Show PELRAPfiI NIBWS GREAT BRITAIN Government aud the Irlsh Dr iiunsons Case Sundry Cable Chips New York 16 Heralds 10 don I cable The policy of the cJmen a ilea whh regard to Ireland has thrown the rad tale into a sort of pane They exclaim ex-claim that it is revolutionary The main idea IB to nave the state buy out all the landlords who are willing to sell their estates on the basis of twentyono years ot judicial rent which ranges about 25 per cent below the rates hitherto charged land debentures bering ber-ing 4 per cent interest being issued to the sellers the state of course guaranteeing guarantee-ing payment of the debentures at maturity matur-ity and the surplus of the Irish Church funds being made a part of the guarantee It is probable that the amount of acua cost required from the treasury would be comparatively small as the debentures > would be aa good as console and would be gladly accepted by the landlords land-lords The Speculator which it i manifestly alarmed declares that 300000 000 would be needed but I have it on good authority that the real amount wanted would not exceed 20000000 and probably would fall below this sum It is proposed to deal with the am > ars of rent on the same principle the state advancing ad-vancing money to pay oft pert ana the landlori remitting the remainder The proposition to carry it out will be laid formally before the House on the first Monday in May by we Smith MP for Westminster The radicals dare not oppose it for they stand openly committed com-mitted to the central principle of the measure and the Irish people are reported re-ported to be enthusiastically in its favor No compulsion would be put upon the landlords to part with their property but those who wish to sell would be able to obtain their prices and hare done with it This new departure leaves the government high and dry and must cause a deep and wide seneation BO coon as it is thoroughly understood throughout the country As for the other problems presented in Ireland Ire-land for a solution of the conservatives would probably be in favor of liberating the suspects while at the same time they would take energetic measures to preserve pre-serve order by strictly legal means With reference to the case of Dr Lamson the publication here of the affidavits affi-davits concerning the existence insanity insan-ity in his family and his own eccentricities eccentrici-ties compels the admission in many quarters that if one half of this evidence had been produced at the trial the jury would have found the prisoner not guilty on the ground of insanity At the same time the press is still very hostile to the prisoner The almost universal cry is We dont want any Gaiteau farces in English courts of justice aid the question ques-tion is asked It suspicions of Lamsons insanity were entertained by his friends and family why were his counsel kept in utter ignorance of the facts The exhibitions I exhi-bitions made at the Guiteau trial have greatly prejudiced poor Lamsons case in the minds of a large part of the British public casting suspicion on all insanity pleas It seems likely at this time of writing that a further reprieve will be granted to LamEon but the case is surrounded sur-rounded with doubt The home secretary secre-tary has been bitterly assailed everywhere every-where for the first reprieve and people do not scruple to say that his action was due to his American conections Lady Harcourt being a daughter of Motley the historian Consequently he may be pardoned for hesitating about taking further fur-ther action in a business so manifestly unpopular American securities are again unsettled unset-tled by New York prices ana by rumors which have beenspread in various directions direc-tions by the syndicate of liars that Gould I has been seriously ill The tide of American travel has already al-ready let in strongly A large number of New Yorkers are in London and the chief hotels are crowded Those of your readers who are coming over will do well to writa or telegraph from Queen town for rooms if they wish to save themselves much trouble Tribunes London cable The Marquis of Salisbury Sir Stafford Northcote and practically the entire conservative party are now pledged to the support of Smiths proposal peasant proprietorship in Ireland Ire-land They have carefully avoided nevertheless never-theless committing themselves to details de-tails on which the practicability of the proposal entirely depends Not the peasants but the landlords interests are to be the mainspring of this policy if it is to become successful London 16The Observers Dublin correspondent believes Parnell on his return to Rilmainham jail will be unconditionally un-conditionally released a |