The Sun.
London, England, 1824-05-20 00:00:00

[MORNING lIERALD:j

A letter from Paris, dated May 15, says—
" It is not quite certain that the project of law
upon the Rentes will be adopted by the Chamber
of Peers. The Ministers are at this moment strain.
ing every nerve to secure a majority. The Chan-
cellor, who is President of the Chamber, has
openly declared to his circle that he will vote
against the law. This being so golden an occa-
sion to render themselves popular, it is thought
the Peers, or at least a great number of them,
are tempted to seize it.

The latest letters from Mexico state that in-
stead of the Federal Republic being consolidated,
as some have supposed, there were scarcely four
Provinces of all those which compose that im-
mense country which obeyed the new Govern-
ment. It is a curious circumstance that the Pro-
vince of Guadalaxara, though it has sent Deputies
to Congress, at the same time keeps an army in
the field to sustain its own sovereignty. In the
Province of Jalisco General de Iturbide has been
unanimously elecled " First Citizen " of that
State. It is rather a singular coincidence that
General de Iturbide sailed from Southampton
for Mexico on the same day in May on which
he, lust year, sailed from Mexico for Italy.—
(Ibid.)
Extract of a letter from Madrid, dated May
6th, 1824:--" It is said that an expedition to
America has been determined upon in one of
the late Councils held at Aranjuez, and that the
Generals Bessieres,Capape, and Locho, are to be
employed in it, if they wish to preserve the rank
which they have assumed to themselves. If not
willing to go, they are to be allowed to
tire to their domiciles, with merely one step
more in rank than that which they had when
they took up arms in the Royal cause. There is
no doubt that a new levy of 30,000 men is re-
solved upon, bat how they are to be got together,

clothed, and armed, is the difficulty. For this
purpose it appears that the Minister of Finance
(who is now generally nick-named Minister of
cod fish) has a new loan in contemplation. The
scarcity of money is most severely felt here at
present ; it is a rarity to see a single peiato.—
(Ibid.)
[MORNING POST.]
The great influx of the lower orders of the
Irish into this country since the Peace has often
been remarked, as well as the effect which is
likely to be thus produced on the condition, the
comforts, and habits of English labourers. This
subject is at the present moment one of consider-
able interest, and from the notice that has lately
been taken of it in Parliament, may perhaps be-
come a popular topic. We may also observe, that
in proportion as the prejudices which have hither-
to kept the two countries apart wear out, or are
eradicated, the numbers of Irish who come to
England will increase. It is indeed a fact, that
from the period of our Gracious Sovereign's visit
to that portion of his dominions, and owing also
to the benevolent aid afforded by the British
public to the poor of Ireland during the last
famine, not only has the disposition to seek
employment on this side of the Channel
much strengthened, but an admiration has
been excited among the very lowest classes, of
the institutions and conduct of the people here,
which are acutely contrasted with the general
state of things they had been previously accus-
tomed to witness. " If," .say these unhappy
creatures, " our own Nobility and Gentry would
only act towards their poor countrymen at home
as the English Noblemen and Gentlemen do to
the people here, Ireland would soon be as fine a
country as any in the whole wide world." Now
all these circumstances, in our opinion, are fraught
with great and permanent benefits to the Em-
pire, if judiciously regulated. It is, for instance,
an absolute source of wealth to England to be
able to command an inexhaustible supply of
cheap labour from the sister-country, while in
return, a liking, and almost necessarily an imi-
tation of our manners, customs, and feelings are
transfused throughout that part of the United
Kingdom. It is needless for us to remind our
readers that on the other side of the Channel
there are no poor laws whatever—that no relief is
administered to the indigent exempt from gratu-
itous contributions—and consequently that men-
dicancy, idleness, and all other concomitant vices,
prevail among a large mass of the wretched inha-
bitants. Upon this side of the water a highly
finished contrast is exhibited. The aged, the help-
less, and unemployed poor of England,are of right
supported by their respective parishes,and however
liable the system may be to abuse, or however in
reality much abused, it abounds with results to
counterbalance the evil a thousandth-fold. The
mere moral impulse to benevolent action which
is given by the tacit admission of the right of the
poor to protection and sustenance is not to be
estimated perhaps by Englishmen themselves,
but to strangers it appears universal and glowing.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, MAY 12,
HURTHWAITE V. JENLINSON.

The LORD CHANCELLOR asked Mr. Horne if the parties
would bring this case before the House of Lords ?

Mr. HoiiNE saidt they would rather have his Lordship's de-
cision upon it; but it was very possible that whatever party his
Lordship decided against, would appeal to the House of Lords.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that it was a question upon
the construction of a will, of the greatest difficulty to be deter.
mined. The Judges of the Court of Common Pleas had pro-
nounced one opinion upon it; and the Judges of the Court of
King's Bench an opposite opinion. The words of the will were
so extremely unintelligible, and admitted of such various con-
structions, that he dared say people would be found to differ
from him in whatever interpretation he should give them.
There was no case in the books which afforded him any light
in deciding it ; and he should therefore like to heat what the
twelve Judges would say upon it before he pronounced his opi-
nion. However, as the parties wished him to give his opinion
now, to which they certainly were entitled, although he should
be by no means satisfied with it himself, without receiving the
assistance he had mentioned, he would give judgment in it on
Saturday morning.