The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-11

'stroys Oil industry whatsoever" Is il any
longer doubtful TINT this is at least ouc
cause why 1rishmcn are poor? Lord West
bury, another great lawyer, naturally dis
posed to favor the landlords, asked, fifteen
years ago, if it was not consistent with JUS
tice for the law to assume tacit under
sanding on the part of the landlord that
the tenant was TO enjoy the results Of his
improvements; and late Master OF the
Rolls i'll Ireland, declaring that, according
to Il fixed law, he was bound TO administer
injustice in certain case, remarked that
nothing could be more rcpugnant to natu-
.'ral justice than that IL landlord should look
''at Il great expenditure carried on by n ten
'ant from year TO year. without warning
''him of his intention to turn him out of pos
session"
The Tribune gives the following rs Il spec
linen of the various covenants made by Irish
tenants:
'The lease Is from year TO year, determined
by six months notice, ending on either rcn,
day, and moi, rs In common yearly tennncics,
on the day from which the letting began. 1t
reserves all timber, boys, mines, game, harcs,
rabbits, wild fowl and fish, with the right Of
shooting, &C., to Lord Letrim, 'hls heirs and
assigns, his and their nominees, servants and
followcrs,' and gives him power to enter for
the purpose Of surveying, searching for mine
rails, and making roads and drains.
"Thc tenant is restrained from making
new roads, fences or drains on the land, und
from building and altering any house thereon,
and from allowing any house thereon TO be
used rs n dwelling house, except that In which
he himself resides, and he Is also put under
very stringent conditions rs to tilagc lie Is
TO keep In repair, and TO Yield up in repair all
buildings, &c. He is TO dig up or cut down
all tAstlcs, docks and other weeds, before
they go to seed, or ut any time when desired
10 do so by the sni,l Earl OF Lcitrim.' The tell
cnt Is also ito assist TO the utmost the said
Earl - in prosecuting trcspasscrs.'
"If lie breaks any Of these conditions, lie Is
lquI,latcd damages; which, for the benefit OF
unproiessional readers, 1t may be rs well to OBJ
serve means that the whole penal sum slpu-
lated for Is 10 be paid upon any breach Of con-
dltion, and not merely SO much Of 1t us would
be u fllr compensation for the damage acl,l-
ally inflicted Finally, nothing in the lease
contained is to cntltlc the tenant 10 amy pay
ment 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 improve
mcnt shall have been previously stipulated tor
and specified by an agreement In writiug'n
The plan proposed by Mr.. Bright is for
Parliament to buy landed estates in Ireland
of the large proprietors and sell them in
farms to the tenants. The government can
borrow the money required at 81 per cent. ;
the tenant can pay the government rs rent
about 6 per cent The difference between
the cost to the government and the amount
paid to the tenant would give the farm to the
tenant, at the end Of fifteen or twenty years.
without further payment. Mr.. Bright said:
"Thus, Mt the end of very few years, the
''firmer would possess his own farm, having
"a perfect security. AL tho time nobody
"could turn him out if he paid his rent, and
nobody could touch him for any improve
'.nent he made OH his land The next
morning after he made that agreement he
"wo,lld speak to his wife and to his big boy
''and there would not be stone on the land
'that would not be removed, not weed
that he would not pull up, not particle of
manure that lie would not save"
There is now no lack of testimony MS to
Irish wrongs ''Mr. Bright thought that the
charger lnndlortlism of English government
"wns brutal. Mr.. Gladstone admits n
''tragic retrospect when he says that Ire
Gland ought to be governed for Irishmen.
"Lord Clarendon describes landlorilism as
''felony. Professor Rogers, of Oxford, writes
"that Irclnnd's social condition is tho GROSS
"cst scandal, and that from no fault of
"thrifty people. Prussia has given the right
"of hereditary fixture to her peasants; Eng
''gland hns given imlnunitics to her Indian
'ryots against eyictionsr not to spoak of her
"endowing Pasans when Roman Catholics
'werc neglected. The Irish tenant asks for
go right to his improvements, security
against the arbitrary raising of rent, and
''fixity of holding. Mr.. Brght's loan scheme,
'.inRlading the purchase OF the estates of ab-
''scntees, and the famous Prllssian land sys-
"tem, equally niln to mako tho tenant n pro-
''prietor."
What the Irish want is to give the land
lords fnir ront but nothing else, and to free
the tenant from serfdom by making his right
against eviction legal They want better
state of nffhirs than that protested against in
1858 by Lord Landsdownes tennntry: eve
'have been made kcenly sensible of abjcct
dependence by certain rules and regulations
(which are now enforced on this estate. By
"those rules no tenant can marry or procure
"the marriage of his son or daughter without
permission from your lordship's agent,
"even when no change of tenancy would
'arise." The various points of reform de-
manded may be stated as follows:
81. Flxlty or perpetulty of tenure, based
upon o fair rental to be determined by nm no.