[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1
Bra,—Whence does "A Radical Squire" gather the notion that rune through his letter that-the sixth proposition which I advanced for the establishment of free trade-in land would prevent marriage settlements ? It is as follows, and provides for the settlement of anostate for the benefit of a widow and infant children :— "6. That, preserving intact the power of owners of land to bequeath It undivided or in shares, no gift, or bequest, or settlement of life estate in land, nor any trust establishing such an estate, should hereafter be lawful; the exceptions being in the case of trusts for the widow or the infant children (until they attain majority) of the testator, or for the benefit of a posthumous child."
The mortgage question and, equally, the holding of land by cor- porations would find a natural solution, were these propositions
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