The House of Lords assembled yesterday week in much less
bellicose attitude towards the Irish Land Bill; and Lord Lansdowne's new clause as to the cutting of turf by tenants was read. It provided that when the tenant had enjoyed the privilege of cutting turf, and the landlord proposed to withdraw that privilege so as to diminish the value of the holding, be should be required to say whether he would continue or withdraw it, and if ho withdrew it, the Court might take that into account in considering the revision of the rent, and in this form the clause was agreed to. Nor was any other very important amendment carried, unless Lord Macnaghten's clause giving an appeal to any person who thought himself aggrieved by the decision of the Land Court, could be so called, which was carried by 15 (61 to 46). On Monday the Report stage and the third reading were taken by the House of Lords, Lord Spencer and Lord Dunraven speaking with regret of the amendments carried in the House of Lords, and Lord Londonderry defending them, though deprecating very 'strongly the notion that they had been intended to wreck the Bill.
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