29 MAY 1886, Page 2

Then Mr. Trevelyan, in an elaborate speech, to the weaker

points of which we have referred at length elsewhere, forcibly recapitulated his well-known objections to a measure which made it quite essential to the Government scheme to supplement their Home-rule Bill by a Land-purchase Bill. Mr. Trevelyan main- tained that it is not by turning the landowners into absentees that the miseries of Ireland can be cured, and he declared that it is even more necessary and difficult to protect the small farmers, the boycotted tradesmen, the hated process-servers, &c., from the wrath of their enemies, than it is to save the landlords from plunder. Mr. Healy replied to him in a speech which was rather a string of sneers at Mr. Trevelyan, than an argument for Home-rule.