Mr. Gladstone has received an urgent memorial from a large
number of Liberal County Members, pressing for legislation on the subject of the Land Laws, the tithes, registration, and the
amendment of the railway rates. The memorialists admit the urgent claims of the Irish Question on Mr. Gladstone, but press upon him that:in the present depressed condition of agriculture, even Ireland is not a subject of more critical importance than any measure which would lighten the troubles of the farmers and the landowners. Mr. Gladstone replies that he is fully aware of the urgency of these measures, and that_he still hopes that one or more of the amending measures referred to may yet become law during the Session. But his tone.is not sanguine. Ireland swallows up everything, from the Prime Minister's energies to the cartoons in Punch.
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