Mr. Gladstone on Monday stated the names of the Land-law
Commissioners to the House. They are Mr. Serjeant O'Hagan, as Judicial Commissioner, with the powers and position of a Judge ; Mr. J. E. Vernon, of Mount liferrion, the greatest land- agent in Ireland ; and Mr. Litton, the Liberal Member for Tyrone. The names, which were quite unexpected, excited at first some surprise, and Mr. O'Donnell gave notice that he should divide against every name ; but in Ireland they were well received, and on Wednesday, when the names came to be passed, there was no division. Mr. Gladstone intimated that he would have secured Mr. Law, the Irish Solicitor-General, and Mr. Shaw, if he could, but he had failed ; he had pre-, ferred a man (Mr. O'Hagan) qualified to be a Judge, to one actually on the Bench ; he had selected Mr. Vernon as an agent who, with 5,000 tenants to manage, had never had a contentious suit ; and Mr. Litton was the representative Ulster man. Opposition died away into a running fire of rather meaningless commentary, and the Commission is accepted as one likely fo be successful.
