The event of the week most full of cheerful augury,
most likely to be followed by beneficial consequences, is the remarkable meet- ing of the Duke of Newcastle with his tenantry at Newark. The object of the meeting appears to have been to celebrate the termi- nation of a revision of the entire management of the Duke's estates, undertaken partly in consequence of some confusion that had crept into it during the incumbency of the late proprietor, and partly to adjust the relations of landlord and tenant so as to meet the exi- gencies of the Free-trade writ. The address of the Duke to his tenants is unsurpassed for breadth of statesmanlike thought, frank and benevolent temper, and business sagacity. The re- ciprocal interests of landlord and tenant are fairly and impartially weighed; the independence of the tenantry is respected ; the neces- sities of their political position are impressed upon them earnestly but without exaggeration. It is scarcely possible to overrate the importance of the step taken by the Duke as an example to his own class and a lesson to all. This purely business, it might almost be said domestic transaction, presents the Duke of New- castle to the public as one of our most sagacious and calmly reso- lute politicians ; it will certainly induce a large portion of the com- munity to anchor their hopes upon him.
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