The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-11-17
Light at Last-A Kew Revelation from
Ireland.
The Pail Mall Gazette SAYS:

i The Pail Mall Gazette says:
i Common forms are not, as general
rule, particularly interesting; but those
who wish to understand one side, at all
events, of the Irish land question,
would do we'll to cast their eyes over the
common form which was published in
yesterdays Times of the leases which
are henceforward to regulate the pos
ition of Lord Leitrim's tenantry. 1t
will enable them to appreciate, 20 a GER
tain extent, some of the feelings with
which the Irish tenantry look at the
question of the relation between their
| landlords and themselves. The sub
| stance of this document is as follows:
| The lease is from year TO year, deter
minable by six months notice ending
on either rent day, and not, as in COM
mon yearly tenancies, on the day from
which the letting began.
1t reserves all timber, boys, mines,
game, hares, rabbits, wild fowl, and
fish, with the right Of shooting, etc,
to Lord Leitrim, his heirs aud assigns,
his and their nominees, servants and
followers, and gives him power to enter
for the purpose of surveying, searching
for minerals, and making roads and
drains.
The tenant is restrained in making
new roads, fences or drains on the land,
and from building and altering any
houses thereon to be used as a dwelling
house except that in which he himself
resides, and he is also put under very
stringent conditions indeed as to til
lage.
The tenant is to keep in repair and
to yield up in repair all buildings, etc.
He is to dig up or cut down all thistles, !
docks and other weeds, before they go
to seed, or at any time when desired 10
do so BY the said Earl of Leitrim, his |
heirs or assigns, or his or their agent, |
or other person duly authorized for the
time being.
The tenant is also to assist to the ut |
most the said Earl X = X in prosecuting |
trespassers He engages not at any time
to take out, or suffer to be taken out,
any dog or dogs, or destroy or injure,
or suffer to be destroyed or injured any
game, bares or rabbits, or wild fowl.
On the contrary be is TO preserve and
protect the same.
If he breaks any of these conditions,
he is to be subject to a further rent, in
the nature of liquidating damages;
nothing in the lease contained is to en-
title the tenant ITO any payment or
compensation for any farm or other
building for agriculture or otherwise,
or for any fixture or improvement Of any
description, unless the making of such
work or improvement shall have been
previously stipulated for and specified
by an agreement in writing"
These are the terms upon which Lord
Leitrim is willing to permit his tenants
to pay him rent for his land. One of
them, the provisions which requires the
tenants to protect the eggs of hares and
rabbits, appears to US unobJecllonable
enough if Lord Leitrim cares about it:
but the general tenor of the whole doc
ument throws a strong and most dis
NAL light upon the causes of Irish dis
content. We do not know how many
tenants there may be on Lord Leitrim'
estate, but we are quite sure of one
the land upon which they, and their
ancestors before them, were bred and
born, is the sole fund to which they
can reasonably look for support. They
must either starve or else live by its
or else attempt to get work
as laborers or to emigrate. The demand
for labor is scanty and uncertain. Emf
grafton is not only very expensive, but
it is to the last degree repulsive to their
feelings. Practically, therefore, they
are forced to cultivate Lord Leitrim 5
estate on the terms which Lord Leitrim
chooses to impose. We see by this
lease what those terms are. They are
in substance that Lord Leitrim and his
agents are to be their absolute masters.
CRusoE's LAND CoLoNIzED.-An ex.
change has the following interesting