The Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at Epsom on Wednesday,
referred to the " safeguards " in the Irish Local Government Bill as precautions which it had become their absolute duty to adopt in consequence of the warnings they had received that the local bodies would be "cap- tured " by politicians. Mr. Goschen summed up the atti- tude of the Opposition on the Irish Question, by saying that while they are content, if not desirous, to foment an Irish discontent which helps their agitation, they are be- coming every day more impotent to carry an Irish policy of their own. Mr. Goschen asserted that the slackening of the eagerness of the Irish tenants to purchase, is due to the much better terms on which the landlords and the tenants now stand, so that the tenants are not unwilling to go on as they are. Especially so, one would say, if they are hoping for some great reduction in the value of land, to be effected, perhaps, by the consequences of a General Election.
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