I have printed in this edition[2] an instructive account, furnished to me by Mr.Tener, of some recent evictions on the Clanricarde property in Galway, which shows how hard it is for the most determined "agitators" to keep the Irish tenants up to that high concert pitch of resistance to the law which alone would meet the wishes of the true agrarian leaders; and how comparatively easy it is for a just and resolute man, armed with the power of the law resolutely enforced, to break up an illegal combination even in some of the most disturbed regions of Ireland.[3] While this is encouraging to the friends of law and order in Ireland, it must not be forgotten that it involves also a certain peril for them.

The more successfully the law is enforced in Ireland, the greater perhaps is the danger that the British constituencies, upon which, of course, the administrators of the law depend for their authority, may lose sight and sense of the Revolutionary forces at work there.

History shows that this has more than once happened in the past.

Englishmen and Scotchmen will be better able than I am to judge how far it is unlikely that it should happen again in the future.
As to one matter of great moment--the effect of Lord Ashbourne's Act--a correspondent sends me a statement, which I reproduce here, as it gives a very satisfactory account of the automatic financial machinery upon which that Act must depend for success:-- "Out of L90,630 of instalments due last May, less than L4000 is unpaid at the present moment, on transactions extending over three years with all classes of tenants.

The total amount which accrued, due to the Land Commission in respect of instalments since the passing of the Act to the 1st November 1887, was L50,910.