On Tuesday, remarkable speeches were delivered by Mr. Shaw and
Mr. Charles Russell. The former announced that the Land Commission wore unanimous in proposing to inter- pose a Court to determine a fair rent between the Irish land- lord and the Irish tenant. He described. the state of a great
part of Ireland as miserable almost beyond belief, and held it to be in the power of the Government to remove entirely all neces- sity for coercion by passing a good Land Bill ; but he de- precated altogether a weak Bill as worse than none. Mr. Russell also declared his intention of voting for the amend- ment of " his honourable friend " (Mr. Parnell) ; described the outrages as grossly exaggerated; asserted that they were manufactured by the correspondents of English journals, who wore assured that the thing for which there was "an insatiable demand in England was outrages in Ireland ;" and inaisted,.iu very eloquent language, that Mr. Gladstone had better not touch the land question at all, rather than throw the Irish people finally into the arms of the Land League by dealing with it feebly. Mr. Litton declared that Ireland would be tran- quillised by nothing short of fixity of tenure, fair rents, and free sale ; and Mr. Plunket made a powerful and witty attack on Mr. Parnell, which closed that evening's debate.
