The Sun.
London, England, 1826-03-07 00:00:00

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Some idea may be formed by an inprofessiona
reader of the present state of the Low of Rea
or Landed Property, when be is told that a per
son may purchase at its full value an estate, u,
remain in the roost undisturbed possession of
for a period of 30 years, and his eldest son and
heir at law, or the person to whom he may dis.
pont of
it by it ill, continuo also in the po4session
and enjoyment of it for a further period of 25
years, and then, by a process at law, called
Writ of Right," a third person, buying a so»
Prior legal right to the property, and who, with a
Perfect knowledge of that right,may neglect or be
averse to pursue it for fifty nine years, has it in
his power to compel the restitution of it against
an uninterrupted possession of 59 years, and with

ail the advantages the property may have derived
during that period from improvement and cola-
vation ; if disposed in the 60th year, to resort to
that writ for his remedy. No longer back duo
last Hilary Term,. the Court of Common Pleas
was occupied two days in considering who' were
the proper persons to be returned as a Jury
for the trial of such a case : Mr. Peel's Jury Bill
having been found not to extend to it, although
embracing every other description of Juries.—
The above is only one of a thousand similar
anomalies with which this branch of the law
abounds. A person possessed of a freehold cot-
tage cannot dispose of it by a will which is not
executed with certain prescribed forwalies, but
he may dispose of a copybold estate, however
extensive or valuable, or of leasehold estates,
without a solitary witness to authenticate the
transaction, or other ceremony being required by
law. A person who, by deed or by his will,
transfers his estates to trustees, for the purpose of
being sold or mortgaged for the benefit of his
children or other objects, is not considered in
the Court of Chancery as enabling the trustees
to receive the purchase or mortgage money,
but, unless a clause it expressly inserted,
, declaring that the receipts of the trustees
shall discharge the persons paying the money,
' the unfortunate purchaser or mortgagee finds, to

his cost that he must look to the execution of a
set of complicated trusts at his peril, and can
never again dispose of the estate he purchased,
without showing that he has seen his purchase
money duty applied. It would be in vain to pur-
sue this subject, so numerous are the absurdities
that impede our way, and so opposed to the dic-
tates of common sense, and the universal princi-
ple; of justice, is this extensive and important
branch of our law.

[stottrurNo HERALD.]
There is no evil without its accompanying
share of good ; and one consequence of the pre-
sent pecuniary difficulties of the country, we
hope, will be, to teach men to lay aside a good
deal of that vanity and ostentation which has too
long existed, more or less, in all classes of so-
ciety, and to teach men more prudence in their
private affairs ; for however convenient it may
be to attribute the present embarrassments to
external circumstances, not a few of those who are
involved in them, if they act fairly and sincerely
towards themselves, but, must acknowledge, that
though over-trading may have had much to do
with it, over-expending has been quite as much
at the bottom of the mischief. We certainly
are a rich, and we call ourselves a sensible eo-
ple ; but there is no nation upon earth where
such a total want of common sense. is exhibited►
as in the► silly and extensive vanity which exists
among us of vying with each other in the scale
of our expenditure, and of imagining that real re-
spectability consists in each man outliving his
neighbour, however inadequate his wane may be
for so absurd' a rivalry. NVe suspect that this is au
evil which is beginning to cure itself—at least it
would seem' from the paucity of such details in
the public papers, as if there were fewer of such
ridiculous entertainments as those to which we
allude going on, or that at any rate parties were
not so desirous of publishing their folly to the
world. No one moving in the world can look
buck upon the last six months without per-
eeiving that the higher persons raise them-
selves, who have no pretensions to such rise
at all, the lower they have to fall when
the' season of reverse arrives. how many are
there who might have avoided the calamities
which have befallen them, had they husbanded
the means,or so doing, while to do so was within
their power ! And if each man would but con-
sider how important his conduct in life is to the
community as well as to himself, we should.soon
see less of individual embarrassment and of
public inconvenience.

[NEW TIN EA.]
The candid Editor of a Certain Journal read

_lie Chancellor of the Exchequer a grave lecture,
yesterday morning, on, the impropriety of post.,
potting the Budget. We Ana not enter into all
the vulgar impertinence of calling Mr. Robinson
a "'milk and' water character," ate. &sc.,. .but
simply remark, that circumstances over which he
could have no controui,sufficiently accountfor,and
justify the course he has pursued. The financial
statement which he has to make (and which will
be much more gratifying &it some persons pre-
tend to expect), requires, at least, a clear evening
for debate. Now, a glance at the Order Book
of the House of Commons will suffice to 311 PW,
that there has been for some time past, and
was particularly last night a press of matter,wlilch
it was of great importance to get through. The
army and Ordnance Esamates both required
early attention ; and, though Mr. Moberly last
night, through his friend Mr. Hume, voluntaril,y
postponed his motion on the present state of Ex-
chequer Bills, and the transactions of GoVern.
,ment with the Bank, yet this was a circumstance
on which the Chancellor of the Exchequer could
not reckon, inasmuch as the Honourable Mem.
ber had once before consented to a postpone-
meat for the convenience of 'Ministers. The
business on the Book yesterday, embraced four-
teen Orders of the Day, and five notices of mo.
we add the incidental
tionsond when, to these,
discussions which arise on presenting petitions,
and other routine business, we shall perceive that
the Chancellor of the Exchequer could hardly
expect lariat] timer for one of those full am( lucid
di velbpments to which he is in the habit of mak..
'big of his financial plans. As to the motives of
I delay suggested by the Journal above alluded
to, we need hardly say, that they exist only in
the imagination of the writer.

[Mg runic LEDGEILT
We have received the Paris Papers or Satur-
day. A new constitutional movement in Spain
has, at least for the moment, superseded ltussian
affairs in point of interest; and of the delineation
that is given of it in these Papers be correct, it
is a striking proof of the conscious weakness of
the present Spanish Government. To judge
from the prominent place which it eccoPies iit
these Papers, this movement apponrs to have
excited considerable alarm, whirl it is rather

difficult to reconcile with the number of men en-'
gaged in it. Their whole force is not estimated
at, more than 100 at the time of their landing,
which took place in the neighbourhood of Alicant ;
but whence they came, or what was their real ob-
ject, are questions that do not once occur in the
intelligence before us. We are merely told, that
soon after their landing, they quitted the coast,
and fled to the mountains, which have been fre-
, quently resorted to by bold adventurers like the
present. Hither they have been pursued by
bodies of Royalist Volunteers, which, alto-
gether are computed at about 250 men ; and in
the mean time, it would be extremely hazardous
to. offer any opinion as to the result of this affair,
till we are in possession of fuller information

than the present: We fear it will turn out. to be
an act of desperation on the part of some unfor-
tunate refugees, who' tired of the wandering and
uncertain existence they had led for some time,
adopted this as a last resource to get rid of their
sufferings. They probably came from the coast
of Barbary ; and though their leader is said
to be a man of some reputation and talents, as
a soldier, we find it difficult to believe that
they are acting under any other impulse but that
of blind despair. if our surmise be correct, this
movement will have no other immediate effect
but to swell the list of unfortunate patriots who
have perished latterly in Spain but, God for-
bid that their blood should be uselessly shed
and the' time, we are persuaded, is not so far
distant; s the miserable adherents of the present
system flatter themselves, when it will produce
the fruits that the blood of martyrs has in all ages
brought forth. However, this and overy other
attempt of the constitutional party to break the
shackles of their country is premature as yet ;
and we would most earnestly deprecate every
thing of the kind, if we thought that men so un-
fortunately situated as many of the Spanish re-
fugees are, could listen to calm reason. It has
clearly no other tendency for the present; but to
irritate the proverbial cruelty of the dominant
faction, and thus provoke new murders and con-
fiscations, in which the best and most enlightened
men. in the country are sure to figure as victims.

[MORNING POST.]
From the best information we can collect, the
panic and distress of the commercial world be-
gins sensibly to abate. Saturday was a day which
had been looked forward to with the most
gloomy apprehension, from the great number of
commercial bills which usually full due on that
day of the year. It gives us great pleasure to
announce, that the general apprehension was
no

realized. The commercial ettgage►nents
which• stood for that day were, as we
confidently anticipated, generally fulfilled with
the utmost regularity. The outstanding en-

gagements had, as we stated some time ago,
been reduced to a point much below their usual
number and amount, by the long continuance of
antecedent distrust;---the general apprehension,
therefore., which the event have proved to have
been unfounded, we have a right to' say, was also
unreasonable. The consequences of the unex-
pected punctuality and stability manifested on the
4th of March, will be conducive however to the
restoration of commercial credit, and that in pros
portion to the degree in which they were unexpect-
ed. The strong current of despondencyby whichthe
minds of men were irresistibly borne along, has
received, we trust, an effectual check ; while the
revulsion is about to take place, which will re-
store the stream of commercial dealings to its na-
tural and ordinary course. That the beneficent in-
terference of the Bank of England, stipulated by
the wise and patriotic recommendation of Minis-
ters, has contributed much to this partial renewal,
and will go on to accelerate the perfect restoration
of commercial credit, we entertain no doubt. The
sinister predictions of the prophets of evil, will
in this, as in former instances, he put to shame.
We have been amusing ourselves by the perusal
of the Debates of the House of Commons in the
year 1703, when Government afforded direct aid
, to the mercantile world by an Issue of Exchequer
Bills. 'V he distress of that period, it will be meth-
!tided,' was distinguishable from the present dis-
I tress, inasmuch as the former occurring, at the
commencement of an unguided war, was plainly,
both as to its causes and consequences, an affair
'of State ; whilst the latter is an affair with which

the Stateystrictly speaking, has nothing to do.—
What, however, was the language which the
great Whig leaders in the House of Commons
thought it their duty to hold on the interference of
Government in 170 ? The speeches of Mr. Fox,
Mr. Grey, Mr. Sheridan, end Mr. Francis, are
especially remarkable. Thep, Gentlemen were
all of opinion that even in the circumstances of
that time the interference of Government was

wholly indefe►►sible ; that relief might have been
afforded, as well more safely as more effee.
tunny, by the Bank of England; and that the
intervention of Ministers was pregnant with_ the
most appalling dangers, not only to commerce but
to the Constitution It is curious to observe the
change which the la pse of a few years may produce
in the views and principles of political parties.

LISTON AND Tut: TWO Estat.es.—JortN Lrs.
TON! during the first season of his engagement at
the Theatre.ltoyal, Covent.garden, was, through
the madness of his former manager, STEenrx
Ititteut.c, invited to dine with his brother, .10lig,
the tragedian: At the close of a very jOvial
evening, STEPHEN Insisted upon LrsTores great
capabilities in tragedy, a point of delusion which
is known to possess the comedian in no inconsi.
(lovable degree. JOHN KEMBLE, to humour the
joke, requested a specimen. Larrom, above 16
degrees beyond the sober point, hesitated, but S.
l catutr. Insisted upon his reciting the speech of
the Ghost, In gantlet ; for which purpose !AVM'S
at length rose, but could not recollect the first
Jojis licstaLE, intending to prompt hint,
said, " IL commences, my dear 'AUTON, thus
and then, pondering for a few moments, he turn-
ed to his brother, saying, " How does it cam.
sTENIEN ?" who, attempting to recall the
words of the prophetic spirit, found himself in
precisely the same situation ; not Otte of the three
being able to remember the first hoe of the
Ghost's speech.--(St. James's Royal Magazine
for March.),