13 AUGUST 1881, Page 1

On Monday the Lords took both the Report and the

third read- ing, and separated, moreover, at ten minutes before seven o'clock. Nevertheless, Lord Carnarvon had time to make a bitter speech against the principle of the Bill, in which he declared that it is a triumph for the Land League ; and that it goes as far as possible towards establishing a pauper peasant-proprietary in Ireland ; and yet he took credit for the " moderation " of the Lords in accepting this mischievous policy. There was, "practically speaking," no injustice to remedy in Ireland. England, during the last fifty or sixty years had loyally striven to efface all wrong in Ireland,-and had given her "absolutely equal legislation," and Ireland had repaid her by "disabling, dishonouring, and degrading the House of Commons." This Bill, said Lord Carnarvon, only aggravates the difficulties and " dangers with which we have to deal, but yet the House of Lords accept it "as an experiment, as a very great experiment,"—a grotesque practical conclusion, surely, from such preraisses.