d Land Bill.
They, with all good feeling toward their present landlords, cannot
avoid recognising that as the law stands the work of their lives may
be taken from them by any accident of succession. Despite the Land
Bill of 1870, they are harassed by a sense of insecurity. Monetary
payment for the work of their best years would not compensate them for
the loss of the holdings, the value of which has been created by their
own intelligent work. In England farmers of this type would assuredly
have a lease, and their Irish brethren hold that schemes for the
gradual acquirement of land by tenants should be accompanied by the
"Three F's," and extended over fifty instead of thirty-five years. The
latter plan would, they think, be of little use to the present tenant,
as it would practically raise his rent too far, and thus prevent him
from doing his best by the land. Great force is given to these
opinions by evidence in my possession, that, although a great deal of
land has been reclaimed within the last fifty years, a large
proportion is running barren for want of means on the farmers' part to
cultivate it properly.

The panic among all classes connected with "landlordism" is on the
increase. All who can conveniently leave county Kerry are doing so. If
I go for a drive with one of those proscribed by the grogshop-keepers
of Castleisland the muzzle of a double-barrelled carbine peeps
ominously from the "well" of the car. Meanwhile all enterprise and
development of the country is arrested. The North Kerry Railway,
connecting this town with Limerick, will, I believe, be opened next
week, "despite of foes," but other undertakings are for the moment
paralysed. This is the more to be regretted, as Tralee is a rising
place. After a desperate struggle against the inertness of Western
Ireland on the subject of pure water, the uncongenial element has been
introduced so skilfully and with so much fall that a jet can be thrown
over any house in Tralee. The last new idea is a railway to Fenit
Without, six miles down the bay. Up to the present time vessels have
been brought to Tralee by a ship canal, but it is now sought to
construct a railway running on to a pier, the elbow of which should be
formed by Great Camphire Island. The cost of the railway will be
45,000l., of which 30,000l. is guaranteed by the county, and a large
part of the balance taken up by the town. The pier is a far more
serious business, depending on the Board of Works;