The Irish Land Bill got into Committee on Thursday night,
with unusually little difficulty and without any division, after speeches from Sir W. Barttelot, the Irish Attorney-General, and Mr. Staveley Hill, chiefly ou the subject of the supposed confiscation of landlord rights, and the need for compensation. Mr. Gladstone, in his short reply to Mr. Staveley Hill, expressed the great gratification he felt at the tone of the discussion, and pointed out that all the great objections raised were really questions of detail, that should be dealt with in Committee, and that did not in any way affect the principle of the Bill. After the Bill got into Committee, Mr. Gladstone explained. that the Government intended to have morning sittings on Tuesdays and Fridays, in order to make way with it. The Chairman of Committees remarked that "after a hard day's work," he had been able to go through the amendments to Clause 1, and arrange them, with the view of preventing one of them from killing the others. If that has been Dr. Playfair's labour on Clause 1, what will it be on Clause 7 I)
