THE LAND BILL.
[To THE EDITOR OP THX."SPRCTATOR."] SIR,—Lord Hartington and Lord Salisbury do not take your view that a rich tenant is bound to pay judicial rents. Lord Hartington has requested Lord Salisbury to alter his Bill so as to provide for the revision of all rents, both of tenants able and unable to pay. This course, therefore, they consider just, right, and expedient, which is precisely what Mr. Campbell-Bannerman said. You ask,—If prices had risen, would the landlords have -got more ? Yes, certainly. At the end of fourteen years they would ; and if during the fourteen years the tenants had shared in these higher prices, they would have been able to have paid a greatly increased rent.
I thank you for inserting any letter ; this is like my old
[The fixed term was fifteen years, not fourteen. The question we
asked was, whether before the expiration of the fifteen years the judicial rents would have been interfered with on behalf of the landlord, as they are now to be interfered with, without waiting for the expiration of the period on behalf of the tenant. This question Mr. Saunders does not answer.—En. Spectator.]
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