The Times' correspondent in Wales tells us, in yesterday's issue,
that the failure of the Unionists in Wales was not due at all to any enthusiasm for Home-rule, for which the Welsh do not care a button, but to the belief that Mr. Gladstone and his Government would greatly advance the interests of the Welsh tenant-farmers, and give them a grasp of the land which would virtually end in their ownership. Even the Church Question, he says, though it is well in the front, is subsidiary to the Land Question. The Welsh farmers believe that Disestablishment would play into the hands of the land reformers, and greatly assist Mr. T. E. Ellis in his proposed land legislation. In fact, the Irish land legislation has whetted the appetites of the Welsh tenants for a land legislation of the same type ; and even the feeling about tithe and Church property is quite subordinate to the eagerness for a raid upon rents. If so, Mr. Gladstone's Government will soon feel the wrath of the Welsh party, unless some very drastic dealings with the Church and the land are commenced,—of which, we trust, there is no prospect.
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