The committee of Irish landlords in Dublin has issued a
sche- dule of resolutions, which were to have been submitted at a general .meeting on Thursday last ; and reports of the pro- ceedings will probably arrive in time for notice in our Postscript. The published resolutions give no great reason to expect much in the way of practical results from the gathering. The sounder parts seem to be borrowed from the programme of remedial measures imputed to the Government. Several small subsidiary measures are added, overlaying what there may be of distinct policy with confused details. The measures suggested are many of them desirable enough in their objects; but they are too many, cumbered with premature particulars, and undigested into a whole. The collected landlords make small promise of doing much themselves ; they call for everything to be given by the State, even down to seed ; and they make no generous advance to endow the State with power to deal with all, even with their own property. The landlords seem to labour under a terrible fear, that in the efforts to rescue Ireland they shall be hurt. They say one word
for their country, two for themselves, and fall into the conditinit induced by all self-seeking in times when great actions are needed —feebleness. In a word, there is no stamp of originality, energy, or singleness of purpose, about the manifesto. We suspect that if the committee can keep together long enough, it will prove useful rather as a board of reference and consultation respecting mea- sures planned by Government, than as a source of original sug- gestions.
