2 APRIL 1870, Page 2

We are not going to discuss the amendments on the

Irish Land Bill. There are three hundred of them, and they would puzzle an old conveyancer. The real fights, we believe, will he on the fine for eviction, on the principle of free contract in future, and on the character of the thirty-one year lease, and even these will scarcely be real within the House of Commons. The consump- tion of time, however, in discussing these amendments will be enormous, and if some of them are not withdrawn the Bill will hardly reach the Lords in time. On Thursday, clause 1, legalizing the Ulster custom, took twelve hours, and we strongly suspect from a remark of Mr. Gladstone's that the purchasing clauses will be withdrawn altogether, as the Real Estate Intestacy Bill already is.