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THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.

tinder the management of Mr. Buckstone.

THIS EVENING, JuLy 1,

Will be performed THE CRUEL KINDNESS. Characters by
Messrs. Barry Sullivan, Howe, W. Farren, Tilbury, rd, and
Buckst3ne; Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, CoMiss Rey-
stoldr, &c.
Atter which, MR. BUCKSTONE'S ASCENT OF MOUNT PAR-
2AMHS.
To be followed by RAPPINGS AND TABLE MOVINGS.
To conclude with THE BOARDING SCHOOL BALL.

ROYAL PRINCES.S'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.

Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.

THIS EVENING, JULY 1,
Will be performed THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Sup-
ported by Mr. and Mrs. W. Lacy.
Atter which, will be presented Lord Byron's Tragedy of S
MI-
DANAPA LUa. Principal characters by Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean.
To conclude with TURNING THE TABLES. Characters by
Messrs. Harley, J. Vining, Chester, and Everett ; Mrs. W. Lacy,
Misres Daly and C. Leclercq.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.

Under the Management of Madame Vestria.

Last Two Nights of the Season.

THIS EVENING, JOLT 1,

Wilt be performed A.S.S. Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews.
Suter, futl Rosiere ; Mrs. hlacnamara and Miss Wyndham.
utter which, A FAST TRAIN—IIIGII PRESSURE EXPRESS.
Principal character by Mr. C. Mathews.
To he followed by TILE LAWYERS. Characters by Messrs. C.
unthaws, F. Matthews, and It. Roxby ; Mrs. F. Matthews, Misses
Robert,on an Ellis.
To cora:lode wi h TRYING IT ON. Principal character by Mr.
C. Mathews,

THEATRE ROYAL ADELeux.

Vroprietor, Mr. B. Webster, —Directress, Madame Celeste.

THIS EVENING, JULY I.

Will be performed GENEVIEVE. Characters by Messrs. Ben.
Webster, A. Wigan, Leigh Murray, Keeley, ParsePe, Paul Bedford,
0. Smith, and C. J. Smith; Madame Celeste and Mrs. Keeley.
Alter which (second time), THE CAMP AT CIiOBRAM.
After which, NORMA.
To conclude with THE DANCING SCOTCHMAN.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.

Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren.
Great success of the New Drama.

THIS EVENING, JULY 1,
Will be performed LOVE AND AVARICE. Characters by Messrs.
13. Farren, H. Marston, G. Cooke, and Shalders ; Mesdames Ander-
ton and Bartlett.
After which, THE WANDERING MINSTREL. jem Baggs,
Mr. F. Robson.
To conclude with MACBETH. Supported by Mr. Samuel Mac-
beth, Mr. F. Robson, Mrs. Sarah Macbeth, and Mrs. A. Phillips.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Sole Lessee anti Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.

Triumphant success of the Battle of Waterloo. The most varied
and attractive Entertainments in the Metropolis.

THIS EVENING, Jrna 1,

And during the week, the Performances will commence with the
grand national Spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, repro-
duced with all its original dramatic, scenic, equestrian, and military
effects% _ _

followed by an entire change of Equestrian Achievements
in the Circle, supported by the popular Artistes of the Establish.
ment, and the World's Wonder, Miss Emily Cooke, in her unparal-
leled Feat of Leaping through 16 balloons, both forwards and back-
ward, which is ni.thtly received with perfect enthusiasm.
To conclude with the successful Hippo Drama of THE CHASE,
or LleE ON THE TURF—illustrating a Sporting Man's Career.
By exprc"s desire of several l'amilies of distinction, and in accord-
anise with the flattering request, Mr. W. Cooke has made arrange..
meat' to give another Grand Juvenile Morning Performance,
dud
positive*, the Last, on WEDNESDAY, JULY 6.

open daily from Eleven to Four. Stage Manager, Mr.
W. West.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

THIS EVENING, JULY 1,

CIIITSAN and the FEAST OF LANTERNS.
Splendid MENAGERIE, containing a vast number of Specimens of
Natural history, ineluding an Orang-Outan, the only one exhibiting
in this country.

GIODFILET'S unrivalled 1411mTAar BAND. Vocal and Instrumental
Concert. At Dusk a most brilliant display of rireworks.

'UGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tim DAT —,lforning 4 rain. after 10 I Evening 36 min.aft. 10
To.',lciutos—Morning 5 min. after 11 I Evening 34 min.aft. 11

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICM, JULY 1.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
71 -higheq since noon yesterday.
-lowest this morning and during the night.
66 —this day at noon. _ _

BA ROMETER, 29.81.
WIND, S.W. by W.—Light breeze, and sunshine, with
occlsional showers.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1853.

The adjourned debate on the second reading of
the Government India Bill was brought to a con-
clusion at an early hour this morning, when Lord
STANIISVS amendment was rejected by an over-
whelming majority of 182. There being only
140 in favour of obtaining further information,
and 322 for immediate legislation. This division,
however, is by no means decisive as to the fate of
the measure. If we look to the various argu-
ments adduced against delay, we find that the
opinions of the opponents of Lord STANLEY'S
amendment—we cannot call them the supporters
of the bill—are of the most heterogeneous charac-
ter. Every speaker, with the exception of the
Right lion. Gentleman the Member for Edin-
burgh, and persons holding office under the Joint-
Stock Administration, was strongly opposed to
some portion of its details, which they declared their
intention of voting against in Committee. The
adarlrers of the existing system, that is to say,
the friends of the Directors, who may have well-
founded expectations of lucrative situations in the
far East for junior members of their families,
loudly condemn the interference with the
patronage and the change in the constitution of
the Leadenhall-street Board. The throwing open
the civil and medical appointments and the
scientific branches of the military department to
public competition, is denounced as a most un-
heard-of and wanton onslaught on the rights (!)
of the Proprietors, and
.as a system that would
" endanger and ruin the civil service !" The
House was gravely informed that nothing "mare
de, moralising" could be imagined, and the dan-
gerous results of the emulation thereby excited,
when " every respectable attorney and person in
the middle class of life, who had a promising son,
would rush into the • competition with the
idea that Lis son might rise to be Governor-
General, and the result would be that there would
be a vast number of eduCated men disappointed
in the objects of their ambition." Here is a real
substantial evil--a peril of no ordinary magni-
tude ! The very idea of having a number of
highly educated young men "beyond the wants
of the country" waseniffi;lient to excite the most
serious apprehension. Far better to have re-
spectable dunderheads pitchforked on to the
judicial bench for which they had been selected,
not from any practical experience in the adminis-
tration of the law, or even from theoretical know-
ledge, but because they were the sons or grand-
sons of respectable Directors with handsome esta-
blishments in Portland-place or Tyburnia, and
were free from the stain of a descent from
"attorneys" or "persons of the middle class oflife."
The idea that a man would be better qualified
for the interpretation of the law because he had
obtained literary distinction, or succeeded in the
juvenile contests for scholastic or University hon-
ours, was too ridiculous of course. The Proprie-
tors of India Stock should retain the advantages
they had so long enjoyed. What was 10i- per cent.
interest for their capital if they were not enabled
to provide for their families out of that excellent
field for. jobbery of every kind. Again, the no-
mination- of persons to seats at the Board, and
the reduction of the number of elected Directors,
were atrocities that should be resisted to the very
utmost, on Which repeated divisions will be taken
in Committee. Indeed, Sir CHARLES WOOD
appears have, a very fair share of work
cut • out for him b
,y the friends of the Di-
rectors, which will
tion for the residue provide ample occupa-
of the Session, without
allowing any time to the other supporters of the
Bill to bring forward the numerous objections
they have stated to its details, or to those who
voted in favour of the amendment, believing that
the House was not in posseseinn.
of
sufficient
ma-
terials for permanent legislation,
and who will, of
course, endeavour to the best and utmost of their
poWer to introduce a clause limiting the duration
in which
of ,the act to two or three years, and
they will be supported by many Hon. Gentlemen
who voted with the majority, believing that theren
were some improvements in the present system
which they would be unwilling to continue un_

.altered for even a single year.

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di:lonian ! The Peen halm not been 130 17017

accommodating of late years. Many measures
carried through the Commons by unequivocal ma-
jorities have been rejected in the Upper House,
and we can scarcely conceive that they would sub-
mit to so great a slight as to pass at railroad
speed, and without even the appearance of delibe-
ration, a measure of such vital importance. They
could scarcely commit an act so suicidal—which
would furnish so strong a practical answer to the
offensive interrogatory, " What is the use of a
House of Peers ?" It is true that their Lordships
might be disposed to strain a point in favour of a
body four-fifths of whose members are so strongly
imbued with Tory principles, that they might
favour a system which would prevent "the promis-
ing sons of respectable attorneys, or persons in
the middle class of life, from entering into
the competition " for situations that should be
reserved for more aristocratic candidates. But still,
notwithstanding even these inducements, we can
scarcely believe that the bill will receive the
Royal assent during the present session, unless
coupled with a clause limiting its duration to a
specified term.

- Mr. RICH, Mr. NAPIER, and Mr. DIGBY SEY-
MOUR respectively made very able speeches in
favour of postponing legislation. They pointed
out the evils of the existing system in the strong-
est terms, and objected to what, without repair-
ing its defects, would probably lead to its perpe-
tuation, or at least its protracted existence. But
the great speech of the evening, indeed of the
entire discussion, was that of Mr. DISRAELI, who
displayed his usual power and brilliancy in deal-
ing with the subject. He closely criticised the
various details of the Government measure, which,
while it abrogated the advantages, retained all the
vices of the existing system, and in strong and energe-
tic language he denounced the admi Tture of Govern-
ment nomineeswith elected members of the Court of
Directors, which would thus (if possible) become
a greater sham than it is at present. The Right
Hon. Gentleman, in his argument, attributed
greater weight to that Board than had been
allowed by Mr. COBDEN. He instanced the re-
cal of Lord ELLENeosotros--against the express
desire of the Ministry of the day—as a striking
instance of their independence. We believe, how-
ever, that to have been an exceptional case, an
example that would never again be followed. There
was a deep personal feeling entertained against
the Noble Lord, which induced the Directors to
take so bold a course—one that they subse-
quently repented, and for which, had occasion
required, they would as willingly have cried
" peccarimus" as they did in the case of an-
other object of their dislike—a gallant and
distinguished General, whose services they were
compelled to solicit—after inflicting the most un-
warrantable slights. Yes, the Directors had to eat
much dirt, in the case of Sir CHARLES NAPIER, and
they would have exhibited similar subserviency
with regard to Lord ELLENBOROUGH, if required to
do so. It should be borne in mind, also, that the
recal of a Governor-General is the only indepen-
dent act allowed to the Court. In everything
else the Directors must obtain the sanction and
assent of the Board of Control. One important
matter was stated by the Right Hon. Gentleman
in the course of his brilliant and effective oration.
Tde emphatically denied, on the authority of Lord
DERBY and the other members of the late Ad-
ministration, the statement of Mr. HERRIES that
they had approved of and desired immediate legis-
lation—the fact being, that none of them had ever
before heard of such a proposition. This is con-
clusive on that point, and completely takes away
the foundation of the arguments based on the
lassertion of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Mem-
ber for Stamford, who was manifestly labouring
under a misconception on the point.

We would, then, have the friends of Indian
Reform. maintain their spirits. The result of the
division, although discouraging, is not conclusive.
We still believe that nothing beyond a temporary
measure will pass during the present session, and
that, if the present bill should at all be carried, it
will only pass with the addition of a clause limiting
its duration to a short term of years.

Of all descriptions of property, land is the most
important, from its fixity, its extent, and the
personal considerations which necessarily accom-
pany its ownership. In a barbarous age, land is
the only valuable property ; and in an age of refine-
ment and civilisation, notwithstanding the exist-
ence of property of various kinds, the results of
human industry and invention, land still retains
its pre-eminence as the most valuable possession
of all. Indeed, the increase of population, and
the creation of riches of other kinds have a natu-
ral tendency to impart additional value to the soil,
the parent of all other wealth. Hence it follows,
that the evidence of the owner's title to land, and
the facility and safety of the mode of transmitting
that title to others, are subjects of great national
importance.

There are two totally distinct modes of dealing
with the transfer of land, and indeed of all assign-
able property. One is to make the purchaser re-
sponsible for the defects of the title, to impose on
him all the risks of latent deeds and wills, and
defective proof of pedigrees, &c., &c. Another
and totally opposite principle is to consider the
security of the purchaser the primary object, and
to give to every purchaser for a valuable conside-

ration, and without fraud, an absolutely inde-
feasible title, at the smallest attainable expense.
No man of business can hesitate, for a moment,
in deciding which of these principles should be
made applicable to the transfer of land, to in-
vite purchasers, to give value to land, and security
to the buyer of it ; the second is, of course, the
true method to be adopted. Unfortunately for
the public, the first principle is the present legal-
ised system of conveyancing prevailing in this
country.

The practice of conveyancing, as now conducted,
is a myth utterly beyond the reach of the best

understanding not specially trained to the task of.
comprehending its mysteries.

Contingent remainders, powers, shifting uses,
&c., tec., are matters from which the highest in-
telligence may turn with despair, since volumes
have been written to expound them, the mastery
of which professional industry alone can
successfully acquire. Many of these com-
plexities arose in a barbarous age from causes
which have long since ceased (although the
subtletiesremain), and some of them, undoubtedly,
have been and are still caused by the caprice
of mankind. Whatever may be the complicated
arrangements of various kinds affecting and modi.,
fying the ownership of land, as regards the pre-
sent possessor and those who are to succeed him,
and gwhether such complexities are necessary or
not, the important practical questions are Can
the title to land be easily proved? Can that title
be cheaply and readily transmitted to another ?
To both of these questions the answers, in the pre-
sent state of the law, are unsatisfactory in the ex-
treme. The deduction of title is a work of
great difficulty and expense, and the conveyance of
it is a lengthy, and expensive, and almost unin-
telligible document. The first requires an his-
torical deduction of the title for 60 years, called
an abstract. The study of this abstract forms an
important part of the functions of the conveyancer.
He has to undertake the task of feeling his way
through the labyrinthine mazes of past ownership.
The SMITHS, the BROWNS, the JONESES, and the
THOMPSONS, the former owners of the land to be
dealt with, must pass in review before the labo-
rious investigator of the interesting " abstract."
Their conveyances, settlements, mortgages, and
wills ; their debts, bankruptcies, and insolvencies,
and their births, marriages, and deaths, may re-
quire, in turn, his closest attention. Thus, the
" deeds" of men of a past generation must be
scrutinised by the searching optics, visual and
mental, of the conveyancer, ever on the watch to
discover the defects of the title. It is impossible
to regard an occupation of this kind without re-
gret at its utter inutility—at its needless expense,
and the waste of
of ingenuity, of
and,of money. Under a simple
Regis-
tration of Titles, all this should
Even all this waste may of learning, of time,
ofsystem
prove
secret settlement, &c., may escape
the conveyancer, and thus
the
' 4ePriVed3 Yritllout ea (
P°inwdetrisetrymployed on it—the waste
be unnecessary.
fruitless—some
the vigilance of
Purchaser may be
rem Y ox with a Tay imper.