h characteristic accuracy the objects he had in
view, and the means he took to accomplish them. He has also already
made known his difficulties and disappointments through the medium of
the Press. He has undoubtedly, had abundant opportunity of weighing
the possibilities of Irish country life during the long period of his
residence in Ireland. It is also clear to any unprejudiced person that
he has striven, not only to do his duty by the land, but by the
tenants occupying one part of it and the labourers employed on the
other. In round numbers he owns about 4,000 acres, of which he farms
1,000 himself. Besides 1,000l. worth of butter annually made, he sells
1,000l. worth more of cattle, and 1,000l. worth of sheep and wool,
besides oats and various other produce.

While this one-thousand-acre farm was let to tenants, it yielded its
proprietor an average rental of 17s. an acre. No person acquainted
with farming would for an instant assume that a small tenant could
make nearly as much out of his land as the farmer of a thousand acres;
but allowing for all this, 14s. 3d. per acre appeared a very low rate
to the landlord of the farm of fifty-eight acres occupied for the last
half-century by the Walsh family. I gather that the grandfather of D.
Walsh held the farm from the grandfather of the present landlord; that
the original occupant was succeeded by his son; that on the son's
death his widow retained undisturbed possession until her son was old
enough to assume the management, and that then the landlord required
20s. per acre from him. To the landlord it seemed that the Walsh
family had had a good bargain. He was informed, with what degree of
accuracy I cannot at this moment ascertain, that the widow had given
her four daughters respectively 140l., 130l., 130l., and the stock of
a farm, probably of equal value "to their fortune," and that she had
also helped one of her sons to make a start in the world on an
independent farm. From these circumstances he concluded that he was
entitled to more rent than he had been receiving, and demanded 20s.
from her son for a lease of thirty-one years.

To the tenant the case assumed a widely-different aspect. His
grandfather, his father and his mother, had successively occupied the
fifty-eight acre farm for fifty years. Two generations had been bred,
if not born, on the holding at Ballinascarthy, just beyond the bridge.
They had been decent people. They had paid their rent, and if his