The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-18 00:00:00

LIGHT-HOUSES.

The question, how far it might be proper to
renew the leases of Light-houses held under grants
from the Crown, and about to expire ; or whether
it would be advisable to place those lights under
the management of the Trinity Board, which we
stated to be under the consideration of the Lords
of the Treasury at the date of our last Report,
has been decided by their Lordships, so far as
respects the leases of the Light-houses at \Vin-
tertoitness and Orfordness, held by Lord Bray-
brooke, and at Dungeness, held by Thomas 'Wil-
liam Coke, Esq., ALP., the former of which
leases expired on d►e 13th of April, 1826, and
the latter on the 24th of June last.

In both cases, the lessees were, by the old
leases, empowered to levy a duty of Id. per ton
on all vessels outward and homeward bound,
passing those lights.
Two of the Light-houses, held by Lord Bray-
brooke, stand upon the private freehold estates
of his Lordship, and the other upon lands now,
and long since, in his family. A very con-
siderable sum of money had been recently laid
out, in rebuilding one of the Light-houses, in the
expectation entertained, that a renewal of the
;rant from the Crown would be obtained ; and
all the lamps, reflectors, and other implements
for keeping up the establishment, are the private
property of his Lordship.
In the case of Dungeness, Mr. Coke had re-
cently rebuilt the Light-house, at a great ex-
pense, and is, in like manner, the owner of all
the articles belonging to it.
- _ _

On full consideration of all these circum-
stances, and also of the recommendations of the
Committees of both Houses of Parliament on
the Foreign Trade of the Kingdom, that the
duties on Light-houses should be diminished;
having also regard to the indemnification, or
compensation, to which the parties would have
been entitled, upon transferring to the puOlie
their property and interest in the Lighthouses,
and the buildings connected therewith : the
Lords of the Treasury, by their Minutes, dated
28th March, and 16th May, 1828, were pleased
to signify to us their opinion. That renewed
leases, in both cases, be granted, for a period
of twenty-one years from June last, of the right
to collect tolls upon all vessels passing the said
Light-houses, at the rate of one halfpenny per
ton, instead of one penny, as heretofore, giving
due notice that such reductions were to take
place from the commencement of the renewed
leases ; that the parties immediately, and at their
own expellee, take all measures necessary for
conveying and assigning to the Crown, at the
expiration of their leases for twenty-one years,
all the said. Light-houses, and buildings connected
therewith, and the sites on which they are
erected, with all convenient and necessary ways
and accesses thereto ; that, from the commelice-
ment of the new leases, Lord Braybrooke and
Mr. Coke render and deliver to 114 4,1141,14 ac-
counts of all toils collected upon vessels
passing
the said Light-houses, and of the expenditure,
in respect thereof; and after deducting the ex-
pense of the collection, and of maintaining the
lights, pay over one moiety to us, for the use of
his Majesty, retaining the other moity for them-
selves; that the Members of the Corporation of
the Trinity Uotize, their officers and servants,
with the consent of the Treasury, have, at all
times, access to the said Light-houses and pre-
mises, and that th-,t3 lessees attend to, and carry
into effect ally suggestions of that Corporation,
for the better regulation or improvement of the
lights. And warrants having been •.;,I)sequently
issued by the Lords of the Trea.wxy, authorising
and requiring us to grant Icaus an the terms and
conditions set ftu:til in the said Minutes, such
nave been granted aecordin,dy; and they
contain full and special covenants conceruing all
the matters before mentioned,

DERELICT 4 LJ iN LINCOLNSHIRE.
Tb.9Foceedings adverted to in cur last two
Triennial, Reports, which, under the Ovice'of
the Law Offices of the Crown, we had first in-
,
§tituteu in tne )'ear MP) for Tecoverins*, on be-

half of his Nl,j,:stv„ a tract of4-iont I,lo.,acres
land on the LineolnAire coast, idleged to
'lave been formerly covered by tile sea; "1)0 t
hkb, by reaill ~f the casting up or mud arm
sand by the tide, had gradually heightened s , a;
not to be overflowed, and thereby become
have terminated adversely to the claims we
had been advised to set up.
Under an inquisition held in November, 1819,
possession of those lands was taken, on behalf
of his Majesty; but the Lords of the different
Manors, to which the lands adjoin, having tr.:-
versed that inquisition, and the question as to
the respective rights of the Crown, :Did the
pantie; claiming in right of their manors, having
been tried, first at the Assizes for Dedn, in the
pring of 1823, and again in the Court King's
Bench in the year 182-1, and finally upon an
Appeal to the House of Lords in .loly last, the
Judgment of their Lordships was, as we have
before stated, against the claims of the Crown.
This decision is of great importance, not only
as it regards the claim in question, but as setting
at rest similar claims, to the extent of many
thousand acres, in different parts of the king-
dom ; and although the investigation has ter-
minated unfavourable to the Crown, and has
been attended with considerable expellee, we
felt that we could not, consistently with our
duty, relinquish a claim of so much importance,
and concerning which great difference of opinion
appeared to have been entertained by the most
eminent law authorities, until the .qta,ction had
received the most ample discussion, and been
decided by the highest legal trilumal in the
kingdom.

WASTE LANDS AT3tASTINGO:'

In the year 1826, we received information
that a Considerable tract of land at Hastings,
formed entirely of sand and shingle, and whieb,
from this and other circumstances mentionedtto
us, had evidently been part of the sea shore, had
been taken possession of, as waste laud, partly
by seizure without grant or authority from any
one, and partly under an alleged sancti,A of a'
lease from the Earl of Chichester, as Owner OD_
Lord of the Rape, or Hundred of Hastings, or
from the Corporation of flutings, on the ground
that such lands were within the Jibei tv of that
town ; and were farther informed, that nu-
merous small dwelling-houses, warehouses, or
manufactories, had been erected upon. the
said lands. But it having appeared, upon a
careful irivestigation of the grants, unArr which
the claims of Lord Chichester and the Corpora-
tion of Hastings were brought forward, that such
claims could not be supported, we constlted his
Majesty's Law Officers, as to the most allvisable
mode of proceeding fur asserting and e...tabli6-
ing the claims of the Crown to the lands in
question ; ,and an inquisition having, under their_
advice, been held in December, 1827, the King's
title was found by the Jury summoned upon that
inquisition, to two parcels of land ; one consist-
ing of 7A. IR. 10P. and the other IA. Oa. 99P.,
with the various buildings thereon : and the
parties in possession of or claiming tha build-
ings, being, we apprehend, well satisfied that
they could, on no good grounds, have resisted
the claims of the Crown, have not made any -ap-
plication for leave to traverse the in(;uisition,.
within the period allowed by law for that purpose.
In order to obtain possession of this pro-
perty, or a full and complete acknowledgment of .
the right of the Crown to the same, we pro-
ceeded, under the advice of the Attorney and.
Solicitor General, to cause declarations in-eject-
ment to be served upon the. different occupiers,
many of whom have, within these few years,
erected their buildings, after they were apprized
of the claims of the Crown, and in defiance of
repeated notices that those claims would be in
sisted upon ; but there are some others, who
built at a much earlier period, and in ignorance
of such claims.

As the immediate resumption of the property,
and the entire removal of all the occupiers on
short notices, would have been attended with
great inconvenience to many cf them, who would
hive found it difficult to provide themselves with
other accommodations, we have entered into ar-
rangements with a great majority of the parties,
for allowing them to continue, as tenants to the
Crown, for a farther period of seven years, upon
such terms as, under the circumstances of their'
respective cases, seemed to us to be fair and rea-
sonable, and according to which, the rents pay-
able to the Crown will, in the whole, amount to
about 1,5001, a-year.

ISLAND OF ALDERNEY.
The Crown property in the Island of Alder-
ney, formerly in lease to Lieutenant-Colonel
Le Mesurier, but surrendered by him, and placed
under our management, as mentioned in our
last Report, consists of great and small tithes,
quit rents, harbour dues, corn rents, and a small
farm and mill, which, in the whole, produce, on
an average, about 3501. a-year, while the pre-
sent charges upon thc, land revenues of the
Crown, in respect of that Island, amount, as
will be seen by the statement thereof, to 925/.
a-year,

As it cannot be for the interest of the Crown
to retain the possession of property so situated,
and in the inanagenlent of which so little con-
troul can be exereived, sales have been made, by
public tender, of the corn rents, farm, and mill ;
and we most strongly advise the. disposal of the
remainder, whenever there shall be a probability
of making sales at fair and reasonable prices,

A singular elopenzent is said to 'nave taken
place t.
of a widow, in
n
8. sheet, where was
received by her destined lord. This mode of flight to the
nl ibul a s
, tthrough at Ijut:tkb te-h intotlie iglll
altar, according to vulgar rultiona the neighbourhood,
acts as a clearance from :le'ots of a former hu,band ;
beating the Inso lri,AktAct hollow !—Lincoln Herald.

We are glad to observe that among other
Literary novelties of high interest preparing for publica-
tion, are the Poetical works of the Rev. GP:min Cumr,
,vho3a powers as a writer hays been long acknowledged as
of the very first older, and whose beauties of style, loftiness
thought, and Vigorous imagination coufessedly btand un
rivalled at the present day.

A gentleman who came up the Htrn:iber
week before last, saw a flight of wild swans, 'Among whi h
were several black or dark coloured oces ; they flew at a
treat Packet..

On Friday evening last, :\Tr.TriomAs ItEES,
of Cross-square, Little lkit4% was robbed in Wentworti -
,treet, Whitechapei, by girl of the tswn of a 13auk cf
Euglatul note for 1i".04

LIVEIt.PGGL, ANT.I :NIANCHESTER RAIL-
wAv.—In the Compouiort ,to the L'ri:ish ...elburtxaeli, just
• publ:tb, d, appears alettee from Mr. SrELIiENSON, the en-
;Meer, dated Oco`oe: 25, giving an account of the prugrees
of the works on this railway; and in a postscript (Novem-
her 19) it is stated, that ice the date of this report, the
works have node progress as to justify the confiJeut
that dne
be op eyed t n the
of Ja-
expectation
ercynt,:tltiai3dSnt ensedv,ewspiilrlledl spout-
d fly tMr.
KNWN. It has
by some of our contempvreries th it one of the wottlti
!)e opened on the March ; but we leattl, {roaa
pvod
nithority, tl:4t it wiil not be open quite sc) v,gia. It-was
~xpeeted, in the evly part of this year, thitt one el the lines
of railway would h. con•pleted early itiJanuary, but the
work. have been intieli ile!tayed, owing to the long conti-
nued wet weathi-r wh;rl. w.' had i the san.w.t. owl nutunea
tnontihy—LireiTooi Parr.

TRENIENDOUS EXPLOSION.

(From the Manchester Herald of yesterday.)

Yesterday afternoon, about a quarter-past three
o'clock, the inhabitants of the Market-place, Smithy-
door, and the surrounding neighbourhood, were
much alarmed by a tremendous explosion, which
shook the whole of the buildings in that part of the
town to their very foundations. It was soon ascer-
tained that the shock was caused by the explosion
of gas in the King's Head public-house, in the Old
Shambles, kept by Mr. Parry. The effects of the
accident on the interior of the house, and on the in-
mates, were disastrous in the extreme. rite explo-
sion took place in the front cellar, and so great was
its force, that the floors of the front parlour, the bar,
the lobby, &c. were completely blown up, and the
whole of the windows on the ground floor of the
house, both at the front and the back, were shat-
tered into atoms. Most fortunately the injury sus-
tained by the persons in the house bears no propor-
tion in its extent to that sustained by the walls, fur-
niture, and other inanimate objects. They were all,
however, burnt with greater or less severity about
the face, neck, hands, &c., and two or three persons
were blown to the ceilings of the rooms in which
they sat, though without any of their limbs being
fractured. Mrs. Parry, who was in the bar at the
time of the accident, seems to have sustained per-
haps greater injury than any other person.
The cause of the accident appears to he as fol-
lows .—About eight months ago, the persons in the
employment of the Gas Directors laid a new main
in the Old Shambles, for the purpose of supplying
the gas consumers in that neighbourhood more co-
piously, the old pipe being of insufficient dimen-
sions. Through some neglect the old pipe was not
taken up when the new one was laid down; and
part of the gas tenants continued to be supplied
through the old main, while others had connecting
pipes inserted into the new one; both mains being
daily supplied from the gas-works, or from the prin-
cipal mains in the Market-place and Smithy-door.
A few days ago, a leakage took place in the pre-
mises of Mr. Wilmot, the publican, which are two
doors from the King's Head. On the gas-men ex-
amining into the cause, they found that it pro-
ceeded from the old main. They immediately de-
termined to take up the old main entirely, and to con-
nect the pipes of all the tenants with the new one.
They were proceeding with this work yesterday,
and had cut off the old pipe opposite the King's
Head, when the gas escaped from the old pipe, and
forcing its way into Mr. Parry's cellar, exploded
on coming in contact with a fire which was burning
in the cellar. Ihe gas-meter of Mr. Parry was not
at all injured, although the connecting pipe was
blown off by the force of the explosion. The par-
tition walls in the cellar were also so much shattered
as to render it unsafe for any one to remain in the
house. Mr. Parry and his family accordingly took
refuge in the houses of their friends in the neigh-
bourhood, and the house was left under the care of
several of the police officers.
We understand it is now determined to cut off
the whole of the old main as far as Smithy-door, a
measure which should have been resorted to imme-
&at ely after the new main was laid down.

ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
At the time of the accident Mr. Parry, the land-
lord, was sitting along with a friend in the front
parlour or travellers' room, the floor of which was
completely demolished, and fell into the cellar below.
They were utterly unconscious of an explosion hav-
ing taken place, but suddenly found themselves al•
most enveloped with rubbish, and on looking up
they saw the window of the parlour at what seemed
to them to be a most unusual height. On discover-
ing their real situation and its cause, they scrambled
up towards the window, by mean; of some of the
broken joists, and made their escape. In the news-
room, which is situated behind the travellers' room,
the whole of the floor was forced upwards from its
fastenings, and left entire and in a level position, at
a height of about eight inches above it former situa-
tion. y There were four persons in the room at the
time, all of whom were thrown upwards to the ceil-
ing by the sudden shock of the explosion, and the
head of one of them actually penetrated the plaster
and lath, and has left a hole in the ceiling. This
extraordinary fact I can attest, having myself seen
the hole.

with a sense of their dignity, submissive without
being debased, chew in every situation of life a
haughty soul, open to great impressions, capable
of great efforts, combining devotedness to the
supreme head of the State, with reverence for God.
It is generally believed in Europe that this people,
encamped, as has been so often repeated, in the
fine provinces conquered by Mahomet 11. live in a
Nomade stare, with its arms always at hand, and
ready, like the Bedouin tribe, to hasten wherever
plunder and booty may be hoped for. If we look
closer we shall find a very different scene. The
Turk has become a cultivaror of the soil; he has
become attached to the place where he has his field
and his house ; he desires no better than to live
here at his ease, without troubling himself with what
is passing at a distance ; he goes to war when his
Prince summons him, but he is strong only when
he defends himself at the spot where he has Lis
home. What resources may the Government find in
this excellent population ! What strength will the
empire possess if each of these energetic men could
look on the Sovereign as the protector of the inte-
rests of all! If the reformation is carried on with
prudence and energy, it will not be requisite to de-
stroy the whole of the social edifice of the Turks.—
The old manners of the nation have many points
which deserve to be respected. One of the most
simple and important secrets of the art of govern-
ment in these times, is to interfere without raising
impediments. Let the Porte convince itself of this
truth, and its reforms, conducted in this spirit, in-
stead of offending or changing the national theme,
ter, will increase its admirably tempered energy.—
Allgemeine Zeitung, Dec. 11.

EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
AUGSBURG, DEC. 10.-10 4.

FRANKFORT. DEC. 9.—Two months, 1511.
BERLIN, DEC. 10.-6 291.

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