The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-12-21 00:00:00

IRISH TENANT RIGHT.

ONE of the most pressing social grievances which
have afflicted Ireland is the law affecting the tenure
of land ; and a demand has unceasingly been made
for some legislative enactment, by which the irre-

concileable differences between landlord and to
should be placed on a more satisfactory basis
has puzzled the wisest of our statesmen ; s

committees have sat upon it, and publishe

hooks of voluminous evidence

e Earl

of DEVON was entrusted with a Special C
sion to inquire into the details and working cf the
system, in order to arrive, if possible, at a practical
conclusion. All as yet appear to have been ineffec-
tive for a solution of the difficulty, and Ire
remained the great obstacle in the way of
English Government. On the one side were the
advocates of tenant-right in its popular s

and has

claiming rights and privileges which would a
to a virtual confiscation of property ; while,
other hand, no concessions were made whit
the likelihood of affording a modicum of sc
The forces were antagonistic; and, as r

on the

:h had

were inclined to surrender any portion of their

claims, there seemed no hope of adjustment, and
the actual result was disorganisation and defiance
of law. The landlords retained their nom
to their lands, but received no rents ; the tenants
retained possession of the land, but made off with
the crops ;—the former class became paupers, and
the latter emigrated to escape the conseqt
It was not from want of suggestions ti
remedy was applied, for the basis of a compromise
had been pretty nearly defined; but the RUSSELL
Administration was fully occupied in pres
its own position, and, true to its instinct of deal
largely in promises, but scantily in performances,
literally did nothing for Ireland. It was
Conservative Ministers to show Ireland, as well as
England, that they are the only true friends of
good government, and, accordingly, the present
Attorney-General for Ireland, Mr. It AFTER, has
introduced fou, bills into the House of Commons,
with the especial object of setting this long agitated
question at rest. After intense application to the
subject, and availing himself of the mass of infor
mation previously elicited, he has devised a mod
by which the landlord should be enabled to effec

uences

at no

erving

eft to

permanent improvements, and, failing this, that the

tenant shall, under certain necessary restrictions,
have security for his outlay, either by prolonged
tenure, or compensation in money. It might be
supposed that such a proposition would be cordially
received by those who style themselves the especial
champions of the Irish people, the more particu-
larly as it is based upon the exact principle in which
they concurred when the concession NI as demanded
from the RUSSELL Administration. But, no; like
all things tainted with the soul-destroying blight of
Romanism, no sooner are the means before them of
removing a grievance, than they forget all their for-
mer professions, and set up claims which it is im-
possible that any honest statesman can grant ; and
the House of Commons has been occupied with a
prolonged discussion upon a bill introduced by Mr.
Sergeant SHEE, in opposition to the measures pro-
posed by Mr. NAPIER. All of them will, how-
ever, be submitted to a Select Committee for a
strict revision of the details, and it is to be hoped
thatqtuheestin.
resulto will be a really effective settlement of
the

ST. DAVID'S CHURCII.—PLYGAIN.—We understand
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THE CAPE AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—The General
Company's
Screw Steam Shipping mail packet BoF:'
led from Plymouth on Saturea,
for Calcutta and Madras, taking mails to the Cape of Good
Hope and the Mauritius. She has a most valuable cargo,
including a considerable amount of specie and a large
quantity of quicksilver for the East Indies. The Adelaide
steamer which sailed on Saturday for the Cape and Aus-
tralia,
put back to Plymouth on Sunday. Her hawse-
hole pipes are defective, which caused the ship to leak,
The repairs will detain her at least until this (TucsdsY)
morning- The next packet from Calcutta and the Cape.
the Harbinger, Captain Lane, is due early in January.
The Calcutta, which left Plymouth on the 18th, and ar-
rived at St. Vincent's on the 29th of October, had or:
board five patent annihilators, one of which exploded
spontaneously. at eleven o'clock in the morning, shortly
after her leaving Plymouth. Several persons were stand-
ing near, hut no one was touching the machine at the
time. Immediately the fire bell rung all were stationed
at their proper quarters, and in two minutes hose were
fixed and water was playing on the ignited part. Had the
explosion occurred by night the consequences might have
been most fearful.