The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-25 00:00:00

We think it unnecessary to offer any observa-
tions on the obvious consequences of the c:rors
and deficiencies in the volumes to which we have•
alluded. Having maturely considered of the
best and most economical mode of remedying
them, we submitted to the Lords of the Trea-
sury our opinion, that the compilation of a new
rent-roll from the original Records, and com-
prising the particulars set forth in a form wa
prepared for it, was essential to a due collection
of the Revenue, and to a beneficial sale of' the
rents and property of the Crown ; and adverting
t.) the powers vested in the Commissioners of
Public Records in Ireland, and to the profes-
sional ability of the persons employed by them,
we suggested the expediency of requesting thosa
Commissioners to undertake the direction ant
superintendence of the work, so that it might be
executed by such competent persons and in such
manner as might secure to it an authoritative and
authentic character when completed. Their
Lordships were pleased to approve of these sug-
gestions; and the Commissioners of Records
having undertaken the sci vice, we have been au-
thorised to advance to them, from time to time,
such sums of' money as may b. required to defray
the charges of it, not exceeding in the whole,
without the further authority of the Treasary, the
sum of 2,000/. We have accordingly paid to
the said • Commissioners, on this account, the
several sums following; viz. on the IStli July '
1827, 300/. ; 22d February, 1828, 8001.; 3d
September, 1828, 200/.; and sth February,
1829, 600/. ; making together a. total sum of
1,8001.; and by a recent conm;nnication feoin
their Secretary, we are informed that they have
eason to expect that the work will be completed
towards the end of the present year.
When this important work shall be perrected,
conformably with the plan laid down for i s exe•
cution, it will afford us all the information re-
quired, to enable us to communicate to the
Crown tenants the prices at which their respec-
tive rents may be purchased, and to complete
any sales thereof without recurrence to other
Records for a correct particular of the premises.
In the meantime, the official regulations eee have
prescribed for the conduct of this branch of the,
business of the department have cbviated all the
,
complaints and objections, arising out or the '
triode of proceeding previously observed, which
were urged by intending purchasers. On the •
application of a tenant, the particulars of the
rents desired to be purchased are ascertained by
the researches of our own officers, who erLtify -
the same to us according to a printed. ibrin of
proposal, in which the applicant sets forth the
nature of his interest in the premises, and to
whom and for what trusts or purposes he de-
sires the conveyance to
,be made. He Is then. •
informed, by letter, of the amount of the pur-
chase money or price required to he paid, which
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nix-twits v-lt--ternslttrritto'n—Thr—theCFirSts
clicire,c, of all the official proeeedingg
the transaction, computed by a graduated scale,
proportional with the yearly amount of the rents.
011 payment of that price into the Bank, to the
credit of the " Account of the 'Woods and
Forests Fund," the Bank Cashier give him an
accountable receipt for the same ; on the pro-
duction of which receipt, we execute a conveyance
of the premises, in duplicate. The original
deed is delivered to the purchaser, apd con-
stitutes his tide ; the duplicate is deposited in
the Vice-Treasurer's Office, where it is preserved
as a legal Record of the side. By this course of
proceeding, the applicant has no occasion to em-
ploy the services Of a proteasional mau,. nor is
he exposed to any other expense or trouble than
the payment of the purchase money ; and printed
forms being Used for all the proceedings, they
are executed at little expellee to the Revenue.
We may add, that although the prices we liar°
obtained exceed the highest market rate for the
purchase of well secured freehold rents in Ire.
land, the mode of proceeding has hen so satis-
litetory to . the parties who have applied to us,
that scarcely an instance h occurred in which
the completion of the 11,roposed purchases has
been declined.

DEMISED ESTATES OF TUE CROWN IN IRUI,AND,
The Reserved Rents and improved Yearly
Value of the Lands, Tenement; and other
liereditaments in Ireland, forintaly demised by
the Crown for determinable terms, and remain-
ing in its actual seisin, were stated in the Gene-
ral Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry into
that branch of the Crown Property, under date
March, 1823, to be as follow, v

'IE. :---.

(Yearly Valuo

Dents
'Reserved in
Last Leases. j

ebtimated
by Surveyors
employed by
the Commis..
sionertoi

Inquiry.

Lands, Tithes, and other Premises,
acquired partly by Purchase, partl)l
by the dissolution of the Religious
Houses, and partly by Forfeitures
anterior to 1641
By Forfeitures during the Rebellion!
of 1611
By Forfeitures during the ziebellionll
of 16,38.

G. d.

3,533 1 CI

1,964 3 1

5,194 12 6

Of this Property, it will appear b)
the Account in Appendix, No. V,
which we have prepared from a
particular furnished to us by the
Vice-Treasurer, that there were
sold by the Lords of the Treasury,
under the authority r.l the -Act 3,
Gco. IV. c. 63„„ .•

In,oats is it

8,600 5 8!

Leav/nas in the posaesaion of the'
Crown at the time of passing the
Aet 7 and t “e o. IV. e. 68. late
Irish Currency....
Equal to. ' ,t Ctr

I,tll 17 8

8,166 10 5

ray
.in preen, ,rrency..,,...i'1,3n3 5 611 7,815 5 0
On perusal of the Special Reports of the
same Commissioners respecting these estates,
and on further inquiries in the Departments
connected with the management of them, we
found that a considerable number of the leases
had long since expired or been determined by
operation of lew, and that the premises were
held over by the representatives of last lcsses in
possession at the periods when their lega/ inte-
rest in the property terminated, who had since
accounted to the Crown for the and pro-
fits thereof; to the amount only of the old re-
served rents. It also appoaxe4 from the same,
Reports, that in almosl el4-ery instance encro.acii-
ments had becu-sii..ade on the Crown: Estates,
and his 'Majesty's title to them 4isputtd,
tlyo7,ersons in possession.; kt wt re
persons in the emJovmen of rents,