Mr. Eirington, Member for Longford, has taken a far more
practical course. In a letter to his tenantry, in which he remits rents to the extent of from ten to fifteen per cent., he declares that, in his judgment, the objects of reformers in Ire- land should be an extension of Peasant-proprietary, a habit of granting perpetual leases, a reduction of expense in the transfer of land, and some large changes in the laws of settlement and entail. He intends, therefore, to offer his own tenants leases in perpetuity, and will next Session introduce a Bill "for enabling limited owners to give leases in perpetuity," as Scotch land- owners, we may remark, already cat. These measures will, he believes, lay a foundation for the "fixity of tenure" at fair rents, "the necessity of 'which circumstances now render BO evident."
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