New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-07-11
GREAT BRITAIN.
The Indian Question-Irish Tenant Right.
,rrs.peuiercs q The ~ T. Tribune.


D-'-'' LONDON June g. 1853
The debate on Lord Stanleys motion with respect 70
India commenced on the 23d continued the 9th. and
adjourned 10 the 9th inst has not been brought
close When that shall at length have arrived in.
tend 10 resume my observations on the India question
As the Coalition-M nstry depends the support Of
the Irish party. and all the other parties composing
the House of Commons so nicely balance each other
that the Irish may al any moment turn the scales
which way they please, some concessions are AZ last
about 70 be made 10 the Irish tenants The Leasing
powers Greland) Bill which passed the House OF
Commons on Friday last, contains provision thar for
the improvements made the soil and separa5le from
the soil the tenant shall have al the termination of his
lease q compensation in money the incoming tenant
being at liberty take them az the valuation while with
respect to Improvements in the soil compensation for
Them shall be arranged by contract between the land
lord and the tenant
4 tenant having Incorporated his capital in one form
or another in the land and having thus effected an i'm
pro7ement Of the soil either directly by irrigation drain
ace manure or indirectly BY construction of buildings
for agricultural purposes, in steps the landlord with
demand for increased rent II the tenant cOuceie he
has to pay the interest for his money the land
lord Ii he resist. be will be very unceremoniously
elected, aud suppanted by new tenant the latter being
enabled TO pay higher rent by the very ypenscs incur
red by his predecessors. until he also in bis turn has
become an improver of the land and il replaced in the
same way or put worse terms. In chs easy way a
class Of absentee landlords has been enabled ~ pocket
not merely iNf MDhIs Ull also tue tdpidl, OF NiOie
generations each generation Of Irish peasants sinking
Grade lower in the social scale, exactly in proportion %
the exerOn and sacrifices made for the raising OF their
condition and that Of their families II the tenant
industrious ami cnerprsng he became taxed in cOnse
ou,Uce of his very industry and enterprise III the
contrary, be grew inert and negligent, he
preached with the aboriginal faults OF the Celtic race
He had accordingly, other alternative left but to be-
come pauper-tO pauperise himself by Industry. to
uauperise hy negligence In order oppose this state of
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right of the tenant, not in the soil but in the improve
ments Of the soil effected at his cost aud charges Let
Ms see in what manner The Times in its Saturdays leader
attempts to break down this Irish Tenant Right
There are tgo general systems of farm occupation
Either tenant may take lease OF the land fora fixed
number years his holding may be ,ermnabe a. any
time upon certain notice In the first OF these events
would be- obviously his 10 adjust and appOr0n his
outlay So that ALL or nearly all the benefit would lind rs
way to him before the expiration OF his term. In the Sc
cod ca it equally obvious that he should not run
the risk Of thu Investment withouta proper assurance Of
return
Where the landlords have 10 deal with q class of large
capitalists who may they please, invest their stock in
commerce in manufactures or in farming there can be-
no doubt bur that these capitalist farmers whether they
take long leases no time leases AZ ALL know how 10
cure the proper" return of their Outlays. But with
regard to Ireland the suppOson is quite fictitious On
tie one side yOu have there small class OF
land mOnOposts the other, very large class Of
tenants with very petty fortunes which they have no
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ducton opening TO them, except the soil. They are,
therefore, forced 10 become tenants at-Will Being
once teuautsat-s they naturally the risk OF losing
their revenue provided they do not invest their small
capital Investing it, in o.der to secure their revenue
they run the REX of losing their capital, also.
Perhaps continues Tn Iim,, IL may be said that
IN any case tenantry could hardly expire without
thing being e upon the ground in some shape another
representing the tenants property and that for this
conpensaion .houd b. forthcoming There is some truth
in the remark the demand thus created ought der
proper Editions OF society 10 be easily adjusted between
landlord suc tenant as il might At any rate, be pro
yided r in tLe original contract Wesay tha, the cobdi
tons Of society should regulate these arrangements be-
cause We believe that Parliamentary enactment can
be- tlTectualy substituted for such an agency
Indeed, under proper conditions of society We
should want 10 more Parliamentary Interference With the
Irish laBdeDant az should not want, under proper
conditions Of society the interference Of the soldier
ofthe policeman, and Of the hangman Legislature,
pi,trlcy and armed force, all OF them but the OF
spring Of improper conditions Of society preventing those
arraIgemens among which would make useless the
compulsory Intervention Of third supreme power
Has perhaps, The Times been converted into social
reyolutonst Does il want seoul revolution, reOr
qsnizng the conditions Of society and the arrange
"ments emanating from them. instead Of Parila-
.mentary enactmentsf' England has subyerted the
conditions Of Irish society. AT first N coniscated the
land then i suppressed the industry by Parliamentary
"euactmerts and lastly il broke the active energy by
armed force And thus England created those abOmns-
bic conditions of society which enable small easls If
raUacous lOrdngs 10 dictate 70 the Irish people the
terms IN which they shall be allowed 70 hold the land
and 10 i've upon IT, Too weak yet for rey01tionizng
those social conditions, the people appeal to P4rla
ment den andilg az least their mitigation and regula-
ton But No., says Tie Times; if yol don't live
under proper conditions Of society, Parliament can't
mend that And ii the Irish people on the advice Of
The Times tried tomorrow 10 mend their conditions Of
society The Times would be the first appeal bayO
nets snd 70 pour out sangunary denUnciaons Of the
aboriginal faults ofthe Celtic race, wanting the Anglo
Saxon taste for pacific progress and legal ameli0ra
ton.
Ii landlord, Gays The TIM, deliberately Injuries
oue tenant BE- vii find i; much the harder % get
another ard whereas hs occupation consists N letting
sr6 b. 81 ID ind Lis lard al tie more difficult 20 il,
Inc case stands rather differently in Ireland The
more andlOrd Injuries tenant the easier be will
find If ~ Cypress another The tenant whO in is
the means Of Djurng the elected one and the elected
one + rte means Of keeping down the new occupant
Tbf u due .oi-se oi time, the landlord beside niurnz
rbe rersur VII ipiurs himself and ruin himself Is not
on,v probabity bur the ven fact in Ireana-a fact
stordiag however very precarOus source Of comfort
70 the ruined tenant
. The relations between the landlord and tenant
are those between two traders SAYS The TINS
This is precisely the petaIO principii which per-
vsdes the whole leader OF The Times The needy
Irish tenant belongs to the soil while the soil belongs
to the English Lord. As well you might call the re-
stiOn between the rObber who presents his pistol,
and the traveller who presents bis purse relation