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Show Gladstone's Home Rule measure London, March 22. It is now declare that Gladstone in his Home Rule scheme" proposes the appointment of a commis-! sion of experts to fix the value of various j land properties in Ireland, which at these ) valuations are to be handed over to the ' possession of the government in exchange for -consols. In , this way Ireland is to be j made a debtor to the Empire for the entire amount paid to . the landlords, together with interest, the whole sum to be repaid into the Imperial Treasury by. Ireland in installments within fifty years, , at the end of which time the lessees are to become the owners. This plan involves a domestio arrangement ar-rangement between the government of Ireland Ire-land and the tenants, Ireland becoming a tenant of the Empire and sub-letting to occupiers oc-cupiers at sums, whose aggregate will include in-clude rent, taxes, etc., to meet the interest on the consols and create a sinking fund for their final liquidation. It necessarily involves in-volves Home Rule. |