14 JANUARY 1882, Page 13

THE IRISH LANDLORDS AND THEIR. COMPLAINTS.

To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTLT01.1 SIR,—In your article of the 7th inst., on " The Irish Landlords in Caucus," you altogether miss the chief point of their case, which is—to put it with brutal directness—that the passing of the Land Act has been obtained on fabie pretences. The mem- bers of the Government who carried it through Parliament represented that there would be no general lowering of rent, and it is certain that the Act would not have passed if the action of the Assistant-Commissioners had been foreseen. I do not at all mean that the members of the Government meant to deceive ; on the contrary, I have little doubt that the action of the Courts has surprised them as much as any one else.—I am,