The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-09

afford redress, it had the effect of arousing
public Indignation, and impresslng on British
statesmen The necessity Of regulating by fur
ther legislation the arrangements between
landlord and tenant In Ireland. Matters nave
been still worse in the other provinces where
liberty to sell has been rarely conceded, and
COMPENSATION by the landlord for beneficial
improvements almost unknown. Whole dis
tricts of country there have been depopulated
to give place to sheep and oxen. Some land
lords have paid the passages OF their tenants
to this country, where they landed IN utter
the wayside, or seek q refuge in the work.
house.
TENANTS THE SLAVES OF THE LANDLORDS.
This power, possessed by the landlords over
the very lives OF the tenants, has been used to
make them the verlest slaves to their will, and
has tended to render the franchise conferred
on them a ssmockery, q snare and delusion.h
The result has been that, so lar as Parliament
ary representatives are concerned, seldom
have any been elected from Ulster, where the
tenants have more to lose than in other pro-
vinces. EXCEPT the nominees of the landlords.
Should the tenant-farmers appear inclined to
support an opposition candidate, then the no
tice to quit or the intimatlon OF raise of rent
ia brought into requisition If they refuse to
vote as their landlord bids them, however
contrary it be to their convictions; and this
in itselfisa CALLING bondage, calculated to
debase and degrade. He and his posse CONT
tatus of bailifs and understrappers take their
the obedience or dIsobedlence paid to
the ukase that has gone forth: What
have been the consequences of this state
of yassalage? The reduction, within little
more than twenty years, OF the population OF
Ireland from upwards of 100000 to little
more at present than 5000, 600, whereas 1t
should have been $4,000, 900; the necessity for
the suppression of revolt by the suspension of
the ha6eds corpus. and the exercise of the
strong arm of the law; the exile and imprison-
ment of men who, ceasing to hope for redress
at the hands of the government VI the ln1ns-
tice under which the people suffer, risked
their liberty and life 10 sunder the connection
between Great Britain and ireland; the taclt
sympathy with such efforts, however WHO ana
chimerical they may appear to us, and the
sullen discomfort at the existing state OF
things which pervades the masses OF the peo-
ple. while the bullet or the dagger of the as
sassIn often 6pds it way to the heart OF the op-
pressor.
THE GLADSTONE LAND BILL.
The efforts of British ministers and Parla-
ments to apply an adequate remedy to the ini-
nuities of Irish landlordism" have hitherto
proved abortive The measure, however, Ia
troduced by the present Premier has just
passed the House of Commons, and this, should
it receive the sanction Of the House OF Lords,
length toward putting an end to landlord ra-
pacity and despotism. Its provisions regulate
all tenancies-at-wi, and they are, as has been
already stated, by far the most numerous,
while the .sUlster Custom" Is recognized and
legalized, with the operationsof which Il Will
not, however, interfere so long as landlords
and tenants are mutually satisfied; nor will It
vided their conditions are not incon-
sstent with the objects 1t has in view.
Its retrospective scope Is however, Its
essentially important feature. In all cases
where the landlord desires either to elect
the tenant or increase his rent, the latter
can claim compensation for improvements
made by himself or his predecessors for
twenty years retrospectiTeiy, anu lor permIa-
of date, as we'll as for. the injury he may slls-
tain by the loss of his farm; all such matters
to be adjusted by an arbitrator mutually
chosen, or court Of law to be established for
a(!Iudicating upon them. 1t further provides
for the purchase of his holding by the tenant.
giving him, under certain circumstances, IA
clIties for doing so by means Of treasury
loan of two-thlrds the requisite amount-a
clause in the bill which thus forms the nucleus
of n pcasant proprietary. Its effect will, there
fore, be to deprive the landlord Of the power to
arbitrarily raise the rents, or unJnstly inter-
iere with the domestic concerns or the religion
and politics of his tenants. If he wish to pos
sess their land he must do so at the eX-
pense of his pocket; he cannot do so, as
he formerly did, at the sole cost Of notice to
quit, leaving the people to die BY the wayslde,
or starye In the workhouse. The funds with
which he must supply them will suffice to place
them, should they elnigrate, In another coun-
try with fair prospects for the future. Neither
will they be likely to carry with them that bit
ter feeling OF hostility toward the British Gov
ernment which has, up to this time, been so
characteristic Of the Irish emigrant. This
measure will give security where uncertainty
existed, and establish order where lawlessness
prevailed The landlord will find his powers
abridged In SO far only as they were arbitrary
and unjust, and the tenant will feel himself
protected BY the strong arm OF the law IN tue
enjoyment Of the fruits OF his industry. Such
are some OF the results anticipated from the
bill by journalists and pnblicists who have
been the friends OF the tenant-farmers.