The Sun.
London, England, 1826-03-17 00:00:00

LAW of LANDLORD and TENANT.

A Bill of very great importance to Ireland has
just been printed. It must be known to our
readers, that, according to the law as it at pre-
sent stands, if A let a farm to 13, and if B let
portions of it to C, D, E, F, not only has A re•
course upon B for the whole rent, but failing B,
he may seize the stock and goods of C, I),
notwithstanding that each and all of them may
have previously paid the rent of their respective
portions to B. Now this state of law, which
may be very little felt where the practice of sub.
letting of land is only partial, or when the su
perior and sub-tenants are substantial persons) is
often the cause of great distress in Ireland,where
almost all farms are leased by middle-men, for
the express purpose of sub-letting, and where
the sub-tenants, for the most part, are,; not
farmers, but merely cottiers. By the, Bill
above•mentioned, a remedy is proposed to this
grievance. In the first place, in •the case °floats',
dated previous to the Ist Jane, 1826 (tile lay
when it is proposed that the alteration in the law
shall commence) that contain n c,tause, forbidding
sub-letting, no future act oc;.the landlord, except
becoming bona fide a party to the instrument of
sub-letting, shall be sufficient 10 set aside that
prohibitory clause ; and if any lessee do sub.letr
notwithstanding of such prohibitory clause, he
shall have no remedy against his subtenant for
the rent or occupation of the land. In the se,,
cowl place, in the case of leases dated after the
Ist June, 1826, which do not contain a clause'
expressly authorising the lessee to sub-let, no
tenant shall sub-let any part of the ground held
by such a lease, unless by express consent of the
landlord. Thirdly, subtenants holding land by
written consent of the landlord, who have paid
their rent to the party sub-letting, shall not be
liable to pay a second time to the landlord.—
Upon notice duly given, tha sub-tenants, %1 ho
have not paid Co the party suit-letting, shall
make payment to the landlord, and that paymen
shall free them from the claims of the party sent
letting. The principle, in a word, of the Bill,
that in case a legal bona fide payment by the
sub-tenant, shall free him of all demands from
the landlord on the one hand, if payment be
made to the middleman, and from the middle-
man on the other, if it be made to the landlord.

In digging the foundation of one of the houses
which are about to ornament the North end of
Huntingdon, near to the premises of Mrs. MAX",
several SKELETONS, and a great variety of 11010 •
SKULLS and other bones, some of them of extra-
ordinary dimensions, have been unearthed. The
close was, indeed, formerly a church-yard,for
this spot there flourished, previous to the Herat.
mation, a church dedicated to St. Andrew. It
would seem, however, from the manner in which
the skulls were found, several of them being ;
heaped together, and one of the skeletons having.
the face downwards, that the bodies bad°t
been interred under the ordinary circumstancry
of nature, but thrown into a pit, promiscuouslY9.
plague, which also
at some period of unusual mortality, In the
reign of Edward 111. about the year 134!I
Huntingdon was greatly depopulated by the
reign of the unfortunate Charles I. Forty
persons are marked in St. Mary's Reoter,t
as having died of the distemper in tha
parish, during August, September, and Octobe.r!
prevailed here durin he
1625. As the season of pestilence is mostly to:
spring, the latter was properly only a !naiad"
endemic marsh fever, induced by the low 1
swampy lands in our neighbourhood,
former ages, which li
when the dwellings of the poor
were miserably deficient in comfort, cleanlines9,
and ventilation, must have rendered lientifili:
peculiarly liable to pestilential diseases'
long the church-yard of St. Andrew continued to
he used as a place of burial cannot perhaps be 13g"
certained. NV hen Leland visited this town oboe
year 1530, there were only four churches, but
" traces of the walls and yards" of the others re'
mined. The four existing churches were St'
John's, demolished in 1658,'5t. llenuet's,to4.en
down about twenty years ago, and the presen-
t
edifices of All Saints and St. itlary'g. Concern*
ing St. Andrew's church-yard, the site of "4)16
is intersected by a brook, one of the worktneli
mentioned that a neighbour of his in cleaning
out the brook some time since,, had discover'
ed inside the bank several robins' in the s'kulis.--
(Bury Gazelle.)

ASIITON.—We understand that there are rot
Less than seventeen mills totally stopped at Itsh;
ton, on account of the spinners having
out, in consequence of en attempted reduction
r their wages.—(Manchester Mercuy.) torne f

The custom of calling for coffee in a Purbslitt
booth in Turkey is as general, and
the practice among people here of calling 'for
or spirituous liquors ; with this difference, L!''
Ito
the coffee and tobacco of the Turk, produces I)
as much exhiliration of spirits for a few penc"7.uc
i,
the Englishman obiains for as mnny
freedom from intoxication to boof•
A. band of robbers has been IntelY disre"er* 1°
at Peat, in Hungary who, by their birth, and the situsti2l!
they held, belong to'good society. Great order reived in r
affairs of this infamous Company. It had a cashier, a W.ll
keeper, and the sane with the rest. The value of the priaPe7.o
stolen, which has been seized in its possession, amounts to t.n.ke
than 1.50,000 florins. Some Jews were the receivers 0,-,Te
band. And what was the motive of those robberies'
Passion of play.—(ConstitutitirmeL)

MARRIED. . verse%
On Wednesday, the 15th inst., at 3leleomb Rego/ to
Mr. George Meek, of (i'uiltlibrd-street. Russell-vcilorei;eq.
eston
Amelia, the youngest daughter of the late Samuel AV
of Weymouth. h " Will
On ThursdaT, the 16th inst., at Tottenham Chloe :
loiter
Rivaz, Esq.. oh Stamford-hill, to Wilhelmina, stiO,a,tl
of Lewis Burnand, Eaq., of Hanger's-lane.
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John Money l'Anson, aged 48. ,r, rstred67"
Thomas Robert, eldest son of Mr. Peter Davis, of D Is
road.
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