Another fierce outburst of agrarianism in 1842 startled English public opinion, and drew from _The Times_ a memorable condemnation of landlordism. The great English journal wrote: “With feelings of mingled pain we have witnessed the reappearance of that frightful system of murder and outrage which has so long infested the south of Ireland, and in particular the unhappy County of Tipperary.... The evil has arisen in the general system upon which the occupation of land has been based and conducted, and in the treatment of the occupier by the landlord.... A landlord is not a tradesman; he stands to his tenantry, or he ought to do so, in _loco parentis_; he is there as well for their good as his own; they are not mere contractors with him, to hold his land as capital, and pay him the full interest, or incur a forfeiture; they are rather agents placed in his hands, and under his care and protection, for the purpose of working the land, and whose _natural_ relation with him cannot be determined except by negligence or ill-conduct. “If the land be treated as money, and tenantry as borrowers, people may be sure that the landlord will be an usurer. This is _generally_ true, but in Ireland the tenant who is thus treated as though he had been an unfettered party to the original agreement, has not the shadow of the character of a voluntary contractor. It is with him, either to continue in the quarter of an acre which he occupies, or to starve. There is no other alternative. Rack-rent may be misery, but ejectment is ruin.” At length in 1843 Sir Robert Peel appointed the famous Devon Commission to enquire into the occupation and tenure of land in Ireland. In 1845 the Commission reported that: “(1) All the improvements in the soil were made by the tenants. “(2) That these improvements were subjected to confiscation, and were confiscated by the landlord. “(3) That the outrage system sprang from the ejectment system; and “(4) That it was necessary for Parliament to intervene to compel the landlord to recoup the tenant on eviction for his outlay on the land.” The Report of the Devon Commission proved the case of the tenants up to the hilt. What was done?