The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-26 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 26, 1827.

treating with his cuirassiers from the field, went
up, and
" shook hands with Major General Sir Edward Kerrison,
Who'in England for real goodness of heart has no comparison,
a piece of. pleasant - which will, no
doubt, be wondrously edifying to the reader.
We have thus "given a slight abstract of our
ingenious poet's peculiar style of versification,
quits sufficient, we conceive, to warrant our as-
sertion of its originality. The following are
equally felicitous specimens of his sentiment and
imagery ; and first of his sentiment :
Thus man's life goes away, never to return,
Till our Saviour sounds his heavenly horn.
0 ye wicked sinners, take warning by this,
Be not like Judas, betraying with a kiss!
Let us all prepare to meet our blessed God,
He may come soon, shaking his scorching rod.
And secondly of his imagery :
It is now so very dark one cannot look around.
Is the moon asleep, or is it under ground ?
The moon is not asleep, but cover'd over in bed;
With black cloudy curtains close round its sickly head ;
The curtain is so black too, in the element so high,
To hide the light from us, to make our hearts sigh.
To make us all wet too, the black border he now wrings,
It begins to drop a good pace—to wet all our, things.
Our.limits here warn us to an end ; but, before
we conclude, we cannot help thanking our rnin-
strelfs:)r the gratification he has so lavishly afforded
us. His comic humour is the most serious
thing we ever read ; and contrasts beautifully
with the rich farce of his pathos, which again is
only equalled by the sublime obscurity of his
imagery. In fact, he is the Dillon of poetry, as
that historian is the Bavius of prose ; and, how-
ever our snarling, cynics may profess to lament
the present decay of genius, that age is surely
worthy of respect, if not of veneration, which can
boast at the same time of two such immortal
productions as " The Lord Mayor's Voyage to
Oxford" and the " Descriptive Poem on eater-
loo." Both merit equal commendation.
" Qui 'Bavium non odit, amet tua carmina, Mcevi,"

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, JULY 25.

IN THE MATTER OE THE HUNTINGDON CORPORATION.
The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment in this
case, which was argued before him some days ago.
The question in dispute was, whether the Mayor and
Burgesses of the city of Huntingdon, or the Gover-
nors of the Hospital of St. John, in the same place,
were entitled to certain.lands called the New Pas-

tures. This question had been already tried under
an issue directed for that purpose by this Court, and
the Jury had found in favour of the Corporation.—
An application was now made for a new trial of that
issue. His 'Lordship then proceeded to comment
upon the evidence, which, as it appeared by the
Judge's notes, had been given on the trial. A ter-
rier and other ancient documents had been pro-
duced, by which it appeared that the lands in ques-
tion had been in the possession of the Corporation;
.and that. they had been-demised to them by the
:instrument which created their original title. Cer-
tain surveyors had been examined, and the result of
their evidence was, that the lands mentioned in
the terrier, and described in an ancient map (one
of the documents produced), corresponded with
those now possessed and claimed by the Cor-
pratiou. A surveyor had also been examined
on the part of the Hospital of St. John ; but the
I Counsel did not think fit to examine him on this point.
On the part of the hospital, the evidence was,
principally, that the parts dotted in a certain map
contained the New Pastnre; that it appeared, also,
that the plan was made in the year 1752, while the
which the hospitat (*timed their title
was dated in 1634.

Upon this evidence the case went to the jury, and
the verdict was, in his Lordship's opinion, such 'as
would fairly be pronounced upon the evidence, and
the only inference that could be drawn from the
facts. One point had been mainly relied on in the
argument, which was, that there should have been
some evidence of an alienation on the part of the
hospital, the land being assumed to have been once
in the possession of the hospital; and that to this
point the Judge ought to have directed the attention
of the Jury. His Lordship thought this objection
was of no moment, that the verdict appeared to have
been fairly found upon the evidence, and that there
was no reason why a new trial should be granted.
The Court was afterwards occupied in hearing
motions of no public importance.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JULY 25.
TAYLOR AND WATFRS.
Mr. SUGDEN moved, on behalf of the legatees of
the late Mr. Taylor, that they should be admitted
to appear in the Master's office, and to have notice
of all other proceedings in the eauAe.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR said he thought he could
not refuse the parties leave to appear before the
Master. He should, :however, reserve the whole
question of costs.