At the afternoon sitting of Tuesday better progress was made.
The Government decided that it was better to leave out the specific grounds named in Subsection 5 of the first clause, on which the landlord was to be entitled to object to the pur- chaser of a tenant-right, and to leave it to the Court to consider what fair and reasonable grounds of objection should be, Mr. Gladstone having previously accepted from Sir Rowland Bien- nerhassett the suggestion that express notice must be given to the landlord, both of the person to whom the tenant proposes to veil his right of occupancy, and of the price to be paid for it. At the same sitting, Subsection 7 of the first clause was com- pleted, that is, about one-fifteenth of the Bill had passed through Committee, showing a considerably better rate of progress than had hitherto been made. Indeed, the Irish landlords are using their weight and influence so decidedly on the side of the Bill, that it becomes a very difficult matter for the Conservatives to throw their influence as much against it as they would wish. Lord Randolph Churchill alone contrives to put as many 6pokes in the wheel of the Government as one whose whole apeaking consists in the adjustment of verbal spokes can eontrive.
