The Lords got to work at the Committee on the
Land Bill on Thursday, and passed a good many amendments, some of which the Commons will probably not agree to,—amongst them, for instance, an amendment leaving out the direction to the Land Commissioners to take into account, in fixing a fair rent, "the interests of the landlord and tenant respectively." That will be construed as hostile to the tenant, as, indeed, it is intended to be, and will certainly be disagreed to by the Commons. Lord Salisbury and Lord Cairns were wise enough not to press the amendment limiting the value of tenancies subject to a judicial rent to £100 a year. It would have been well if they had been equally wise in other cases. However, they have evidently no intention of heroic resistance in the cases in which the House of Commons may disagree with their criticisms.
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