28 DECEMBER 1867, Page 14

ULSTER TENANT RIGHT.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Will you kindly permit me to disown Mr. Murphy's defi- nition of our Tenant Right ? When I took my present farm, the agent, having received the stun which he had paid my predecessor for tenant right, said, "Now, the soil, in a state of nature, is the landlord's ; everything on it and in it is yours." We do not therefore regard our tenant right as "permission to sell the right of occupation of our farms," but simply as the right to be remunerated for all permanent improvements made at our expense.

If the landlords recoup all such outlay, we shall be quite will- ing to be dealt with as English and Scotch farmers are.—I am,