13 JUNE 1891, Page 2

A weary world sees a chance at last of the

Purchase Bill passing, and even, if we may judge from some of the language used on Thursday night, of its being hereafter regarded by both parties as a most philanthropic and satisfactory Bill. A great part of Tuesday night and Thursday night were, how- ever, wasted in a regular faction-fight, the contention on the side of Opposition being that the Government, in arranging the Purchase Commission, wished to secure Commissioners who would give landlords an unfair price. A compromise was at. last arrived at, but even then the right of evicted tenants to purchase their former holdings had once again to be debated, with the usual result. Mr. Balfour, we are glad to see, has not given way on this point in the least, and, as Mr. T. W. Russell explains elsewhere, it is only in, the case of derelict farms that the evicted tenants will be treated as if they had kept their contracts.