ADDITIONAL SUMMARY.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 141, 15 December 1881, Page 2

ADDITIONAL SUMMARY.

. London, 20th November. The movement for English land refoim may bs represented thus far as a movement with conspicuous leadership and woll-defined purpose, but nobody supposes the programme of the Farmers' Alliance will betaken up bj either political party. Lord Hartington'B speech on the night of sth. November extiaguithed the hopes expressed in some quarters, that he might put himself at the head of au agitation based upon th» principles of the Irish Land Act. Landlord* are voluntarily making tenants a reduction equal to the amount that will probably beenforced on the Irish landlords. Parnell's gaoler at Ktlmaiuham was suspended direotly after the publication of tho prisoner's letter, doprecanng the formation of tfte Tonauts' Defence Association, for evading the Government's anti-Land League proclamation. Mabel Wilberforce, the adventuress, has been found guilty of perjury, and sontencod to nine months' imprisonment with hard labour. The House of Ddlgelly, the last reho of the Welsh Parliament, has been pulled down to make room lor an ironmonger's shop, An attempt to preserve the building as a publio museum failed for want of funds.