Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-06-20
FOREIGN.
land Bill Prospects Labor Unions.

New YORK, june 19.h.-The Worlds Lon
don special says: The light is breaking for
the Premier. and it is now certain that the
land bill will reach the House of Lords early
in July. Lord Salisbury has muttered
threats against it, but the prevailing impress
sion is that the upper house viii not dare to
reject it. Their rejection last year of the
compensation-for disturbance bill was fol-
lowed by the present measure and if they
should throw it out they may safely count on
being confronted next session with much
more radical scheme. 1t is quite on the caras,
however, for the bill to be read in the House
Of Lords, although / have reason to know
that no attempt will be made to tamper with
its leading principles. The most important
amendment, probably, will be one in spirit
OF threat, moved in the House of Commons
by Henage 1.-THE member from Great Gumsly)
on Thursday, viz to exempt landlords who
have made their own improvements according
to the usual system from the operation of the
clause providing for the free sale OF ten
ant right by the outgoing occupier. An
amendment of the kind, which would not
materially affect the scope Of the bill, is
almost sure to be carried in the upper house,
but Just now the Lords are not in the humor
for interfering with the business of the Com
mons. John Archer, leader of the agricult-
ural labor movement, wrote to Mr.. Gladstone
the other day, asking when the Government
intends to bring down the bill for assimilat-
ing the borough and county franchises. The
Premier in very courteous and compE.
mentary note, replied that the bill would be
prepared during the recess, and made the
piecs de resistance for the next session. The
assimilating Of borough and county fran
chises will, it is estimated, increase the Rad
zeal strength in the country at leas. 60 per
cent. Archer, who is travelling through the
country holding open air meetings in the
evenings, makes no secret Of the future pro-
gramme of the vast organization of L2borers'
Unions which he controls. He demands that
the law of entail and primogeniture be abol-
ished, that the land be thrown open for pur
chase, that the church be disestabiished, titles
abolished, etc. The parson, as the Chartists
used to say, will be compelled to live on the
affections of his people or starve. This is
strong talk, and there is plenty Of it just
now.
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LONDON. June 19th.-The recent Fenian
eutrages and repeated rumors Of dynamite
plots have given rise to great dissatisfaction
at the impunity with which such conspiraciss
are said to be hatched in New York. have
reason to know that the report that the
Foreign Office will call the attention of your
Government to the matter is well founded.
Earl Granville will contend that to allow
subscriptions to be publicly solicited for the
avowed purpose of destroying life a1d
property in this country is an unfriendly act
on the part of the American Government.
0'Donnovan Rossa's boast about the gunboat
Dotterel, which was at first ridiculed to some
extent, is confirmed by news received to-day
that divers have discovered that the explo-
sion did not originate either in the boilers or
magazine. Commander Evans. who was in
charge of the i'll fated boat, was of the opin-
ion that one of the boilers exploded. and that
the concession fred the gun-cotton in the
magazine, but to. days report knocks that
theory on the head, and Rossa's story about
dynamite having been placed in the coal
bunkers is now deemed more plausible.
Other projected outrages have only been frus.