The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1880-11-26 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MIL ARTHUR ARNOLD, M.P., ON IREL.OI).  The members for Salford, Mr. Arthur Arnold and Mr. B. Armitage, addressed their constituents .0 Monday evening in the Town Hall—Mr. Arrant Arnold, in the course of his speech, referred to Ireland. Ile said that the House of Lords would be tried in the years that are coming as the Peer; nw newer been tried before. The first land question of the day was the right of tenants' property in Ire. land, together with the policy of wholesale eviction. and behind that loomed the general question of fad rights of the people of both islands to the soil oirbeir country—upon which they must live, or they oil not live at all—the question of whether it should 'roe, or, for the most part, bound in strict settleiner; to a few thousand families. He held in his Mul the Land League's "programme of Parliamentard" land reform." Ile thougt,t, the programme unjust. but it was free from illegality, and from any lures. tive to violence or disorder. It proposed that landlord might be compelled to sell at 20 years ril. chase of the poor law valuation. Possiblyt. would represent but two-thirds of the landlord.; iutereet ; at all events, it was not a feature of agitation that a price settled by the buyers be forced upon sellers. Moreover, a critic :wilt ask Mr. Parnell to explain whether he would preier to undertake the raising of a sum of more th.a £200,000,000 upon the credit of an indepenlen6, Gesernmout of Ireland, or upon that of the 1.1,002" merit of the United Kingdom. Now, what had hr paled since this programme had been put forth?, The whole world had been called to look upon tn.' spectacle of lawlessness in Ireland. Outrages u personal rights, if they might believe the Press, been of hourly occurrence. Why had none ni„ perpetrators of those outrages been punished': 11 could understand the escape of the murderers, bu he could not reconcile the impunity with which out rages, by bands of twenty or thirty men, .1 been committed, with any satisfactory estimate the efficiency of the Irish Constabulary. sure that the superintendent of the 11,e 114 or Manchester, or London police wonld be as cenfi?a,.± 15 as he was that the law would not have been trampled upon had there been an efficient Pnuee force in Ireland. He had not read of a 3ing,:le encounter of the Irish Constabulary with these ha"' of ruffians with blackened faces, who seemed te b. 3 threatening every homestead at their pleasure. fancied that a I;olicculatt with a rifle in his hind prt..tty much like a cat with mittens on its feet. Either the reports of the outrages were fictitious, which case the Government would be censurable: not publishing the fact, or they were real, pos,ibility of their unpunished occurrence the most terrible and untimely failure of the system of police. He trusted, however, flat 21 lamentable occurrences which had taken plane *4 in no way obscure wisdom and the sense of jtulnice'l the Parliament or the people of the United rinigd(.?. The record of 1881 would be splendid in our Pare,. mentary history if, while it gave practical ack.l:7„ ledgment of the right of the Irish people te on the soil of their country, it gave to all—Eslgn'J Scotch, and Irish alike—the abundant blesstnge free land.