19 MARCH 1887, Page 2

The appointment of Mr. Wrench on the Irish Land Com-

mission, in the place of Mr. Vernon, deceased, may be a very good one, but certainly will not gratify national feeling in Ireland. Mr. Wrench is, we believe, an Englishman who, though he has land agencies in Ireland, and may be, for anything we know to the contrary, a man of absolutely first- rate ability, has no large knowledge of Ireland, and no excep- tional means of forming a just judgment on the points which come before the Land Commission. It is not very wise to declare thus ostentatiously that there is no Irishman to whom the duty of estimating the true character of the present agrarian emergency could properly be confided.