The Commons on Tuesday agreed to the Lords' amended amend-
ments to the Irish Land Bill, with three exceptions. Mr. Glad- stone invited them to restore the old scale of compensation for eviction, and it was restored by a vote of 146 to 55. Mr. 'Chichester Fortescue proposed that the old duration of lease ex- empting landlords from the operation of the Bill, which the Lords bad reduced from 31 years to 21, should be restored, and this also was agreed to by 262 to 186. Finally, the permissive registration of improvements was confined to landlord and tenant when acting in concert, and taken away from either of them when acting separately. It is not very probable that the Lords will make any fur- ther resistance, as the point upon which they were sincerely anxious, the tenant's right to assign without consent, was compromised be- fore it reached the Commons. That clause as it originally stood deprived them of all influence in the selection of tenants,—a point upon which they are naturally jealous, but as it stands now they can object for any reasonable cause. That is fair enough, as the grand abuse of the power, the rejection of a tenant solely on the ground of his creed, is now prevented. Catholicism or Pro- testantism would not be a reasonable cause of rejection.
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