The Sun.
London, England, 1830-09-04 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARLBOROUOILST4gT.
Yesterday Lieutenant Lumbreeht,' the unfortu-
nate-gentleman who was concerned as a principal in
a duel that took place at :Battersea.ilelds some time
ago, ;which unfortunately proved 'fatal to a, Mr.
Clayton, came to this office in a itate of apparent,
and, no doubt, real destitution, and, applied to Mr.
Ron, the bitting Magistrate, for his interference to
procure for him some paroehial, aid, of which he
stood, he said, in the utmost need.
The Magistrate asked him upon what parish in
London it was that he had any claim for reliet?—
He replied that the only claim he had on any parish
in the metropolis was on St. James's parish, and
that only by having last slept in it for a few nights.
The, Megistrate said that that was a sufficient
ground of claim for temporary relief, and asked him
if he had applied to any of the overseers of St.
James's parish ?-11e answered that be bad not.
lie was quite a stranger, he said, to the mode of
proceeding in such an emergency, and did not know
where to apply.
The Magistrate told him that be must make the
nature of gis claim, anti the object of his applica7
tion 'mom), in the first instance, to the parish an-
thorities at the workhouse; anti it was only on his
being refused by them that is Magistrate had the
power to interfere.
The unhappy gentleman said that the chief ob-
ject of his:application waft to get remoecellin what-
ever way paupers were usually passed to the paritill
in the country to which he belonged.
The Magistrate asked what parish that was

Information- of the following rather siogular cir-
,mmtvances was at this office :—On Wednes-
ty last, a person named Cooper, who reqides at
itecketill'eld, Kent, and who came tip to town for
Ile purpose of purchasing a tptantity of tiMberi was
,net by a tall well-qesscd m.in, while standing in
\fiddle-row, Holborn.. They, although strangers to
..ace other, 'entered into conversation, anti fidjmirned
to the rpublic-honse called the Ilercules Pillars, in
(Areat Qiieen-strect. While sitting in the rrioin
there,. :o Short pale-raged' -Man came in, and joinitnr
them, qs if by chance,. pulled 'out a- .51. note, and
offered to treat the whole company, as he-had lately
lroppell into good fortnne by' a laW-Suit. During
thus,Cooper, horn what .cati,:e, is not explained,
pulled vint..h is. • pocket, book, which. contained •1211 ,
chiefly in bank-notes, and a few sovereigns, and
looked at the N. note he had. Ile put it into his
pocket-book agiin, which he placed in his left-hind
pocke4 lie shortly afterwards went out, anti hav-
ing•occaSion to look at his pocket-Wok again, found
that the whole of the money, which .constituted
nearly all his-wordly substance, had been taken out.
This was exceedingly surprising' to him, as be found
the pocket-book in the same pocket, and nearly iu
the same order as he had put ir. Ile went into the
room immediately he discovered his loss, and found
that the two strangers had .disappeared.. The ap-
pearance of the two strangers was taken down, and
direetioni given to an officer to use his utmost en-
deavours to discover them.

111uch surprise was manifested in the office at the
occurrence.

BONAPARTE'S STYLE OF PLAYING

CAMBS.

Every thing concurred to render our passage
dreary and monotonous. The General had
lost four aides-de-camp, Croiser, Sulkousky,
Julien, and Guibert ; Caffarelli, Brueys, and
many others, were no more. Our certain mis-
fortunes, and the disquietudes of the future, alike
threw the gloom over our hours. Nevertheless,
though our apprehension was but too just, and
intense the pre-occupation of Bonaparte 's mind,
there were yet, times when we sought to unbend
from anxiety, or, in familiar phrase, to kill time„
Who would have believed it ? Instead of cul-
tivating the intellect by learned discussions, we
endeavoured to find' in cards a resouPee from
thought. Well ! even in an amusement so
frivolous, the character of our companion mauls
fested its peculiar bias. In general, he disliked
illy; but, since play he must, preference was
given to .Vingt et an, because that game tomes
to a' conclusion sooner than others If, in
describing his noble deeds of arms, he loved to
establish, to vaunt hiS fortune, so he did 'not
disdain to aid his cards by slight of hand ; in
one word, he cheated. He laughed heartily,
too, at those little tricks, especially .when they
were not detected; and, sooth to say, we were
already courtiers enough to flatter him in this
petty ambition, by voluntarily shutting our eyes.
Byt I ought also to be no less in haste to say,
that he never took advantage of these little con-
trivances in play. When the party broke up,
he restored his winnings, which he divided
amongst us. The gain, as may be supposed,
was, no object ; but fortune must give him at
' the nick ot time an ace or ten, just aa she
owed him favourable weather on a day of battle ;
and if fortune failed in her duty, no one was to
perceive. He plated also at chess,. but very
rarely, because indifferently, and liked not being
beaten at this pine, which passes, one knows
not well why, for a pretended imitation of the
great game, of war. At that, Bonaparte feared
no one. I remember, at Mantua, his losing a
game to General Beauvoir, reckoned one of the
best players in Europe, Who gave him odds. He
was any thing but well pleased. Ha liked very
well to play with me, however, because, thouph
the superior, I was not so.'much so as to
gain, always. ,When successful, he would give
over playing, in order to rest upon his laurels.
,--,Constablc's Alliccilany, Vol. ISM

NAPOLEON'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE.

The ablest painters and sculptors have la-
bouredto fixupon.the canvass, or to call forth

from the marble, the features, of that extraor-
dinary Man. The greater number of these skil-
fnl, artists, whose talents honour France, have
happily seized the type of 'his countenance ; yet
may we say, that there is not in existence a per-
fect resemblance. It is not granted even to
g• .
enius, trnitnph over an impossibility, The
noble contour of the head, the expanded front,
the pale and elongated visage, and meditative
cast of the countenance, might be represented ;
but the mobility of his glance was beyond the
dominion of imitation—that glance, which
obeyed volition with the rapidity of lightning.
In the same minute, <there might be read in his
(rick and piereing eye, an expression now
)Swect,nowstern, now terrible, ml 4 anon caress-

big. It might be said, that every thought which
agitated his soul, moulded an appropriate phy-
siognomy.
Bonaparte had finely formed hands, and highly
estimated this beauty. Ha likewise took parti-
cular care of them ; and often, while conversing,
regarded them with complacency. He had also
pretensions to fine teeth; but these claims ap-
paned to me less justly. founded. When he
walked, whether alone or in company, in a room
or in his gardens, he. staled a little in his gait,
with hands- crossed behind his back. Fre-
quently he made an involuntary movement of
the right shoulder, by slightly elevating it • at
the same time, a motion in the mouth frinnleft

tight, was observable. If one had not known

that this was only a habit, these motions might
have been mistaken for spasmodic affections.
They, in reality, indicated deep cogitation,--a
sort of condensing of the spirit, while it cherished
lofty thoughts. Often, after these walks, he
drew up, or dictated to me, the most important
papers. It seemed ahnost impossible to tire
hint, not merely on horseback, and with the
army, but in his ordinary exercise ; for some-
times he walked during five or six hours in sue•
cession, without being sensible of the exertion.
For the bath he bud an absolute passion, and
mistook this partiality for a necessity of W.-
110 remained habitually two hours in the water.
During this time, I read to him extracts from
the iournals or sonic new pamphlets; for he de-
siret •to hear all, know all, and see all fur him.

self.'While in the bath 1w k ept continually
turning the warm water valve, raising the tem-
perature to such a pitch that we found ourselYes

enveloped in an atmosphere of vapour so den n
as to prevent eny*Being soak-lent tomtit& - We, t
were hen forced to open the doot.'?'o44
I never kneW Bonaparte to his hOtilStrOldlys',
temperate, and an enemy to all excess:' Ivo
aware of the absurd stories' circulated coneerning
him; and they sometimes put liiru. out Of
humour. How Ofien has it been ,t:yetited that
he was subject to attacks of epilepsy ! During
the space of more than eleven years. I never saw
any system which resembled in the very least
that malady. He was very healthy; and of ex-
cellent constitution. But if, on the one hand,
Iris enemies have thought to degrade him, by
describing hint as subject to a gricvotti' perio-
dical infirmity, his flatterers, apparently figuring
to themselves sleep as incompatible with grpt-
Pt" have nOt less belied truth, in, speaking of
his imaginary watching& Bonaparte matte, others
wake, but he himself slept, and,slept.aoundly,-,-
He desired that 'l should call him every morning
et seven. I was, therefore, always theffiest,,, who
entered his bed-room ; but, pretty often, on
attempting tit rouse him, he would say, his eyes
still shut, " Do,'Bourrienne, I beseech you, let
me sleep a moment longer,',' When there hap-
pened to, be nothing very pressing, I did not
return again till eight. In general, he slept
Seven hours out of the twenty-four, besides
dozing a little in the afternoon.
Among the private instructions deliverer! me'
in writing, there Was one very singular on this
point : "During the night," snit' the' you
•will enter my room as seldom as possible.- Never'
awake me when ,you have Loot news. to an-
nounce. With good news nothipg preSuts.--7
.1110, if the mutter concerns hatFiterrs, rouse me
immediately: for then there is nut an instant to
be lost." This was good ealetdation ; and
Bonaparte often found his advantage-therein.t—
Con Stables Miscellany VOL INTL

PAALIAIIENTARY

LAW 01' REAL. PROPERTY.—N.. VI.
sm.:OND RA POUT OP TIM COMMISHIONP.34:
(Continued from our Paper of Friday.)

Indexes referring, to the different estates ere open
to the Objection that, in order to frame them "it ell
edequatemanner, a map or ground plan, or a pita',
miler description of ell the lands to the kingdom,
should be made before the commencement of the
Register, and that every document should either be
made to refer to numbers in such map or dertriptimi,
or contain a power authorizing sonar person to de-
termine and specify on the document what parcels,
described by such numbers, were intended to he
comprised in it, and eleo that every iticrunicia by
which 11 subdivision of au old inclostor, or alteration
of boundary might be made, should. contain a map
or particular desctiption, in order ,to show the mill.
don, It ha'. been urged in support of this plan of
reference, that the advantages to be derived from a
general map or survey would compensate' for the cx.
peruse of it; that land is not subject to such con-
siderable alterations as to make it difficult to prove
them, mid that such alterations ,Would always op-
pear by the trunsactione entered upon the Register..
This phut has tindeegone particular considerotion, in
Collitegpo.llCO of the collateral benefit to be derived
front it of affording evitletice of the ilentity of the
lands; but we came to the conclusion, that the
preliminary expenses of framieg a general map or
description, the difficulty of tracing !sod, after come
plicate(' subdivisions or variations of boundaries, the
tillieulty of applying a description by homalaries lu
certain species of property, together with the «Itera-
tions which would be required in the Mode of
describiog estates in deeds, and in the practice of
conveyancing, render it inexpedient to attempt the
establishment of a Registry in this counts founded
on such a basis. In most of the States of Europe,
in which registration on thii plan'has been adopted
on an extensive emde, the Register is ciaitiiied to
the ere of local tribunals, and the correctness of
evert treosaction is secured by a judicial proceedilig.
ifroolitig it neerssaiy to reject the several pints we
have dtateribcd, we turned our atientian to the ter-
!nation of a plan which should secure the eisiential
objects of a Register, and should not be liable to
any important objectiona ; the result is the plan we
now propose. it is founded on a classification of
deeds, under separate 'wade, with reference to title.
fly pursuing the plan into its deteils,
rictus circumstances ()nide, we have satisfied our.
selves of its praeticability.
In, proceeding to consider the nature and detalla
of a Register, the question arises, whether it is de-
sirable to establiah separate dices in different dis-
tricts, or one office for the whole of Englund and
Wales.
The reasons which .may be stated in faeOur of
district talkies, appear to be, that in . the distant
counties they %loud(' often afford greater fertility, and
occasion less delay and expense, in registering deeds
and making searches, anti in the production of the
registered instruments et trials. On the other hand,
the objeetions to Distriet Registers are, that deeds
comprising property in two or more districts must
he registered in each district; that ex petite would
be materially increased by separate establioliments,
not wily in respect of the necessary buildings, but
because a greater number of oftieers would to ts..
(piked, and particularly of superiatcmling offiecra,
who must possess considerable legal knowledge; iota
that disagreement in practice must ba expected.
Those objections eppear to us to be eOttelkniVd
against small districts; and it the districts were large,
commoniention from the distant parts of them with
the 40C:411 office, in moot cases, be ottended with
more diflicOlty than communication with Londim.
The advantages of a general bilks are, diet Ilia
establishment would be attended with the smallest.
expense; that under a single management, end upon
n large stale, there would be a greater probability of
°Wilma .a perfect system of practice, told this evils
of variety of practice would be avoided; and that
greater facility would be afforded for improvement,
both as to the principle' and the details of time sys-
tern. It will appear by our exposition of the phot,
that there are some documents, such as wills stud
commissions of bankrupt, as to which registration
in separate districts would be liable to very'great
objection. It is obvtous that great benefit would be
afforded if all inquiries relating to the docunientary
title of real property,'wherever situated, might be
made at one place. Many transactions relitnig-:to
estates in ell parts of 011 kingdom, and partienlerly
those of magnitude, are coadociid in the raeiroOlie.
It may be remarked, that 'the objection
bean urged spinst,a Resister ou the greund'ot
clositre,.would bays .lees Wile, if the eutablishmeot
were confined to one otfire in M the ettopoli,i.
The principal objection to 'OOS general office
the risk, delay, and exPersite of COMlntitile4l
icon
from distant parts • of the Cetintry. At the
time of the Commonwealth, and at *observant
periods, When general registration Insv been propose-d,
this objection %could have beim ineurmountmble ; but
there is now such facility and certainty of 'commit.
rileatioo bet w ee Londontlntgautat anti I mrer t st
ntit.e
tchoiutopt
that transtnissioo to ',proton would be attended
with very little risk or delay. As to expellee, it
May be objected that the charges to be incurred 'for
registration by person" at different distsitcet front
he
ro-
The
e !Wade the mediitrn of
t:ort ItinP:fitrnicgoog°l:6l!et:thlri •
ait°fatot)abeirft.dieoelii,' rdernmaemigiel)k4getellniu°lgghtlits(b;ourtlg and from the Ilea crier
t.reb'
, which might hues !warner
veryunposed oft f
an
out of which the **perm. of tt .ttatott r4ltnithin'
eeldetesillft:rpYlee:a: by
to eatl.6tsl:rreQaefrotilte"lmt might
general dike for England and' Weisstiiiior
peoeFete. we heye therefore the e4ll
We prepoee to-a Metleipolitin luititoe 'shay

•
remittic hasvevs,4 that, it might easily Lie made appli-
table _to District Registers.
; . Tha.esnaeinder of our subject may be ronvenittetly
distributed-ontlie/thefollowing heads
I. The doeuments to be. registered.
9.• The made of registration.
SS. The authentication. of doCuments for the pur
pose of registration.
4. '1 he effect to be given to registratioil with re-
spect to priorities.
.5. Thee effeot to be given to registration with re-
spect to.evidenee.
6. The plan of the register.
1. At fo the.documents to be registered.
In order to effect the primary object of the Re-
gister, it would.appear that every document relating
to real property,. by which any estate or charge is
created or transferred at law or in equity, should be
registered. We propose, however, to exclude from
the Register 'instrumento relating to copyholds, anti
leases for terms not exceeding twenty-one years at
racksrent, where the possession goes along with the
lease, and all instruments relating to *itch leases, and
accompanied with actual possession. We propose
that the latter qualification *there'd be so framed as
to prevent tI4 exclusion from applying to securities
and settlements. .
As to copyholds, the Conn rolls, which are essen-
tial to the tenuee, form a 'hicid register. There are
indeed instruments relating to the beneficial owner-
ship of copyhold property, which do not appear on
the court rolls ; but we think it expedient to post-
pone the consideration of extending the Register to
this species of interest. There will be no difficulty
in making this extension after the Register has been
estelAished.
Leased of copyholdi, with the license of the lord,
which take effect as rommon•lew interests, are not to
he considered within this exclusion.
As to leases. In the existing Registers the ex•
caption is confined to leases for terms not exceed-
ing twenty-one years, either at rack-rent, or when
the possession goes along with the lease. These
qualifications. have led to questions whether regi•
aeration becomes et cessery in consequence of circum-
stances which take Olive After the creation of the
interest. " We• consider' that the qualifications we
propose will prevent these questions.
We also propose to exclude from the Register
reach instruments relating to shares in public works'
and to securities upon then as must, under the pro-
Visions of local Acts of Parliament, appear in the
books of Companies.
Some of the ewes to which we propose that regi•
stration shall apply require 'observation.
Contracts, inasmuch its they are the means of
creating or passing in equity estates end interests,
are documents which, upon the principle we have
Mated, are to be registered ;' but they are tempo.
eery in their nature, and often in a form ill adapted
for registration, as where' they are contained in a
series of letters. It is seldom necessary, and often
inconvenient, that they :should continue to form
part of the title. We therefore propose that means
should ht afforded of protecting contracts for a li-
mited time, without placing thorn on the Register.
This appears to be a proper place for entering
into the necessary explanation oh the subject of
Caveats.

A caveat will be a document to be executed by
the owner of an estate preventing registration within
a limited period from having any effect, as against
an instrument to he registered within such period by
the party in whore favour the caveat is given.
It will not be necessary to require that the nature
or terms of the transaction with reference to which
the caveat is given, should be specified, but it must
be precise as to the property.
Provision may be made 'for extending the period
by a renewal of the caveat.
Caveats may be used for the following purposes:---
To preteet putchasers and mortgagees during the
interval between the time of searching the Register
and the completion of tiur transaction by the regis-
tration of the conveyance. A cautious purchaser
may requite a caveat, which he 'may present tor re-
gistration at the same time that he sends to the Re-
goiter-office for a certificate to spew the registered
documents affecting the title, awl he may then 11
his money upon, the execution of the deed with
perfect security that noitistrument can be registered
so as to affect his title hetWt en the date of the cer-
tificate and the registration of his own deed. To
this mode we have already referred in our observa-
tions upon the;queittion of delay.
Protection may be afforded by a caveat in the
same nounier where time is required for the execu-
tion of a deed by different parties..
Caveats may also be "Died as the means of pre-
ventiog the necessity of registering contracts.
Caveats may also be resorted • to es a substitute
for the registration of equitable loans, by deposit of
deeds, aceortspanied with a memorandum of mort-
gages for short periods, and of deeds for ether tem-
porary purposes, the registration of which it may be
thought desirable to suspend or to avoid altogether.
We think that the entry of a caveat should 'not
prevent the registration of subsequent instruments
affecting the same property.
An equitable mortgage, by mere deposit of title-
deeds riceompenied by it 'memorandum, might be
registered by the registry of the memorandum ; but
a mere deposit of deeds without any muniorandttm,
would not prevail over any subsequently registered
instrument, anti therefore, could no longer be relied
upon. tloWever, we think that the security by
simple deposit of deeds without Writing, is, in its
:ples,ent state, open to serious ebjeetions, and that it
ought to be restored to its original state, viz. that;
the party might retain the deeds under his contract
Until his debt wits satisfied, but that they should give
no lien upon the lamb
The possession of title.deeds would become of
comparatively importunes
little imp after
establish-
ment of a register.
This, we are are aware, would impair the value'
of the lien of solicitors on title deeds oftheit aorta ;.
perhaps this inconvenience, its art accidental 044
could not justly be complained of, and it might be
comptmeated by ensue alteration of the rules relating
to securities for the costs of solicitors.
A seller's lien for unpaid purchase money should
;Ws we think. preveil against it subsequently
tettletered deed for valtiable consideration, unless the
feet of non-psyment, or claim of lien, appeared on
the anguish deed, or 'were noticed on the .Register,
iedgmetits in the Courts. of Westtnioster are re-
'wired by the statutes of 4th and Sib of William and
c. 2:0,' 7th, end hilt c, 36, le 3,
to be entered in alphabetical .dockets Or lista three
times a year, and there are no sufficient meant, of
wcertairting whether a. judgment has been entered
up subsequently to those which have been decketeiL
The list, are in some respects ineorrevtiy kept, trod:
they contain only the itarwets of the parties; without
any other deicription, Owing to this imperfect
mode of registr,y, the sears It for jorignients is attended;
with great expence,.delay, aunt utteertaioty. In order
to irtsurte the safety of 5 purchuser; It is necessity to
search in all the Courts in the eetrie of every person
Who may have been the owner of any part of the
estate. The charge for 'weld% iv fourpence to
the officer, and fourpento to the solicitor for every
ter s 9 in each Court, and therefore the cost of a
elareh for twenty years (which isi, the esuel period)
amenots to W. :for every name, A search to be
:mole in Si) many different places amidst the business
oirteee, is distracting, and liable to be partially
a
'Mtit4; and when any name is of conorion.ottgar-
rterit i!i,horrietitries inqUacticable, to ascertain
jiii.dgments
.whioh may, hts
indueo ,nov: 55:i:i(01111 rtieite to > 7i7te`r":'l"o"-it partly. These diffiettltios,
add
sue
boky,„; frig t,se twei eh altogether
thot, iNtlte r.144,!!!t1.,,i we hayo made,
hoof to nn, 0004aestl, n„i".17:"":01 t t great est
lit additiftrt: trl744' t"
the vettrte ate Oat/Mister. those Whielit'tsrire4ilit* in
, lip in the owie in WiileS, io the 61;Cr,'
Pslsol-4`0414,„ ether rOurtsr of Leetril, create ntittite444
an real estates in 141 parts ofthe k4igdoill, We
thel*ro of oploisr tltat„it&dgmenta should bo
chided among thedocumente to be regi,qcred. We

think that improvements might be made in the
mode of framing the alphabetical indexes' of;
judg-
meats; but we apprehend that under the best system
which could be adopted. Oita &acuities must exist;
however, we contemplate important a:terations iu
the law respecting judgments, which will avoid every
difficulty attending the registration otthent.
Other securities of the nature of judgments (such
as Statutes staple and Statutes merchant) are be.
come nearly, if not entirely, obsolete ; but if not
abolished, it would he right to include them in the
same provisioni, in order to prevent all attempts to
evade the law, by substituting such securities for
judgments.

Securities and engagements to the Crown bind
the real estates of dvbtore, and also of their sureties,
in most -cases, from the time when the security to the
Crown was. given, or when the office or engage-
ment in respect, of which the debt. has been con-
tracted was acquired or entered into. The modes
it Which pereons may become accountants to the
Crown are very various, There are not at present
any adequate means of ascertaining that no such
security, engagement, or account, is in existence, and
there is often such an absence of any circumstance to
excite suspicion of the liability of the owner of an
estate, that no search is attempted. We have no
hesitation in expressing our opinion that liabilities
to the Crown should not be effectual against pur-
chasers without registration,
Decrees or orders of Courts of Equity should be
registered where tiny have the effect of transferring,
creating, or determining any right nr interest, at d
form a necessary link in he title,

After the commencement of a suit, every party
dealing- with the property to which the suit relates,
is liable to be affected by the result of it. We ►hink
it expedient, in order that this rule should be bind-
ing on a purchaser, that some entry or memorandum
of the suit and its object should be registered.

We think that a similar memorandum should be
registered in the case of an appeal.
In considering this subject, the first question
which arises is, whether a memorial of instruments
should be registered, or whether they should In; re-
corded at length. The- Register Acts for Middle--
sex, Yorkshire, and Ireland, require only the regis-
try of a memorial, specifying the date, names of the
parties, the parcels and the names of the witnesses.
In the tiOlord Level, and in Scotland, and the
Colonies, the registry ie an inrolment of the instru-
ment.

The registration of a memorial fails to answer
some important purposes to which a Register may
be made, subservient, while it is exposed to most of
the objections to registration as fully as a more per-
fect record; and in some cases its effect is positively
objectionable; thus a deed may have been exe-
cuted, which, fro:n subsequent events, is immaterial
to the title, as u demise for a term which has ex-
pired; and yet, if the contents of the deed cannot
he shown, the indication of its existence on the Re-
gister will render the title unmarketable.
We are therefore of opinion, that instruments
should he, registered at length. To this rule, how-
weer, there must be tome exception. such as corn-
s
missions of bankrupt, and proceedings in Courts
of Equity.
It is obvious, that the benefits of the Register
would be greatly extended, if the effect of an origi•
mil instrument were given to the record. This effect
is now given under the statute of 27 Henry VIII.
to the enrolment of a bargain and sale. But to
make such a provision admissible, strict proof
shotild be required of the due execution of the in-
strument which would be burthensome. In this re-
spect the Statute of inrolment is deficient. We
think it more expedient that an original of the do-
mount should be deposited for registration, and
that: when the parties are desirous of having a du-
plicate original, the two should be compared at the
office, and a certificate of registry should be indorsed
on the one which is to he returned theStarnpB may
be affixed on either of them.
We also propose, that deeds should be written
hook.wise for convenience of registration. This
regulation cannot be extended to contracts and wills.
We considered it necessary to ascertain whether
the expenses of registration would be increased by
requiring tot original deed to be deposited instead of
the registration of a memorial. A memorial must
be prepared by a person of competent skill to select
and state the particulars to be inserted in it. The
amount of the ordinary charges for registering a deed
in Middlesex is two guineas, when it does not ex-
ceed one sheet of parchment, and the case does not
include any extraordinary circumstances. In cases
requiting greater length and trouble, the expense is
proportionably increased, A thrplieute of a deed re-
quires only the expense of copying. At the present
average length a dupliente 'could be made at less
expense than ti memorial,' and we apprehend that
hereafter the length of deeds will be considerebly: re-
dewed.: We are therefore satisfied, that in the greater
number of eases the deposit of, the original, even
when the parties may thinlc it necessary to have a
duplicate, will be attended with less cost than a
memorial. We apprehend that itt many cases, and
especially in small transactions, parties will not re-
quire a duplicate, and will be content to leave the
evidence of their title at the Register Office, where
it can always be resorted to.

In judging between registrational at length and a
memorial of the deed, the greater length of ,the do-
cuments to be.phiced on the Register in the former
Mode is as important consideration. We have men-
tioned that registration, in the manner we have pro.
posed, would tend to, the shortening of deeds. ‘Ve
take occasion here to add, that we have provisions in
view with regard to Alienation by Deed (one of the
Most important of the subjects remaining for our
eonsial►rration), which- we confidehtly expect will
effect this object to a much greater extent.
It may be necessary to provide for some case* in
which an instrument is made between numerous par.
ties who ►eside at a distance from each other, and
must execute hat different times. Since a deed
comes valid, its the act. of each party, from the time
of its execution, it may be necessary to register it,
as to the execution of some of the parties; before it
hat(been executed by the others. These cases may
be provided for by caveats, or by allowing the pro-
visional registration of a copy of the deed, com-
pared and examined with the original at the office,
and cyan which the executiotr by different parties
from time to time may be certified by an officer.

There may be cases in ,which different parties
may be entitled to interests under the same deed,
and the party in, possession of the deed may not be
unwilling to regtsterit ; in order to remedy this in.
converdeoce, we propose that any Judge of the su-
perior Courts at Westmintiter should be empowered
in a summary way, upott an application from any
party interested in a deed, to compel the registra.
tine of it.
In the Cases in which a contract is to be collected
from a series of letters Or papers, of which some
only may be in the howls of :the .party who may
wish to register it, whilethu other party may refuse
either to concur in the regituraion, or to execute a
caveat, the benefits of the Register may always be
obtained by filing a bill to enforce the performance
of the contract., and registering a notice of the suit;
or a Summary application may-be mule, as in the
case to Which We have adverted, in respect of deeds
and this would in most cases lead to the execution
of a formal contract. The law relating to executory
contracts eppears to require revision, and the altera-
tions which it may ho, expedient to make in it, may
have the effect of removing the inconvenience we
btivejust referred to.

Wills affecting real estate should bo
m registered in
possible) 3
the same manner (as nearly us pOSSIO) as ilettA a.
Wills WIJICh also effect personal estate, must, under
the present system, be proved in nun of the Eccle-
siastical Courts; but as the probate is the primary
evidence with respect to personal estate, the original,
as soon as probate is granted, heel:MOS comparatively
unimportant, except with respect to the real (Mtge ;
and we are therefore opinion, that it should bq
mud imperative on the Mktg of the Eccleitiast
l Court to trims/Mt to the Register Once, after

probate, any win effecting real, estate,:at the request
of any person who may claim an interest under it.
It will not be necessary to regiiter at length the
pro&Jedings of Courts of Records or other docu-
ments, the originals of which must be resorted to
at other places; it will be sufficient to afford a re-
ference to them. With respect to judgments, sta-
tutes, and recognizances, we think the sums should
appear as well as the dates, the names of the parties,
and the courts or places in which they are to be
found.

As to debts and securities to the Crown, we think
that the names and descriptions of all persons who
contract, either as principals or sureties, any liabi-
)ity to the Crown should be entered at the Register
Office.

Private Acta of Parliament relating to estates, In-
closure Acts, and such other Acts as form parts of
titles, may be conveniently registered, by depositing
a printed copy at the office.

A TO T►►E AUTHENTICATION OF DOCUMENTS FOE

TIIE PURPOSE OF REGISTRATION.

The next subject for consideration is, whether any
authentication of the documents presented for regh,
tratiou should be required.
Some evidence that the document has really been
executed by the parties has been required in almost
all Registers.
In seine of the States of Germany and in Sweden,
and other countries where alienations are not per-
fected without an act of Court, the transaction is
anthenticated by an acknowledgment In Court by
the parties themeebies or their attorneys. In France
and Italy, and other countries where the notarial
system is established, all contracts and deeds are
prepared by notaries, and executed in their presence,
and their attestation is known, and is sufficient to
authenticate the instrument. In Scotland, no au•
thentication is required for the registration of an in-
strument; but Various formalities which are supposed
to secure the genuineness of instruments, are re-
quired for their validity.
By the law of most of your Majesty's Colonies,
' and of many of the American States, the deed is
acknowledged by all the parties, or proved by sub-
scribing witnesses before some judicial authority ; or
if executed in Englund, acknowledged before the
chief magistrate of a corporate town in England.
By the law of some of the West Indian Islands,
deeds must be acknowledged by the parties, or if
executed our of the island, must be acknowledged
by attorney. It is evident that the power of attorney
which may be contained in the deed itself is useless
for the purpose of authentication, because the deed
may be fabricated as easily with it as without it.
By the Statute for the inrolment of bargains and
sales 27 Hen. VI 'Leaf), no acknowledgment or proof
of execution is directed; however, acknowledgment
by some one party, or the affidavit of a witness to
the execution of one party, is required in practice ;
and by the Statutes.. and 6, Anne, c. 18, s. 1,2,
6 Anne, e. 35, a. 16, 17, and 8 Geo. li., c. 6, a. 21
(whereby the authority to inrol bargains and sales is
given to the respective Registrars in Yorkshire), the
deed is required to be acknoWledged in the West
Riding before the Registrar or his Deputy, and a
Justice of the Peace, and in each of the other
Ridings before a Justice of the Peace only. It hes
been decided, that where acknoWledgment or proof
becomes impossible by the death of the parties, the
deed may be inrolled without authentication, and tin
inrolment can in no.case be impeached for want of
authentication.

No evidence of the authenticity of deeds regi,
stered under the Acts for draining the Bedford Leve'
is required either by the Acts or in practice.

(To be continood.)

The unhappy and guilty marriage and suttee•
quent (Ryon* which form the subject of Lady Cii A nr,orrg
Ilunv's new tale entitled " Separation" is strictly true in
its main circun►staoces, The nobleman who nefariously
became the husband of two living wives in but lately de-
ceased ; the affair was at the titne hushed up, hut its
particulars are at length disclosed, and if, instead of a
Spanish lady, as in the novel, the reader will consider the
heroine to be a lady of Scotland, the tale and the fact will
be itieutical.

In the case of JOHN WILLIAMSON, tried
at the Old Dailey in 106, before Lord Ea,zwenaoucirt,
hie Lordship, in explaining the law on manslaughter,
when death had been caused by medical treatment, stated
the necessity of looking with an Indulgent eye on these
failures in the practice of medicine, which must occa-
sionally happen, and thought that if medical men, pro-
perly instructed, used all due diligence, end exercised the
best means they were [whitened of for the benefit of their
patients, and failed in their endeavours, they ought cut
to be called before a Court of Judicature to answer for
their conduct ; but that if men exercise the profession of
medicine without having duly qualified themselves by
previous experience and study, and death ensues from
their practice, they would be liable to prosecution for
manslaughter, as having presumptuously undertaken an
dike on which the life or 'death of an sneividual must
depend, isithout having properly fitted themselves to exc•
cute it.

While in Belfast the Sovereign of that town
visited the Siamese twine, and Was introduced to theni by
a gentleman present. ,The following dialogue ensued t..;—
Cil.tNo—You are not a Sovereigp ; you are only nineteen
shillings. Gentleman—He is the Sovereign of this place,
and you will afoul him by your remarks. Erie--Did he
not ply a chilling at the door? Gentleman (laughing)
.Yes, but he may be displeased by your freedom. GUANO
—Tell him not to be vexed ; we will give him two
and make a guinea of him.

The following • and regularly authenticated
anecdote ought not to remain buried in oblivion. A gen-
tleman who held the cotnmission of First Lieutenant when
his MAJIISTY sailed in the British navy us Midshipman,
and Sir RICHARD KY.ATs held the name rank, became
some years after by untoward events emba named in his
circumstances. Ilia MaJetry meeting his old Lieutenant,
then become Captain, and seeing him much dejected, in-
quired anxiously the cause, which wan, after much heel«.
tation, communicated to him. HO was deeply hurt at see.
ingan old shipmate in distress, and inquired if lie had sp.
plied to a wealthy relative for hie assistance? The Cap..
tain 'told him he had, but was refused, and upon hearing
which he sail, u I will solicit a loan of him for you."
This lie did, and his Royal flightless was as unsuccessfld
as his friend. Disappointed by the rich man's refusal, but
determined to carry his point, he sent the Captain an invi•
tation to breakfast, which being concluded, his Alin:9TV
withdrew from the apartment, and slid not return, but he
sent by hie secretary an apology to the Captain, and, in an
envelope, a cheque upon his banker for 2,000/., which
amount it was aubeevently discovered lie had borrowed
for the purpose, having no money of his own then at
comnimill. The Captain, delighted and surprised, hastened
Royal fiiltggha7.•;
to discharge with this princely consideratitot:
t th
:ions incurred, and shortly waited upon bin
tau with his must grateful acknowledgments, and a bond
for the advance. Upon the latter being given to his MA..
larry,• he instantly destroyed it, saying, .11 cannot hold
this instrument, Glottoz ; for I intended thia cheque as a
present to your wife and children."

AceiDENT AT THE LIVERPOOL AND
MANeltaatalt' RAILWAY.---Ati erroneous' report having
been circulated that Mr. STlePintwsoN, the Company's
engineer, had been killed by an accident on the railway,
we are enabled to contradict the statement, by giving the
following particular* of the accident) by which a.person of
the name t(
grarltatiON unfortunately log Ina life
One of the locomotive engines being regularly at work
on the railway near Liverpool, was proreeding along the
embankment to the eastward of proad-green, where there
is a temporary switch or crossing plate, to enuble the
trams to pass from one aide of the railway to the other,—
At this point some malicious person had changed and
fastened one of the moveable tongues in the wrong direc-
tion, by which the engine was thrown off the rails, and
Sieritensott, one of the contractors fur the road,. being
on the engine at the time, imprudently jumped to the
ground, and was run over by the loeded. waggons which
followed, and killed on the spot. The. Directors, on being
apprised of the circumstance, immediately offered a reward
of 200 guineas on conviction of the offender, which, we
trot. will he the watt, of bringing him to justice ; and
the 'Railway Company have further organised a numerous
and active police, for the protection and safety of the road
in future. We are happy to he able to add, that the use
of the „loveable switch, the wrong position of whiril) was
the occasion of the accident, is only a temporary expedient
during the construction of the railway, mid will he entirely
diecontirmed before thenpeating of. the way to the
Morning ,Payer.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.