Mr. Parnell, it is stated in the Daily Express of
Dublin, is not inclined to lose his rents because tenants will not pay. A man named Kennedy held twenty acres of grass-land in Avondale, at £3 15s. an acre, but after an eight-years' occupation, was com- pelled, or induced, to take another farm. He did not succeed in it, and after six months' occupation, tendered six months' rent. The agent refused the money, and demanded a whole year's rent, alleging, probably with truth, that Kennedy had had all the beet of the year's grass. Kennedy removed his cattle, refused to pay, and is to be sued. Mr. Parnell does not appear to have behaved oppressively at all, and the question between him and hia tenant is purely one of contract ; but we do not understand why the National League shows him such favour. Their proper course, on their own principles, would have been to boycott the agent, advertise the tradesmen who- dealt with him, and threaten Mr. Parnell, and then, if not obeyed, to apply their " ultimate sanctions." General kindness in a landlord does not prevent the League from denouncing him as an exterminator, and it is most unfair that Mr. Parnell's popularity should exempt him from the "unwritten," and there- fore just, law of the land. Mr. Dillon has not made a speech in Avondale, nor will Mr. O'Brien quote the case as proof of the brutality of the Saxon. That is weak, Mr. Parnell being Saxon, Protestant, and rich.
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