On Friday se'nnight, Mr. Seely brought forward his regular- proposal
for giving increased security to tenants, and especially to market gardeners, who form a large body of voters, and are, perhaps, the class in England most oppressed by our tenure laws His speech was dry, but he has the Chambers of Agriculture- behind him, and we are not sure he has not the Premier. At least, Mr. Disraeli, though postponing the matter to next Ses- sion, and sneering at nineteen years' leases, and condemning the- Liberal Bill as containing agreements human nature could not bear, did promise a measure conceding compensation for unex- hausted improvements. If he means what he says, and does not mean to let every landlord contract himself out of compensations, he will have a lively time next Session, and find more to do in educating his Peers than he has ever had yet. What, they will say, is the use of having land, if you cannot clear disagreeable- people off it? Perhaps, however, next Session we shall have a Commission ; next, a promise to act upon that Commission's report ; and next, the House may have something else to think of,—labourers' votes, for example. The farmers would swap• security of tenure for security against labourers' votes even now.
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