The State of Ireland.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2063, 4 May 1887, Page 2

The State of Ireland.

NATURE OF THE NEW LAND ACT. A utanv, Maj 2 The following mail summary has been received per Peninsular and Oriental steamer Clyde .- — J .on don, April 1. Although the foreign situation still affords scope for all kinds of rumors and speeulalions, especially as regards Hussia, whose I’or. igo policy may bo influenced by her internal condition, whereof the recent attempts on (he life of the Czar is a symptom. Public attention is centred on Ireland and Irish measures. The introduction of a Bill to amend Irish criminal law has been the signal for the first res! struggle between the Government and the whole strength of the Opposition. Mr Gladstone has assumed th« altitude of a determined antagoni* “to the measure, declaring that statistics have proved that Irish crime is absoutely insufficient to warrant such a restraint on the liberty of liish- I men. Mr Arthur Balfour, Secret i.-v I if State for Ireland, states that ttic ! Hovernment considered that thnu;h- 1 put a large extent of Ireland the I

ordinary law was not in force, its llOMlrr ts.lt on I'V ‘ " 'Hsm .mil intimidation ot tnnal L igue. It is believed max tiie HII .vill bo .)[•>.Mioec! at every stage. Mr John Dillon's speech, in which he threatened to lead a popular resistance if the tlill passed, lasted tht*e hours, and it is thought that all the members ot the Irish party will deliver similar speeches. Although the Unionist Liberals as a body support the Bill, Mr Chamberlain and his following take exception to the

■ auso empowering the Government to order a change of venue to England, It is ih-night the Bill will be modified in committee. The Irish Land Aer was introduced in the House of Lord* by Lord Cadogan. It i* merely a temporary measure to deal with matter* of urgency and the difficulty arising from the Act of JsS 1 , and to •(meliorate the condition of tenants, pending & measure which the Government intend to introduce later.