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16 with more hope to a land partnership, which, commencing by a valuation of actual improvements already made by the tenant over and above any proved stipulation, and not against the consent of the landlord, which shall in all matters for the time to come bring landlord and tenant into mutual co-operation for the general good. ''Sic floreat Hibernia! Erin-go-Bragh!''

LANDLORD AND TENANT IN ENGLAND.

"We have recently discussed in these columns the relations to each other of landlord and tenant in Ireland, and we feel that we could not better supplement the articles which dealt with that topic than by detailing to the readers of the the substance of some observations and enquiries which we have recently made in a northern county in England, respecting small farms and their management there. "We had an opportunity of prosecuting enquiries on two adjacent properties, both belonging to excellent and business-like landlords; and from the agent of one of them, a gentleman in every way suited for his position, We gained, the following information:—

On the property which he represented there were few leases. The bulk of the tenants held by a regular form of Written (or rather printed) agreement from year to year. There were farms of varying sizes, say from nine statute acres to a hundred or upwards. Part of the soil (lying on a bed of coal) was of a black, sandy, loamy nature. The hilly ground Was a heavy clay. The rental varied from 35s to £2 and £3 per statute acre: that of the sandy loam being higher than the heavy clay, and the amount per acre being also higher in proportion to the smallness of the farm.—For instance, a certain farm of nine statute acres on heavy, stiff land paid an amount equivalent to about £2 10s. per statute acre; while another—a forty-acre farm—with the same soil, paid only £1 15s. A third farm of ten statute acres, without buildings, the soil a stiff clay, let at £1 10s. per acre.

We now proceed to give the reason for these differences.

Unlike the Irish usage, the farm buildings, for the most part, were erected, not by the tenant, but by the landlord. They were handed over by the latter in a state of tenantable repair, and materials in the rough were, when necessary, supplied to the tenant to keep them so. In cases where the buildings were old at the commencement of a tenancy, it was usual for the landlord to agree to keep them wind and water tight, for in this