NEWS OF TETE WEEK.
M HE latest and most credible report as to the nature of the
forthcoming Tenure Bill is that it will establish two principles, one, that a tenant has a right to full compensation for improve- ments, and the other, that no landlord can evict without the intervention of a tribunal. On receiving notice, the tenant, unless contented, will appeal to a Land Court which will arbitrate in the matter as if it were itself the good landlord, giving compensa- tion where it is due, or a lease where it is deserved, and in fact, preventing entirely what are called "extreme cases." The fear of landlords' caprice will thus be lifted off Ireland, while the law will appear, what it has never yet been, the protector of the tenant. It is not the least of the advantages of such a proposal that it will not interfere with property, and that as long as a landlord and his tenantry get along comfortably together, neither will be affected by the new law.
