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London, England, 1829-07-07 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX.

Near Uxbridge, Rickinansworth, Harrow, and Stanmore.
--Eligible Freehold and Copyhold Estate, situate in the
pleasant Village of Ruislip.—Excellent Family Residence,
..with Offices, Meadow Land, &c. upwards of Sixty-seven
Acres.

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
By Mr. JOHN ROBINS,
(Of Warwick House, Regent-street,) •
At Garraway's Coffee-house, 'Change-Alley, Cornhill, on
FRIDAY, July 31, at Twelve, in Two Lots,
AValuable FREEHOLD and COPY-
HOLD ESTATE, situate in the pleasant Village
of Ruislip, about three miles from Uxbridge, and fourteen
miles from London ; comprising a compact FAMILY
RESIDENCE, the property of a Gentleman, a substantial
brick building, in complete order, and fit for the immediate
reception of a Gentleman's family, placed in a rich pad-
dock, laid out in a Park-like style, surrounded by thriving
plantations and dry gravelled walks, ornamented with fine
timber trees, and paled round.

The House contains on the upper story two good nursery
chambers, dressing room and closet, two servants' bed
rooms, &c. ; first story, three spacious airy chambers,
dressing room, and roomy closets, all neatly fitted up,
water closet, &c. ; ground story, an entrance hall, paved,
sash door to lawn ; capital spacious drawing room, bowed
end, handsomely finished; a breakfast parlour, good dining
room, closet, &c., butler's pantry, store room, servants'
hall, good kitchen paved, scullery, pantry, larder,wash-bouse
with laundry over, coal-house, knife and shoe room, &c.
The whole of the premises arc well supplied with fine
water. A spacious inclosed yard paved, four-stall stable,
harness room, loft and granary over, two coach houses and
loft over; a productive kitchen garden well planted and
partly walled, fruit and flower garden, green house or
conservatory, &c. ; home farm yard, barn, stable, and
various agricultural buildings, two farm-houses and out-
buildings, sundry cottages, gardens, and capital meadow
land, the whole containing upwards of sixty-seven acres,
part in hand, and part let to most respectable tenants at
will.

To be viewed by tickets only ; particulars may be bad on
the Premises; at the White Horse, Uxbridge; Angel,
Hayes; Red Lion, Southall and Hounslow; Talbot,
Richmond; White Hart, Windsor ; Essex Arms, Wat-
ford; of Mr. Jones, Solicitor, John-street, Bedford-row;
and at Garraway's ; and of Mr. Robins, 170, Regent-
street, where a Plan of the Estate may be seen; and tickets
for viewing may be had.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.

REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS ON THE

LAW OF REAL PROPERTY.

(Concluded from our Paper of Friday.)

We propose, that where tithes belong to lay
impropriators, seized in fee, or for any estate of
inheritance, adverse enjoyment shall be the same
bar to a right to the tithes as to a right to the
land, and that non-payment as of right for twenty
years shall be sufficient as against any person
from whom the tithes are withholden, and those
claiming under him, to establish the exemption
of the land from payment of tithes,—the onus to
be on the lay rector to prove payment within
twenty years, or to account for the non-payment,
and adopting the before mentioned rules respect-
ing disabilities. The perception of tithes during
twenty years, will on the same principle be con-
clusive evidence that they are payable.
We likewise propose, that where tithes belong
to lay impropriators, a court or jury shall be per-
mitted, from long usage, to presume a composi-
tion real without evidence of any deed ; and that
where a modus has been acted upon for twenty
years, the lay rector not having been under dis-
•ability, the modus shall not be liable to be set
aside by the lay rector against whom the modus
has been enjoyed, or those claiming under him
or claiming in remainder or reversion after an
estate tail, but that it shall be for ever binding as
against such parties and those claiming under
them.

- No apprehension on the part of the clergy
need be felt,' from the proposal that lay tithes
shall be governed by the same rules as other lay
property. It is obvious that those rules cannot,
without important modifications, be justly or
reasonably applied to ecclesiastical tithes which
are not in commerce, and which are enjoyed by
a succession of tenants for life, who from various
motives may compromise the rights of their
livings, so far as their individual acts are allowed
to do so, and permit usages to spring up, tending
to strip the church of that patrimony, which
laws as binding as those which secure private
property, and resting besides on clear grounds
of public policy, require she should enjoy un-
impaired.
To obviate disputes between the lay impro-
priator and the landholder, and to promote the:,
extinction of impropriate tithes, it seems expe-.
dient to enact, that where the landholder pur-
chases the tithes of his own land, there shall he
a power of merging them in the land. At pre=
sent there is rio mode by which a merger or ex--
tinguiShment of the tithes can be effected. By
the old law established in favour of the church,
no layman was capable of holding tithes except
by means of a real composition, which gave to
the ecclesiastical owner a supposed equivalent ;
impropriate tithes are still kept distinct from the
land, and notwithstanding unity of possession,
they continue to be held under separate titles.
In conveyances and wills subsequently made, the
tithes do not pass, unless they be expressly
named. Singular as it may appear, this is not
usually known to the owners, or to legal practi-
tioners in the country, to whom they commonly
resort for Advice: Both these classes .of persons
are apt to believe that after the purchase of the

We therefore.propose that the lay owner hav-
ing the legal and beneficial estate,in fee in tithes,
may by deed merge those tithes in the laud, and
that the land for ever thereafter shall be discharg-
ed of tithes. It may be hoped that this regula-
tion will encourage the purchase of tithes by the
owner of the land from the lay impropriator, and
that in course of time, with perfect re;pect to the
sacredness of property, lay tithes may be entirely
extinguished. Even some risk of inconvenience
might be run to further so desirable an object.
Every subdivision of interest in the same pro-
perty is attended with various inconveniences ; a
separate right to one-tenth of the produce of the
soil against the cultivator is calculated to raise
disputes and to retard improvement ; and where
there is no collateral benefit sought by its con-
tinuance, it is an unmixed evil.

We now beg leave to conclude, by briefly nn-
tieing the subjects which we are proceeding to
investigate, and upon which we hope, after duc
deliberation, to report to your Majesty.
It seems to us that the scheme which has been
recently proposed, of entirely abolishing the
feudal doctrine of tenures, would introduce uni-
versal confusion, and that since 12 Car. 11. c. 24,
no incident of tenure remains which is oppres •
sive or vexati6* as between the Crown and the
subject. - Yet there are tenures and customs
subsisting, which may materially interfere with
the beneficial enjoyment and transfer of the
and we deem it very desirable that all lay fee
should be held by the simple and excellent tenure
of free and common socage, and should be de-
scendible, devisable, and transferable, accordin
to the rules of the common law.

With this view we are inquiring what objec-
tions there may be to the abolition of the custom
of Borough English, by which, in some parts of
the country, on the death of the father the land
descends to the youngest son instead of the
eldest, and of Gavelkind, by which in others,
and particularly in the county of Kent, it de-
scends among all the sons equally, in exclusion
of females, and which is attended with various
other anomalies.

The division of the interest in the soil between
the lord and tenant arising from copyhold tenure,
certainly obstructs improvement, and is a fre-
quent source of litigation. The gradual enfran-
chisement of copyholds with a due regard to
the rights of property, is a subject which Lis
,
occupieu much of our attention. Even where
the tenure remains, some alterations may per-
haps be introduced, by which its inconveniences
may be mitigated, such as by establishing in all
manors the common law rules of descent, dower,
and curtesy ; making a uniform law for the de-
vise of freehold and copyhold lands; allowing
leases at rack rent to be granted by a copyholder
for a limited time without license from the Lord ;
. -
providing a compensation for the barbarous right
to seize heriots on the death of the tenant ;
and regulating the conflieting claims of the Lard
and tenant with respect to timber and minerals,
Much learned ingenuity has lately been exer-
cised, and with too much success, in contriving
expedients for evading the salutary rules agaias
perpetuities ; and we propose to consider whethor
the spirit 'of these rules may be preserved -.and
enforced,. by defining the class and .limiting. the
number of persons during whose lives (with a
period superadded for minority and gestation)
land may be rendered inalienable.
A portion, by no means inconsiderable, of the
litigation respecting real property in Courts of
Equity arises from defective contracts upon sale
and purchase, and from a specific performance
being decreed where the requisites of the Statute
of Frauds have been disregarded. We think 4
worthy of serious consideration, whether It
should be permitted to any person, in any Way,
either at law or in equity, to claim any interest.
in land unless under a written instrument, con-
taining the terms of the contract, and signed by
both the parties or their authorized agents. Pro-
vision may be made for the indemnity of pur,
chasers who have been induced to lay out money
in improvements on the faith of agreements not
valid in law.

We are inquiring whether the length of deeds,
which causes much expense and perplexity, may
not be materially abridged by making certain
powers and obligations legal incidents to certain
estates and interests to which they are now al-
most uniformly annexed (though we feel this to
be a matter of much delicacy), or by recommend-
ing prescribed forms of conveyance, to which, in
certain cases, a given effect shall be imputed.
From the time when a written instrument was
required to pass an interest in land, that. alone
should have been sufficient ; and we are of opi-
nion that all estates should now be made trans-
ferable by simple deed without the forms of livery
of seisin or entry, or the contrivances by way of
substitution for them, which are all in reality
secret and useless, in the deduction of titles.
There will then no longer be any occasion for
two deeds to effect one transfer, and the, now
almost universal assurance by lease and release
will immediately become obsolete. We think
that it should be permitted to create directly
by deed,. certain interests which can now oply be
created indirectly through the Statute of 114,5,
or by way •of executory devise in wills, such as a
fee simple to arise on the determination of a
prior conditional fee simple, estates of freehold
to commence in fitturo, and estates for life and
other limited interests in terms of years. We
conceive likewise that it would be advantageous
to take away the various impediments to tin,
legal transfer of the right to arise on breach, of
conditions, and of certain contingent and eSe-
cutory interests in land, which can now he legaliy
created by deed, but are not allowed to pass
from one to another, or only in equity, or by in-
direct shifts. The necessity should likewise be
obviated for the technical contrivance commonly
called trusts to preserve contingent remainders,.
used to prevent the wrongful or casual destruc-
tion of lawful estates. But these improvements
must be introduced with the greatest caution,
that they may be made to harmonize with the
established principles of conveyancing.
At present the true owner of real property,
while wrongfully dispossessed, is not.allowed to
devise or transfer it ; such- restraints, we think,
may be safely relaxed.. In rude times they had
some colour of policy, as they tended to. prevent
wealthy and. powerful men from oppressing per-
sons in possession by acquiring litigious chilly;
to their estates-; they have long meter• operated
oppressively to persons out of pos:;ession, by

preventing them from disposing of their pro-
perty, and sometimes depriving them of the
means of recovering it. The laws against cham-
perty and maintenance likewise seem unsuited to
the present state of society.
We have it in contemplation to propose a uni-
form mode of executing powers of appointment,
which we trust will be sufficient to guard against
frand, and will get rid of various niceties
which now perplex practitioners and often lead
to injustice.
The subject of illusory appointments has also
occupied our attention ; and it has occurred
to us that the best mode of getting rid of the
mischiefs produced by the present state of the
law on this subject may be, by rendering
every power of appointment exclusive, unless
a certain amount or proportion to be given to
every object be specified by the donor of the
power.
- The existing law respecting devises appears to
us to be very incongruous and defective. The
smallest portion of the freehold land can
only be devised by a will, signed by the testator,
and attested by three witnesses ; while a will of
copyhold or of leasehold lands, of whatever
value, requires no witness, and not even to be
signed by the testator. This distinction, from
its technical nature, has never been understood
by the public, and operates as a snare to the un-
learned. Again, though copyhold lands may
be passed by a will made before the acquisition
of them, yet some interests in copyhold lands, as
the interest of a devisee or voluntary surrenderee
before admittance, are not devisable ; and es-
tates in many manors cannot be affected by a
will, unless the owner have transferred the legal
estate to a trustee. Although a will is supposed
for many purposes to refer to the time of the tes-
tator's death, and although personal and lease-
hold and copyhold property to any amount may
be disposed of by a will properly framed before
its acquisition, yet from the construction put
upon the Statute of Wills, a will has no.opera-
tien on freehold lands, unless the testator's inte-
rest existed at the publication of the will, except
in some very peculiar cases, by means of the
equitable doctrine of election, a doctrine
perplexed by many niceties, and to be
applied only by means of a chancery suit.—
If the rightful owner of land be dis-
seised after making his will, or if, being a re-
mainder-man, his remainder is divested by the
disseisin of the tenant- for life, the will is inope-
rative ; nay, if the testator, after making his will,
even with the intention of confirming it, does an
act by which he is supposed to have acquired a
new estate in the premises devised, the will is re-
voked. The doctrine by which effect is given
to the wills of freehold land, as from the day
when they are supposed to be re-published by
the execution of codicils or other means, which
were introduced to mitigate those hardships, ac-
complishes a very uncertain and partial remedy,
and introduces new mischief's. The numerous
questions which arise upon the construction of
wills and the frequent instances in which, by an
adherence to certain technical rules never under-
stood but by lawyers, the intention of the tes-
tator, whieb Courts always profess to observe, is
completely defeated, are a reproach to our law.
By requiring words of inheritance, or something
equivalent to pass a fee, and by refusing to allow
an estate for life to go to a man and a remainder
to his heirs as purchasers by the same will, an
estate for life is held to pass where a fee was
clearly intended, awl on the contrary, a devisee
meant to take only a life estate is allowed to
dispose of the fee.
We are employed in considering whether there
may riot be one form prescribed for the execu-
tion of all wills; whether all interests in real pro-
perty may not be made devisable • whether there
be any objection to allow a will of reality, like a
will of personality, to operate, when framed for
that purpose, upon all property of which the tes-
tator may die seised, though acquired after the
execution of the will ; whether disseisin or the
devestment of estates, or any act done by the tes-
tator without the intention to revoke his will
ei4oold interfere with the exercise of his testamen-
tary power ; and whether some amendments may
not be proposed in the rules for the construction
of wills in cases in which experience teaches that
the legal interpretation of certain forms of ex-
pression is at variance with the sense in which
these forms are ordinarily used, whereby litigation
may be diminished, and there may be a greater
probability of the testator's intention being
effectuated.
Without presuming to suggest any transfer of
the jurisdiction over wills of personality to the
common law tribunals, we think it deserving of
consideration whether a mode may not be pro-
vided of trying the validity of a will of leasehold
land, by
.a jury, instead of its being decided by
the opinion of the Judge of an Ecclesiastical
Court, formed upon written depositions.
The expence and vexation now occasioned by
the necessity for obtaining probate of a will or
letters of administration with a view to the assign-
ment of trust terms, and by such probates and
letters of administration, when obtained from a
diocess or peculiar jurisdiction, being absolutely
void if the land does not lie within the diocess
or peculiar, or if it can be proved that the testator
or intestate, at the time of his death, hail goods
to the value of five pounds in another diocess or
peculiar within the same province, have caused
very general complaints and call loudly for a
remedy.
The present mode of marshalling assets in
equity, or of distributing the various sorts of
property of a person deceased among the different
classes of his creditors, gives rise to a long-pro-
tracted and harrassing litigation ; and it may be
fit to consider whether any remedy can be found
short of making real property subject to simple
contract debts, and if not, and it this remedy
would be effectual, whether it may not be our
duty to recommend it.
The state of the law respecting the right of a
creditor who has obtained a judgment for his de-
mand over the real property of his living debtor,
appears likewise very objectionable, whether re-
gard be had to the complicated and dilatory res
lief afforded by elegit, where an attempt is made
to enforce the judgment, or to the continuing
charge of dormant judgments, which make the
land often in effect unsaleable, and add to the
expence and risk of every transfer. This is a
subject seeming to us to require our attention as
well as that of the Commissioners appointed by
your Majesty to inquire into the practice of
the Courts of Common Law.
A very serious impediment is occasioned to
the transfer of real property from the unlimited
lien or. all lands belonging to persons indebted
or under obligation to the Crown, and from there
being at present no means of ascertaining who
are so indebted or bound, or the extent of their
liability. We shall strive to devise a plan by
which greater security may be given to purchasers
vvithout endangering the rights or remedies of
the Crown.
We have been earnestly requested to consider

of some plan for obtaining and preserving evi:
dence of Pedigree. Since the visitations of the
heralds have ceased, this, as far as public docu-
ments are concerned, has depended entirely upon
parish registers of marriages, baptisms, and
burials. But these have been and probably will
continue to be kept very inaccurately ; they give
no certain information as to the time of birth ;
they seldom contain a description of the parties
by which identity can be established ; and they
are liable to the insuperable objection, that being
of an ecclesiastical nature, and recording only
marriages, baptisals, and burials, at which the
clergy of the Established Church officiate, there
is a considerable portion of the population of the
country to which they do not at all apply. A
civil register of births, marriages, and deaths, in-
cluding all classes and religious persuasions, and
giving the additions, trades, or professions, and
residences of the parties, seems exceedingly de-
sirable, exists in other States, and we trust may
be established in England.
But no measure has been suggested to us from
so many different quarters, or has been so ear-
nestly pressed upon us, as a general registry of
deeds, whereby it is contended that every transfer
of land, and every incumbrance upon it, would
be placed within the means of knowledge of every
person having occasion to deal with it ; all rights
might be suffered to prevail (as natural justice
requires) according to their priority; the use of
outstanding legal estates, and the expellee of
keeping them on foot and transferring them would
cease; the investigation of titles would be mate-
rially abridged and simplified, and fraud in all
transactions respecting. real property would be
effectually prevented. We are aware, however,
of the numerous and weighty obstacles which
present themselves to the establishment of a plan
so extensive, and, in order to make it effective,
so novel in this country. The experiments which
have been tried in two English counties and in
Ireland have been so imperfect, both in principle
and detail, and have been so marred by the doc-
trine of equitable notice, that they afford no cri-
terion of the utility of the measure or the means
of accomplishing it. We found that information
upon this important subject must be sought, not
merely from the practitioners of English law and
from English treatises, but from Scotland, where
a general registry has been long established,
which is the great boast of the law of that coun-
try, and from the continental States, in many of
which a similar institution has been introduced
with more or less success. We have taken steps
for obtaining this information in the most authen-
tic shape ; and we shall anxiously consider
whether the plan can be safely adopted in a coun-
try of so great extent as England, where transfers
of land are niore frequent than in any other part
of the globe, where the law of real property must
ever remain a peculiar and complicated system,
and where the disclosure of private affairs may be
dangerous to commercial credit.
We before stated that we were using our best
endeavours to ascertain whether a Statute of
Limitations may not be framed for the church,
and whether church property may not be render-
ed more beneficial both to the possessors and to
the community. We here expect great assist-
ance from the answers to the questions which we
have had the honour to address to the Right
Reverend the Bishops.
We are aware that even the subjects to which
we have now adverted as being under our con-
sideration, form, as it were, but a second stage
in the progress of the inquiry committed to us,
and that there remain behind many important
branches of the Law which it will be our duty
to investigate,—as for example, the Law of
Guardianship of Infants; the inconvenient and
oppressive restrictions of the jurisdiction of
Courts of Justice over Real Property, in cases
where infant heirs are interested ; the mutual
rights of proprietors of undivided interests in
land, whether as coparteners, joint tenants, or
tenants in common, and the mode of making
partition between them; the law relating to
covenants, running with the land, and particularly
as to the title deeds of estates ; the law relating
to stamps upon deeds; the law relating to
trustees, and the mode of changing them ; the
practice relating to estate bills, and the possi-
bility of creating a jurisdiction to render them
unnecessary ; and the rules of Courts of Equity
relating to election, the defective execution of
powers, and constructive notice—rules appa-
rently formed on principles of justice, and often
efficacious in furtherance of right, but requiring,
we think, to be reviewed, from the subtleties,
uncertainties, and lengthened litigation to which
they inevitably give rise.
There are probably many other important sub-
jects within the scope of our Commission which
have not yet occurred to us, but which we may
hope to reach in the progress of a systematic in-
quiry.
We are conscious of the difficulties which we
have to encounter in these various researches ;
but we shall proceed to fulfil your Majesty's
commands to the best of our ability, in the hum-
ble hope that our efforts may be conducive to
the public good.
We humbly submit this our First Report to
your Majesty's Royal Consideration.
JOHN CAMPBELL. (L.S.)
WILLIAM HENRY TINNEY. (L.S.)
JOUN HODGSON. (L.S.)
SAMUEL DUC'KWORTIL (L.S.)
PETER BELLINGER BRODIE. (L.S.)
Presented May 11th, 1829.

The following were the receipts of the Theatres
of Paris during the month of June :
fr. c.
Theatre de la Porte Saint Martin 88,976 25
Opera Comique 67,270 00
Academie Royale de Musique 40,967 40
Varietes 33,172 15
Theatre de Madame 25,991 00
Theatre Francais 25,702 00 '
Vaudeville
Cirque Olympique 22,252 80
Nouveautes 21,807 30
Ambigu Comique 17,914 5
Gaiete 15,456 80

The Porte Saint Martin, which is much superior to the
others, has oily given 27 representation of Marino
Faliero durii g the month of June; and they alone pro—
duced 87,15L1, sc. Three Sundays produced 1,821 f. 20c.
There was to performance ',on the fourth.—Journal des
Debate.

A MATRIMONIAL CRICKET.-A curious
circumstance o •curred last week, not a hundred miles from
Piccadilly, dm truth of which may be relied on. A lady,
for several nights together, heard in her bed-chamber a noise
similar to that of the chirping of a sparrow, and which
continued during the whole of the night. This circum-
stance she communicated to her husband, and who, upon
listening, the noise mysteriously ceased. The circumstance
so preyed upon the lady's mind that she wrote to her friends
in the country, fearing they might have met with some
domestic calamity. An answer was, however, returned
that they were all in excellent health. The noise conti-
nuing, she requested a lady of her acquaintance to sleep
with her, to ascertain, if possible, the cause of this dis-
agreeable visitant, if such it was ; yet " all was calm and
serene." , A week elapsed, still the chirping was beard ;
till one night she heard it louder than usual. She fancied
it proceeded from her bed-side; she sat up in bed, and in
turning round discovered the cause of her uneasiness—it
was her husband in the act of sucking his tongue.—Lea-
na nyton Spa courier.

LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 7, 1829.

Frankfort and German Papers of the 30th
June have been received this morning. Their
contents are not of particular interest. The
Russians seem determined to increase their Navy,
for we learn, that in the course of the Summer
three large ships of the line are to be launched
at Cronstadt, besides a number of smaller vessels.
If Russia is allowed to develope her naval re-
sources in the Mediterranean she may well in-
crease her navy, but we think that other na-
tions will soon find out their mistake, and en-
deavour to curb the ambition of the CZAR, who,
if lie does not choose to be convinced at present,
will be brought to his senses by a naval campaign
or two. The Russians seem to be afraid of a
war with Persia, though they affect to despiseit,
on the ground that their army on the frontiers is
sufficient to cope with the Persians and Tuiks

FRONTIERS OF RUSSIA, Jura: 15.—1 n the course of the
summer three ships of the line, of from 80 to 100 guns,
besides a great number of smaller men-of-war, are to be
launched at Cronstadt. A large portion of the.pecuniary
indemnity which Persia has paid for the expences of the
war, is said to have been allotted to the naval department,
for the purpose of increasing the Imperial fleet.
According to private letters front St. Petcrsburgh, the
preservation of peace with Persia is eoneidered Ls very pro-
blematical. Russia, indeed, has not at this moment any
interest in provoking a war with that power ; but, on the
other hanel,:it has no reason to fear it, as its troops assem-
bled in those countries are fully sufficient to oppose both
the Turks and the Persians.

FRANKFORT, JUNE 29.—1 n the Sixteenth Sitting of
the German Diet, 17th June, the President announced that
his Majesty the Emperor of Austria had appointed M..jor-
General Count Baillet de Latour to be his Majesty's Pleni-
potentiary in the military commission of the German Diet,
in the room of Lieutenant Field-Marshal Baron Langenow,
who is recalled at his own request.
ExcirANCE ON LONDON, JUNE 29.--Two Months
1481.
CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 8. —The Capitan Pacha, since
his return to the Bosphorus, bas again been several times
to the Black sea : a smart action is spoken of, in which a
Russian corvette is 'said to have buffered severely, and a
report is just spread that 'a Russian steam-beat, embarked
in the Black Sea, was taken by the Turks.

VIENNA, JUNE 25.—Aletafliques, 98k; Rink Shares,
1115.

Lisbon Gazettes to the 28th June have been
received. The only intelligence they contain is
the fact that DON MIGUEL, " the best of
Kings !" superintended the repair of a brig of

We are sorry to .perceive by our communi-
cation from LLOYD.'s, that the East India Com-
pany's ship the Cara Brea Castle, ran aground
on the Isle of Wight, and it is feared. will be-
come a complete wreck.

By an extract of a private letter, received at
the North and South American Coffee-house
from St. John's, dated 12th May, it is said that
it is the intention of Ministers to take off the
tonnage duty upon American vessels trading
coastwise, to the free ports of Newfound-
land, and permit them to bring, free of
duty, all such articles as are brought duty
free down the St. Lawrence, and other rivers,
under the denomination of inland navigation.
These articles are to be allowed to be exported
in English bottoms, upon the same conditions
as Colonial produce, which will be a great ad-
vantage, es it will throw a great deal of what
used to be American cargoes into English
vessels.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TwELrs os CLocr.

Consols opened this morning at the same price
they left off at yesterday 84-, but some sales hav-
ing been effected they receded to 881 i for the ac-
count; and are now 88k 1 for money, and sellers
at 89 for the August account ; at present the market
looks rather heavy.
The Dutch steamer, which ought to have arrived
yesterday, has come this morning, but the informa-
tion she brings has not as yet transpired. The pri-
vve letters from Amsterdam brine the new Russian
Loan at i to i pm.; all the Foreign Funds in the
above capital have improved.

TWO O'CLOCI.

Every thing appears very dull in the City for
want of business and speculation in the Funds.—
Consols-have remained during the morning at 88i
for the Account, and 881 for money. As yet
we do not hear of the arrival of the Haniburgh
steamer, which is hourly expected, and for which
the City politicians are anxiously waiting, to obtain
further information from the East.

In the Foreign Market little doing, except in
Brazil Stock, five thousand of which has been
purchased at 57. The other Foreign Securities re-
main firm, owing to higher prices of Foreign Stocks
corning from Holland. Exchequer Bills continue at
the same price as yesterday, 69 70; Brazilian,
56/ 57/; Buenos Ayres, 22 23; Chilian, 17 18;
Colombian, 171; Danish, 66k ; Greek, 14 15 ;
Portuguese, 414 ; Russian, 971 ; Spanish, 94.

THREE O'CLOCN.

Consols for account, 884 ; for money, 88i -a.
FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES.
Consols 87i I Danish
Do. for Ac. 881- Greek, 1825
Brazilian Bonds 57i Mexican, 1825
Buenos Ayres Peruvian

Chilian Do.
Columbian, 1824

Russian
Spanish --

WM. WALKER JORDAN, Esq. was 011 Fri-
day called to the Bar by the Hon. Society of the Inner
Temple.

MARRIAGE.—Of all actions of a tnan's life,
his marriage does least concern other people; yet of all
actions of our life, it is most meddled with by other people.
EASY SHAVING,--Lord BYRON gave it as
his opinion that the daily torture of shaving was quite as
great an infliction, upon the whole, on the one sex, as the
occasional buithen of bearing children was on the other.