The Land Bill has, on the whole, been well received
in Ireland. 'The Nationalist newspapers call it illusory, but all the moderate Liberal papers praise it highly. Lord Granard, the leader of the -extreme Catholics, says that the Bill will, " most undoubtedly, be the means of founding a new era of peace and prosperity in Ireland. To indulge in factious opposition to it would be to incur -a most serious responsibility," words suppressed by the correspond- ents of the Times and Pall Mall Gazette, who make Lord Granard appear discontented with the Bill. So also they misrepresent the verdict of the Cork Farmers' Club, in which eight out of nine :speakers praised the Bill, while the chairman of the Fermoy Club, though adhering to the demand for fixity, still allowed that the Bill was a good one. A conference of clubs is to be held .on March 1, and we may then hear of practical amendments. A propos of Lord Granard, he has been much abused for recalling with pleasure Vinegar Hill and '98. If he had been a Scotch- man and had recalled '45, he would have been considered a patriot
• with a pedigree. Shall we never be decently just?
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