LORD DUFFERTN'S SCHEME FOR SETTLING THE IRISH TROUBLES.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 39, 17 February 1881, Page 3

LORD DUFFERTN'S SCHEME FOR SETTLING THE IRISH TROUBLES.

Lord Dnfferin has published a letter in which he strongly condemns " The Three F's" system — fair rents, free sales, and fixity of tenure — pointing out that the sale of tenants' interests has a tendency to saddle the holdings perpetually with double rent, and he says the system, if granted, would only further encourage a new set of agitators to endeavour to dispossess the landlords of the remaining vestiges of their rights. Lord Dufferin favours a system copied from that _ adopted at the enfranchisement of Russian Berfs, namely, the buying up of a large portion of the land in Ireland, and the conversion of rents into land charges, payable to the State. For the chronically povertystricken districts of the West, he recemmenda a great system of State aided emigration to Manitoba, and the north-west of Canada, to be worked with the co-operation of the Dominion Government. He points out that as the Catholic Church is supreme in these parts, the clergy of Ireland will not oppose emigration thither as they do to the United States. The Times remarks that Lord Dufferin's suggestions, although interesting, do not forecast the Land Bill, as the Government will not make grants from the exchequer, or pledge the credit of the eauntry.