Crown Leases.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,-Knowing your readiness at all times to expose, and if in youtr power alleviate, the grievances of the pablic. I beg to lay betore VoGn one of a very serious nature rore especiaUy to that part of the pub- lic Lwe are indebted to for ihe increase of the metropolis-ntaftely, the builders, occasioned by the shameful and unneceswsir delays of those persons who have the grantin0lcare. for rroundelhla under tile Crown. The grievance of which -ispeak occuirs as follows:--A builder takes a large plot of'gro,nd, lavs out all hismoney, andlnora by credit, in building upon it, seUls the houses he builds to advantage, upon agreement to have the money when a leaseis granted, which i S to be within a certain limited periotd. He applies day after day for Oae, two, and sometimes three years, before he gets iis lease frons sb Crown. In the mean tirne, what are the consequences? The buver of the houses is ofF his bargain, by not having the lease within the specified time sgreed. His (lite builder's) bills forsthe Taterials used in the said buildtigB become due ; lie not beirg able to pay them (having calculated upon having the nimner for the honses. prior to their corning due), is arrested-made bankrupt-the estate sold, which reaiizes about one-third the original sale, bv wvhich perhaps hi4 creditors get about five shillings in the pound. Thus is tbe mant who was once in affluest circumstances utterly ruined, with a severe loss to his creditors; and all this, by the infamous (for I can lasc no better term) neglect, whichi tenefius no one, of those parties who are employed fltr the purpose of granting such leases. if this should ineet the eye ot any of you.i readers who have the power, and will exercise it, of facilitating the granting of such leaits, it will save many a 'aifnily from feeling the pangs of abject want and poverty, which I fe.ar !. ms ofime.4 been occasioned by such delays. By your inser'ion of this in your valuable iournal you will oblige, lr. yoU!r h, very rcspecttuilly, A PRESENT SUFFERER. Jior. 6. CROIVN LEASES.