Mr. O'Brien, editor of the United Irishman, holds that Lord
Lansdowne's tenants, particularly the rich ones, are overrented to the extent of 15 per cent. Lord Lansdowne differs, inasmuch as the tenantry are paying either a judicial rent or a rent settled by contract. That being so, Mr. O'Brien has proceeded to Canada, where Lord Lansdowne is Viceroy, in -order to instigate the Canadians to coerce the Queen's represen-' tative into settling his private affairs as his tenants please. The Canadians, who are either freeholders or tenants under laws infinitely stricter than those of Ireland, do not quite see it. The Irishmen of the cities are ready to shout, but the Frenchmen are indifferent, and the English and Scotch so irritated, that it is believed meetings may be prohibited lest Mr. O'Brien should be hurt. He himself feels the situa- tion, for being by nature the most violent and rancorous speaker in Europe, he is in Canada almost moderate, only accusing Lord Lansdowne of a desire to " extirpate " his own tenantry, and with them his own rent. The general feeling in Canada is obviously that Mr. O'Brien is guilty of an impertinence to the Dominion, which can estimate the character of its Viceroy without his help, and be will probably be compelled to cover his retreat by a campaign of oratory in the States. They -discount people there.
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