The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-08-16 00:00:00

33u5iness in Pad ament.

THE LAND BILL.

Ilai undergone the expected process of mutilation and
mangling in the upper House which has been duly
resented by the Commons, and on Thursday a r.ammittee
+ma appointed to draw up the reasons of the Commons for
their disagreement with the amendments of toe House of
Lord& In the House of Lords, on Friday, •committee was
then appointed to draw up their Lordships reeiloild for
disagreeing with the amendments of toe Commons.
Lord Granville warmly condemned the conduct of the
Opposition, and asked the csuntry to judge between them
end the Governmen.. Lord Salisbury defended the
anion of his friends. All that had been done
was to protect legal rights from wanton invasion.
In the house of Commons Mr. Biggar gave notice that
in the event of the Irish Lint Bill becoming law this
session, he should next Brecon bring in a bill to amend it.
Mr. Gladstone said that he propAld to consider the
Lorde reasons for disagreeing with the Commons'
emendrhents t 3 the Irish Land Bill ti-day' Toe
National Debt Bill having been reed a third time,
and other husinesa having been transacted, the 113wie
adjouined at twenty minutes t two.
The Times says t—Yestsrclay it was still possible to hope
in spite of sinister predictions that the differences between
the two House. of Perliament might be narrowed to •
swell commas., and th it what remained would prove to be
susceptible of satisfactory adjustment. To-day the pros-
pect is darkened, the tlreatts i tags of a norm have arisen,
and the atmosphere hes suddenly grown electric. Th.
Ministry. supported by • °nowa and confident majority
in the HOUlle of Commons, has taken its stead and cannot
be expected to give was. The House ef Lords has also
liken its stand. If the Government is not pa resign it
must wanner or later insist on the bill being passed.
The Daily Neale thinks that the political situation is
very serious. There as every prospect of an irreconcilable
conSict between the two House' 0 a the question whether
Gladstone or Lord Salisbury, the Government or the Op-
position, the House of Commons or the House of Lords,
shall determine the character and limits of necessary
legislation. We trust that if the Peers should persist in
refusing to pass the Bill in the shape given to it by the
Csmmons the Government will abanoon the measure,
and, summoning an autumnal session of Parliament, send
up a Bill of larger scope mid more thorough character to
the House of Lied.,

—The Standard sayis • collision is, in the absence of a
miracle, inevitable, end the Bill most be [oat. We do not
conceal our regret. It was Dot by them tactics that Lord
Beaconsfield constructed and kept together the party. All
the facts to-day seem to punt to the lose of the Bill, an
autumn count un. and • long vi.te of trouble and confusion.
lii tiie ilosie of Cnuincies,un Saturday, Mr. Williamson
pses-nut tt•iitiiii from the Liberal Associati In of
eupir Fife, pro) in th. 11,ose to reject the Lords'
aiterat uns i the Lind Ls.v (Ireland) Bill. The hm.
memb ir that the p -Wien significantly avoided
using the wo-d amandment,, but referred only to
changes and altiratione.—Mr. D Peldie presented two
petiti.ins, one fr im the Klinbtrah Liberal Association.
and the other frdin Kilmarnock Burghs, preying the
House to re-tot all attempts to alter the Land Law
(Ireland) Bill.—Mr. Labonchire—l beg to give notice
that early next ...Gioia I null m ive the resolution with
regard to the Upp,r RJU. 1 Of tie Legislature which
I wisi precludel from in-ring t'ils yeas owing to the
preiis of buoinesa motes. The Prime Minister should think
ilesirable to give me facilities for moving it this year.
(Cheers and laughter.)