"Present, PATRICK SCULLY." Mr John Kennedy, who denies altogether the existence of any such system, admits--"That though the landlords _never, in any instance, give remuneration for improvements, they always give money for subsistence and support_;" and with regard to the incoming tenant he naïvely observes--"How they dispose of it is this: another tenant proposes to come and get it, and the other tenant is sure to be murdered if he does not give him something, and he gives him something; or, however long he has been out of possession, he will be either murdered or burnt, or his stock maimed, if he does not do something in that way." Neither is the assertion that evictions of the tenantry, to any extent, have taken place, borne out by the evidence; and where such have occurred, it is admitted, or proved in the explanations of the accused, that non-payment of rent, and general misconduct, were the causes to which they might be attributed. Mr Dennis Kennedy is asked--"56. Has there been any consolidation of farms in the district?--No, not in my district." Mr Michael Digan--"46. Has there been any consolidation of farms in the district with which you are acquainted in the county of Tipperary?--No. In my immediate neighbourhood the cottier system of having five or six acres is more practised than in the county of Clare." And where any instances have been adduced, on turning to the explanations we find they were fully merited; while many alluded to by the priests and agitators will give some idea of the lengths those persons go, and the distance of time they are compelled to travel back to support their assertions. One man, Mr John Moylan, refers to "exterminations" which occurred just thirty years ago "on the estate of Mr Kinahan;" and was replied to by that gentleman's son, who states "that his father paid the then tenants £10,000 for their interest." All the witnesses bear testimony to the mild manner in which those removals, necessary for the good of all parties, have been effected. Mr Edward Byrne is asked--"35. Does the landlord, in general, remove for any other reason than considering that the lands are too thickly populated?--I never heard of the landlords putting them out, except that the land was too much divided, or too much devoted to the support of those families, that nothing would be left to pay the rent." And Mr John Meagher--"27. When there is a large number of tenants upon a townland, what do they do when the middleman's lease expires?--I never knew them to do any thing harsh to them; they let them pull on one with another, except where some of their lands are mixed with their own, and they get some of the land to themselves. "28. Do they give the tenants any thing in that case?--Yes, they forgive them what is due; and I knew one landlord to give a man £24 for leaving four acres, and forgave him what was due, and he was tenant-at-will."