The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-05 00:00:00

IRISH RENTS AND TENANTS.

COUNTY GALWAY, Nov. I.—Two English farther.
from Lincolnshire have Just been over here. .They remained
very minutely some lands in the neighbourhood of Dunmore.
Tney complaia of the representations which were made to
them in Rotated of the very cheap terms on which land
exuld be had in Ireland, and allege that they And landlords
here demanding larger rents fw lands quite naked and
destitute of any accommodation In the way of buildings I
for either man or beast, than they had been used to pay
in England for farms previa, d with good farm houses see
offices. On applying to the proprietor of a large farm aear
Dunmore which has lain " waste" for the last three years,
and which ham neither house nor Aloe on it, and the soil of
is
which, though naturally of fair quality, in rather low
cor.dition, they were informed that the rent expected for it
was 355. an acre for 013 best part of the lend, and 255. an
acre for the part of woond•rate qualiy. They derided the
idea of such prime, and seemed to say that one pound an acre
(the landlord paying poor rates and taxes) wee ma mach as a
•enant could possibly pay. They had also been examining
land in the county of Roscommon, bet there too the terms
expected by landlords amounted in their ees to a prohibi-
tion against the much fondled notion of an kaplish colonist
lion of Connaught. These gentlemen say that the lands
they have examined, though of very good natural quality,
are for the most part in such very low condition that a
tenant ought to be allowed to held them for from two to
lour years free of rent. They say, also, that the farms they
have seen would general) require, each of them, eight hun-
dred or • thousand pounds to be laid oat in building a house
and Aloes—that they know that most of the Irish landlords
are not in circumstances to expend so much money en their
properties; but that English tenants could be found to
make the outlay provided they were premitted to repay
themselves their expenditure, with interest, out of the rent
of the first years of their less*. They speak highly
of the natural capabilities of the land in Ireland.—
They are anything but sanguine of the general prospects
of farming, and say that the Lincolnshire farmers have for
some years back been paying their rents out of their capital.
Tfader sash circumstances they aver that English farmers
will be very chary of coming to Ireland to pay high rents,
' with the manifold disadvantages they will have to encounter
here. They complain a good deal of the covenants ordina-
rily insisted on Eaglish landlords, which p t the
tenant la Engin from selling hay, straw, or turnips off the
farm, and oblige him to connate these portions of his crop
by cattle on the laid. la my opinion they seem to set too
mach screen in being released from these restrictions (as
they expect
othzweuld be released in Ireland), and forget
they are the restrictions that any tenant desirous
to keep kis Ind In good heart would impose upon himself.
There seems to be an effectual bar to prevent any large
migration of English twat' lath Ireland: I mean the farm
house and farm other which should have to be built at an
expense of sa one Modred or a thalami pounds for every
farm of ens hundred or one hundred and fifty Irish acres.
An Irish landlord thinks a tenant mad who expecte him
(the landlord) to expend such sans of money, and an English
tenant thinks an Irish landlord equally mad who expects
him (the tenant) to rent his farm on any other terms.
These gentleman say, however, that if a landlord would
ennead mosey in the necessary buildings they would be
willing to allow him five per sent. on his outlay as rent,
over and above what they would give for the naked land,
upon which, In its present condition, these gentlemen set
bat • very low vale..
I suggested to them that If they were willies to take lands
en a eaves years' Lease nada the Court of Chancery, they
amid get them Ma few terms, se sash lands were let
every day by pubis at rents scarcely a third of
what they used lemsedy est .
_They said they would not
take lead la the low and unimpeeved Gonad= of the land
they had sees la this wintry under the Court at Chancery,
thought they got it wittiest rest at &IL At the end of
the seven yean' lease they said they would hate theist
iladed all their aphid, aid would Net he befftwei•ff W
loth fee a return been it Asa they would have laud,
end all—taken Ikon them to be set ne at auction
to the NOM bidder. This did not salt the nothw of Eng-
lish tenants.
They said, too, that they had left inglead with the idea
impressed upon them, by the reports of Irish outrages, that
the Irish were a bleeitb race ; but they
had hod, within a few days, the food or had forams to
seinen • mouse of Irish eviedoanad heats levelling, width,
with all the rest of what they tad wee mime they awn
here, had vastly altered their coition shoat Inked and the
Ithh. They had men, is the amebae vicinity of Dee
alore, 60 bathes miaowed et ego MI mem sad the hawse
thetantly levelled by the Wain!' ballith and &Awn.
They mad if sash a ease. inahl pith* tab plus in leg-
head ft weal& raise the whole esehieyie vesigeesee hoe!~
=sadle to tile other. They fis thisseersieet Inth •
et judos eel seterol, is
=wbish enamel the I have ewer eller
fee metals smelt e!kgeserees eosins dm mi.
doebtedly pertain to the iaglish chated•r•

They said, that bail they been able to get lands at reason-
able prim, end asks a report to their friends in England,
ocingraintres=entasion now entreat in that country,
as to the issue la whisk Irish landlords were
to deal with semi tenaate, they knew at lout fifteen
eabstaatial 61111STDia their own lassodiste neinbbewbood
who weld at oseel•MOTO to Ireland.—Freensan's Journal.

DEPRECIATION OP LAND.—We understand (say.
the Loath Advertiser) that a large number of notices of sur-
render have been served on Mr. Stratton, L rcd ffixten's
'goat, by hoiden oiling in Dundalk, the rent being melt as
the Ms of prises would not warrant them in paying
The= NM ef the duet in Ireland ; but from 41. to 61.
an awe, with heavy taxes, is a sum which practical farmers
regard as ezeeilltant.
Cosh 7,Cx..r—A correspondent of the Limerick
and Chas writ*, from the Olen of Aberlow,
mays: Several of this ;tenantry of Mr. George Archer Sutler,
who were ones in comfortable circumstances in thl• Glen
canted away their mops a few nights sinm, and are now on
their way to a foreign More. Mrs. Frew's, a lady of mai-
&treble property in the Glen, has thrown up 100 acres of
land to Massey, of Riverdale, because he would not make
the necessary ooseenious.
ENGLISH SETTLERS IN TIIE WEST.—The Mercan-
tile Advertiser gives the following extract of a letter from
Westport:--" I have learned that lir. Mien of London, a
man of greet wealth, is in treaty for the Island of Boffin, on
the west coast of Mayo, and is about building a residence
there, and extensive stores, curing homes, &e., for the pur-
posesa, of the deep sea Bakery."
SUPPOSED MURDER IN NEwaY.—An inquest was
held in Newry yesterday, on the body of a man found
drowned in the Newry Canal; when tie followiox virdict,
which sufficiently explains the circumstances, was returned :
—" That on the 90th Oatober, fa the waters of the Newry
Canal, situate at New, in the county aforesaid, the said
John Murdock was found drowned; sad the Jurors afar...
said do further may, that, on the 16th of October, some
person or parsons at present unknown to the jurors, is and
upon the said Joha Mardock feloniously did make an as-
sank, and him, the said John Idea ck, did there cast and
throw into the waters of the Newry Canal, whereby he was
then and there immediately drowned." The case is only
remarkable, because the Orangemen attribute the supposed
murder to the opposite party.