak dab an to be
It Imixistry ore show sad agb-1

inhaled in their desire to promote the interests of
agriculture, they will remove one Stant grimiest*,
by which not only is its program impeded. bat I.he
capital value of the land itself is disuniebed. For
the express purpose of upholding • terrilirial
cracy, the !awed this empriiiinhave 4nibLee.cdiext
land artificial burdens and into,
Im-
posed upon any other inte must ma long have
utterly destroyed it. To counteract the inevitable
tendency of such laws, it was necessary to enact
laws of a protective character. But now that Protec-
tion is withdrawn, the land resumes its natural cha.
meter—that of a raw material, which can be rendered
productive only by the application of capital and
skill. The value of an acre of land at the present
day represents little else than the amount of capital
and labour employed in bringing it into cultivation.
Farming. in truth, is just se much a business as
banking or manufacturing, and must for the future
be conducted on the same principles.
The legislature, then, having at length placed
agriculture on the same footing with other occupa-
tions, it is manifest that the only burden which the
land can bear is its fair contribution to the exigen-
cies of the state. It should be relieved from the
pressure of any law which regards it otherwise than
as • staple article of commerce. We have only to
look at the conditions which affect the ownership of
the soil to see the difficulties and disadvantages
under which its cultivation labours, as com-
pared with other commercial pursuits. Iu
the first place, the great bulk of that
property, which by a significant distinction the law
styles real, is withdrawn from that wholesome
facility of transfer which belongs to every descrip-
tion of persmml estate. One of the soundest thinkers
of the day, Mr. J. S. MILL, in his work on " Politi-
cal Economy," remarks " that to make land as easily
, transfetable as stock would be one of the grealset
commercial improvements which could be bestowed
upon a country." No doubt there era
in the way of accomplishing this desirable
object, but the chief difficulty lies in the
laws which were invented for, and are adhered
by the aristocracy, for the purpose of perpetuation
in their families the prestige and power sin
exclusively to belong to territorial rights and privi-
leges. By the law of entail, the inheritance er
abseiste dominion over the property is in lote
!Mbest b Isms, perpetually postponed, and tbu
possessor is merely • life tenant, elgs
limited usufructuary estate. The bed may
foe want of drainage and manna buildings sty be
required for its profltalk empllism—bed beer is
the landlord to provide the assamory outlay spa those
objects P He cannot borrow, bibs sea elbesely a
precarious security. He cannot and to sake as
advance out of his income, for skim *Bidet' is
already iscsabered or he has paws Mien to
pro for, and he must live at an mum aissea-
swats with his candid* position as a braid per
peistar. Besides be may bee vie issuellate motive
for adding to the permanent value el the estate by
personal maiden. He is on bed terms with his
son, or the sumemion devolves upon a distant heir,
in whom be has little or no interest. _

...fieseare a few of the Moiiiollvions and daintily
checks which the law of entail administers to the due

development of the nesarees et the sell. It way he
suggested that these inspremersats will be mods by
a teasel ma 21 yens' hem Bet • tenant seldom
binds Woolf fur so long a peeled, though be accepts
the optima of the extended term Neither sea he be
expected to invest his capital la inproveresats, the
leseet of which must melees he biped the thU
attest of hie interest. The teeth is, that a geed
tenet he a farm can be °inanimately se teams int-
ler to those which command a good tenant for a house,
namely, by having it in perfect repair, and re-
plete with every accommodation. It is to
the absence of such requisites that the iehilosier st
the grower of wheat and turnips in et =MP
pies and intelligence, as milli ether
leaders, is to be attributed. A mesa el property sad
adulation will not hire • place he leg es his
liminess unless it affords ressenab Litft for
the purpose. A tweet of pertly athemted,
pertly watokideresta2lets Gaall .sinuses,
ebbenseed by. in Iltst
thous
with =Wilk' ildin
=46eillot insumemisatly arrauged
will not eell m nee OW purposes, in is.
tering gm the ebbelisa et the
to oboist se awes NOM *so his immemsers
capital, and a rammesella brills skill mei
Accordingly an Wein theielplise et tineetiantsilet
put op with ; a mss et hallesene alms of still lees
education, and be As mob peet. MAMA he to &
tional knowlssilm et bb hollesse. saris sub
men to this rent and to obbia seldetemes,
they weer snowed with the issespely et sap-
plying c
hi the.= of Englasi. And we
think it his* except in the districts
most losi manes sub a tenant cannot go
re, mho be mespoly el which he has been
deprived is emits* by ea equivalent. We do net
wish to be km& upon any class of men, bat the
truth must be told; the days as theold feudal tenant
of the soil are numbered; pabaspoliey, as well se the
real interest dn. lanftr4 deemed, that agriculture
should be freed from these trammels which have
hitherto poetically kept a misses of the utmost
interest and importance in the heeds of igeorame
and preludice. Let as be understood. We are far
firms pointing to any enerosehmeat an the jest rights
of the owner of the soil. On the eastory,it
!leaning and limiting, we would
increase the value of those rights. Tigre = sord is
as fairly entitled to his rent as the 'spittle
is to the interest of the matey whisk he
advances to the farmer for the purpose of enabling
him to carry on his conatioara or, as the maatihe-
turn, to the trade yetan thi machinery with
which he furnishes his kessetemd. But the rent roll
of England is competed, is round ambers, at forty
minims per annum, representing, at the moderate
estimate of 26 years' pushes*, one bora millions
sterling, as the fixed value of the cultivated bed is
this country. Surely it is a meatless
thug that that this vast expel, of territory dwell be
holden in absolute, mamba proprietary by my
number of iadividuals is the teems of doing what
they will with their awn! Have the inhabitants el
this ideal no asks to require that proper laws
shed emulate the mansismiet et id. soil ? Hare
they se 'Merest in the develipmeet el its reesurees ?
The rise is rabid, net by ue, bat br the party
el the Aseseement. Thy ask be
=se, arracere gar a beset beauty ea hem re-
bee,at best tar a re44estmest et lb so as
is WIN.* the owases gad osseplessetthe bed he
the seintes pivilFges which they have led. They
ellen that their ultimate will be unjustly blur
bested. if net utterly rained, without sash mild
Set lam the Imtia em be exported le semis
thee diem it is bet reasonable, and bi as milimey
melee 'theism that they should basin Mite the
math with the view to amoebae net only whoa..
the Osimery Piety, as they style themselves, are so-
dded w bisennity, but also riblike, they bare
themselme bee everythinaniaseatbenkepon them to
latter
their
it is
avrn. If have idled in this
, that their deka
Rea emsliseatim premature. lbw 01
sew a prides to is
bewail fedi ewe
swag measures. We, thesis*, invite ibe ellem
due of the Country Party, net based to
whisk " loess is the debase; bat to
pram pitman—to midribs' laws which lbee
sod freineet4 involve the title to the land indite
beztriesble &Sanitise; and which, under the met
famerable eireemetesess, materialldthetraM from its
mhos as a marketable sesamodi . We point to
that palsy cl a byres see by w the pride of
birth is inbred is the dibbnest of solid irt.
West, and too ease at the media of
that mealy honest pride width lesdestes the
Inaviold &AIM al °Wisdom as see of the first
et metal &dm And we metre te pease that
pubis attention. which has beer awakened to this
saloset by the sgitatirm of the loaded Interest sad
the conenmeut agitation el law reform, will est be
bid asleep *Mil the Were of lend in this
hes hese placed°. a beds mom le eortedeeesee=
mama mese and the spirit d modern sedgy, than
a system timid in the middle ages, exchnivsly by,
and fir,* dominant slunk and aristocreey.

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