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affair was bruited about Naples like a gleam of wildfier,
and when evening arrived the doors of the Nuevo
Teatro were thronged to excess long before the appointed
time of opening. At last the representation commenced,
the public all anxious to hear the new piece suffered the
early portion to pass in silence; tho terzetto was sung, and
the applause was so deafening that it was repeated thrice.
After this the finale to the first act, and the whole of the
second which hed been condemned with so much fury
the preceding evening, were extolled tote ctxlo. Thus
was it with the " discriminating, enlightened, and im-
partial public" of Naples. Thus has it been in most
parts of the world.

LITERATURE.
THIRD EDITION OF HAROLD.

As Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton has most carefully
emended and revised the recently published edition of
his historical romance of " Harold," and as he has
enhanced the importance of the work by an addi-
tional Preface," we may be permitted to revert in a
few words to a work which we have already re-
viewed at considerable length. Strange as it may
appear to those who have been 'rapt into an enthu-
siasm of admiration by the lyrical verve of the diction,
by the epic completeness of the narrative, by the
vividness of the scenes and the elevated and sustained
eloquence of the composition, the " Preface" is nothing
less than a justification of the romance. We can
almost hear many exclaiming—" As if the romance
wanted any justification I" Yet, so it hi. The con-
strue,ion of the work has been cavilled at—because
it was not a servile imitation of the great school
founded by: Sir Walter. Such expressions
as " were-geld" and " niddering" have been quar-
relled with as affected archaisms. The employment
of such titles as " thegn" and " cneht" has been
treated in some quarters as a literary crime and mis-
demeanour. And to answer such querulous objec-
tions Sir Edward has written his Preface. As for
the archaisms, he has shown (p. xxiii.) that no
other words could have been used to express the same
ideas "without a glaring anachronism, or a
tedious periphrase." As for the reputed distortion of
titles, he has observed (p. xxiv.) that if he had used
the word knight instead of cneht, in an age when
knights were wholly unknown to the Anglo-Saxon,
he should " sadly indeed have misled the reader."
And lastly, in reference to the objections raised
against the construction of the work he says, riot in a
tone of regret, but of exultation, tempered by a ge-
nerous and unaffected humility :
" The mode I have adopted has perhaps only this
merit, that it is my own—mine by discovery and mine
by labour. And if I can raise not the spirits that
obeyed the great master of romance, nor gain the key to
the fairyland that opened to this spell—at least I have
not rifled the tomb of the wizard, to steal my art from
the book that lies clasped on his breast."
If, as affording a testimony of nothing else, the
" Preface," from which we have transcribed those
two beautiful sentences, would be interesting as af-
fording another proof of the caution and devotion
with which " Harold" was composed—" Harold" the
last, and, in many respects, the most remarkable of
all the fictions of this celebrated romancist.

DIGEST OF EVIDENCE ON AGRICUL
TURAL CUSTOMS IN RESPECT 70

TENANT RIGHT. By Messrs. Shaw and Corbet.

A very useful volume has just appeared under the
above head. It has been compiled and arranged
from the evidence taken before a Select Com-
mittee of the House of Commons, appointed to
inquire into the agricultural customs of Eng•
land and Wales in respect to tenant-right.
Any information calculated to throw light upon this
important subject, a subject involving so many in-
terests, and the settlement of which is looked forward
to with such intense anxiety both in this and the
sister island, should at this moment command atten-
tion. The gentlemen who have arranged the
present digest have brought to the execution
of their plan more than ordinary advantages, their
literary attainments and connexion with the
farming interests have given them peculiar facilities
for the acquisition of sound knowledge upon agricul-
tural subjects, and on the present occasion these
several advantages have been turned to the best
possible account. The great body of important evi-
dence taken before this Committee has been
arranged in a most simple and conve-
nient form ; the running commentary on the
report will be found full of sound practical hints on
the several points included in this vexed question.
The inquiry into the customs of the different coun-
ties, arranged alphabetically, together with the mode
of cultivation in each country, also in alphabetical
order are first given—then follow in order the evi-
dence respecting the nature of the tenure,
the necessity of legislative enactment to se-
cure or create capital invested in the soil,
the law of entail and the policy of giving enlarged
powers to holders of life estates, &c., the general
benefits that would follow from a recognised system
of compensation for unexhausted improvements. On
this latter point the Committee, in the 11th clause of
their report, say :—" That this wider system of com-
pensation to the outgoing tenant seems to be highly
beneficial to agriculture, to the landlord and
to the farmer, to lead to a great increase
in the productiveness of the soil, and to extended
employment of the rural population." Next comes
the consideration of farm buildings, and the power
that should be given to the tenant-farmer of removing
those he had erected himself, in the event
of his landlord refusing to allow for them.
Next are considered, permanent improvements,
draining, chalking, and marling or cluing,
temporary improvements, lime, bones, oil-cake, and
ashes, their different effects and the amount of
compensation for each ; flilapidations, and the justice of
giving compensation to the landlord for injury, as well
as to the tenant for improvement. This most useful
compilation ends with some valuable hints on the ad-
vantage of breaking up inferior grass lands, to which
there is a general objection amongst landlords.
It should not be forgotten that there is a very mate-
rial difference between that which is called " tenant-
right" in England, and what is known by the same
term in Ireland. In this country the tenant claims
no permanent interest in the land itself, he merely
desires to be secured the value of any outlay which he
may have made in the course of necessary
cultivation, and of which he may be prevented from
reaping the full benefit by the sudden termination
of his tenancy—his unexpected eviction from his
holding. It has relation to acts of husbandry merely.
In Ireland, however, an interest in the soil is implied
by the term, which the occupier shall enjoy,
without reference to any improvements whatever.
As, no doubt, tenant-right will necessarily occupy
very soon much of the deliberation of the Legislature,
we can strongly recommend this able digest to
the consideration of all parties interested in
the subject tenant, landlord, and legis-
lator—as a book of reference. It is most
admirably classified and conveniently arranged ; it
contains much sound practical information, and is
written in a fair and impartial spirit, with a due re-
gard to the interest of all, and will be particularly
welcome to those who have neither time nor oppor-
tunity to wade through a cumbrous blue official
quarto.

FINE ARTS.
THE ART JOURNAL.
Certainly the Vernon Gallery has acted as a stimu •
lant to the editor and the contributors of this excel-
lent publication. Several of the plates inserted in its
pages from month to month are not unworthy of ad-
mil tance into the portfolio of the most fastidious
dilletante. The " Chapeau de Brigand," for example,
gives an admirable notion of the original from the
brush of Uwins. We long, however, to see such
paintings represented from the collection now buried
underground, as Machse's " Malvolio," or as Danby's
" Smuggler's Home "—the one so deep and
gorgeous a transcript from Nature, the other so
capital and humorous an embodiment of the,
creation of Nature's child, Shakspere. "Lavinia,'
from the statue by Spence, is a graceful realization of
Thomson's rustic heroine, gracefully pourtrayed, by
the two Roffes. But the gem of the number is
Gainshorough's famous "Brook by the Way," from
the Vernon collection. Bentley, the engraver, has
entered fully into the spirit of that true, English land-
scape. Among the original designs for manufac-
turers the most elegant are the tea-kettle and stand,
the tea cup and the soup tureen. Mrs. Hall makes
her pilgrimage this month to Andrew Marvel's cot-
tage at Highgate. Besides the foregoing, there are
likenesses and biographical notices of Prout, the artist,
and of Flaxman, the sculptor.

THE JOURNAL OF DESIGN. No. I.
We cordially greet the appearance of this new aspirant
to public favour among the miscellaneous periodicals;
and we are sanguine that it will meet with the suc-
cess to which it is entitled, as a publication calculated
to infuse a feeling of art, and a certain delicacy of
design and proportion into our domestic manufac-
tures. As a foretaste of variety the number before
us promises well. It contains, for instance, several
examples of design and colouring in woven and
other textures, such as in chintz, in flannel, in
cotton, in calico, and in paper-hangings.
Of the designs in metals and potteries we can
say nothing whatever in praise ; they are in no
degree comparable to the clever and suggestive
sketches reef ntly given in the Art Journal. Indeed,
the effect is quite delightful when we come to that
exquisite little drawing from Maelise's illustrations
to Moore's melodies—Of the wooing on a carnation !
The only tolerable cuts of manufactured articles are
those of the flower vase, and of the wine glass with
the vine tendril coiling round the stem.

No FEAR OF FREE-TRADE.—A small house, with
four acres of grat‘sland, standing- in the town street of
Sutton Bormington, Nottinghatn-hirQ., .has been sold
Mr. H. I-fielding, at the Boot Inn, Sutton Bonningt.,,),
for the sum of 6811. In an adjoining parish a farm has
been re-let at an advance of 10z.. per acre.

'THE SUN,

FROM TILE LONDON GAZETTE
OF FRIDAY.

WAR OFFICE, MARCH 9, 1849.

Ist Regiment of Life Guards—Captain Henry Boys,
from half-pay, Unattached, to be Captain, vice Thotcaa
Buikeley, who exchanges; Lieutenant Henry Lowther to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Boys, who retires;
Cornet Sub-Lieutenant Henry Sambrook Crawley to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lowther; Fdmund
Waldo Meade Waldo, Gent., to be Cornet and Sub-
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Crawley, March 9.
7th Light Dragoons—Veterinary Surgeon James
Georgo Philips, from the 14th Light Dragoons, to be
Veterinary Surgeon, vice Siddell, appointed to the 10th
Light Dragoons, March 9.
Scots Fusilier Guards—The Honourable Alexander
Edward Frazer to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Parker, who retires, March 9.
9th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant John H. Lothian,
from the 57th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Lea, who ex-
changes, March 9.
42d Foot—Lieutenant William John Cuninghame to
be Adjutant, vice Hay, promoted, March 9.
49th Foot—Captain Lachlan Hector Gilbert Maclean,
from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, Vice M'Adaw,
&ceased, March 9.

57th Foot—Lieutenant Frederick Percy Lea, from the
9th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Lothian, who exchanges,
March 9.

Mit Foot—Captain Joseph Robinson to be Major,
without purchase, vice Gordon, killed in action ; Lieu-
tenant Charles Napier North to be Capt.iin, vice Robin-
son ; Second Lieutenant Vincent Tongue to be First Lieu-
tenant, vice North, December 28, 1848; George Bliss
Mac Queen, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Tongue,
March 9.

64th Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholas Wilson, from
the 77th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Duberley,
who exchanges, March 9.
66th Foot—Lieutenant William Montgomery Stew-
art Caulfield to be Captain, without purchase, vice
Turner, deceased; Ensign Richard White to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Caulfield, Jan. 29; Alfred Torrens, Gent.,
to be Ensign, vice White; Lieutenant Arthur Pilkington,
from 31st Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Ross, deceased,
March 9.
72d Foot—Lieutenant James Mackenzie to be Cap-
tain, without purchase, vice Moylan, deceased, Jan. 26;
Ensign and Adjutant Alexander Crombie to have the
rank of Lieutenant, Jan. 25; Ensign Seymour Stuart
Thellusson to be Lieutenant, vice Mackenzie, Jan. 26;
Charles Fleming Hunter, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
Thellusson, March 9.
77th Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel George Duberley,
from the 64th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice
Wilson, who exchanges; John Richard Harvey, Gent.,
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Dilke, promoted in
the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, March 9.
80th Foot—John Wilkinson, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Mathias, who resigns, March 9.
83d Foot—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel William Tom-
kinson, from half-pay 24th Light Dragoons, to be Cap-
tain, vice William Garstin, who exchanges, March 9 ;
Lieutenant the Honourable William Gage to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Tomkinson, who retires, March 9;
Lieutenant Charles Peregrine Teesdale, from the Ceylon
Rifle Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Swinburne, ap-
pointed Paymaster.
92d Foot—Lieutenant Augustus Fitzhardinge Berke-
ley, from half pay Royal Waggon Train, to be Lieute-
nant, vice Duff; appointed Paymaster; Ensign David
Holland Erskine to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Berkeley, who retires; Gibson Stott, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Erskine, March 9.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Lieutenant Henry Skinner
to be Captain, without purchase, vice Raitt, deceased;
Second Lieutenant Richard Percival Wigmore to be
First Lieutenant, vice Skinner, Jan. 2; Rupert Camp-
bell Watson, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Wig-
more, March 9.
UNATTACHED.—Lieutenant Robert Douglas, from
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment, to be Captain, without
purchase, March 9.
BREVET.

Lieutenant-General Sir Charles James Napier,
G.C.8., to have the local rank of General in the Army
in the East Indies, March 6.
Captain Henry Boys, of the Ist Regiment of Life
Guards, to be Major in the Army, Nov. 9, 1846.
WAR-OFFICE, MARCH 7.

A List of Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates killed
in action at Ramnuggur, on the 22d of November 1848,
and at Sadoolapoor, on the 3d of December 1848, or
who subsequently died of their wounds.
Ramnuggur.-3d Light Dragoons.
Died of Wounds—Private Ralph Grieve, Nov. 25,1848.
Ramnuggur.-14th Light Dragoons.
Killed—Corporal William Todd Privates John
Alderton , William Alpine, Richard Bagg, William
Brahenon, Charles Fox, Richard Hungertord, James
Raines, Charles Tuttell, John Ward, George Williams.

Died of Wounds.—Private John Hatton, 22d No-
vember ; private Benjamin Jennings, 23d November.:
Sadoolapoor.-24th Foot.
Killed--Colour-Sergeant James Collins, private James
&forth:.

Died of Wounds—Colour•Sergeant William Young,
Sth December; private James Bibb, 7th December.
Sadoolapoor.-61st Foot.
Killed Private George Kitchen, private William
Jackson.

Died of Wounds—Private Henry Darling, sth Dec.;
private John Connolly, 4th December.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Lancashire.
Thomas Townley Parker, Esq., to be Deputy Lieute-
nant, March 2.
ADMIRALTY, MARCH 1.
Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant Robert
Hockings to be Captain, vice Bunce, deceased ; Second
Lieutenant Arthur John Stuart to be First Lieutenant,
vice Hockings, promoted.
WHITEHALL, JAN. 22. _ _

The Right Honourable. Sir Thomas Wilde, Kra., Lord
Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common:Pleas,
at Westminster, has appointed Richard Underwood,
of the city of Hereford, Gent., to be one
of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the
acknowledgments of deeds to be executed by married
women, under the Act passed for the abolition of fines
and recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple
modes of assurance, in and for the city of Hereford; also
in and for the county of Hereford.
'This Gazette contains a notice that the following
places have been duly registered for the solemnization of
marriages therein:—
Bethel, Lantwit Major, Glamorganshire.
Penyvay Chapel, Newcastle, Glamorganshire.
Silo, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire.
Bethesda Chapel, Lantwit Maier, Glamorganshire.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
John Moulton, timber merchant, Manchester.
BANKRUPTS.

John James Weston, cattle dealer, Cranbrock, Kent,
to surrender March 21, at eleven, and April 25, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official
assignee, Basinghall. street; Carritt and Osgood, Basing-
hall-street.

Thomas Beadle, victualler, Croydon, March 19, at
two, and April 30, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Guildhall- chambers;
Russell and Son, Martin's-lane, Cannon-street.

Filden Chrismas, brewer, Say's-court, Kent, March
15, at twelve, April 12, at two, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street;
Bower and Son, Chancery-lane.

William Buddle, timber-merchant, Irongate Wharf,
Paddington, March 23, at one, and April 20, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. Ed-
wards, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry; Bicknell and Co.,
Connaught-terrace, Edgware-road.
William Gambier Walker, apothecary, Newick, Sus-
sex, March 22, at twelve, and April 20, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee,
Basinghall-street; Palmer, France, and Palmer, Bed-
ford-row; Lewis and Verral, Lewes, Sussex.

William Gale, coach-builder, Slough, March 16, at
eleven, and April 20, at half-past eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ; Tucker and
Steavenson, Sun-chambers, Threadneedle-street.
Joseph Merriam, porter merchant. Exeter, March 15,
and April 12, at one, at the Exeter District Court.
Hirtzsl, official assignee, Exeter; Terrell, Exeter ;
Terrell, Gray's Inn.
Francis Braithwaite, apothecary, Bridge-street, Here-
ford, March 20 and April 17, at ten, at the Birmingham
District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birming-
ham; Davis, Hereford; Motteram, Knight, and Emmet,
Birmingham. _ _

John— Downs, fishmonger, Newcastle under-Lyme,
March 15 and April 25, at twelve, at the Birmingham
District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham;
Reece, Birmi.shatn.
John Tily, chemist, Cheltenham, March 27, and April
24, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton,
official assignee, Bristol; Gauntlett, Lincolns's•inn-fields.
James Little, draper, Walcot, Somersetshire, March
22 and April 23, at twelve, at the Bristol District
Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; White and Co.,
Bedford-row; Bevans, Bristol.
John Ellison, grocer, Cricklade, Wiltshire, March 22
and April 23, at half-past eleven, at the Bristol Dis-
trict Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol;
Lovette, Cricklade; Sabine, Bristol.
Robert Stocker, licensed victualler, Bath, March 22
and April 23, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
Hutton, official assignee, Bristol ; Viner, Bath; Sabine,
Bristol.

George North, calico-printer, Manchester, March 20,
and April 18, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester ; Taylor,
Manchester; Johnson and Co., Temple.
John Gilmore, whiting manufacturer, Durham, March
20, at twelve, and April 26, at one, at the Newcastle-
upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Forster, Newcastle-upon-Tyne;
Turnbull, Hartlepool.
William Hammond Ambler, banker, Durham, March
20 and April 20, at half-past one, at the Newcastle-
upon-Tyne District Court. NVakley, official assignee,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Trotter and Hodgson, Bishop
Auckland; J obling and Fleming, Newcastle. upon-Tyne ;
Bell, Broderick, and Bell, Bow- church-yard.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
G. Wagner, Bloomsbury-square, draper, March 30, at
twelve—'l'. Megarey, Love-lane, Billingsgate, coal my r-
chant, March 30, at eleven—Ann Abigail Innell and A.
Cookes, Little Queen street, Holborn, varnish manufac-
turers, March 30, at twelve—J. Cox and F. Ifeisch, New-
court, Crutched-friars, merchants, under a commission of
bankruptcy which issued in 1799, March 30, at two—R.
Russell, Kingston-upon-Thames, upholsterer, March 30,
at eleven—J. Burgess, Harleyford-place, Kennington,
tailor, :March 30, at one—V. S. Godfrey, Duddington,
Northamptonshire, miller, March 30, at one.
In the Country.
J. Morgan sen., and J. Morgan, jun., Hereford and
Glto.bury, Radnorshire, woolstaplers, March 27, at ten,
at the Court, Birminglato—T. Willmot, Moreton-in-
Marsh, Gloucestershire, chemist, April 3, at eleven, at
the Court, Bristol—J. Senior, Salford, Lancashire,