The movement in favour of English Tenant-Right seems to make
some progress. At a large meeting held on Tuesday, called by the Central Chamber of Agriculture, very bitter speeches were made in favour of extending the Irish Act to Eng- land. Sir J. Pakington was strongly in favour of a right which he did not apparently define ; Mr. Read wanted compensation for unexhausted improvements ; and the whole Chamber seemed in favour of compelling landlords to give twelve months' notice of eviction. We should not wonder at all if under the Ballot the farmers raised the cry of "Liberty as in Ireland !" and then we shall see a struggle as fierce and bitter as that which ended in the downfall of the Corn laws. We wish before it comes on that a committee of farmers would define and formulate their demands. At present the year's notice to quit seems the only proposition universally accepted. We note that at the meeting the discussion was really free, and the squires took some hard words from the farmers with reasonable patience.
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