The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-21 00:00:00

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MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS.

Parliamentary Tenant Right.

Sir John Gray's proposal for permitting landlords
to grant fixity of tenure to occupiers, and thus escape
the provisions of the Land Bill, came to a miserable
end. The memorial in favour of this scheme was
signed by thirty-five Irish members of Parliament,
but only thirty-one, including tellers, voted in its
favour, and those were not all Irish. Mr. Morrison,
Sir C. W. Dilke, Mr. Fawcett, Mr. Talbot, Mr.
W. M. Torrens, and Sir David Wedderburn, all voted
with Sir John Gray, and none of them represent
Irish constituencies. As a sign of the remarkably
diminished interest felt by the House of Commons
in the Land Bill, it may be noted that the discussion
on this amendment—the most important that has
been moved—was carried on in a house so thin as to
merit counting out on several occasions.
The Irish and the Bill.

The Irish papers are regarding the Land
Bill with increased satisfaction. The Even-
ing Post, speaking for a very influential por-
tion of the, Liberal party declares that
no great principle of the measure has been tampered
with during the progress of the bill through com-
mittee, and that should its. provisions remain sub-
stantially unaltered by the House of Lords, the Impe-
rial Legislature will have effected a vast and salutary
change in the Irish Land Laws, which cannot fail to
be followed by great advantages to the country. At
a meeting of the National Association Alderman
11I'Swiney spoke to the same effect. An Ulster tenant-
right paper also pronounces favourably.
Peasant Proprietorship.

Mr. Howard, M.P. for Bedford, supplements his
speech in the House of Commons on the Irish Land
Bill with a letter in the Daily Telegraph.
He says that, when interrupted by a number of
hungry members who wanted to hasten the division,
in order to get awayto dinner, he was proceeding to
shew that between the State lending money for
improvements, and lending it for the purchase of
land, a broad and important distinction was to be
drawn. With regard to the policy of creating
a peasant proprietary, he admits that the raising
of some of the peasants on the continent from a condition
of serfdom to actual proprietorship of the soil, has
been attended with great advantages to the persons
so raised. He believes, however, that no
greater mistake could be committed than
to assume that peasant proprietorship would
be advantageous to ,other countries where the
condition of things is so essentially different. For
instance, he asks, can any country in the world