FREE LAND AND FIXITY OF TENURE.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—I have before me the address of Mr. Henry Robertson, the Liberal candidate for Merionethshire. In it he declares himself in favour of the abolition of the Laws of Entail and Primogeniture, and in favour of the cheap transfer of land. In other words, he is an advocate for " free land," as understood by Mr. Bright and Lord Hartington. One of the principal objects of this reform is to get rid of limited ownership, which so greatly hampers free dealing with land. And yet in the same address he says that he is in favour of "fixity of tenure." Is not this a reintroduction of limited ownership, and in its most objectionable form P And was it not in great part to remove the intolerable deadlock produced by this form of land- tenure that the Irish Land Purchase Act was passed P—I am,
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