THE COPYHOLD FRANCHISE.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."'
Sin,—Many will be puzzled by the assertion in your present issue that the new W. copyhold franchise is an extension of the Chandos Clause, and a pro tanto increase of landlord power. Surely copy- holds are a more independent tenure than tenancies-at-will. In this small town I am told that this new franchise will confer nearly household suffrage. Hardly less a puzzle are your views on the compound householders. Surely if they are to be preserved, wherever there is an agreement to that effect between landlord and tenant, the objection will remain that upon landlord influence it will depend too often whether any given occupiers shall be [We do not understand our correspondent's last sentence. We have always objected strongly to keeping the Compounders at all. We said, however, what is admitted on all hands, that Mr. Glad- stone and Mr. Hodgkiuson had (unadvisedly) agreed to retain the compounder in ease of agreement between landlord and tenant.— ED. Spectator.]
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