I have attempted, some pages back, to describe the national delinquencies of a middleman, or profit-renter.

In England we are apt to think that the agents on Irish properties are to be charged with similar shortcomings.

This I can assert to be a great mistake; and I believe that, as a class, the agents on Irish properties do their duty in a manner beneficial to the people.
That there are, or were, many agents who were also middlemen, or profit-renters, and that in this second position they were a nuisance to the country, is no doubt true.

But they were no nuisance in their working capacity as agents.

That there are some bad agents there can be no doubt, as there are also some bad shoemakers.
The duties towards an estate which an agent performs in Ireland are, I believe, generally shared in England between three or four different persons.