Mr. G. H. Moore, M.P. for Mayo, who attracted so
much attention by his infuriated speeches during the vacation, appeared in his place on Tuesday to make a very moderate and sensible speech, declaring that as he believed the Bill to be a genuine effort to do justice, so far as the critical conditions within the walls of Parliament would admit of justice being done, he felt bound to give his support to the second reading. He maintained, however, with Mr. Maguire, that the Bill did not " carry out adequately its. own good intentions." " Good intentions were said to form the pavement of a place that was once offered to the
Irish people as an alternative for Connaught : he hoped there was no danger of a similar issue in the present case." Mr. Moore dilated on the necessity of strengthening the provisions of the Bill in the case where the tenant is, through age or infirmity, at once unable to work his own farm, and unable to find readily a tenant to buy him out, and therefore retires from his holding ;—in which case Mr. Moore thought he ought to have the value of the good- will, as much as if he were succeeded by another tenant. We congratulate Mr. Moore on his wonderful change of tone since the recess. He speaks now like his former self,—like one clothed and in his right mind.
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