What, we wonder, is meant by the tantalizingly vague sugges-
tion that " 'wanton " notices to quit are to be treated as null and of no effect ? Can it be that the Land Reformers think that the droit de seigneur is practised in Wiltshire or Dorset, and that this is their delicate way of forbidding the wicked marquis to evict the aged father of the beautiful maiden who repulses with scorn the vile advances of the infamous aristocrat P We come next to the statement that in a case of sale the Commissioners will have the power to order the seller to compensate the farmer for improvements and to give him substantial compensation for disturbance. We should have thought it would have been more equitable to have made the buyer give the compensation. But why apply the principle only in the case of land? Why should not a solicitor who sells his business be forced to compensate the clerks in case the new firm gives them notice P Finally, we are told that the Commissioners are to have the same power as the courts in Scotland for reducing rents.
