The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-15 00:00:00

CHRIS fMAS PASTIME.

THE FAMILY FRIEND for JANUARY
contlins a 1 raze Enigma, fur three most correct solutions of
which, the Editor off,rs Three Priz s —First, a Gold Watch ; Second,
a Handsome Set of Gooks ; Third, another Set of Books. The same
Number contains ;he music and the words of a New Song and
Chirus, by Alexander l_ce, Esq., " There's a Power can Conquer the
Sword h" Aho a Chinese Puzzle, founded udon the pattern of the
well-known blue plate, of the willow pattern, and constituting a cu-
rious labyrinth and oracle for lovers. Also Chess Problems and
Games, by the celebrat,e Ilerr Harrwitz ; a carefully written Article
for ll•ousewives, upon the Food and Cookery of the month, with Five
Engravings, showing the various Joints of Animals ; together with
Tales, Sketches, Papers on Science, Poetry, Etiquette, and Good-
breeding, Natural History of the Month, &c., &c. And, in addition
to this mass of original Literature, Music, &c., a beautiful Steel
Plate, " Rustic Civility." which would do credit to a much more
costly work. The readers of "The Sun" may obtain this wonderful
two-pennyworth, by applying to any Bookseller.

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This ACADEMY,• for Tuition and Practice of DANCING, is
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For Terms of Private Tuition apply at the office.—Terms of Sub-
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The Academy will open for evening practice at a Quarter to Eigh
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une halt the %Triad are <Desolately single, and the otke
opposing them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, or a
ense at right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes ern-
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A caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un-
In+SprOSiirg hurry ; but the truth lies deeper. Physical incapacity,
rd broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness
rid tools! content. The dowry should not be the only marriage set-
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n the COMpaCt ; it alone dignities the alliance. Blighted hopes er
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,nere ephemeral ocribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's
'M., who owes his present existence, health, and position to this oh-
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THU{ EY-FIRSI EDITION.

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.6 PHYSICAL -DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPA
CITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE.

ow , dition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. 6d., or
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TIHE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on
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SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE
AMENDMENT OF THE LAW.

Tha Society fur Promoting the Amendment of the

Law held a general meeting last night at their rooms
in Regent-street, Mr. C onmissioner Fane in the chair.
Mr. S. M. Green, of Dublin, was elected a member.
Mr. A'BECKETT then read the report of the com-
mittee of equity on his plan for the improvement of
the law relating to deceased persons' estates. Two
Bills were proposed : the first introducing new rights,
the second a new procedure. The report proposed to
give personal protection to executors, and for a certain
period, until such time as the real assets were ascer-
tained. It also proposed to do away with the princi-
ple of priority that now obtained with respect to the
division of deceased persons' estates among cre-
ditors ; the committee, in reference to the
distribution of deceased persons' estates by
the courts, approved of the adaptation of the
machinery of the Courts of Bankruptcy to that
purpose ; and the clauses of the Bill were, therefore,
framed closely upon the model of the new Bankruptcy
Act. The Bill, however, to create a special tribunal,
entitled the Administration of E Aa.tes Jurisdiction
Court, to be presided over by Judges of the Court
of Bankruptcy. Toe claims of the creditors upon
an estate should be considered paramount to those of
relations; and, therefore, in the proposed plan, the
debts were made a primary charge upon the estate,
with the sole exception of the costs of administration.
But all persons having claims upon the estate would
be permitted to register these claims for the purpose of
adjudication. Several instances of the ruinous cost
of dividing the estates of deceased persons under
the present system were adduced ; in one, where a
sum of 2,5001. had been realised, only 351. were di-
vided among the creditors; while in another, where
3,0001. were obtained, not a penny had been so ap-
portioned. The speaker asserted that this description
was far short of the real evil, and that it was impossible
to exaggerate the real wrong. The ruin of families
was a constant result of the present cruel law, but
still there was nothing done to remedy this wrong,
or even to palliate these evil., though many of the
latter lay on the sui face, and were mere anomalies
that might be removed by a few words. He alluded
in particular to the difference now maintained
between specialties and contract debts, by means of
which the former were preferred to the latter ; and
he mentioned a case within his own knowledge, where
there were specialty debts for 31,000/. on an estate,
and only 1,5001. contract debts, but the latter ob-
tained nothing on the divition of the property of the
deceased, while the former received 15s. in the pound
from the property. Specialty debts were causes of
the greatest amount of fraud, as all solicitors knew ;
and everyone was acquainted with the facilities
afforded by the Legislature for confessing judgment.
The remedy for this was simple—that the executor
should not pay one creditor to the exclusion of
another, until he knew the amount the estate
under his administration would discharge. He
hoped the act of the society would not end with the
adoption of the report, but that it would be directed
to carry the plan so approved of into execution.
The CUAIRMAN suggested that as the system of
preference among creditors had been abolished in
bankruptcy 200 years ago, and in the distribu ion of
equitable assets in Chancery, as contradistinguished
from legal assets, that the Bill should embrace an
enactment making all assets equitable assets, and as
such placing them for distribution in Chancery. This
he thought would entirely do away with preferences.
Mr. ATECKETT said one of the enactments of the
Bill he had drawn up was to that effect.
Mr. SPENCE said the distinction between legal and
equitable assets was purely speculative, and the Court
of Chancery made the distinction because it did not
choose to take away from a creditor his right at law.
The Court of Chancery knew no inequality, and
never at any time recognised the justice of pre-
ference. Courts of law went on the principle that
specialty gave a prior right ; the Court of Chancery
went on the principle that the justice of the case was in
equality of distribution in the matter of assets. One or
other was, therefore, in the wrong, and according to
his opinion, it was not the Court of Chancery. He
(Mr. Spence), from a long experience of Chancery,
and a full knowledge of the operation of bankruptcy,
was of opinion that the duties created by the Bill
under discussion should be confided to the commis-
sioners of bankrupts. There was no comparison, in
point of legal training, between a Master in Chancery
and a Commissisner of Bankrupts, nor in the means
and appliances wielded by the one and by tha other.
My. J. STUART did not oppose the reception of the
report, though to adopt it would be to tell the Court
of Chancery that it could not do its business; but he