Show THE nill BILL there seems to be a breath breathing ug spell just now in political agitation in britain and the irish questions are more calmly discussed though there is every once in a while rumors of movements among the een fen feniane lans lana in new york and other places east intimating intentions tent ions of another raid on the dominion of canada there appears little grounds for believing that anything serious will come of ithem them the position taken by the government at washington on the neutrality question as manifested in the course pursued with regard to cuba gives scant hpe hope for any fenian demonstration that might be made against canada with the power of the republic threatening them for a breach of the neutrality laws in the rear and the royal forces in canada waiting to receive them in front should they succeed in crossin crossing 0 the boundary there is little for the fe feniane anians todo at present but indulge in speechmaking and wordy of intended invasion newspaper sen son rationalists must find something to satisfy the clavings cravings cravi of a public appetite they have largely helped to create and it is probable that when the present excitement concerning utah measurably dies away the fenian question may again loom up as one of some importance unless something ot of greater interest should supersede it in the meantime the causes of dissatisfaction is among the people of ireland are being steadily removed the church disestablishment bill was the first great measure jf reform but the one now ba fore the british parliament in the form of the erlih land billis of infinitely y greater importance the condition of the farming population in ireland has been forages for ages most unenviable they have been so completely at the merc mere mercy of the landowners landow nera that to all intents and purposes they have been slaves they might toll toil and labor make improvements prove ments and increase the value of the property on which their industry was employed but the fruits of their labors became the property of the owners of the soil who could under circumstances cum stances which which were very general turn them out of doors at a minu minutes tob teb tos warning so often of ten has this been bean done and so heartless and cruel has been the mannerow manne doing it that irish evictions have become a synonym for rapacious cruelty the aged decrepit decre pid and poverty stricken have often been een turned out of their homes in the most inclement weather to watch the demolition of the buildings bullings in which probably generations of their ancestors had bad been born and raised and this in accordance with law for the statutes declared that the soil was the property of the landowner and if any improvements were put u upon p on it by the occupant unless he be had a an n express agreement with the landowner to be paid for themie had no claim nor title to them so absurdly and adjust ly stringent was waa and is this law in in ireland that we venture to question whether a lock could today to day be found on the door doon of any house leased by a tenant on the island fastened on with more than three screw nails for the putting in of a fourth would give the lock the character of permanency and it would then be the property of the tho owner of the house heuse under which circumstance the tenant who put it on dare not remove it the provisions of the present irish land laud bill have not been definitely stated on this we side of the atlantic BO so far as we have seen but enough hlis has been published to show that by it the right of the tenant farmer to his improve menta ments will be secured cured ee this has been the general custom in the province of ulster in tho north of ireland for ome years induced to a great extent in many instances by the tho hot agitation of the tha question about thirty years ago when the landholders an deemed it polibio to extend this of justice to their tenantry that the spread of disaffection und and sedition which were rapidly gaining round might be checked lu in some 6 parts arta of ulster such as county londonderry where the tho land is owned by certain london companie companies si tenant right was haq wast wasi granted in a halfhearted half hearted churlish manner that gave the tenant plainly to understand etwas a gift which could co uld be withheld at any time the power placed in the hands of and owners an J their thein agents or middlemen by this absolute control over the soil and its cultivators was immense their tenants were virtually serfs bound by the fear of pauperism and starvation to do their bidding especially at elections and it was only in cities or among freeholders free holders and tenants with long leases that opposition to their nominees euld euid c mid be found the passa gri fri of the land bill will have a greater fluence ii in revolutionizing e ireland than any measure that has ha s been made law by tho the british parliament since the em emancipation a u ci pation act which gave political rights nights to the roman catholic population |