text:  When a nobleman so long and so intimately connected with the country whose interests are under discussion as Lord Normanby was with Ireland and who from the position which he occupied and the opportunities which he possessed ought to be particularly well informed on the question at issue solemnly assures us from his place in Parliament and in a debate which he himself has originated that the landlord and tenant question is one on which the most profound ignorance exists in this country and that there never was a government which had so little local knowledge as the present and which consequently was so ill fitted to legislate on the subject--when he laments other men's ignorance and glorifies himself on his own particular knowledge--when we say a nobleman so circumstanced as the Marquis of Normanby does all this and at the same time recommends a guide by whom the ignorant may be enlightened and the blind led we are bound to believe that he has accurately ascertained the trustworthiness of the person under whose guidance he now would place us; and that he has maturely considered and carefully proved the correctness of those statements on which he would found legislation by the test of his own experience