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The prospect of the Irish Land Bill making any progress

before the (very early) Easter recess is now extremely small. Supply will use up almost all the time at the disposal of the Government before the Easter adjournment, Good Friday falling as early as March 27th. The Committee on the Irish Land Bill and the provisions for Free Education must therefore stand over till April, and the Budget will consume a good deaLof time in April. There seems very little prospect that, with so much heavy work still untouched, Parliament can adjourn at all before August, in spite of the rapid progress made in November and December. The inertia of the House of Commons is a potency so infinite, that it reasserts itself and renews its youth in the most unexpected manner, even when it seems to have collapsed.

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