7 JULY 1888, Page 3

At the evening sitting yesterday week, Mr. Thomas Ellis moved

a resolution on the condition of the tenant-farmers of Wales, declaring that it needed the serious attention of the Government, and virtually that a measure should be introduced to fix fair rents for Wales. This motion was only defeated by the bare majority of 18 (146 to 128). Mr. Raikes (the Postmaster-General) opposed the motion, declaring that the tenant-farmers of Wales are in general both able and willing to pay their rents, the landlords of Wales being both able and willing to make the necessary abatements in hard times. A greater misfortune could hardly happen to Wales than the introduction in Wales,—without any of the justification which existed in Ireland,—of the complicated and objectionable system of dual ownership of land.