The Sun.
London, England, 1822-06-25 00:00:00

tenure in England, and that the specification of
the terms, which is generally a printed form,
requires no stamp, but in the event of its being
found necessary to produce it in legal process.—
These instances rarely occur; but by the pro-
posed Bill all such agreements are null and void
without a stamp, the consequence of which will
be a tax upon landed property so let to the
amount of upwards of 10 per cent. It would
thus appear that under cover of a Bill, the title
of which imports relief, new taxes are to be im-
posed of the most oppressive and objectionable
character. Tax Bills brought in at the close of
the Session should be closely watched. The
interests of landholders are affected in a very
serious degree by the proposed measure.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
With the immense funds at the disposal of
Government, derived not merely from this enor-
mously Taxed Country, but from our numerous
Colonies in every quarter of the Globe, it is
hardly possible that its influence should not,
under any circumstances, be overwhelming. Our
laws of succession, however, render that influ-
ence still greater than it would otherwise be. In
most other' countries property is equally distri-
buted among children, whereby, if there are few
overgrown fortunes, there are as few persons in
the rank of Gentlemen without some property.
But, by our law, the eldest son takes all, and the
younger children get nothing. The consequence
is, that, in most cases, the younger children must
either be provided for by Government, or must
starve. We have, therefore, at all times, an
army of hungry expectants, to provide for whom
must be the first business of their relatives.—
The provision to be obtained his, of course, the
grand consideration ; the particular Administra-
tion to be supported a matter of very inferior
moment, as all Administrations have the same
amount of good things at their disposal. The
working of the system was admirably described
last night by Mr. Brougham, to our Report of
whose speech we must refer our readers.—" There
was one point," observed the lion. and Learned
Gentleman, " on which all persons, who had ob-
served the working of the system with the least
possible attention, must be prepared to agree ;
namely, that whoever happened to be the Minis-
ter of the Crown, as the question respected the
person, and whatever might be the measure pro-
posed, as the question respected the thing, the
House of Commons were always found ready to
support that individual, because he was Minister,
and to approve of that measure, because it ema-
nated from hint."

[NEW TIMES.I
We have been really astonished that men pos-
sessing the common use of reason should venture,
even for the sake of empty declamation, to talk
of the increasing power of the Crown ! In a
country where an advocate could publicly call
his Sovereign Nero—where that Sovereign could
not be released from a wife who was proved
to have slept for five weeks alone in a tent
with a common footman—where the mob and
the factious newspapers could bully the Legis-
lature into an act of the grossest injustice to-
wards the King—we are told forsooth of the
power of the Crown ! The Crown, it is argued,
must have a vast influence, because it directs the
expenditure of large sums of money. But with all
this expenditure, what single individual can it
possibly engage to support it in an act deviating
in the slightest degree from the strict line of the
law ? Is there not a power in this country be-
fore which every other power crouches—the
power of the Press ? If we talk of increasing
power let us look there. Let us consider how
many more Newspapers are printed now than
there were twenty years ago ; how much more
daring is their language ; and how large a pro-
portion of them are systematically devoted to
bringing the Kingly Government into hatred and
contempt by incessant calumny and falsehood.

[MORNING POST.] ••
Mr. Brougham's Motion on the influence of the
Crown came last night before the House of Com-
mons. We, in common it may be presumed
with the Public at large, conceived that this dis-
cussion would have a direct relevancy to the
object which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman
professed to hold i❑ view. He did not, how-
ever, proceed very far in his voluminous speech
before it became quite perceptible, that while
the influence of the Crown was thrown up by
way of ambuscade, the real purport of the
motion, as in the end avowed, was to surprize
Parliament into a second consideration of Re-
form, which, for the present Session at least,
every one believed was already dismissed. It
therefore, perhaps, behoved the Honourable
and Learned Member to give the subject some
adventitious attraction ; and so far as a cunning
contrivance of plot could effect this purpose,
it was on this occasion accomplished. It would
be vain to attempt to follow him here through
all the mazes of his course, and the more so
as our readers will find in the powerful reply of
the Marquis of Londonderry a full and satisfac-
tory-exposure of its errors. But before we touch
upon this point, it is necessary we should ob-
serve generally, that the greater part of the de•
tails in the early part of Mr. Brougham's
speech could have no bearing on the constitu-
tion of the House of Commons, either in the
election of its Members in the first instance, or
afterwards in controlling their votes. We are
yet to learn how Excise and Custom Officers,
who are deprived of their elective franchise,
can corrupt Parliament ; and still more, how
every tradesman who may possibly subject him-
self to an Exchequer prosecution, compels some
Member constantly to vote against his conscience.
At the same time it is but justice to say,
that Mr. Brougham kept no terms with any
party whatever. Although he occupies a leading
seat on the Opposition Bench, his argument last
night either made common havoc of Whigs and
Tories, or it meant nothing. As the Marquis of
Londonderry observed, 'it went to calumniate
Parliament in the gross, and in our opinion very
pointedly to shew that the Whigs who supported
Mr. Fox's Administration in 1806 were the worst
of all the bad men who have been in the House
of Commons for thirty years past.