The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-17 00:00:00

London : Longman, Rees, Orme, and Co.

TO HOUSEKEEPERS, LANDLORDS, AND THE PRO-
FESSION OF THE LAW.
Just published, price ss. 6d., neatly bound in cloth,
APLAIN and PRACTICAL EXPOSITION
of the LAW of LANDLORD and TENANT, with a
Summary of the Statutes and Decided Cases relative to the
Assessed Taxes, the Poor, Sewer, Watching, Lighting, Paving,
Highway, County, and Church Rates. With Precedents of
Leases, Agreements, Assignments, Notices, &c. By CHARLES
JOHN COPLEY, Esq., of the Honourable Society of the Middle
Temple.
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This Work is distinguished for its clear Arrangement, and
its plaid and unaffected Style ; and, on account of facility of Re-
ference, and completeness of Information, is adapted for the use of
the Profession of the Law, as well as for that of the Public in
general. In it the many erroneous Misapprehensions, generally
but improperly received and admitted as Law, as to Landlords'
Rights and Authority, and Tenants' Liabilities, are shown to be
unfounded and illegal.
Printed for Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Paternoster-row.

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMVER 17, 1535.

DINNER TO GENERAL SHARPE, M.P.
FOR THE DUMFRIES DISTRICT OF BURGHS.

On the 11th current, a large and highly respectable por-
tion of the Constituency of Dumfries met their representa-
tive, General Sharpe, at dinner, as a proof of their personal
attachnient, and approbation of his upright Parliamentary
conduCt, and unflinching expression of those liberal princi-
ples which are shared by the great majority of the Dumfries
Constituency. About half-past four the General entered
the room, and was received is the warmest manner. Among
other gentlemen he was accompanied by his friend Mr.
Aglionby, the member for the burgh of Cockermouth.
Provost Kemp filled the chair, supported on the right by
the Member for the Burghs, and Mr. Aglionby, M.P., and
on the left by Patrick Millar, Esq., of Forrest, and Sir P.
Maxwell, of Springkell, Bart., • Mr. M‘Diarmid, Courier
Office, officiated as croupier at the principal table ; and
Baillie Sinclair and Mr. Brand, at the side ones.

The speeches, which occupy nearly four columns of
the Danzfries Courier, were characterised by considerable
ability as well as eloquence. The following extract from
the speech of Mr. Douglas, is worthy of attention, as indi-
cative of the feeling abroad on the subject of Peerage Re-
form :—I do not wish to speak of the digni6ries of the
land in the abstract ; but I say that there men in the
House of Lords who are obeyed because they are placed
there, and for nothing else.—(Applause.) Look on them
in the aggregate ; put in your hand amongst them—draw
them out, and whom have you ?—perhaps a cheating and
unprincipled bankrupt, whose heraldry is, it may be, as I
have seen it, in the keeping of the lean fingers of the Sew
Broker. Again put in your hand, and what have you ?
perhaps a person whose only claims are that the acts of his
father, or the merits of his mother, may have secured him a
Peerage, and maintenance from the taxes. Again put in
your hand, and like enough you may have a man who
would•not be admitted into common decent society were he
not a Lord. Is it fitting, then, that the effects of
the Reform Bill should be stopped by people of this descrip-
tion ? By pensioners, by needy exotics, and worse than
either.—( Applause.) But I would not be understood to
say that they are all of this class. No_; I believe there are
ten good men and more amongst them. But then we are told,
that we must not attempt a reformation in the House of
Lords because it is unconstitutional ; but what is the con-
stitution ? Not what it was four years ago, for Old Sarum,
and Gatton, and tip eld borough system, formed a part of
it ; and we have no reason to deny, that four years hence-it
may present as wide a change as it does from what it was
four years ago. In 1707, as the gallant General has told
us, the 16 Peers frOm Scotland, bearing the same propor-
tion to the Lords that the 45 was understood to do to the
Commons, were incorporated with the English Upper
House. The 16 were then, as near as may be, a tenth of
the total number ; but now the total number is more than
450, while the 16 remains the same. Then we are told, if
you reform the Lords, we can have no longer a King. How
happens it, then, that, in 1707, when the representative sys-
tem was introduced into the Lords, that it did not prove
fatal to the monarchy ? or that a fatal result did not follow
the great change in the Constitution in 1800 ?—(Hear,
hear.) How happens it, that that which was not fatal in
the case of Scotland and Ireland would be fatal in the case
of England ?
On the health of Mr. O'Connell being drunk, the Hon.
Member for Cockermouth pronounced a high euloot'ium on
the power of Mr. O'Connell's mind, the vigour and fresh-
ness of his conceptions, and the manly energy and splendid
force of his eloquence. With respect to the Repeal
question, he saik—" I have agreed with Mr. O'Connell;
in; most questions but the Repeal of the Union, and am
prepared still to go with him, for in doing so I conceive I
am forwarding measures of civil and religious liberty ; and
I do hope that succeeding measures of the Legislature will
prevent that question from ever being again introduced."
" The King," " The Queen," " The Princess Victoria,"
"The People," "His Majesty's Ministers,""Lord Brougham,"
and numerous other toasts were given, which our space will
not allow us to enumerate.

WESTMINSTER COURTS OF RE-

QUESTS.

DEPUTATION TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL.

Yesterday a deputation from the Westminster Courts
of Requests, consisting of the Hon. Frederick Byng, bro-
ther to'Lord Torrington, Mr. Walker, Mr. Ewing, Mr.
York, and Mr. Cuff, waited on Lord John Russell, at the
Home Office, for the purpose of pressing on the atten-
tion of Government the great advantage of extending the
jurisdiction of the 'Westminster Courts of Requests to all
sums under 101., and also for the purpose of soliciting his
Lordship to use his influence to get an Act of Parliament
passed for that purpose, at the general expense.
Mr. BYNG stated to his Lordship the purposes for
which the deputation had waited upon him, and made se-
veral observations on the beneficial consequences which
might be expected to result from the' jurisdiction of the
Court of Requests in Westminster being extended as pro-
posed.
Mr. WALKER said the Commissioners had waited on the
Noble Lord to beg his assistance and that of his Majesty's
Ministers to get a Bill passed through Parliament, at the
public expense, for the purpose of extending the jurisdiction
of the Westminster Courts of Requests to all sums of
money under 101. The Act of Parliament by which those
Courts were at present governed was passed in the reign
of George the Second, and 101. now was no larger sum in
effect, though it was so nominally, than 40s. then were. In
that Bill there is no clause which would warrant the opinion
that it was'not considered by the Legislature as a general
local Act. It was on that ground that they respectfully
ventured to ask the Government to advance the money
necessary for getting a-new Act extending the jurisdiction.
At present there are three jurisdictions in these Courts.
He begged to say that no security was provided for the
funds. They were confident the Legislature could never
have contemplated the possibility of there being any balance
of funds remaining in the hands of the Courts. He might
mention as one of evils arising from this want of secu-
rity, that there was a defalcation to the amount of 2,300/.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL asked Mr. Ewing, who is one of
the Commissioners of the City Court of Requests, how the
ten pounds jurisdiction operated there ?
Mr. Ewnsio—We have not yet, my Lord, had much. ex-
perience respecting the operation of the ten pounds juris-
diction ; but so far as my experience has gone, it is very
satisfactory. With regard to the five pounds jurisdiction I
can testify, in the most decided terms to the beneficial way
in which it has operated.
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Lord JOHN IiUSSELL—Thbre are three other Courts,
those of the City, the Tower Hamlets, and Southwark,
which procured bills ; how were those bills paid for ?
Mr. EWING—Out of the suitors' fund, my Lord.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL—Has the Westminster Courts no
suitors' fund?

Mr. WAKLER—They have not, my Lord. Our Courts
are of more recent formation, and the Act does not give us
power of instituting suitors' funds.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL—I will consult my Learned Friend,
Sir John Campbell, his Majesty's Attorney-General, upon
the sullject.

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The deputation thanked his Lordship, and, after two or
three more observations, withdrew.
They were received with much courtesy by the Noble
Lord, and left him under the impression that their request
was favourably listened to ;-at any rate, that he is favour-
able to the principle of extending the jurisdiction of these
Courts to sums under ten pounds, and that, if there be any
obstacle to the accomplishment of their object, it will arise
from the indisposition of Government to take on itself the
payment of the expenses of a new Bill.

ANTI-TITHE MEETINGS, IRELAND.

LEIGIILINBRIDGE.-21711i3 highly important meeting was
held on last Sunday, for the purpose of petitioning the Le-
gislature for the total abolition of tithes, and for the imme-
diate introduction of poor laws into that country. At an
early hour on that morning, the roads leading to the town
of Leighlinbridge were densely thronged by the peasantry
of the surrounding country, all flocking towards the place
of meeting, and anxious to record by their presence their
detestation of 'the odious tithe system, and their sympathy
for their ejected and persecuted countrymen.
CASTLZDERMOTT.—On Sunday, the Gth instant, a most
respectable and numerous meeting of the Catholic gentry,
and landholders of the parish of Castledermott, was held.
The most fixed determination of opposing, in every legal
manner possible, the odicius and degrading tithe system,
pervading the meeting. Practical measures were imme-
diately adopted, And resolutions entered into, to frustrate,
as far as the law will allow, the obnoxious efforts that are
now being made to resume the collection of a tax, so unjust
In principle, and so calculated to degrade the professors of
one religion, by compelling them to support the ministers
of another.

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parish,.. from one-fourth part of a peck of lintseed.•sown
this season,. reaped the unusual quantity of 3 stones
12ilbs. of clean dressed lint fit for the. heckler,

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