LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
TENANT-RIGHT.
[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR.`] SIR„—I am trustee for a small estate near this place. A respectable looking peasant called on me yesterday on some other business, and told me that he had lately paid 245 for the tenant-right of one of oar farms. It consists of very rough land near the top of a mountain, and the rent is only £2 a year, to which must now be added the interest on .£45- He has improved and slated the cottage, which was a very poor one, and given the old tenant, a widow, a room to live in on what is wealth to her, the profits of the sale. I cannot understand how people can give so much for tenant-tight when such loud complaints are made of the difficulty of pay- ing any rent, owing to the low prices now prevailing.—I am,.
Late Vicar of Norton-Lenchwick, Evesham. Rathmullan, Co. Donegal, April 11th.
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