EJECTMENTS (IRELAND) BILL. [TO TEE EDITOR OF THE"SPECTATOR] SIB, —It seems
to be forgotten that this Bill is but a slight extension of part of the ninth clause of the Irish Land Act (1870). That clause states that " Ejectment for non-payment
of rent shall be deemed disturbance, in the case of a tenancy of a holding held at an annual rent not exceeding £15, if the Court shall certify that the non-payment of rent causing the eviction has arisen through the rent being an exorbitant rent." If, therefore, from extraordinary stress of weather, the tenants have been well nigh ruined, the ordinary rent becomes at once an " exorbitant " rent; and under these circumstances—when place, time, and Judge's discretion are all carefully marked out —there is surely nothing very revolutionary or confiscating in such a measure as the Ejectment Bill. It is purely tempDrary, and provides relief for abnormal distress.—I am, Sir, &c., S. C. B.
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