It is difficult to master the details of the controversy
which is being carried on in the Times concerning the action of the Salters' Company in refusing to continue their acctuitomed grants to the churches, schools, and charitable institutions upon the estates in Ulster just sold by the Company to the tenants under Lord Ashboume's Purchase Act. It is alleged, on behalf of the tenants, that the solicitor who acted as intermediary in the sale assured the tenants that the Company's subscriptions would be continued as usual, and that they only agreed to the purchase on that understanding. The Company declare, on the other hand, that if any such promise was made to the tenants, it was entirely without its sanction or approval. Since, however, there seems little doubt that the tenants really believed that if they agreed to the proposed terms they would not lose the subscriptions, we think the Company should not now withdraw them.
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