New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-02-19
THE IRISH GROUP CALM.
PEACE WITH LAND BILL.
Nh. Bars Emigration NOUement
--latest Nezcs of L0ndon.

tspecial to The New-York Tribune by French CabIe)
Copyright 1902 By The Tribune Associattorb
London. Feb. 10. a. m.-The debate on the
address has opened suggishly. without official
amendments from the Opposition. The Nation
aIists are acting under elf-restraint and Mr..
Redmond is content with academic proposal
for giving effect to the land conference report.
A prominent member of the Nationalist party
tells me that the Irish group is convinced that
the Wyndham bill will be satisfactory. and that
agrarian troubles and grievances will cease. He
also predicts that Mr. Wyndhams bill will not
meet with serious opposition from any section
in the Commons, but will be helped along by
Radicals and Nationalists and enacted with
unexampled rapdty. The old Tories prefer to
wait until Mr.. Redmond speaks before accept
ing the sanguine forecasts from the Irish
benches Many of the most influential of the
Irish landowners are in London awaiting with
intense interest the introduction of this peace
measure Mr.. Balfours supporters admit that
he is not in good form; he shows signs of
physical weakness and nervousness, hesitatfhg
and stammerng in making replies to the Oppo-
sition bench
The Rev. Mr.. Barrs emigration project has
reached such proportions that he has asked the
Dominion Government to reserve forty addi-
tional townships for the British colony, and
offers to pay the entry fees for the colonists
at once and locate them within six months. He
has secured strong financial support, having on
deposit 100000 at his immediate disposal. This
request will involve concession from the Do
minion Government for the occupation of more
than two million acres. The force of the
ample of the American farmers who have
crossed the frontier into the Northwest Terri
tory has been decisive. 1t has directed TO Can
ada from Great Britain most remarkable
African mine owners are poweress to attract
workmen, and Rhodesia remains land of un-
developed resources
Consul Boyle of Liverpool will sail for Amer
lea on Saturday by the Cunard steamer.
Parliamentary return issued yesterday re-
lating to the reproductive undertakings of mu-
nicipa corporations gives some.very remarkable
figures There are 81 municipal corpora tions
in England excluding London and 300 carry
on reproductive undertakings. The total capi-
tai of the undertakings is f211 100000. the av-
erage annual income being Els, 900 600 and the
average annual working expenses fS,25O,OOO.
Repayments of principal and payments of inter
est however add nearly f4,500,O00 to the
pendture. that the net profit on the huge
capital is only f3TS,2S1.
The effect of the invasion of Germany by the
American Tobacco Trust is already making it
self felt The Berlin correspondent of THE
Daily Mali says that attempts to combine
against the American invaders have utterly
failed owing to the jealousy among the German
manufacturers
Mr. Chamberlain has realized that the cruy
of the South African situation is to he found
in Cape Colony. He said yesterday that Cape
Colony presented greater difficulties than the
new colonies and he felt less hopeful of a sou-
tion being found Immediately. Racial antag-
onsm seemed to be becoming chronic and an
active propaganda continued in the press and
sometimes in the pulpit conducting TO the sep
araton of the two dominant races
Lord Charles Beresford definitely announced
last night that he had accepted the command
Of the Channel Squadron The party managers
already preparing for election in Wool
Wch. l. N F.