Judge Flannagan:-- “You must submit to the inevitable. Is there no advance on eleven years’ purchase? This is the first estate I have had to sell on which the rents have been fixed by the Land Commission. I hoped to get twenty-five or thirty years’ purchase.” The land was sold for £875; according to Judge Flannagan’s valuation it was worth £2,386. Mr. Forster:-- “My firm belief is, that no In 1840, the rents of Mr. damage can be proved. On the Usborn’s estate in Kerry other hand, if the landlord were amounted to £2,376 _punctually compensated, you would compensate paid_. The nearest railway him for conferring upon him station was then 150 miles a benefit.” distant. There is now a railway station on the property, the landlord has spent money on its improvement, and the “fair” (?) rent now fixed by the Land Commission is £1,893. Irish newspapers teem with Lord Selborne, 1880:-- similar instances. “I deny that it will diminish, in any degree whatever, the rights Judge Ormsby, 1883. of the landlord, or the value of the interest he possesses. I should The Judge then asked if there never agree to such a proposal.” was any advance on £2,200. Hansard, cclxiv. 252. Offers were given until £2,450 was reached. Mr. O’Meara, on behalf of the estate, objected to the sale. In Chancery proceedings connected with the estate it was mentioned that £4,500 had been offered for this lot, and refused. Lord Carlingford, 1880:-- Judge Ormsby:-- “I maintain that the provisions “No one could foresee what of the Bill will cause the would subsequently occur to landlord no money-loss whatever.” depreciate the value of the property. _I cannot adjourn for a third time._”