The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-24 00:00:00

WASTE LAND.

Table of the larger quantities of Waste Land, and
Counties containing the same, in the United King-
dom; about two-thirds of which are convertible
into arable, gardens, meadows, and pasture ; and
one-third for planting young trees, and the future
procuration of turf, peat, &c. for fuel:—
ENGLAND AND WALES.
Acres.
Brecknock
Cardigan
Carmarthen
Carnarvon
Cornwall ..... 190,000
Cumberland
DerUy
Devon
Durham .
Glamorgan 60,000
Lancashire
Lincoln lBO,OOO
Montgomery lOO,OOO
Northumberland
Surrey 170,000
Westmoreland llO,OOO
Wilts
Yorkshire 600,000

SCOTLA ND.

Acres.
Aberdeen
Argyle 600,000
Ayr
Bamff 300,000
Berwick 130,000
Bute lOO,OOO
Dumfries '320,000
Elgin
Forfar
Inverness 750,000
Kircudbright
Lanark 195,000
Perth . . 550,000
Ro.s 515 000
Roxburgh lOO,OOO
Sutherland
Wigtown

IWEI
Acres.
Antrim 218,000
Cavan
Clare . 104,400
Cot k 161,000
Donegal
Down
Fermanagh
Galway
King's County
Leitrim

Acres.
Limerick
Londonderry* ... 172,070
Mayo 565,570
Roscommon..
Sligo
Tipperary 113,490
Tyrone
Wexford
Wicklowt

land, in the United King-
contains 8,523,930 acres,
occupied by roads of every
Is, rivulets, brooks, &c.,

N.B. The unprofitable
dom, of n hich Scotland
comprehending the surface
class, lakes, rivers, canal
towns, and villages, farm-yards, and all other vacan
spbts, as quarries, ponds, and ditches, hedges, and
fences of all kinds, cliffs, craggy declivities, stoney.
places, barren spots, woods, and plantations, are
15,301,99,1 acres.
The greater part of this county is belonging to Com-
panies in the city of London.
t The other counties, which we have not included in
this estimate, contain, notwithstanding, in the aggregate,
a very considerable quantity of Wa‘te Lind ; and while
we observe Yorkshire, Mayo, and Sutherland, /kr. with
such gigantic proportions, let it be recollected that even
the diminutive Rutland, though smallest of English coun-
ties, contains of this portion of National Asset, 1000 acres!

T 11-,•"P r.

LIFE AND REMAINS OF WILMOT WARWICK,
voL. 11. LONDON, 1829.

The first volume of this collection of Tales,
Essays, and Sketches of Character, was published
last year ; and from the appearance of a second,

of a similar style and tendency, we judge that it
must have met with its due share of popularity.
We are not surprised at this, the author, or
editor, or whatever else he may please to style
himself, possesses talents precisely of that cha-
racter likely to obtain favour with the multitude,
inasmuch as he is lively and unassuming in his
descriptions, easy and natural in his incidents,
and occasionally happy in his humour. This
present volume is no ways inferior to his first,
indeed of the two we think it the best, inas-
much as its tales, especially the one entitled
" The Monk of Benevento," are of a more m;th-
culine and animated character. Next to this we
are inclined to rate the " Revolutions of a Vil-
lage," in which natural incidents are dwelt on at
some length, in a natural and graphic manner.
The following is a creditable specimen of the
author's style of narrative, it is the account of an
execution at Rome :
"It was an awful moment ! All eyes were directed
towards the street-opening as before described. The crowd
beneath was seen slowly to concentrate itself in that direc-
tion ; and the spectators on the bill pressed forward to-
wards the brink. Our silly companion, just alluded to,
was standing close by tr., on the very edge of a small
turfy projection ; 'but he was too much rapt in ex-
pectancy to regard the situation he had unconsciously
chosen. All was now silent, for the foremost of the pro-
cession had made his appearance; and immediately after,
a black banner appeared slowly moving above the heads
of the multitude. Every breath was suspended. Our
companion leaned so forward, as to intercept our sight.—
Suddenly the drum rolled again !—and we were as sud-
denly bereft of our acquaintance, who, starting at the
sound, lost his footing, and with the brief but impressive
exclamation of lud !' he rolled down the bill from
the top to the bottom.
" However indecorous at such a time, many failed to
retrain their laughter, though they sufficiently subdued
it, to prevent its being heard at any distance. It was
with the utmost difficulty that my friend got the better of
an inclination to hysterics : he was obliged to retire from
the front; and we removed together to another part of the
eminence. The accident, it must be confessed, was most
ludicrous : nevertheless, there was a distressing feeling of
self-censure, in submitting to the impulse of laughter,
however natural and irrepressible. In the silence which
followed, we fancied the reproof of offended humanity.
We had, as it were, revelled on the grave, and broken the
solemnity of the sepulchre !
" Soon after the black banner had appeared, the mur-
muring of the priests was indistinctly heard ; and, as their
voices greiv more audible, a large crucifix, covered with
black cloth, was seen to move forward. The priests were
for a minute silent; and the low rumbling of wheels now
fell upon the ears of the multitude. Ecco lo ! Ecco lo !
Vieni ! Vieni !" Here he is ! Here he is ! He comes !
He Comes !' were the subdued exclamations heard on every
side; and, "just as the priests :resumed their prayer, the
culprit—the fratricide—Pietro Barrini, was seen, sitting
erect near the front of a cart, with his back to the horse.
I On either side him was a masked confessor in the attitude
of a supplicant—not to heaven, but to the prisoner ;
' Al,, no !' exclaimed several voices near us, he has not
confessed—he rejects salvation !• At the end of the cart,
opposite the wretched Barrini, sat the individual who was
lesi an object of curiosity than the culprit himself.
You need not be informed it was the Monk of Benevento."

Summonses were received yesterday by several
of the Cabinet Ministers and others of the Privy Councillors
to attend a Committee Meeting of the Lords of the Privy
Council, at the Council-office, to hear the arguments of
Counsel in support of an appeal from the pilots cif Deal,
against certain regulations of the late Lord Warden !‘f the
Coupe Ports.