It is said that the Government will meet with very ,
serious opposition when they introduce their Agricultural Land and Tithe Rating Bills. If that proves to be the case, they have an easy course, and we hope they will take it. Let them take the Act of 1840—the annual Act which frees all forms of property from rates except land and tithes—out of the lixpiring Laws Continuance Act, and add it to their two other Bills, and introduce them simultaneously in a single annual renewal Act. Then the injury even now done to agricultural land and tithe will be apparent; and one set of Acts will not be able to be passed without the other,—i.e., the House of Commons will not be able to re-enact the injustice done in 1840 without making the partial reparation made by the recent Agricultural Rating and Tithe Acts.
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