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which ought fairly to be paid for it. This is the theory; in practice, landlords complain that the inspection is too cursory, and that the valuers tend to take their information too implicitly from the tenant. But some body always will complain in Ireland, what ever is done; besides, if there be anything in the case, there will almost certainly be an appeal by one party or both, which is good for trade. At all events, the commission will sit here again on a future day, and an nounce the rent which has been fixed. For merly it was blissfully free from the necessity of giving any reasons for its judgment, but now an unfeeling legislature compels it to give numerous reasons in the form of a sche dule, so that the parties may be able to know precisely what they are grumbling at. It may have been inferred that the Land Commission Courts are not looked upon with any great reverence in Ireland. Land lords, of course, regard their proceedings as

legalized robbery; tenants complain that they are not bold enough in carrying out the policy of the acts. Their composition, at times, has not been such as to inspire re spect. There was one tribunal, for instance, whose chairman was particularly deaf, while its second member was irritable and snap pish, and the third very irregular in his attendance. This body a witty Junior has characterized forever by defining it as " con sisting of three members, one of whom can 't hear, the second won't hear, and the third isn 't here." But in the majority of cases the commissions are respectable, if sometimes mediocre. After all, they provide state employment for a number of deserving per sons, they prevent legal business from be coming utterly extinct, they do something to relieve the tenants, and as for the land lords — well, they have something to grum ble at.—Pall Mall Gazette.