The long and much expected report of the Irish Land
Commissioners has just been delivered to Parliament and issued. It consists of a copious review of the subjects which might be anticipated in such a work, with historical and docu- mentary references. The practical recommendations to the State are—a law to secure remuneration to the tenant for outlay of capital or labour on permanent improvements; laws to check ejectment, by securing that it be only done under the actual order of landlord or agent, and to restrict costa; a law of summary ju- risdiction in disputes about con-acre; encouragement of leases by reduction of stamp-duties on leases and other facilities; consideration whether wastelands can- not be cultivated by means Of money advanced; grants for public works in suitable districts; emigration, under proper limitation; revision of the Grand Jury system, so as to provide for a constant suntendence of the fiscal affairs of counties; the transfer of the Constabulary charge to the Consolidated Fund—of thesupport of charitable institutions to the respective unions. However, legislation is not a panacea, and landlords are recommended to maintain agricultural schools; with a good deal more of useful advice clothed in kindly expressions, as to the removal of that distrust between landlord and tenant which is the root of almost all evil in the social state of Ireland, by patient and sincere efforts to improve the con- dition of the poorer classes.
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