The Welsh Land Commission resumed its sittings on Wednesday, sitting
at Towyn on that day, and at Bala on Thursday. The evidence hitherto given before the Commis- sion, which it may be noted has been but scantily reported in the London papers, though the Manchester Guardian has contained long reports, has, on the tenants' side, been of the most unsatisfactory character. The wildest charges have been brought against the landlords ; but when these have had to hear the strain of counter-testimony, they have utterly broken down. Especially has this been the case with the allegation that landlords will not let land to Nonconformist tenants. That sounds absurd prima facie ; -for in these days landlords are much too eager to get tenants to inquire whether they are Churchmen or Dissenters—land- lords, too, are seldom so furiously on the parson's side as all that—and no evidence worth attending to has been brought to support it. On the other hand, there have been some curious indications of how largely the Welsh land question is a political manufactured product. Very significant was the statement made by &tenant-farmer at Pwllheli, who declared that he did not consider that a tenant should be compensated for buildings erected without the landlord's consent, but who added that " there were numerous farmers who shared his views, but dared not come forward for fear of losing promo- tion in their chapels."
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