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lativc to meliorations and irritancy. In Scotch 

 leases, all these stipulations are already inserted, 

 and Irish landlords are not ignorant of them. 

 The loudest complaint at present in the South 

 and West of Ireland relative to fixity of tenure 

 is from such tenants as hold from year to year ; 

 the very parties, it will be observed, who have 

 the last chance of being benefited by those 

 tenant-right schemes now proposed for their 

 melioration. What is true at present would 

 have been so at any previous period of Irish 

 history. 



From each of those views which we have 

 thus briefly glanced at, it must be obvious that 

 the impropriety of exciting in the minds of 

 small tenants notions which at the best can 

 never be realised, is very great"; and still worse 

 any attempt to establish a general belief that 

 their misfortunes arise from anything seriously 

 wrong in the relation between them and their 

 landlords. Their misfortunes arise from a very 

 different source. 



There appears to be a general misconception 

 entertained relative to the twofold position which 

 the small Irish and Highland tenantry occupy 

 as subjects of the state, as well as the twofold 



