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TENANT-RIGHT AND TILLAGE.
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Names of Unions  |  A.  |  B.  |  C.   |  D.  |  E.   |  F. |  G. |  H.
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Kilkeel          |22,614| 3,540| 50,000|20,904| 40,668| 521 |8,080|14,534
Average for each|      |      |       |      |       |     |     |
person        |      |      | 2-1/2 |   1  |   2   |     |     |
Average for each|      |      |       |      |       |     |     |
holding       |      |      |  14   |   6  |  11   |     |     |
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LARGE FARMS AND GRAZING.
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Trim             |22,918| 2,816|119,519|38,867|109,068|2,474|1,700|21,218
Average for each|      |      |       |      |       |     |     |
person         |      |      |   5   |   2  |   5   |     |     |
Average for each|      |      |       |      |       |     |     |
person         |      |      |  42   |  14  |  38   |     |     |
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In Kilkeel Union there were 4,012 acres of flax in 1864, which at 20 l. an acre would produce 80,000 l., considerably more than the rental of the entire district.  Trim, in that year, produced only 78 acres of flax.

What everyone wants to know now is this—­whether any measure can be devised that will satisfy the cultivators of the soil without wronging the landlords, or militating against the interests of the state.  A measure that will not satisfy the tenants and put an end to their discontent, would be manifestly useless.  It would be but adding to the numerous legislative abortions that have gone before it.  A man engaged in such enquiries as this, is to ascertain what will satisfy the people.  It is for the legislature to determine whether it can be rightly or safely granted.  I have, therefore, directed my attention to this point in particular, and I have ascertained beyond question, from the best possible sources of information, that nothing will satisfy the people of this country but what they do not hesitate to name with the most determined emphasis—­’Fixity of Tenure.’  Whether they are Protestants or Catholics, Orangemen or Liberals, Presbyterians or Churchmen, this is their unanimous demand, the cry in which they all join to a man.  Every case in which tenant-right is disregarded, or in which, while admitted nominally, an attempt is made to evade it, or to fritter it away, excites the bitterest feeling, in which the whole community sympathises.

They deny, however, that the existing tenant-right is a sufficient security:—­

Because it depends on the option of the landlord, and cannot be enforced by law.

Because even the best disposed landlord may be influenced to alter his policy by the advice of an agent, by the influence of his family, or by the state of his finances.