The farmers of Wales appear to wish for the Irish
Land Law. At a Conference held on Thursday, attended by delegates from all parts of the country, and including many Members of Parliament, it was resolved to demand "the three F's,"—that, is, fair rents, fixity of tenure, and free sale, the rents to be fixed by a Court of Law. There was substantially no opposition, and Bills embodying the views of the farmers are to be introduced next Session. The farmers declare that they cannot live at the present rents, and that landlords in Wales will not reduce them, and do not seem to see that if this is the case, they have only to throw their farms up to obtain any reduction they please. There is, no doubt, great suffering among farmers, both in Wales and England ; but we cannot believe that the intro- duction of double property in the soil is the true remedy. Even in Ireland it will soon be superseded by peasant-proprietorship, and in Ireland it had a base in immemorial custom, which is not alleged to exist in the Principality.
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