A great meeting of Irish landlords has been called for
January 3rd, to take the working of the Land Act into con- sideration. A smaller meeting was, however, held on Thursday in Dublin, attended by some ',300 of the smaller landlords. The speakers for the most part denounced the Land Act, declared that the whole agitation was the work of the League, thought there was no necessity for interference between landlords and tenants, and considered the Government weak, in not strength- ening the law " so as to go to the root of the matter." The S ub-Commissioners were accused of reckless valuations, made in frosty weather. No moderate or instructive speech was made, and the resolutions only suggested that Government should compensate the landlords " out of Imperial revenue," or should purchase the estates of all landlords willing to sell at twenty- two years' value. If the great meeting has nothing better to suggest than that, it will come to very little. It is said that all landlords reduced by the Sub-Commissioners intend to appeal, so that the operation of the Act should be checked by the press of business ; but that is merely the threat of exas- perated men. Such a proceeding would only delay the regular collection of rent.
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