It is asserted that Sir Beavers Boller has issued a
secret 'Circular, directing his subordinates in Kerry not to lend the aid of the Royal Constabulary in evictions until they have ascertained that the evictions are reasonable,—that the tenant, for example, is able to pay. This course is denounced as a surrender to the National League, and on the face of it, it appears to set the police above the law. If the eviction is legal, they should help, the fairness of the contract being no business of theirs. Other- wise, they might refuse to arrest a thief for stealing a watch until its owner had proved in writing that he had paid his watch- 'maker's bill. It is, however, so excessively improbable that either :Sir R. Buller or the Government behind him have acted without good legal advice, that judgment ought to be suspended. We eiotice that Mr. Justice Morris has refused in future to order the eviction of a tenant not shown to be solvent ; so that in the statutes on which landlords rely, there must be some dis- cretionary power left to those who interpret the law. If there is not, Mr. Justice Morris, being a Judge, is rather worse than Sir Redvers Buller, or rather than Sir M. Hicks-Beach, who is responsible for his action. Sir Redvers, in theory at all events, only obeys orders.
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