THE LAND-PURCHASE BILL.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR." J
SIRT—YOu seem to mistake my meaning. In my last letter, I tried to point out that Mr. Balfour's land policy might in the end aggravate the landlord question, while bringing the labour ,question at once to the front. Nobody supposes that the new freeholders will ever "give up" their farms, as a body; but it is impossible not to see that many of them, or their successors, will be compelled to let them, or some part of them, and thus, for every wealthy landlord bought out now, you may get twenty needy landlords hereafter. I will only add that Mr. Sexton is reported to have stated yesterday at Boulogne that the satisfaction of the farmers under the new state of things might be the measure of the labourers' discontent. This at any rate looks like a partial recognition of a danger which has hitherto been persistently ignored.—I am, Sir, &G., The Lyth, Ellesmere, Dec. 27th, 1890. ARTHUR T. JEBB,
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