Show THE IRISH ESTATES IT is stated that the tenants on the vast lurgan burgan estates purchased under the irish land bill recently passed by parliament will realize a saving idlof of over a year while saving this in annual rent according to the terms of the bill in forty four years the rent which they now pay will make the land theirs their by its ito provisions the government appropriates in long time bonds bearing at 2 per cent interest for the purpose of buying out the irish land lords the government is authorized to buy any of these estates at a price not to exceed sixteen years of its rental income and to pay for the mime same in the 2 at per cent bonds the government then sells the land to the tenants on the following terme term during the first five years the tenant pays the amount of his former rent reduced one fifth at the end of five years one fifth of what he has paid to is applied on what he is to pay for the land the remaining four fifths the government holds to pay interest on the bonds with which it purchased the estate after the five years payment the tenant pays the government four per percent cent annually on what he owes for the land and at the end of forty four years he will be given a died without further payment which will make him the legal possessor in every sense of the word by this plan the government will lose probably less jess than it pays the army of irish police every year to enforce the coercion bill at the same time the irish peasantry will be put again in possession of the land which is their rightful inheritance whether the present holders will readily avail themselves of this opportunity 7 to end their quarrel with the irish people to is not yet demonstrated if they refuse there is a way by which the english government can very soon son convince them that it is for their in terest lot let the government relax its police restraints for a few months leaving to the landlords the work of collecting their own rents or going without them and those gentlemen will need no further persuasion to settle their irish business upon whatever terms the government will grant this is probably about the way the struggle will terminate in living up to the provision of this land burch purchase bill the english government will have done its full duty to bo the irish land lord if he refuses to accept its gen erous offer he be will fully merit its in difference |