a very satisfactory account of the automatic financial machinery upon
which that Act must depend for success:--

"Out of £90,630 of instalments due last May, less than £4000 is
unpaid at the present moment, on transactions extending over three
years with all classes of tenants. The total amount which accrued,
due to the Land Commission in respect of instalments since the
passing of the Act to the 1st November 1887, was £50,910. Of this
there is only now unpaid £731, 17s. 9d. There accrued a further
amount to the 1st May 1888 of £39,720, in respect of which only
£4071, 16s. 11d. is now unpaid, making in all only £4803, 14s. 8d.
unpaid, out of a total sum of £90,630 due up to last gale day, some
of which by this time has been paid off."

This would seem to be worth considering in connection with the objection
made to any serious extension of Lord Ashbourne's Act by Mr. Chamberlain
in his extremely clear and able preface to a programme of "Unionist
Policy for Ireland" just issued by the "National Radical Union."

LONDON, _21st Sept_. 1888.




CONTENTS OF VOL. I.


CLUE MAP _Frontispiece_
PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION v
PROLOGUE xxi-lxvii