That Mr. Bright is right as to the necessity of
further deal- ings with the land question, nothing can show better than the unimpeachable evidence referred to by Mr. Lefevre, in his short letter to last Saturday's Timm—the letter in which he quotes the evidence given by Major Dalton, the agent for Lord Head- fort's extensive estates in the counties of Meath and Cavan, and also a near relative of Lord Headfort'e. Major Dalton insists on the expediency of increasing, by every legitimate ineans, the number of owners among the occupiers of land in Ireland, and dilates on the conservative effect which such an increasse produces. Major Dalton shows that on the Cavan estates of Lord Headfort, where the Ulster custom gives the tenant a proprietary interest in the laud, the rents are quite- as high as on the Meath property, where there is no such, pro-. prietary interest, while the tenants are more prosperous and contented. And it is remarkable enough, as Mr. Lefevre adds, that the recent threatening letters concern the property of Lord Headfort in Meath, where there is no proprietary interest, not in Cavan, where it exists and bears its natural fruit,—a strong conservative feeling,—in the minds of the tenants.
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