THE IRISH LAND QUESTION.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the Spectator of the 12th inst. I read the following :— 4‘ Owing to circumstances in the history of Irish agriculture, and peculiarities in the economic position of the island, land- lord and tenant are not dealer and customer, but partners with unequal rights."
Will Englishmen never get it into their heads that it is not the state of Ireland that is peculiar, but that of Great Britain ; that the attempt to treat the relation of landlord and tenant as one of dealer and customer has never been tried, except in the United Kingdom ; and that yearly tenancy, or tenancy-at-will, is really a customary tenure, bad at the best, and endurable only when there '1 a tacit understanding that the landlord is not to press his rights ?—I am, Sir, &c.,
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