, 1866-11-18

now in power. .'That party" said the
speaker. denies that you haEe any Just
cause Of complaint. In speech delivered
the other day ut Belfast, ley Sir 3; Cairns;
much was said oi the enforcement Of thelaw.
but nothing was eald about any change or
amendment of the law. With this party ter.
tor is their only specific" Here hr. Bright
stopped for second or two-it 1ust
test thlngs-and then added, And they
have no confidence In alleg1ance except when
there is inability to rebel"
TIE pUBL1s SPEECH.
Passing from the manner to the matter OF
conflimation Of lie letters Which recently
wrote to you from Ireland. l did not
indeed foreseo the remedy Of the
master grievance Of she country, IS
Mr. Bright has done by suggesting The
sale Of The estates Of tue great absentee pro-
1rietors and making the present occupants
ihe proprieto1s Of their FIRMS "Dema-
| gogut" and Reyoluttouist" arc terms
Brirht, @ but IN IN aadition to tRssc tefn, Of
| zepfoach he Is now denounced as Social
| ist', and "Communist.' Tie Irish org1ns
Of Tory opinion are especi- ~ Etru1ent, and
say that the speech will only increase thc
too much in Ireland. 1t is remarkable as
far ~ have been able to see, that none,
eyeu Of the orgnrs Of moderate
opinion, support Nj. Bright in his proposal.
And yet nothing short Of that, or something
The United Parliament, l fear, will haye to
ask for many long year get, as did the Par
lament of Kilkenny centuries ago: "How
comes It to pass that the King has meyer
been sny richer for ireland ~ Tho British
ing measure as Nj. Bright suggests. The
a6sertce Lo1dA hare too much influence to
prevent such measure passing, and !ndeea,
one does not SEQ in principle how or why II
should be confined To shsentees- The great
Lords Of England As well as Of Ireland. have
estatcs In various counties, and they cannot
reside In all Of them at once. They must
BE- abscntees from some. There azs Dukes
and Ear1s who have Utmost whole coun,
ties u Scotland md I'd, 1st 1st.. tet11ss. Sas;sss
; and. on the principle that when your neigh
boris house is on fire your own Is In danger
all the great landlords will oppose such
measure Nothing short Of revolution
j Established Church, though not so fatal II
| its results ~ the Land tenure. stands ver!
: : | much in the same position. The member
> Of the Church Of England In England do mo-
. regard that Of Ireland Is distinct Establish
. ment, but a. branch Of that which exist
here. Il is the United Church Of Englaut
! and Ireland" aud If the latter we're destroy
= cd 1t Il felt that one ofthc pillars ofthc Chure
~ Of England would hare been torn down
# The great hulk Of the trne churchmen l
y Nonconiormist party. will therefore uphol,
= The Irish brnneh Of the Establishment as Ion
they can. The Times, indeed, Is less caretu
l. Of the Established Church than Of the proE
It erty Of the absentee prvprietoEa: but II II
- theory is correct, it matters little whethe
l. both are kept up IN their present form. Th
=. - real source Of tho evils Of Ireland, says th
IL Times, is that The population is too grea
a. and till the population Is brought into MOI
- adequate proportion with tho capacity .
d aud distress 10 the country. With regard
or this theory, there Is nothing more ce!tai
a. than this that when the population Of En-
X land was, some hundreds Of years az
r. only scyeu or eight millions, Il
=, distress was as eerere as II is In ireland, an
r. threefold as great Is In the time Of Eliz
~ beth. The most tlickly populated count,
81 h Europe ie Belgium but Who viii say th'
- Belgium is not better of than ireland,
nc population spread over Its vast and ferti
nd territory? During my recent visit to 1relau
~ ~ more than once heard the complaint tn
IL there was = dearth Of laborers, and tn
& crops had to be left In the field l"nssr ths
~ them and bring them into. the far
\ yards. The same complaint Is made
i England, and yet from bo
- itlands the tide Of emigration does n
- seem in tho least to ebb. Here, for e1ampl
m is an extract from q London journal Of -
" TnE EXODUS SRox 11vrRFooL--The Cove!
mcnt emigration Officers 4 Iyefpoof Jeslcrd
completed tic uEual monthly return OF the e
dus rom ths ,Aersey; 1tsppea:s ,hat during
sa y 9na S;h h Ass vas FL I'D w
ta q shis nnmbe5, 3s*i were Eaglish, e, sss : scos %
~ which e4iied u stetc for thc United States.
ca they had on board 7,oH passengers. Of whom
ssIs cabin md Ss s q TT 4,.S nSn'
[th 1911 foreigner. To CanAda there xere four eh
N with 1,0C1 passen:ere, Of witch 1853 ware cah
,s aud Rs steessxe. They were classified - folio.
ess; to Victoria there xc1e Two ships with nj ?
ks. eenre1s Of which 81 were CABIN. and GOT eta'r&
his Of this number s3s were Enelsh. p Scotch,
F3c. tfon With tie exodus from liverpool this monu
~ the departure OF 800 esnfgrants for Texas
Va The fact is that tn England the pressure
Ell life is become 80 keen and ardent that Fl
len lishmen are forced to leave their count
lev from causes not much differing in princi
,ey from those which force the Irish away. Al
8" both countries, though It Is carried i
AL practice more equttably In England, q
: a therefore does not produce the same disc
hat tent that It encounters In Ireland Bnt
nd | manufacturing development Of EnKla
I'd. while 1t tends to mitigate the evils that
land tenure would otherwise produce, 81
Ike rlec to dangers Of another sort. which ar
mt the most serious and threatening kind-tb
etv which arise from the antagontsm betw
- labor and capital. At tho moment r
these lines there are tens of thousands
strike in the coal mining, iron and othe!
dustrfes, and with the prospect Of
of ~ mi r.