Show THE LAND BILL Imp rlant Movements In Ireland Ire-land New York 9 Tribunes London Mr Gladstone land bill transcends aU other topics in importance Public opinion hat not yet crystalized but the first impressions are undoubtedly favorable favor-able to the bill at a fair just middle way for the settlement of the land question ques-tion The Fcheme it admittedly a new departure English politician regard its it-s a preface to a large proposal to Do extended ex-tended some day to Scotland and England Eng-land Cppartnerabip in the toil It the mam spring of Mr Gladstone proposal This princip e justified by the eircum stances in Ireland and the recommendations recommenda-tions of both land commissions Neither 1ie Irish press nor the Irish party has assumed antagonism to the bill Mr dhuw has already indicated the lin of critiQum in stating that fixity of tenure of fift8 > n years is too brief Mr Parnell at tiirrttingham adhered to the League programme which aima at making tenants owners by compulory oompen kation of landlords Ue admitted lIst the bill was an honest attempt to reconcile recon-cile the mtroats landlords and tenant and thttJanytbinjrvWich stops eviction is a distinct gain and a decided step toward abolition of landlordism It is already reckoned that ninety out of the 103 Irish members will vote for the second reading of the bill Lord Elchoi sweeping amendment will do 10 much harm that the front opposition bench is most likely to disavow and substitute another in the hope of catching the Irish votes This depends on the bearing during dur-ing Eastertide of the public speeches The tories will make tremendous effort to secure the Irish support at the second reading At present the Irish seem disposed dis-posed to support the second reading and effect amendments in committee in regard re-gard to the constitution and working of the land court which ii the keystone ef fair rents The bill it likely to be much altered in that respect The emigration provisions will also be subjected to a heavy ordeal in committee The general voice of public opinion at present regards this as the greatest scheme of Mr Glad stones creation The Duke of Argyles resignation was due to the fear that the bill would extinguiih rights of ownership owner-ship He repr sents the old school of political I economy in regard to land tenure ten-ure and cannot accept the new principle that land has no sanctity beyond the reach of Parliament His chief objection tion relates to free sale He was careful t o withhold his resignation till after Mr Gladttonos explanation of the provisions of the bill Three months ago it was Known that tho duke and two other ministers wore disposed to break away It is supposed that the other two are now reconciled to the mea cure Lord Carlingford who succeeds the Duke of Argyle is a whig but his acceptance ac-ceptance of the privy seal places an exert > ex-ert on Irish questions in the cabinet He is HS sweeping a reformer in regard to Ireland as Spencer The Duke of Ar gylei successor is regarded by tories as a proof of the revolutionary tendency of the land bill The chief feiturehaa been largely overlooked namely the provi ion extinguishing 60000000 of the permanent debt of manipulating the 20000000 short annuities whicn end in 1885 and turning them into long annuities an-nuities A remission of the silver duty is interceded to relieve foreign exchange with countries trading on a silver basis Another great memorial from the London Lon-don bankers has been presented to Glad tone urging that England should be represented at the Paris conference Its It-s thought that Gladstone will ultimately yield in this matter Worlds London Homerule members will ask the government to amend the land bill so as to bar the collection of overdue rents beyond a certain date The clauies for giving state aid and for the reclamation of waste lands will open up tempting o portunities for speculators and adventurers Many Irish landlords will be anxious to sell out and their places will be taken by retired iron masters and cotton lords who are proverbially erbially harsher and more unreason able than hereditary proprietors The amount required to carry the bill into operation will bo enormoup The Spectator says the real tendency oUhe bul is to enable landlords to ran lab from the scene without suffering any injuries except in rare casci New York nThe Tribune Leading Lead-ing members of the Land League disclaim claim any knowledge of the fugitive Coleman thought to have arrived by the Australia on Saturday They lay all such schemes as the Mansion house plot are without the sanction of the League and only result in great injury to the cause W bile leaguers may look forward to the ultimate independence indepen-dence of Ireland the me of force is not at all comprehended in their preient plans Cork 9Parnell replying to a toast to the prosperity Ireland at the banquet this evening traced the history of the Land League He denounced the deser ion of seventeen members from the Irish party as the cause of the coercion bilL The first portion of the land bill he aid was full of doubtful points and pit alls He defied anybody to tell accurately curately how it would work It would be the duty of Irish members to improve the bill as far as possible in its passage through the Home and see that its working work-ing be as advantageous as possible to tenants The second portion of tho bill was by far the most important He looked thereto for very im portent results He strongly denounced emigration which he declared was a scheme for clearing out small tenants whose courage and sacrifices had brought the question to a 1 point No British ministry could very long overlook any bill that did not largely reduce rent Parnell adressing the people afterwards from the hotel warned them against thinking the battle was won and said it md only just commenced London 1OIt is stated that on the receipt of report from New York that Toman skirmishers were about to make arrangements for the murder of Wad stone the police took precautions in the district ofHawarden wbere Gladstone is laying Dublin 10 At a land meeting ate at-e < 7 Westport today a resolution was passed > expressing regret that no better moans for iiivioc efiect to the land bill md been devised than the worthless brokendown machinery of the land act and declaring that with such machinery no acts could oe succe afully enforced for the benefit of tha people New York 10 Heralds Dublin The Irish Catholic bishops are to bold a meeting of the Episcopal body on Tuesday Tues-day to consider the land bill and determine termine possible upon come course of united action in regard thereto The importance attached to the subject is marked emphatically by the holding of the meeting on Tuesday of holy week a late of great inconvenience for tho bishops who must all be back in their respective dioceses on Wednesday night to celebrate cele-brate all important functions of Thursday Thurs-day Nothi St but a sense of the greatest urgency could have caused the meeting to be held at such a time The meetings meeting-s convoked not by the primate arch bishop of Armagb but by Archbishop McCabe of Dublin It it i assumed that he must have been especially empowered by the Pope to exercise this act of authority autho-rity which he could not do under any I ordinary circumstances If this surmise is correct and it is not easy otherwise to Account for the convention of the whole Episcopal body of Ireland by the archbishop arch-bishop of Dublin it would indicate that the holy lea is determined to throw in the weight of iU i influence with the moderate section of the hierarchy and to restrain the clergy from favoring excessive ex-cessive popular demand |