The discussions in Committee on the Irish Land Bill this
week have turned chiefly on Clause 4, which empowers the Court to let a notice given in writing serve the purposes of an actual ejectment, the time during which the tenant can redeem his holding by paying the rent, beginning to run from the service of the notice in writing, and expiring at the end of six months from that service in writing. The Irish Nationalists have made a fierce attack on this clause, which is intended to diminish the number of eviction scenes by constituting the tenant only a care- taker, though a caretaker with power to redeem his holding within six months' time, from the moment when the writ is served. The Irish Nationalists maintain that this provision will increase the number of evictions by rendering the process of eviction easier, and by halving the number of times in which it will ba necessary to employ force for the tenant's removal, and they have fought the clause with great bitterness.
