The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-09 00:00:00

THE TRIUMPH OF TENANT RIGHT.

The Spectator remarks that the debate of Monday night
cleared some of the fog away, and parties appeared in
their natural position. the kind of armed peace which
had been proclaimed, the war of hints and inuendoes, the
hypocritical majorities of 400, the explosions of suppressed
hatreds on the most trifling occasions, and all these things
stopped business a great deal more than good honest fight-
ing in the open. There was not the slightest attempt
either to disguise or to deny the grand issue, to depre-
ciate its importance, or to explain away the clear meaning
of the third clause of the bill. The Opposition declare that
eviction is not an oppression, the Government declare that
in the circumstances of Ireland it is one, and as far as
hey can they prevent it by the grant of a compensation.
That compensation originally took the form of a thirty-
one years' lease, but that clause is to be withdrawn, and
the compensation, therefore, becomes absolute,—a distinct
acknowledgment that the occupier as well as the owner has
a rightful interest in the soil. Upon this issue, thus em-
phatically raised, the House of Commons pronounced by a
vote of 296 to 220 in favour of the Government. We doubt
if a vote of such supreme importance to Ireland has been
passed by the House of Commons since the Union. It re-
scinds the policy of two hundred years. It acknowledges in
the most formal manner that on the great question in dis-
pute between Ireland and England, the tenure of Irish land,
England has been in the wrong and Ireland in the right,
that history has there given the occupier a beneficial right
in the soil. The precise limits of that right must be
settled by arrangement, by arguments, by the collection
of facts, and ultimately by the body of legal decisions to
which this bill must give occasion ; but the right itself,
so strenuously denied, so fiercely maintained, the right
which has been defended with the revolver, the right
which has been the plea of every assailant of our rule, is
at last definitely acknowledged by a House in which five
men in six are not Irish, and nine men in ten are per-
sonally interested in refusing justice. We beg our Irish
friends, who sometimes cry that they rhall never be
understood in Great Britain and never obtain sympathy
from her, to think for a moment what it is that their
English allies have at last made up their minds to grant,—
what an infinite mass of prejudices, of antipathies, and
even of arguments have been overcome in the desire to do
themt right. If English landlords and millionaires and
economists have an interest, it is the right of eviction
without reason. - If they have a prejudice it is in favour
of the absolute ownership of land. If they have an
economical conviction, it is in favour of free contract.
Yet a House led by the greatest of living economists,
filled to suffocation with millionaires, and governed on
points absolutely by landlords, has abandoned these pre-
judices, conquered these antipathies, disregarded these
arguments, in order that Ireland might enjoy what she
deems her own.

THE MONEY MARKET AND LAST YEAR'S BUDGET.
The payment of the dividends, says the Economist, has
confirmed. the criticism which we last made on Mr. Lowe's
Budget. In defence of the accumulation of funds in the
Bank of England it was said that it did not matter ; that
whether the money was in the Bank or in Lombard-street
was immaterial ; that the quantity of money had not
varied ; and that its distribution was of no importance.
• But the payment of dividends has now, as usual, made
money considerably easier. The Bank of England, which
does not pay interest for any part of its money, does not
care about lending it as much as the bill-brokers, or the
joint-stock banks, who, taken together, pay an interest
for a large part of what they hold. Consequently, the
rate of discount is higher when money-is in the Bank
than when it is out of it—the quantity of money and all
other circumstances remaining the same. We have heard
it said that the accumulation of money in the Bank of
England his raised the rate of disconnt per cent. on an
average during the last three months. We do not wish to
bind ourselves to that or any other exact figure; we only
say that theory led us to expect that last year's
Budget would in the spring make money somewhat
dearer, and ' unquestionably it has male it clearer.
Mr. Lowe will probably say that. anyhow this is only a
temporary learn ps, counterbalanced in the end by an
equivalent cheapness—that in the autumn the Bank will
be made poorer by his Budget ; that Lombar•l-street will
be made richer ; and that the rate of interest will then be
raised just as that rate is lowered now. And this is true.
But then comes the danger of which so much was said
last year. The autumn is pre-eminently the panic season
—the season of unfavourable exchange. As the Bank of
England holds the sole banking reserve of the country
applicable to an unfavourable exchange, it is very desir-
able that it should be able to keep that reserve unimpaired
with as little difficulty as possible. But the po'verty in-
flicted on it by the Budget of 1869 will be a heavy diffi-
culty in Novetaber. ' The• price of an article is not so
easily determined by a small holder as by a large holder.
The autumn cheapness of money therefore is no equivalent
for its spring dearness, since that cheapness may entail on
the mercantile community much anxiety and much dis-
quiet during a panic. unnecessarily aggravated and artifi-
cially prolonged. • •

Some arms were seized on board the Liverpool
steamer on its arrival at Cork on Friday. They were
addressed to a hardware merchant.

Tho JVestern Morning News states that the Rev.
C. J. Wilkinson, rector of St. Thomas Birmingham, has
accepted an offer made to him by tie trustees of St.
Andrew's, Plymouth, to become vicar of that parish.

A case came on for trial at the present Monaghan
Assizes in which it was discovered that a brother of one
of the prisoners in the dock was serving as a juror. Judge
Keogh commented on the fact, and in strong terms cen-
sured the want of care shewn by some of the persons
responsible for the due administration of justice in the
county.

EASTER, TEmr.—The forthcoming Easter Term.
is expected to be a busy one. The new act on the juris-
diction of the Judges will be enforced, and two divisions
of either of the three common law courts may be sitting at
one time in banco. It is further provided that any
"number of Judges may at one and the same time hold a
sitting at Nisi Prius either in London or Westminster, as
may be deemed expedient by the Court."

Some idea may be formed of the present activity
of pianoforte manufacture in the United States by the
assured fact that the great firm of Steinway manufactured
2,200 of these instruments in 1869, representing a sum of
considerably over a million of dollars ; while the total re
presented by the twenty-six chief houses of New York,
Boston, and Baltimore amounts to more than $5,000,000,
or a sum exceeding one million sterling.—Musical Stan-
dard.

BARBARITY IN IRELAND.--We recently had occa-
sion to refer to a disgraceful outrage perpetrated near
Cappawhite. We refer to the attack upon the house in
which a man named Roughan lodged, who was in atten-
dance upon the tenant farmer, Edward Hynes, then
lying almost at death's door from the effects of the pitch-
fork wound he had received some time before. This
attempt to terrify persons from rendering the unfortu-
nate man medical assistance was not enough. It has just
been stated that Dr. Cahalan, of Tipperary, the chief at-
tendant, has received a threatening letter of the vilest
character, warning him against continuing
further. isHitoswto.
Hynes. Barbarity could scarcely proceed
hisv
How-
ever, we are happy to learn that the missive has not had
the desired effect, and under continued surgical treatment
the wounded man is recovering.--C/onmet Chronicle.
COURT-MARTIAL ON A SURGEON.—A court-
martial has been held at Devonport for the trial of DI.
Monteath, assistant-surgeon of her Majesty's ship Royal
Adelaide, on a charge of drunkenness. Prisoner alleged
that the incapacity for duty proved in evidence arose
from taking morphia as a remedy for neuralgia. He was
found guilty, and sentenced to be dismissed his ship, and
to lose two years seniority. He was acquitted
on a second charge of taking a bottle of gin into
hospital.
tiREAT STRlKE.—Contrary to expectation, about
a thousand colliers in the Rhondda Valley have struck
work. By this step eight pits are temporarily stopped,
and the results will prove very disastrous to the locality
in which the strike has occurred. The cause of the cessa-
tion of work is the refusal of the masters to grant the
required advance of 10 per cent. before the Ist of May.
SLAVERY IN TURKEY.--A. letter in the
Augsburg Gazette states that a Turk lately purchased from
a slave dealer at Varna a whole Circassian family. One
of its members hastened to make a protest to the Cadi,
and promised to indemnify to the buyer, in several pay-
ments, the amount which he had given. In spite of this,
and although the Turkish judge could not deny that an
Imperial finnan had abolished slavery throughout the
Enapire, he confirmed the sale. The foreign Ambassadors
at Constantinople are said to have sent in a protest.
VICTOR Noin's COMPANION.—The term of ten
days' imprisonment to which M. Ulric de Fonveille, the
companion of Victor Noir when the latter was shot by
Prince Bonaparte, was sentenced for contempt of the
High Conrt at Tours, expired on Tuesday, and at ten
o'clock on that morning he was released. After a brief
festivity with a number of Republican spmpathisers, M.
de Fonveille left for Paris, en route for Lyons, in order to
commence
.in person the contest for the vacant repre-
sentation in the department of the Rhone to which he
aslgie& . - -