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Mr. P. J. Smyth, M.P., has told the Irish people,

in a letter referring to the prisoners in Kilmainham, that the first duty of the Irish Members is to get the Land Bill through the House of Commons. " I regard it," he says, "as a great and splendid

measure There are amendments which I should like to see made, and it is possible that they may be !nada ; but amendments or no amendments, this is a great Bill, based on the truest principles of tenant-right, and it will prove to be an enormous boon to our country." If there were many more Irish Members as outspoken and honest as Mr. P. J. Smyth, we should have had this Bill an Act by this time, and no Coercion Act to injure its effect.

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