The Sun.
London, England, 1825-12-10 00:00:00

ing the narrowness of the street, or at all events,
rendering the future widening of it more remote,
expensive, and unavailable. The object of course
should be to render the whole of the Strand as
wide as it is at Somerset-house. On the subject
of the defined and comprehensive plan to which
we have alluded, we would suggest that Mr.
Nash, for instance, who seems of all men best
qualified for the task—should present to Go-
vernment such a plan as he may deem advisable
for the general improvement of the Metropolis ;
and that such plan, when well considered and
digested, not merely by a tastekss Cotnmittee
of Taste, but by the public at large (who pos-
sess in general more good sense, as well as taste,
than half the would-be connoisseurs), should
be adopted as the basis for all subsequent
proceedings, and that individuals or asso-
ciations should be compelled to conform to,
such a plan whenever their proposed un-
dertakings came in contact with it. We
trust too, that any such plan would comprise not
only mere lines of streets, but that a compre-
hensive provision 'would be made in it for the
health, the recreation, and most obvious wants of
the inhabitants ; and, among the rest, that there
would be ample spaces left for markets for the
standing of public vehicles, and so forth ; and
that public pumps and fountains would be placed
in convenient situations throughout the town.—
It is a real grievance, in the present dense
state of our population, to see with how little
judgment many of the new buildings are going
on ; and how inconsiderately some of the few
present open spaces, such as the Museum
and Gray's Inn Gardens, are covering with
buildings. The Regent's Park, we fear, is
,fast becoming, with its filthy extremity at
Portland Town, any thing but what it might be
expected to be ; and in-the other Parks encroach-
ments are for ever going on, which are calculated
very much to curtail, if not entirely to preclude,
the share of health and recreation which they
have hitherto afforded. Our object in these re-
marks, we trust, cannot be misunderstood. We
admire and applaud the spirit of improvement
which is afloat. All we wish is, that it may be
directed to proper ends, through desirable chan-
nels, and not be lost, or capital thrown away, for
want of defined and intelligible plans, such as
we have pointed out.

[MORNING POST.I
By the Act of 6th, George IV.—" If any per-
son shall after the Ist day of August, 1825, enter
into any garden, orchard, or nursery ground, or
into any hot-house, green-house, or conservatory,
and shall take or carry away any trees, plants,
shrubs, or roots, or any fruit, or vegetable pro-
ductions, although such trees, plants, shrubs,
roots or vegetable productions respectively, had
not by having been severed from the ground or
soil in which the same were growing, or
such fruit had not by having been severed
from the tree or trees, or , plant or plants on
which the same were growing, become personal
property before such person entered as Afore.:
said, but. were respectively so severed by such
person, at the time of his. or her so taking or car-
rying away the said articles, or any of them, re"-
spectively, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be
punished as guilty of feloniously stealing the
same, &c. We extracted thus much from the
above salutary Act of Parliament in order to put
all the young gentlemen of our public schools, as
well as those under private tuition, on their guard
against the 'ancient and enterprising pastime of
robbing orchards, since paying ►he reckoning, as
it was once pleasantly called, will not now sa-
tisfy the account ; but imprisonment as a felon is
the certain consequence of conviction, and
the punishment may be even extended to
transportation. We at the same time beg
leave to submit, that when this Act passed
into a law, one most important point
escaped the vigilance of ,the Legislature, viz.
44 forfeiture of estate," &c. A. boy under age
may, in numerous instances, stand, not only en.
tilled to, but absolutely seised, as it is termed in
the language of the law, of the most valuable
property in the kingdom, and if convicted under
this Act of robbing an orchard of a hat-full of
:apples, he not only suffers imprisonment, or what-
ever punishment may be adjudicated, but he
incurs a forfeiture of all his estate and posses-
sions, as having committed a felony. This, we
apprehend, is not the intent and meaning of the
Act, though, in the present shape, we do not see
how it can be construed otherwise. We point
out this serious consequence of an otherwise
wholesome statue, in the hope that the subject
may fall under the notice of some lion. Member,
through whose exertions the evil may be reme-
died by a suitable amendment of the Act. at, the
next Session of Parliament.

rilityrisu PRESS.)

The Paris Papers of Wednesday, with the
Etoile of the day following, arrived yesterday.
They are filled chiefly with political commenta-
ries on the late judgements of the Royal Court
with respect to the Constitutionnel and the
Courier Francais. Each Journal treats the
question according to the i•iews and interests of
its party. The Etoile proclaims the acquittal of
these Papers the triumph of impious and revolu-
tionary doctrines. The Journals belonging to
the Opposition severally regard it, in proportion
as they incline to Liberal or Royalist opinions,
as an event in the highest degree important and
auspicious to the public liberties, and pregnant
with danger to the Ministry. The news from
Greece is only of interest as it seems to throw a
doubt on the reported arrival of the Turco-
Egyptian expedition at Navarino. The ad-
vices from Spain represent every day more clearly
the multiplying embarrassments of the Spanish
Governors in the possessions yet retained by the
mother country in the New World. Unless the
Cabinet of Madrid be very prompt in their mea-
sures, it is quite certain that they will not long
have a colony to trouble them, on the other side
of the Atlantic.

We had intended to develope in our Paper of
to-day the combined causes to which the tem-
porary—for they are but temporary—embarrass-
ments of the money market are to be traced ; but