The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-11-19

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First Fruits az the Great Reforner's Asita~
tion-An Irish Member on Mr.. Brfghte
Parliamentary Career-Enslaud's Game ~
"Divide and Rule.v ~.sssse-s<---s-e.r
dublin NOV 81 Correspondence Of London Timea1
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mas psen made upon your candidate by dsingashe@
Dublin, little out Of his way to give cleo
pioneering blow and by boldly asserting that which wa
not true doing his best to keep Of the House Of
Commons correspondent from Dublin, who presents
at the banquet tells US hatrr Brehts attack felt to
be very bad TASTE and was very badly received by
many who differ with politics fChcers) Neverthe.
less the words OF 80 great carry undoubted weight
and though he never uttered s-nt.cs thas vus 20 cassT
false is clearly my dnty to take this the earliest ops
porunity Of vndcaing myself and also OF endesvorngs
In my own ,tle way 70 give MIN a. far nj as can ~
Tho words he 10 reported 10 have used are:There 10
gentleman, candidate for an Irish county, who il
very great upon wrongs Of Poland but have found
him always the House Of Commons taking sides with
that great party which has systematically supported the
should not b. surprised 70 hear that some one who wa
very close TO Mr. Bright called out as You have dones
Shame, shame; for by strange coincidence the si9n
had at the close Of the late Parliament written TO me
during the Kings county contest in these worlds
NJ psr p9ss ~ %
mona that you always acted as true shenId ac
same universal and sweeping language that Mr.. Bright
used In asserting proposition should have been used
by the ODonoehue In asserting exactly the Opposite
proposition Mr.. Bright says ~ ALWAYS fonnd him
against Irelan1n The O'Donoghue says, ~ always
found n nm for Ireland" Now, yon know very we1
one but still as Il may be useful Lesson TO teach Mr.
Bright. will take the trouble q lustifyna the good
opinion the ODonoghue expressed Of me- and lr
detail the sweeping and dudacions assertion OF Mr.
Bright. tCheers) Let us take the subject Of tenant
right During the six years Of the late Parliament tnQ
only tenant right bill introduced BY private i16nbeR
was the bill placed In my hands by the westmeath
tenant who made improvements that Increased the ie
ting value OF farm should be entitled receive CONS
pensation II the farm was taken from him. he gave
1t up. The Introduction Of the bill opposed,
but carried It after . division. and Il sub
sequeny defeated on the second reading. Where waq
Nowhere (Cheers) Subsequently Mr. CardwerI brouehA
In most wretched measure tho principle OF which
that NO compensation could be given unless the LANDLORD
had consented TO the impro ement few Of US on
posed this, but defeated in The division lobby,
Where was Mr.. Bright when the interests Of the I.S
tenant wsre again at stake' Nowhere We rscer sdss
him chen nth question d,scssed IN fAose 11ve
Again, You may recollect carefully n<rxed commteo.
was nominated In 1865 on tenant s.I say carefully
packed committee for out OF sscneen members there
was clear majority e. sStsn against the tenant and
when MI. BLAKE, sv Mcmahon and exposed the con,
W. ~ " X Y. committee and ,red 70 improve did
usual Was nowhere. tCheers.I When the miseraolA
report Of that committee 10 the House
the 23d OF june II was who led the attack upon Il;
was ably seconded by Mr.. McMahon, and oor conduce
on that occasion was highly commended hy the real
friends Of tenant right bat where Mr. Rrightf a.
coure, he Was anywhere but in the House; ps mssar
sGle hin; Ae Hsser G0rs us tte smallest dsislonoa
lCnecIs1 tAss,S, on the assh 80 Of Jnns =
committees vas most unfair to the Irish tenant but M
Bright vas noe 70 be seen. Cheers) In word nA
lost The opportunity Of advocating practical meanrV
OF tdhans right and exposing tho usory proposals Of
friends f the Irish tenant never received the assis.ancs
or even the co"nenan-e IF Mr. BrigM tcbeersl 30 far
on that subject Prhaps may venture TO say have
Mr. Bright gsve Us In the same speech what was per-
haps the explanation Of his studied absence from the
House OF Commons In the late Parliament whenever the
tenant right question stake He has dlscove. ed
more permanent and far reaching remedy for evn
laugh Of . Su S.y .ne
tenant right-nsmev. the abolition Of the law o. DR.
moseniturs and breakng the system Of entails and set
tCheen ~ increase the nu'.r Of 'erant faymes oWl
rends, asw Aappi,r q oaa % 'crsase Ms .YmSsr d
as sss s"s d.. @s a. a gss'" iS
s assesd - d5sa ] say y Is Bis avowed Oh.
worid Inevitably lead TO that tchesrs Tns.1S - az
fdf SON jssrs tse tat, rsad have d b. split -
osfGS.n hay a q s,x 1Ia; md then each siztA pant n
broker W. and . o. d. a.s,ovsias ppse.s ssssS
proceed, edct group nj mall landlords bsiMg poorer AND
s,,a r'say AID wS sde o ~ &, ,arsr. sa. =. pre-
British economists should offer reward for he carry
In out Of their great scheme for dspopuatng Ireland
small comfor, % me .ooant farmer 70 know nat what
destroyed them had destroyed the landlords also loud
every honest champion or ,snan, right In Ireland hss
the interests Of The landlord and tenant are Identical
and that sound messur- Of tenant right in securing The
properly ~rsaied bv thA labor Of ths would inev-
itabIy increase aso the wealth and happine@ OF the
landlord but how faa TO all hopes 70 .lgbtest
prospect o. relief, would be the ntermnabe conflict be-
tween class and ciasss conflict leading desruc-
ton, involved in tins startling project for which, for.
Bnsh, thinks sni scheme "a moro permanent and far
reaching rsmedyf" 'Chesrs) Az 70 his chd.sh idea.
about swesrns away entails ana ss,,lsmsns he ought
In that direction hat interests Of the tenant rcqursd
for, Of courss. the general provision Of The Law, we
settlements Tar the actual property created by the
tsuant was concerned But that the tenants should b
urged 70 20 far beyond that and ranonly destroy tho
property Of others without the smallest prospeot a
getting any q = :: indeed outrageous lchssnl 7
who Vas present. eacouragInc all this remembered his
own speech ~ the Special Commission whom he eudeav-
orsd 70 attach exactly the sentiments and connect
when Mr. IAw:Sa charges these things upon The poit
cal pscneu he often exaggerated and sometimes fals1
blunt svowsi made in hi. hearing on Tuesday nishs
was clear enough. fChc-rsl The Wild notion tkas
the tenants Of Ireland would be served BY selling
on al the estates Of tho sbsentees. n simply
amusing. Surely, Nj. Bright ought to have Known
that landed property hal been publicly sold in
Estates Court far exceeding IN vslue even the vast
estates which he named for conscaion for taking the
eates ne spoke or the vsue iss lar short OF twenty
three m lliou pounds. which y the that has been
given for landed property under the remember
many Of great hardship consequent the
zion by purchase Of these new large estates:
who looked only the percentage they 10 get
Tor their money and who had not spark q sympathy
with Old tenant farmers the estate. tCheors.1 L
should like 70 remind Mr. Breht-snd brings me bach
10 text that h. the charge he has laid against me
~ the case OF the Dcrryveash otons A now man.
md loading liberal, too, purchased property IN
Donegal, and for some another swept away the
people and bottcd out Of the 81 ireland the little
village OF Deryveagh. The meIpper FIR the county
~ tork, Mr. Sculty, proposed, On the 24th OF
Juno, 1881, an inquiry into The casa, seconded
ais motion. tCheersj very interesting de-
pate TOOK place, bat the government opposed u.s.
md We were beaten. Where Nr BrghtY No
where tCheersD II he bad raid little attention to
teal Irish questions, ana had cnnde-cended TO listen
% that debate he would have heard enough about the
'nccts OF these new purchases Ia understand why tho
irish people regard any their enemy who on.
,ourages them Cneerr. But II not merely that
Hr. Bright sbsenicd himself from these debaies-in
which endeavored 70 take A well a. ctnld useful