THE TENURE OF LAND.

Gen. Francis A. Walker delivered his second lecture on "Land Tenure" in Sever 11, last evening. The lecture consisted of an examination of the common criticisms against the established system of tenure of land, and was mainly a refutation of the theories of Messrs. H. C. Carey, Bastrat and Bouillet. The trouble with Mr. Carey, Gen. Walker said, was that in attempting to refute Ricardo's law, he confused this law with the law of populations; his criticisms were, in fact, "rank with inexact science and unhistoric history." Respecting the law laid down by Carey that poor and high land is universally settled and cultivated first, Gen. Walker said this if true could readily be explained from the fact that the necessities of life demanded that the new settler should reap his crops as soon as possible, and this was most easy on shallow lands on hillsides, demanding no drainage.

The lecture of May 14 will be postponed until May 21, and the remaining lectures of Gen. Walker's course will occur on the fourth and fifth Tuesdays in May.