The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-31 00:00:00

THE CROWN AND THE SUBJECT.

The pretended claim of the Crown to the Fore-
shores of the sea=coast and banks of tidal rivets
throughout Great 'Britain and- Ireland, has at la t
met with an °stopper. We are, glad to learn from
undoubted authority, that the Chief Commissioner
of Woods Forests (who had asserted on- behalf of
the Crown a claim to the foreshore, or land lying
betwean high and low water-mark on the banks of
the River Tyne adjacent to the manors of North
Shields and Tynemouth), has b:2en compelled,
owing to the determined resistance cf his Graca
the Duke of Northumberland, the proprietor of
a-

such foreshore, acting under the advise Of his soli-
c tors, Messrs. Bell, Stuart, and Lloyd (of Line aln'es-
inn-fields) to relinquish, not only all such claims
adjacent to the Duke's estates on the banks of the
Tyne, but also throughout his Grace's other exten-
sivs pssessious in the county of Northnmbeilami,
with reference to the sea coast and other tidal
livers. It is to be hoped that other landed pro-
prietors, possessed of similar coast and tidal rights,
who have during the present reign (for the first
hue since the accession of the house of Hai-lover)

been compelled to relinquish them in favour of tho
Crown whenever a railway or dock has been at•
tempted to be constructed, under the threat and
pressure of an information at the suit of the Crown
by the Attorney-General, will follow the noble ex-
ample of his Grace, and re.ist this illegal attempt
at extortion, as the Crown would, under a recent
enactment, have to pay Vie costs if defeated.

It is to be hoped that during the ensuing session
some definite Parliamentary enquiry into the na-
ture and grounds of this fiction may ensue • so that
the assertion of such fictitious right may be effec-
tually checked, and the successful effect of the re-
search consequent on the labours of Mr. Pycroft,
the antiquary, on the Thames Conservancy Bill,
who pronounces that the present conservators have
not the slightest title to the ground and soil'of this
river, under either the" Queen's grant .or their
enactment of last session, may not be lost sight of.
The counties of Cornwall, Devon, and Northum-
berland, in addition to the banks of the
Thames in the counties of Middlesex, Surrey,
Kent, and Essex, may now be said. to be en-
franchised, entirely by the light which his researches
amongst our ancient records have thrown upon the
nature of these claims of the Crown. In respect of
this pretended prerogative right, so unfortunately
pot forth during the present reign by the incon-
siderate advisers of her Majesty, so that the various
sums of money which have been wrongfully ex-
torted from the Birkenhead Dock Company and
other proprietors, when ascertained under the
parliamentary return moved for at the end of last
session by the Lord Wynford, in the House of
Lords, may be refunded in like manner as followed,
the express traverse of this pretended prerogative,
during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, immediately
after its first assertion on behalf of the citizens of
London, whose Recorder Fleetwood had vainly at-
tempted to set up this fiction in order to support
their claim tothe bed and soil of the River Thames,
upon which. their Lord Mayor simply exercised
magisterial jurisdiction under ancient statutes,
• and had no other right. ,
The return of these amounts to those who have

been robbed under this pretext, will entitle our
Queen in after ages to the same sobriquet as that
which distinguished Queen Elizabeth (still known
amongst the commonalty as "good Queen Bess.").
We have no doubt that Lord Palmerston will, like
the great Lord Treasurer Burleigh, be the first to
take the initiative in this affair.

DYING HAPPY.—The Englishman has received a letter
from Ranonunge. The writer affirms, that 17 years
ago he heard an old Moulvie, who had been in the ser-
vice of Government for 22 years, declare to "Nat.
Smith, the judge of Rungpore," that he could not die
happy. The Moulvie was asked the reason; and replied,
"Every good Mussulman bates Europeans, and if I
could see the throat of every European in India cut, I
should die happy." ,
CURIOUS FACT IN NATURAL Ilisrunv.—His Grace
the Duke of Hamilton is at present opening up a pit at
Auchinheath, that has been closed up for the last 60
years. It has been cropped over where the pit was these
last 20 years. The workmen on coming to the old
workings were surprised to see a number of light-
-1 coloured mice running about in the old workings. The
query is, how they have obtained food for the last 60
years, and, even allowing them to have lived on the
growth of the old trees, how did they obtain air, as the
pit had no communication with any open
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