1828.] 
-tions been less rapid, the people had been 
sooner fatigued’ with what they ran to as to 
spectacles. 
Madame Tallien separated from Tallien, 
and was married to the Prince de Chimaye. 
“© She will always be Madame Tallien, ne- 
vertheless,”’ said Tallien. ‘‘ That name will 
always be more conspicuous than Princess 
de Chimere.” 
The style in which the Empress lived at 
Navarre, was, in the highest degree, splen- 
did. Twenty-two tables were kept, which 
seems, at length, to have distressed her, and 
by an effort, they were reduced to sixteen. 
On the birth of the King of Rome, she 
gave a magnificent entertainment to the citi- 
~zens of Evreux ; and, on her return to Mal- 
‘maison, had an interview with Napoleon. 
The Empress received him, par une délica- 
tesse digne d’elle, in the garden. They sat 
together, in view of the windows, but at too 
great a distance to be heard. On parting, 
the Emperor kissed her hand, and Jose- 
phine, through the day, appeared well con- 
tent with the interview, regretting only her 
inability to do anything for this heurewx de 
la terre. 
Present State of the Tenancy of Land, 
by L. Kennedy, and T. B. Granger. 1828. 
—cCustoms are local things, and, in all 
parts of the world, are found to be of equal 
force with written laws, and often control- 
ling them. Any one, of course, would be 
apt to think that, on the matter of tenancy, 
there was one law for the whole kingdom ; 
and that what was not determined by law, 
was arranged by specific agreements between 
landlord and tenant. But there are scores 
of things, with which neither general laws, 
nor specific agreements have anything to 
do, and which depend, wholly, on local cus- 
tom. The period of entrance upon a farm 
is fixed on custom, and varies in different 
counties, and even in different parts of coun- 
ties — what, again, the outgoing tenant 
shall leave, and the incoming take—the cir- 
cumstances in which either party shall have 
an option—in some places the out-goer is 
entitled to the coming crop, and in others 
not—sometimes the in-comer is allowed to 
plough the land before possession, and, in 
others, not, or subject to the caprice, and, 
probably, sulkiness of the out-goer; and 
may, by possibility, be prevented from get- 
ting a crop for eighteen months, &c. These 
things, which are everywhere regulated by 
custom, it is of importance to landlords and 
farmers to be acquainted with ; a book of 
reference, for the whole country, seemed, to 
the compilers, a work of utility, and they 
_ have, accordingly, supplied one. Every 
county is carefully gone over, and the gene- 
ral customs of tenancy stated—accompanied 
with a slight sketch of the surface—the pro- 
_ ductions, soils, manures, and systems of 
j cropping. 
_ To these statements—which have plainly 
their use, and not merely to the farmers 
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and landlords, but, also, to men of inquiry, 
whose object is to understand thoroughly 
the state and condition of the country, 
though such knowledge may not immedi- 
ately touch their interests, or be directly 
convertible to practical purposes—is pretixed 
a very long dissertation upon what may be 
termed Agricultural politics. The authors, 
we presume, are surveyors, and the interests 
of the landlords, who, of course, are their 
employers, it is natural for them to consider 
of the first importance. Accordingly, in 
discussing these matters, they are advocates 
for Corn Protecting Duties, on the grounds, 
mainly, of the great burdens which press 
upon the land—tithes, rates, taxes, roads, 
&c., but which, really, seem scarcely to 
afford any pretence ; and we venture to re- 
commend to the authors, if they have any 
desire to be corrected, supposing them 
wrong, a perusal of Captain Potter’s recent 
pamphlet. 
There, are, however, some points very 
well urged—first, upon landlords, to give 
leases to their tenants, if for nothing else, 
to insure justice to the land—to exert them- 
selves to relieve the out-going and in-com- 
ing tenants from annoying and injurious 
practices—and next upon the farmers, to 
rescue the miserable labourer from parochial 
dependence, and abolish the practice of 
paying labour out of the rates. The prodi- 
gious difference of cultivation in the north, 
and south, they attribute, mainly, to the 
difference in the customs of tenancy. In 
the northern counties leases are general ; 
the new comer is not shackled by being 
compelled to take what he does not want, 
and his capital is thus more at his com- 
mand. To this, also, they trace the increase 
of the poor rates, for it is observable these 
two things go together—the tenant is crip- 
pled at the outset, and, with his capital 
locked up, he is driven to encourage the 
parochial system—the consequence of which 
is, the labourer is degraded, the farmer em- 
barrassed, and the /and beggared. 
The Anglo-Ivrish, 3 vols, 12mo., 1828.— 
This is a pleasant vehicle for the discussion 
of Irish affairs, and, obviously, the produc- 
tion of a man who knows what he is talk- 
ing about. The object is to correct the 
existing prejudices against the Irish—the 
old native Irish, and the old English colo- 
nists. The hero of the tale is the son of a 
peer, who had been an active coadjutor of 
Lord Londonderry, in bringing about the 
Union. The youth himself is born and 
bred in England, in the full fastidiousness 
of English aristocratic feeling, and in con- 
tempt and loathing for everything Ivish in 
manner and sentiment, and above all, Irish 
ewpression of sentiment. 'The family are, 
of course, absentees, and the property 
managed by Scotch stewards. Though en- 
tertaining a perfect horror of the Catholics, 
and their Associations, they are politically 
disposed to Emancipation, in the hope ap« 
