lution--That the landowners, having hitherto shown the
greatest forbearance, will doubtless now be compelled to take
legal proceedings to enforce the payment of rent, in order to
meet their own pressing obligations, and as this can only be
done at the imminent risk of life we consider that the general
peace of the county will very shortly be seriously endangered.

Third Resolution--That with a view to the maintenance of law and
order we respectfully call on her Majesty's Government
immediately to summon Parliament, in order to obtain such
extraordinary powers as shall enable them to deal effectively
with a conspiracy unprecedented in character, which aims at
the total disorganization of society.

It is quite possible that these resolutions may produce some
astonishment in England, especially now that it is well known that
nothing beyond a special emergency will induce the Government to adopt
coercive measures. But things said and done in the West of Ireland are
apt to be somewhat after date. Still the resolutions of the Clare
magistrates have their value as giving a tolerably clear idea of what
may be designated the landlord mind. Minute subdivisions set aside,
there are at least four ways of looking at the subject of the day in
this part of Ireland. There is the view of a great landlord who,
because he helped his people with food during the potato famine and
with money to emigrate with afterwards, and has spent a little money
here and there out of a huge income, thinks he has amply discharged
his duty to his tenants. It is true that he began by charging them 4
and 5 per cent, respectively on building and drainage improvements, a
tolerably round percentage; but it is fair to admit that for several
years past he has not charged more than 21/2 per cent, for such
improvements as he has made. The great landlords of this county are
less attacked than others by popular orators, mainly because their
rents are not exorbitantly high in the first place. The land is let on
lease for terms as long sometimes as sixty-four years, and is
sometimes underlet at greatly increased prices to the ultimate
tenants, whose precarious condition brings the "head" landlord into
undeserved odium. The great landholders and their agents maintain that
to quote Griffiths against a landlord who has spent money in
improvements since that valuation was made, and let his farms so low
that oth