its recommendations as to land tenure ill conceived and condemned in Ireland, 117; the Famine of 1845-47, and its effects on the Irish land, 118, 119; the exodus, 120; the Encumbered Estates Act, and the effects of this scheme of confiscation, 121, 122; agrarian agitation of 1852 in Ireland fails, 123; false ideas of British statesmen as regards the land, 129; partial prosperity in Ireland for some years, 125; this largely deceptive, 126; growth of Fenianism, 128; the Fenian outbreak, 128, 129; change of opinion in England as regards Ireland, 129; Mr. Gladstone Prime Minister, 130; state of the Irish land system before the Land Act of 1870, 132-138; the Land Act of 1870 and its provisions, 141-143; merits and defects of this measure, 144, 145; state of Irish landed relations after the Act, 146, 147; origin of the Land League, 151, 152; distress in Ireland, and the Land League, 152-154; the Compensation for Disturbance Bill rejected by the House of Lords, 155; frightful state of Ireland and of landed relations in 1880-81, 155-161; the Land Act of 1881, 165; the provisions of the measure, 165, 166; the Act is directly opposed to that of 1870, 168; the no-rent movement, 179; the National League replaces the Land League, 171, 172; state of Irish landed relations in 1886 and 1887, 175; the Land Act of 1887, 175; the Land Act of 1891, 178, 179; the land purchase section in the Irish Land Act, 183; the principle of this system false and dangerous, ibid.; the Land Purchase Act of 1891, 184; recent legislation on the Irish land unjust and tending to confiscation, 186, 187. The administration of the Irish Land Acts, 188; of the Act of 1870, 189; of the Act of 1881, and its supplements, 190; the first Land Commission--allowances to be made for it, 191; principles it should have followed and course it should have pursued in fixing 'fair rents,' 192-197; the Sub-Commission--nature of these tribunals, 197, 198; how they ought to have fixed 'fair rents,' 199, 203; criticism of Mr. Lecky, 203, 204; examples of injustice, 204, 209; faulty methods of fixing 'fair rents,' 209, 213; appeals to the Land Commission rendered almost nugatory, 215, 218; the second Land Commission: Mr. Justice Bewley and his theory of occupation right, 219, 221; instance of a gross mistake, 222; the Fry Commission--its Report a masked censure on the proceedings of the Land Commission, 222, 224; Mr. Justice Meredith head of the present Land Commission, 224; conduct of the Government as regards the Report of the Fry Commission, 225; results of the labours of the Land Commission and the Sub-Commission in fixing 'fair rents,' 225, 227; confiscation of the property of landlords, 227; excuses made for this false, 228, 229;