The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-08-03
FOREIGN NOTES.
HIScELLANEOUs HAErERs ABROAD.
Irish I.and Bill In the House or Lords
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PARLIAMENT POINTS.

Elections for Members OF Commons 10
bs Buspended-Tho Land Bill and the
Lords.
LONDON, August 9,-In the Commons to.
day Sir Henry James, Attorney General,
said the government would bring in bill
to suspend till next session the Parliament
wrig for new elections in Canterbury,
Chester, Gloucester City, Oxford City,
Boston, MACclessdeld and Sandwich,
where the candidates returned to the
House OF Commons were unseated on
petitions.
Inthe House OF Lords the Duke Of Ar.
gyle (Ltberal, in an hours speech attack.
ed the land bill, TO which, however, hs
SAT-, the Government Beems to be driven,
90 the House Of Lords are, by cirCum.
stances. He compared the Government
To Jelly. First, he advised the Govern.
ment To toll the Irish that they will hence.
forth support the decisions oil the courts,
and that poverty 10 no excuse for wrong.
The Duke OF Marlborough (Conserya.
tiye) also spoke in condemnation Of the
bill,
At conference OF the Young Mems
Christian Association, Samuel Morsly, NJ,
r, presided during the morning, and the
Earl Of Aberdeen In the afternoon. The In.
ternational Committee OF New York, pre-.
scented paper on finances.
The Duke oil Argyle, in his speech,
said their was @ feeling ot bitterness and
humiliation which was not confined 10
that house In being obliged to accept 4
bill 10 which 90 many had strong iunda.
mental objections. Universal power, he
said, 10 given TO three men OF yAluing
rentS oil over Ireland, which was eminent.
ly ridiculous, and giving absolute right
OF sale to erybody, was eminenLly un,
Just He particularly attacked the pro-
vision In the bill enabling the land court
10 Interfere In eases. II the effect OF the
bill was to retain the poorest class Of ten.
ants on holdings, It would only perpetuatn
difficulties in Ireland. No people could
prosper, who, like many Irish tenants,
have been pleading poverty aS an ex.
cuSe for fraud.
The appeal OF Rev. s. F. Green Ritual.
ist), ot Miles Plating, by which he sought
to quash the decision Of the Court oi Ap-
peal against granting writ OF habeas
corpus with view Of his disCharge FROM
the Lancaster Castle, was dismissed In the
House oi Lords by Lord Selbourne, Lord
Chancellor, who said he thought 1t un.
necessary to hear counsel for Lord Pen.
zauce, who originally granted the writs
in committing Green TO prison for con.
tempt Of court. Lords Blackburn and
AlaIson, Lords Of Appeal, conCurred with
Lord Selbourne, but the costs were not
granted against the appellant In consldera.
ton Of the burdens he has already en-.
dured.
The Lord High Chancellor said the Land
bill was fenced In with such safeguards Rs
would prevent any undue interference
with the rights OF property. The bill
would strengthen the moral power Of the
Government Tor the enforcement Of the
law.
Lord Cairns, Conservative said the
fact that the landlords are suffer.
ing by the present disturbed state
Of affairs was dHe to the Governments
abregation It's primary junction and the
encouragement It had given to agitation,
but he was glad under the circumstance
OF the house not coming to issus on the
second reading Of the bill, as important
amendments In the details oi the bill were
necessarily colonial. The secretary hav.
Ing replied TO Lord Cairns, q second read.
Ing ot the bill was ordered.