, 1881-06-26

a portion of their constituents.
prominent Minister, specially Interested il
the Irish question, said yesterday thut Their
was no real opposition to the bill IN th
House of Commons. The Government. ar
well satisfied with this weeks prog
russ, though Mr.. Parnell, rcsardlcs
of his pledges, rcsunled occasion
ally obstruction. The Sfununr" /
probably correct i'll announcing that th
Government after next week mean to anne,
Tuesdays and Wednesdays, thus securlu:
! four days wcc!, instead of TWO. Some p;l
pcrs gravely say that
TTlE IRISH F1LIsCsrER1NG
OH Thursday due to Mr.. Ec:lpath's pres
| ence In the EhlIery, his friends desiring Il
show him solf{e. parliamentary Sport. N
concession yet made OIL the antent'ncn
adopted seriously ;lEccts the mali. principle:
OF the bill, whcAII' the Ministers intent
and expect to pass without substantial
alteration. sending i to the iIo'lst
| of Lords BY the middle Of July,
| .rhe tinal decision of Lord Salisbury and hi:
advisers is probably not taken. aud is Ger
tainly not known, but the Liberals believe
tho Lords will content themselves with com
/ paratiyely few amendments, an insist
OIL nothing Of vital consequence
Both Houses arc likely to act st
as to admit Of adjournment by the middle oi
August The observations of tht American
press OH O'Donoyan Rossa, whicli. have been
! sent fully by cable, had the excellent effect
| of reducing to their true proportions the ex-
] aggeratetl notions first entertained Of
o'poSovAS-no$sA's INFLUENCE
and Importance. Had these observations been
| known at tic time, it Is probable that Earl
Granville's dispatch asking the attention OF
the American Government would never have
been written.
4 nAsELEss RUMoK
The rt1nor that Sir John Macdonald will
be offered a Peerage and the Governor
Generalsllip Of Canada is pronounced on
good authority to be haseless. Any such
scheme would be wholly inconsistent with
the policy of the Colonial-U1iice.
THE EEAcoS$r1ELD MEMORIAL
It is announced to-day that the Prince of
Wales subscribed LOO guineas to the Beacons-
field memorial.
THE LAND BILL AND THE LORDS.
4 month hence at the outside the Land
bill will bc before the Lords, and its progress
in that Chamber will be watched with pc
cuIar interest. With general questions re-
lating to land their Lordships are much better
able to deal than the Commons, nine-tenths of
them being landed proprietors who devote
their time to the management Of estates.
But in this case the Lords will bring to the
consideration of tile bill not only their preju-
lices in favor Of landlordisn,, but keen
desire to show the Radicals. who
have detlcd them to alter the
measure, that the Upper Chamber is still a
part of the Constitution, endowed with re-
yisory powers, Lord Salisbury uttered the
unanimous opinion of his associates when lie
said that it would be better for
TIE UPPER HOUSE To LEGIsLATE ITSELF
OFT OF EXISTENCE
than to become a faincant branch of the
Legislature, useful only for registering the
DEGREES of the House Of Commons. Their
Lort!sEips, therefore. hare determined to let
the Radicals, Jacobins tile Tory papers call
them, understand that the prerogatlyes OF the
hereditary House have not been shortened or
circunscribed BY the recent uprising of tie
Democrats. It would not be surprising If be-
fore the Land bill is disposed of greater
and graver issue, involving the existence of
the Upper Chamber should be forced
upon the country. Mr.. Gladstone
took particular pains the other
day to let it 90 forth tl.at lie will not con-
slider his life's mission ended until lie can
lay violent hands upon the great landed
guild. Mr.. William Fowler, member for
Cambridge, moved 4 series Of resolutions de-
claring that the time had come for
TIE. ABOLITION OF ENTAIL. AND PRIMO
GES1TCl:E.
AS this involved, a question affecting exist
ing laws, the Acknowledgement ought to
have spoken on tho Governments behalf,
but the Premier jumped up and 1naAe Il
brief but pregnant speech, announcing his
hearty support Of the principle of free trade
in land, and telling the Lords, almost III as
many words, that, if they could not
maintain their order without such rcstrlc-
tions upon the sale and transfer of landed
property as now exist, the sooner they passed
off the scene the better This was reply to
Lord Salisbury's muttered threat that the
Upper House would throw out the Land BILL
and the Radicals cheered it to the echo.
Ii the Lords, BY rejecting or mutilatlns the
bill, force 4 battle,
THE FIGHTING WILL EE SHORT, suARr, AND
DECISIVE,
and the result never for q moment in doubt.
They and the 'Squ1res and the Established
Church will stand alone: Tile Radicals will
not only muster every man Of Radical tend
encies in the three Kingdoms, but draw tens
OF thousands Of recruits from the farming
class, which hitherto has been us loyal to
T0ryiSnl as to beer and the Diblc.n Thoy
will sweep Ireland as with Il broom. and the
Irish yeomanry Ut Ulster as well as tile dis
affected tenantry in the three provinces. The
fact is, American competition has made Rad
icalisln Irresistible. The farmers cannot live
against your exports under entail and pri-
THEY MUST HAVE Fj;EE TRADE IN LAND,
or ten years hence they will be as extinct as !
tue archers Of Crecy. Under the present |
land laws estates are tied up III one family,
are i'll many cases impossible, /
jointures have to be paid to horde of heirs /
out OF tile annual rent, and purchase and |
sale, when permissible, are hampere<l !
by costly forms and processes. Tile |
occuper, III short, has to carry Oil
his back the owner, the owners kin, the mid
lie men, and the agent, and, unless he can
throw off tEis load and become his own lantl- |