New-York daily tribune., 1843-02-01
Landlord and Tenant.

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some asking qtessions some assuming TO give
counsel, &c. We have given place to one who
assumes to state the grievances OF Tenants, end
point ont the means of their redress; 1t Is very
difficult to find room for many articles on the sub
iect. Instead Of il, we offer few remarks OF
our own either in reply to questions or suggested
| by remarks of our correspondents, viz: f
l. All combinations or meetings of Landlords
or Tenants to adjust tariff Of Rents for the ensu-
ing year are simply absurd. No good can ever
come of them.
2. A man may ask what he pleases for aay ten
enent or other property, and is not to be esteemed
| an oppresser therefor; If he asks teo much, he
will probably punish himself BY getting no tenant
and of course no rent A combination of Land
| lords to increase Rents would be mischievoua and
| unjusti6able; combination of Tenants to de-
press them much the same.
3. 1t is common mistake that Rents are much
higher in this City than in other large Cities
| From the wedge-like shape of our Island, high
Rents in the lower part of the City are inevitable
| while the vast, iRcessant influx OF Immigrants
tends to keep up the price Of the poorest class OF
| tenements /, but good dwellings are as cheap here
| as aHy where, and as any thing else. We doubt
whether al! the dwellings in the City above Cham
bersstreet pay six per cent. on the cost OF their
construction, counting the ground worth nothing
| beyond the Assessments paid on 1t for Street
| Opening, Paving, &c.
q. The system of universal house;ekng on the lst
OF May is Of great Inconvenience and mis-
chief. how is il to be abated? We wish Land
lords and Tenants could be induced to try the plan
sf lease without limit of time, but terninabie by
| either party on three months notice. Under this
plan. there would be far less moving and less
grumbling than now.
| S. No Landlsnd can pat bill on leased house
| without the consent of the occupant; though no
Tenant will object unless his Landlord has en-
deavored to opprcss him. In case Landlord
insists on raising the rent good and functual
| tenant, the latter Can of course keep the house
wholly to himself till his lease has expired.
g. Showing house is entirely an act of courtesy
OR the part of the tenant unless he has stipulated
to o it in his lease; yet no reasonable man Will
refuse to do it at reasonable times unless ne has
been oppressed. But the abuses and annoyances
practiced under the prete1t of house-huntiRg are
grievous, and ought to be stopped. We think
tenant who shows his Cor her) house to those who
bring note from the Landlord, and who appoints
two DAYS in each week when the house may be
seen from A. M. TO 12 does all that can be re-
quired No man can be expected to make a bar
room or gazing of his house continually from
February to May.
T. The City is not ruined yet, by considerable
RHODE IsLAND.-The Ticket for State Officers
made up by the friends of the legal Constitution in
this State is as follows:
For Gopernor......JA FEssER, of Providence
Lieut.. Gop.... BYRON DImAs, of Bristol
Sec. of State. HENRY BOWEN, Of Providence
{" Atfy General. .JosEPg NJ. BLAKE, OF Bristol.
Gen Treasurer. STEPHEN CAHoosE, of Newport
| Gen. Fenner and Mr.. Cahoone are Van Buren, men !;
the others Wings.
The Dorr party Convention assemblies FEB. 9th.
1t will probably nominate full ticket. though we
hear ,ha, its leaders, believing they have little
chance of success will waive General Ticket,
and make rush only for the Legislature, hoping
thereby to lull the friends of Law and Order to
Sleep We trus, they cannot succeed either way.
They openly ayow that they have registered and
Will vote unQcr tRe SonstituLoh, oaiy
turn it and establish that of Dorr.
10 RICHARD PETERS, Esq. has been remoUed
by the U. S. Supreme Court from the Office OF Re
porter of its Decisions, and Gen. BENJ. c. How
ARD, late M. c. from Baltimore, appointed in his
stead. The change has been accomplished by
vote of to g. We believe Gen. Howard is re-
lated to Chief Justice Taney, as well as warH,
Loco-Foco partisan. We are not well informed
in regard to this matter but it strikes US as shah
BY proceeding.
| ~ JOHN NEAL, Esq. delivered his second, and
we presume his last, Lecture before the Mercantile
Library Association last evening at the Tabernacle
His subject, General Reading, was very good
one and in many respects suited to his tastes and
habits of thought. We had hoped, therefore, that
he would say something upon it of interest and of
| worth but we were sadly disappointed Instead
| of speaking upon this topic, Mr. NEAL devoted the
srst half Of his hour very ridiculous attempt
TO yindcate his preposterous crotchets concerning
the Rights of Women, laid down in his former
Lecture, against the assaults of the Press-taklng
up in succession what each paper had said OF his
remarks, and repeating with all the gravity OF
man in earnest, solemn truths, the gro,esque
and absurd doctrines which his former audience
had charitably received as meant for little else
than the broad jokes of man fond Of humor and
fantastic notions. Upon General Reading, when
he came at last TO speak of it, he uttered nothing
not said before by others quite as well.
| His Lecture was failure-nothing more or less.
U RALPH WALDO EMERSON viii deliver q
ConrSa az E;vs sc,nres nm .NRw.ESaJ avn, he.