Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-14

the tenant may redeem at any time within six months after it's execution or may within the same period sell his tenancy after the execution of the ejectment to anybody who wishes to purchase and who has the privilege of redeemlng. Besides this the tenant has many other advantages and therefore ev1c- tions are both dangerous and costly to the landlords and are only practiced in extreme cases. Should the rent on a holding fall due in September, October or November the landlord cannot get decree until the Janua- ry sessions and six months more must elapse before he can obtain possession of the land. The landlord is then liable to the tenant for the crops thereon, so that nearly two years must elapse before he can fully recover the tenancy.
 254 and the number of evictions during the first six months of 1886 was only BOOT, large majority being for more than years arrearage of rent Carefully prepared re- turns show only 960 cases of absolute re- moval, many of the tenants evicted having been readmitted to their holdings. Indeed, many of the 860 were reinstated as care takers tan additional important fact) by the county court. The rules in all cases of eject men are such that the county judge IS able to grant such stay of proceedings as under the circumstances he considers req sonable, similar course being frequently taken in Superior courts. Regarding the money subscribed for the purposes of foment- ing and keeping alive agitation it is need less to remind the public that the Nationalist boast that even the poorest and most needy of the Irish people have shown their sympa- thy with the agitation by the extent and con- tinuance of their contributions. It is need less to inquire into the truth of the matter of how much compulsion is necessary in obtaining money. All that is required is that the hard stern fact should be noted carefully that the Land league was started in 1879 with the ayowed object of assisting the Irish tenants. Its first practical move was to commence drawing subscriptions from those tenants. The following figures from Parnellite prints show that from Octo- Der, 1S79,' until the government suppressed it in October, 1881, the league received by subscription in Great Britain and Ireland e17, ,SO4. During the same period the fair trial fund received e1 ,O24 and the relief of distress fund s942. From all sources, and largely from America, the last named fund received EGO, ,672, ten thousand pounds of which was devoted to the Parnellite fund and of which there is still balance of e3,65S entirely unaccounted for. e17, ,961 in Great Britain and Ireland, the to- tai received being e26, ,401, and of which the balance unaccounted for is e8, 641. For the Skinny and Father Sheehy testimonial e2, 800 was received and sundry collections for the relief of suspects aggregated 2,5OO more.
  dies league and prisoners sustentatlon com mittee, and the total receipts of this organ ization from Great Britain and Ireland were G39, 176. This committee gave place to an- other which met at the Mansion House in Dublin appealing for the relief of evicted tenants and received e5, 800. Then came the Fernell testimonial to which 900 the the out of s4o,ooO The National league commenced in 1883, having at present received e23, $40 from the Irish branches concurrently with the exactions levied by the league upon subscribers in Ire- land, supplied 95OO of the fine imposed upon Edmund Dwyer Gray for contempt of court and eS, 200 to defray the law expenses of Wm O'Brien in connection with the public scandals in 1884. To Lalor, O'Connor, O'Kelly, Sexton, Harrington, ,Healy and others was gly- en the sum of s7, 200 as an acknowledgment of services in Parliament and 95,363 as 8 special testimonial to Mir. Sexton for his in- valuable labors for Ireland in the House of Commons, and other sums were collected of which there is no record available for the de- fense of prisoners and expenses of public meetings Finally the amount subscribed to the present amount of the Irish fund is s6, ,592.
 Summing up Ireland's tribute to the Parnellite exchequer, of which the Irish in Great Britain subscribed since the founding of the league in October 1879, to date amounts to E3, GOT, 104 or 1852, GOO per annum. It is difficult in the face of the savings bank returns to contend that the Irish people are now in imminent financial danger. AS a matter of fact there is the largest reserve of money standing to the credit of Irish tenants than there has been in any preceding year. The growth in this respect has been continuous In 1873 the reports showed deposits of e1, 200, ,O00 In 1885 theyii~ reported deposits of G4 300, 900. These are popular banks with the poorer classes of depositors and along side of the reported assertions of the pover- ty-stricken condition of the Irish people and thair inability tn rant it is i"t~-ee.ins to notice that while the expenditure for intoxi- cants has fallen greatly in England 1t has appreciably increased in Ireland. Taking into account the diminished population, the consumption of beer and spirits in Ireland in 1885 showed an aggregate increase of e341 1884, while if 1884 were compared with 1881 the increase would reach the enormous sum of G750, 900. The coincidence is worth noting that the re- duction of rents under the land act of 1851 is more than equalled by the increased con sumption of beer and spirits during that period Finally, on the authority of the North British Agricultural Gazette, in Eng land rents were raised twenty per cent. be- tween 1S4O and 1880, in Wales thirty eight per cent. and in Scotland forty-nine per cent, while in Ireland they had decreased within that period and were further cut down by the act of 1881.
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