The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-26 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF COMMONS—Tors DAY.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
•• TENURE OF LAND (IRELAND) BILL.

. Sir C. O'LOG FILEN moved the second reading of this
bill, which dealt with the question of the tenure of land.
.Tll,, main object of the bill wit to :1:s-;ourage tenure at will,
and to substitute in its place the grantingof leases. The hon.
and learned gentleman contended that a tenancy from year
to year was the most objectionable t( nuro that could exist
in any country, because no occupier felt inclined to im-
prove his land, liatble as he was to be turned out of his
holding at six mouths' notice. The bill was a permissive
one, and it di l not deal with tenancies at present in ex-
istence, but it referred only to tenancies commenced after
the passing of the Act, and it also ena :ted that in the ab-
sence of any agreement in writing the tenancies shoul
be taken to b..; leasehol 1, and fur the term of twenty-
one years. With roapet to tenants-at-will, the
most effective way was to put every difficulty
in the way of persona insisting on them, and therefore he
proposed that the notices to quit should be given 12
months beforehand, instead of six, and that the tenant
should be entitled to ono half of the county cass from the
landlord. In the next place, he proposed that the land-
lord should lose the right of distress, which, in conse-
quence of the guards thrown around it by the Legislature,
was never used in Ireland except for purposes of
oppression. The bill also gave the right of compensation
to a tenant from year to year —if dispossessed by a notice
to quit—for the growing crops or manure that may
have been put upon the land, and compensation was also
given for tenant right where the man was turned out
against his will, and that racing stock should not behiable
to the landlord beyond the amount of the racing money.
Ile did not ask the house to accept the whole of the
clauses of the bill, but that which he was most anxious for
was that the house should affirm the preamble of the bill,
which was to discourage the system of year to year tenan-
cies, and the encouragement of granting leases in writing
for a given term of years. He believed the bill would
be productive of the greatest good in Ireland, and
that in a short time that counfry would become as quiet
as Scotland. The reason that it was not so was because
in the one country the land and Church question had been
settled, which made the people contented and loyal, whilst
in the other both those questions were in process of agita-
tion, which rendered the people disloyal and discontented.
Sir HARVEY BRUCE moved the rejection of the
bill ; ho did not attribute the unhappy state of Ire-
land to the causes stated by the hon. and learned
member, but to former legislation of that house,
who repressed the rights, the commerce, the in-
dustry of the country, and which it would take years
to restore. He thought a great deal of the, discontent was
oaused by the introduction of little paddling bills into Par-
liament, and to parties who were continually haranguing
the people from the platform respecting the lost rights and
abject condition. He thought the bill would not carry out
the intention of the hon. and learned gentleman, and
therefore he moved that the bill be read a second time that
day six months.
Mr. C. FORTESCUE supported the motion for the
second reading of the bill, which agreed in many respects
with the one he brought forward last session.
Mr. Green and Lord Claud Hamilton opposed the bill,
and Mr. O'Beirne, Sir John Gray, and Sergeant Barry
supported it.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL for IRELAND sup-
ported the amendment, because he believed the bill would
work badly both for the landlord and tenant. He con-
tended that the landlords and tenants in Ireland should be
left to make the best bargain they could, each for himself,
without legislative interference, and a law compelling a
landlord to grant a 21 years' lease was both objectionable
and unjust. He denied that the state of the land and
Church question had made the people of Ireland either
disloyal or discontented, and it was idle, untrue, and
unfounded in fact, to say that either of the two nations
had anything to do with the organisation of the Fenian
conspiracy. The petty annoyances devised by the origi-
nator of the bill to be fastened on the landlord were most
unjust, and of such a nature that he felt sure they would
never receive the sanction' of Parliament. If it was
thought necessary to impose any such condition on the
landlord, the proper way, in his opinion, was to do the
matter openly and honestly. He regarded the provision
of the bill giving the tenant a right to compensation for
loss or injury he might sustain by being dispossessed
of his land as one of the most extraordinary propositions
ever submitted to Parliament for its approval. The bill
was a most mischievous one, and therefore he felt certain
the house would reject it.
Mr. REILLY supported the bill, because it sought to
give a certainty to tenure in place of a year to year occu-
pation, which acted injuriously upon the tenant, because
he, feeling no certainty in his occupation, refrained
from bringing that laud into the best state of cultiva-
tion, because the result of his doing so would
be to induce his landlord to demand an increased rent, and
in the event of the tenant not submitting to the demand
he was served with a notice to quit, and thus all the bene-
fit of his exertions fell to the lot of the incoming tenant,
who had agreed to give the increased rent the landlord
had demanded, which, owing to his not having to perform
the labour of improving the land, ho was enabled to pay.
(Hear, hear.)
Mr. READ opposed the bill. He thought it was im-
properly sot forth in the preamble, -because after a perusal
of its enactments he thought it ought to be called an act
compelling landlords to grant leases under pains and
penalties. As an English farmer he held land under
six landlords as tenant at will, and in only one
instance did ho hold any written agreement. He did
not say he should not prefer a lease, but the non-
poss,ssion of that did not induce him or others similarly
situated to turn Fenians. With regard to the
competition for land, he did not think it could
exist in a much stronger form in Ireland than
it did in England, because he was familiar with a case in
which a tenant of a certain farm died, and within a very
few hours after there were no less than 18 applicants for
the possession of the farm, which fell to the share of one
of them in preference to the descendant of the late tenant,
who had expended a great sum of money on the laud, for
which no compensation was ever given.
Mr. KENNEDY and Dr. BRADY supported the bill.
Mr. FORDYCE was addressing the house in favour of
the bill at a quarter to six, at which hour the debate
was adjourned.
IIYPOTHEC AMENDMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.
The Lords' amendments to this bill were agreed to.
The house then adjourned.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

Lompos, June 26.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Easterly; moderato breeze and very fine weather.
PLYMOUTH, Juno 25.
N.W.—Arrived—Jano,
from Newfoundland.
SOUTHAMPTON, Juno 25.—Sailed—llanse, steamer, for
New York.
D onus, June 23. Wind S.W.—Arrived—Dorothea,
from Sulina.
SWANSEA, Juno 25. —Wind N.W.—Arrived—James,
from Bilboa.
DoVFR, June 25. —Wind N.E.—Arrived—St. Croix, from
Barbadoes.
FALuouxit, Juno 26.—Arrived—Equinox, from Ma-
tanzas ; Giovanni, from Odessa.

(By Telegraph.)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.

Arrived—Wilhelmine, from Trondheim; Ragna, from
Christiansund; E:nbla, from Krigeroe; Tround Dreuwke,
from Worcum; Visbette, from Passage; Ellen Jane and
Londesborough, both from Guernsey; Rescue, from Far-
sund ; Florence, steamer, from Antwerp ; Lady Havelock,
steamer, and Frederick, both from Dantzic t Holland,
steamer, from Ostend ; Paraguay, steamer, from Lisbon ;
Bellona, steamer, from New York ; Batavier, steamer,
from Rotterdam.
Sailed, Juno 25—Fusileer, steamer, for Dunkirk.
Sailed, June 26—Lord John Russell, steamer, for Dun-
Belgium, steamer, for
kirk; Souvenir, steamer, for Caen;
Ostend ;Seine, steamer, for Bou
DEAL,logne.
Wednesday Morning.

Passed, June 25 —Eugenie, barque, from London for
Cardiff.
Passed, Juno 26—Natal Queen, from London for Port
-Natal; Hawthorne, from Sunderland for Genoa.
Passed in tow— St. Croix, from Barbadoes for London.

COURSE OF EXCIIANGF.- Last Evening,
Amsterdam Short. 11 17} 11 I.&
Ditto 3 Months. 11 19} 11 19
Rotterdam --191 11 19

Antwerp — 25 32, 25 3?
Brussels — 25 32i 25 42
Hamburg — 13 9f 13 10
Paris Short 25 15 25 '22
Ditto 3 Mouths.2s 35 26 40
Marseilles - 25 42,
Frankfort on the Maine —120 f 1201-
Vienna — 12 70 12 75
Trieste — 12 70 12 77-
Petersburgh
Berlin
Madrid 49 49}
Cadiz
Leghorn
27 10 27 20
Milan
Genoa
27 20
Naples
27 20
Palermo
27 20
Messina
27 20
Lisbon $6 0000 6.m• 52f 52}
—52 f
Oporto

IRISH RAILWAYS.—The names of Lord Edwin
Hill Trevor and Mr. Gregory were accidentally omitted
from the list furnished of the PeerS and members who
waited on Lard Derby on Thursday last.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

NEWCASTLE RACES--THIS DAT.
(BY ELBOTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
BIENNIAL STAKES.
The First Stephenson Biennial Stakes of 10 sovs each, h ft,
with 100 added, for threo year olds; the second to re-
ceive 20 sovs out of the stakes ; colts Bst 10Ib, fillies and
geldings Bst Glb ; winners in 1867 of 100 sovs 51b, 200
71b, 590 101 b extra (extreme penalty); starters twice in
1867 without winning in that year allowed 31b, thrice
51b ; maiden three year olds allowed 71b (extreme
allowance); untrieds allowed 31b; one mile and a half ;
22 subs.
Taraban

Romping Girl
llonesti,h ....

TY It 0 STAKES.
The Tyro Stakes of 5 sons cacti, with 150 added, for two
year olds; colts 84, 101 h, fillies and geldings Bst 611, ;
winners of 100 sows 4th, 200 7th; 500 1010 extra (,:c.-
treme poualty); starters twice without winning allowed
311,-thrieo 510; the second to reteive 20 sous out of the
stakes; New T.Y.C. ; 37 subs.
Frolicsome l.

Russian Bear
Stella

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Seven ran.
NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE. •
The Northumberland Plate of 300 sovs, added to a Handi-
cap of 25 sovs each, 10ft, and 5 only if declared; win-
ners of any handicap value 100 sovs after May 22 (at
11.30 a.m.) 61b, of two handicaps of that value, or of
any race of 200 soya value 101 b, 500 141 b extra (extreme
penalty); the second in the Derby or Oaks of this year
61b extra, if not penalised for winning; the second ttx
receive 50 soya out of the stake ; 2 miles ; 55 subs, 21 01
whom declared,
Fervacques ..... 1
Moldavia
Fair Wind
Eight ran.
GATESHEAD SELLING STAKES.
The Gateshead Selling Stakes of 5 toys. each, with 50
added ; two year olds 7st 31b, three 9st ; mares and
geldings allowed 31b, maiden three year olds. Mb; the
winner to be sold for 100 sovs ; if entered for 50 Bova
allowed 51b; 30 141 b ; New Course (5f ur.)

3

Derwent 1
Barmaid
Stafford

Seven. ran.
CORPORATION PLATE.

Doclaration .. 1
Bob Chambers
Prince of Darkness

The Corporation Plate of 60gs., added to a Handicap of 5
sovs each, 3 ft ; winners of any handicap value 100 sovs
after June 19 (at 3.30 p.m.) 71b, of two such handicaps,
or of any race value 200 sovs 101 b extra (extreme pen-
alty); the second to receive 10 sovs out of the stakes;
from the Blue Post, New Course (nearly one mile); 20
subs.