Show The Land Bill Introduced London 7In the Commons Gladstone at 549 introduced tht land bill He was much cheered The house was exceedingly crowded Gladstone said the bill would deal both with the relations between the landlords and tenants and subjects which may be grouped as requiring advancement from the exchequer A court will have final authority over all land cases It is to consist of three persons one of whom must be a judge or exjudge of the supreme su-preme court It is proposed to assist as-sist tenants to purchase their holdings hold-ings and invest the courts with power to purchase lands from landlords land-lords desiring to sell and resell them renting the title as guarantee for payment and against subdivision subdivi-sion Advances will be made to owners tenants and solvent companies com-panies formed for the purpose of reclaiming land or for other agricultural agri-cultural improvements on condition I that the advances do not exceed the amounts the borrower has laid out on his own behalf Advances will also be made to assist emigration They will be under the control of the land commissioner subject to the consent of the treasury and be made either to colonial governments or to companies It is not proposed to place any limit on these advances beyond making them secure Gladstone Glad-stone completed his speech at 8 oclock and was greeted with loud cheers on takinc his seat Sir Stafford Xorthcote and Shaw members for Cork stated that they did not intend to discuss the bill now Shaw said he believed the latter bill would give general satisfaction He hoped this attempt which he believed was made honestly and sincerely to settle the question would be accepted in Ireland as having been made in that spirit Parnell said lie did not intend to express an opinion The bill on emigration was not accoinpanied others enabling en-abling the land commission to favor emigration to lands that might be purchased for that purpose Forster took occasion to state that government govern-ment would be prepared to make advances to tenants for the purpose of perpetual quitrents quit-rents this being the point which Gladstone omitted to mention in his speech The land bill was then read the first time That portion of the bill dealing with the relations of landlord and tenant was amply covered by the synopsis telegraphed yesterday |