The Press. — 1856-06-07 (London, England)

THE CABINET AND IRISH TENANT  RIGHT. THE conduct of the present Ministry in relation to the tenant-right question is extremely culpable. Some of the officials connected with the Irish department are more particularly liable to censure, and their proceedings ought to mit for an explanation.  The tenant-right question is only an unsolved problem in political economy. In England the landlords make the improvements, and charge rent accordingly ; in Ireland (for the most part) the tenants make the improvements, and the question for solution is, how to compensate these tenants when thei leases determine. We regret to say that the subject cannot be left to the Irish landlord,-, or to the laissez faire system, or " no.system," of modern political economy. The general laws of trade, of compact between buyer and seller, do not apply to this particular case. It is a problem, certainly, but we do not believe it to be impossible of solution. • Though it should not be left to such deeply interested parties as the landlords of Ireland, neither should it be handed over to the murder clubs of Ireland. Parliament has left the question to " Political Economy," and the agrarian code has accordingly been enacted in its bloodiest form in several counties of Ireland.  Now, let us see what the present Government has done, and not done, upon this subject of twenty years' standing. The question was to be brought before the House on Wednesday. Mr. GEORGE MOORE was identified with it, and his antecedents ought to have taught the Government that they should have been prepared to meet him. Ministers were napping ; Mr. HORBEAN was " elsewhere." Mr. GEORGE MOORE succeeded in getting a most equivocal bill, with many dangerous provisions, read a second time by a majority of $8 to 59. What then takes place? On the next morning (Thursday) a recklessly-penned article appears in a favorite organ of the Cabinet, written in a remarkable style, and urging on the House of Commons to fling overboard the measure which it had i approved of the day before. A newspaper s appealed to in order to atone for the ladies of the Government! Then Mr. HoasmAs gots down to the House of Commons on Thursday night, and abuses the "Tenant League" of its resources. and contemptuously derides resources. The good easy man forgot that the agrarian disturbers had long since Iva I  JUNE 7, 1856;  dered the Tenant League impotent. Mr. HoRsMAN was called to order under extraordinary circumstances. It is not the first time that he has been " disorderly " in his proceedings, and we surmise that his artparliamentary mismanagement of this serious subject will not improve his relations with the House of Common•. It deserves, also, to be noticed that Mr. Jour D FITZGERALD, the Attorney General for Ireland, was not in his place to speak on Wednesday. We have reports now before us of proceedings in Ireland where this gentleman took a very decided part. Does Mr. FITZGERALD recollect a meeting of Irish Members, at Dublin, in 1852, and also another assembly in London, just before Lord DERBY S Cabinet fell from power? We recollect these meetings, and we cannot account for the line now followed by the Member for Ennis. But Mr. FITZGERALD, though AttorneyGeneral, is a man of small account. He has little of an orator, and less of a statesman, in his intellect. What we censure is the improper conduct of the Cabinet in leaving such a question to " Agitators." The subject could be dealt with practically, if Ministers were in earnest. But on this, and every other question, Lord PALMERSTON has no other public object than to bide over the session, and leave everything exactly as it is !