152 THE LANDED INTEREST. 



practical education in which these are trained in 

 the details of work, and become apt in the 

 execution of the views of their employer. Both 

 employer and employed form family connections 

 and local associations, and have their due place 

 in the economy of the parish and district. 

 These should not be liable to be lightly broken 

 by the act of an inconsiderate landowner or his 

 agent. In some English counties, and notably 

 on the Crown estates in various parts of the 

 country, and on Lord Leicester's fine farms in 

 Norfolk, leases of twenty and twenty-one years 

 have long been given. 



The system may be said to be universal in 

 Scotland, where the principle has been recognised 

 for several generations. In Ireland, as has been 

 previously shown, leases for lives, leases for ever 

 even, are not uncommon, but the rule now 

 becoming general is that of leases for twenty- 

 Security one or thirty-one years. In farms under ;ioo 



against 



disturb rental, where no lease for the usual statutory 



ance in 



Ireland. term of years is given, there is a security 

 against " disturbance " or removal, by very 

 stringent conditions upon the landowner, under 



