| out sacrifice or expense to any one. 
TENCH. 
ever through ignorance or carelessness permitted to 
come into force, can only be used to serve the ends 
of injustice. Once more we say, let the farmer be 
placed in the same condition, have the same acknow- 
ledged rights as other men who live by their labour 
—or, with the Tenant Right Committee. ‘let him 
have those privileges, in the removal of buildings 
erected by himself, manufacturers and tradesmen 
now enjoy.’ 
‘¢ The natural advantage likely to accrue from the 
establishment of tenant-right becomes so thoroughly 
and prominently a part of the whole question, that 
a few words addressed to that particular point may 
not be out of place in concluding. The paramount 
duty of the government—the basis of the national 
prosperity—is the well-doing of the people; and that 
neople at this very moment are suffering, more or 
less, from two great evils of over-population—a 
want of employment and a want of food. In direct 
antithesis to this, the producible land of the kingdom 
is cultivated as if there was actually scarcity of la- 
bour. The natural question that arises here is, how 
comes it that one evil is not made to destroy the 
other, by the application of the labour to the land? 
Simply because there is a hesitation as to embark- 
ing capital to bring them together; and yet, in the 
face of this hesitation, it is generally allowed that 
nothing will pay a better interest than money laid 
out in the improvement of the soil. The people 
want employment; the land wants more cultivation. 
The use of capital refused; and yet no use of capital 
known to pay better. Paradoxes explained and re- 
moved by the one simple remedy and right—secu- 
rity. Give but that, and you will make the island, 
as it should be, mainly dependant on its own re- 
sources for food, and its people for support. The 
national advantage must increase from such an in- 
crease of labour profitably employed, for money is 
really but the representative of labour so directed ; 
and consequently the more labour profitably employed, 
the more wealthy must the country become. This 
is a remedy, moreover, that might be applied with- 
The people 
would experience no revulsion to their ordinary 
habits, the government no embarrassment from the 
effects of it. It is only making general an act of 
justice that has proved strikingly advantageous 
wheresoever it has yet been administered.” 
TENCH,—scientifically Cyprinus Tinca. A 
British fresh-water fish, of the carp family of 
abdominal malacopterygians. It loves still wa- 
ters, and chiefly frequents weedy and tangled 
places overshaded with rushes or brushwood; 
and it has prime qualities of flesh when found in 
rivers, but is far more abundant in pits, pools, 
and lakes. It begins to spawn in June, and 
continues to spawn in some situations till Sep- 
tember; and is in its best season for the angler 
from the latter part of autumn till May. It lives 
long out of water; and may safely be removed 
in dry straw to a considerable distance. Its 
flesh is both wholesome and delicious food.—The 
tench seldom exceeds 4 or 5 pounds in weight. 
The body is proportionally thicker than long; 
the scales are very small and covered with slime; 
the eyes are large, and of a golden colour, and 
have red irides; the mouth is leathery, and 
sometimes has a small bark at each corner; the 
back and the dorsal and ventral fins have a 
dusky colour; the head, the sides, and the belly 
have a greenish hue, most beautifully mixed 
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with golden tints; and the tail is quite even at 
the end and very broad. 
TENDON. The white shining extremity of a 
muscle. The flexor tendon of the horse’s leg is 
sometimes though rarely broken; and its rup- 
tured ends should be stitched together and sup- 
ported by a bandage. 
TENDRILS. The organs by which climbing 
and twining plants attach themselves to shrubs, 
trees, poles, walls, or other objects for support. 
A tendril is generally a filiform and spiral pro- 
cess; and issues variously from stem, branch, 
petiole, or leaf; and is always much stronger 
than a shoot or twig of its own size. In most 
cases, in order to take secure hold, it simply 
twists itself into circumvolutions; but, in a few, 
it terminates in a flat, fleshy, adhering sole. 
TENEMENT. A house, yard, or other fixed 
structural property held by a tenant. 
TENORIA. A genus of ornamental, ever- 
green, exotic shrubs, of the umbelliferous order. 
Hight species, varying in height from 8 or 9 
inches to 5 or 6 feet, all carrying herbaceous- 
coloured flowers, most blooming in the early 
part of autumn, and all propagable from cut- 
tings, have been introduced to British gardens 
from Southern Africa and the shores of the 
Mediterranean. Two of the best known are 
noticed in the article Harn’s-Har. fh cabot 
-TENESMUS. A continuous and vain effort 
of the horse or of any other animal to void dung. 
It arises from irritation in the rectum, and is 
generally cured by emollient or anodyne glysters. 
TENURE. The kind of right or the set of 
legal circumstances by which fixed property is 
held either in perpetuity or during a limited 
period. See the articles Leas and Lanp (Pro- 
PERTY IN). 
TEPHRITIS. See Lear-Mrvers. 
TEPHROSIA. A genus of ornamental exotic 
plants, of the lotus division of the leguminous 
order. About 30 species have been introduced to 
British gardens, principally from India, America, 
and Southern Africa; and about 50 more are 
known. About one half of the introduced spe- 
cies, consisting principally of tender, evergreen 
undershrubs, with either purple, pink, or red- 
dish flowers, are somewhat closely akin, in their 
botanical character, to the goat’s-rue genus; and 
all these—as also all the others, most of which 
likewise are evergreen shrubs, but some of them 
taller—have pinnate leaves, with a terminating 
odd leaflet. Most love a soil of peaty loam, and 
are propagated from cuttings. The fish-poison 
species, 7’. toxicaria, an evergreen shrub of about 
3 feet high, from South America, carrying pale 
red flowers in terminal panicled racemes, is cul- 
tivated in its native country. 
TERAMNUS. A small genus of ornamental, 
tropical, red-flowered, twining plants, of the kid- 
ney-bean division of the leguminous order. Two 
species, the twining and the hooked, both about 
10 feet high, and propagable from cuttings, have 
