e. The land that lets at one pound an acre here,
would give three pounds an acre in the county of Antrim and the north of
Ireland._"

Mr Andrew Muir and Mr William Milne, Scotch farmers employed by Lord
Erne in Fermanagh, after describing the bad cultivation, say:--"They
think the land of the same quality in Scotland would fetch L4 the Irish
acre." "You think the Scotch farmer could afford to pay L4 an acre,
corresponding with this, under the Scotch system?"[7] "Yes, and if he
had the advantage of the Scotch markets here."

We have thus proved, we trust, to the satisfaction of our readers, and
solely by the evidence of _impartial and most competent witnesses_, that
the exorbitance of the rent cannot possibly be the cause of Irish
discontent, because, as we before stated, the most respectable and
comfortable tenantry are to be found on the worst and highest-priced
lands; and we shall conclude our remarks upon this subject by a
quotation from "the _Times_ commissioner" as to the quality of the soil
thus moderately rented:--"In no part," says that gentleman, writing from
Enniskillen, "have I seen the natural capabilities of the soil and
climate surpass those of Ireland, and in no part have I seen those
natural capabilities more neglected, more uncultivated, more wasted,
than in Ireland. It is now the middle of the hay harvest in Ireland--the
meadows, for the most part, are wholly unmanured, and yield simply a
natural crop of grass. I speak with confidence when I say, that the
quantity of hay cut appears to the eye to be, in proportion to the land,
_nearly double the amount which ordinary land in England well manured
produces; and it is certainly one-fourth more than the best land in
England yields_; but this is the produce of the unassisted soil and
climate. I have seen such crops of potatoes growing as I never saw
before."

Security of tenure is amply attained in every part amongst the lower
classes, and in their favour--where leases do not exist, the
tenant-right, and the system of terror, protects the occupier; and this
tenant-right, or "good-will," is admitted to exist in every part of the
country--the only difference being found in the persons by whom it is
paid, and the purposes to which it is appropriated. In the north, the
incoming tenant invariably pays, and the arrears are deducted from the
purchase-money, for the benefit of the landlord; while in the west and
south it comes direct from the purse of the landlo