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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-2-20, Page 4�r pig THEyto y p WNL,; SAliDERS, Editor.. Thursday, February 20th, 1890, IMPERIAL PA1?LIAM. '11TT. The fifth session' of the 12 Parlia- ment of Queen Victoria, elected in July: ,1889, opened. on Mondaylast. The Lord Chancellor (Lord Salsbury), in the absence of IIer Majesty, read the Speech from the Throne by com- mission. The House of Commons is at, present composed of 670 members, 440 for England, 30 for Wales, 72 for Scotland, and 103 for Ireland. `Ihe strength of parties at the close of last year was in each case as follows: -Con- servatives, 803; Gladstone-Liberals,225; Irish -Nationalists, 87; Liberal-Urionist, 75. The new classification of the mem- bers became necessary after the split in the Liberal ranks on the, question of Home Rule for Ireland, several of Mr. Gladstone's former Cabinet collea- gues, including such distirigushed men as the late Mr. John Bright, Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, the Marquis of Harting- ton and Sir Henry James, having re- fused to act with him on account of his change of policy on that question. Be- fore the Home Rule movement assum- ed such proportions as to secure the re- turn of a large number of the .Irish members elected on that platform, the only classifications of parties as Coir- servatives and Liberals; but the suc- cess of that movement under Mr. Par- nell's leadership brought about the re- cognition of a distinct Irish party in the House of Commons, whose members since Mr. Gladstone's new departure have a rule act with him and those Liberals who followed. him. The following is a list of the British Premiers since Her Majesty assended the throne, 20th of June, 1837, as suc- cessor to her uncle, Ping William IV.: Lord Melbourne, who took office in April, 1835; Sir Robert Peel, from Sep- tember, 1841, to July, 1846, to Febru- ary, 1852; Lord Derby -father of the present Governor-General of Canada - (first Administration), from February, 1852, to December of that year: Earl of Arberdeen, from December, 1852, to February 1855; Lord Palmerston (first Administration), from February, 1855, to February, 1858; Lord Derby, (second Administration), from February, 1858, to June, 1859. Lord Palmerston (second Administration), from June, 1859, to November, 1865, to July, 1866; Lord Derby (third Administration), from July, 1366 to February 1868, to Decem- ber, of that year; Mr. Gladstone (first Administeration), from December, 1868; to February, 1874; Mr. Disraeli(second. Administration), from February, 1874, to April 1880; Mr. Gladstone (second Administration), from April, 1880, to June 1885; Lord Salisbury, from June, 1885, to February 1886; lir. Gladstone, (third Administration), from February to August, 1886; Lord Salisbury, (se- cond Administration), August, 1886, and is now in office. Since the Legis- lative Union of the three countries, 1st January, 1801, when the Irish Parlia- ment ceased to exist, twenty-nine Ad- ministrations have been in existence - thirteen before the accession of Queen Victoria, and sixteen since that date. The only surviving statesmen who have held the position of Prime Minister dur- ing the present reign are Mr. Gladstone and Lord Salisbury. The present Par- liament is the twenty-fourth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. LAND P URCRASE IN IRELAND. A cable despatch published Thusdry intimated that the British Government intend to appropriate an additional sum of £20,000,000 sterling to enable. Irish farmers to buy out their holdings from landlords, which is intended to be a further extension of the provisions of Lord Ashborne's Act passed by the con- servative Government of 1885-86. A report of the Commissioners appointed underthe act was recently published, and in view of additional legislation on the subject,soxne of the results which have attended the working of Lord Ash- borne's Act will no doubt prove of in- terest to those of Thin Anvoa-h.TL's readers who watch: the progress of events in Ireland. In the, previous re- port, , ti date 2inth October, X888, the Coni- misioner stated that the three ;years ended 21st August, 1888, applications had been received for advan cess amount- ing to Lo,800,369, being 4800,369 in excess of the fund placed at their dis- posal posa,l 'neer the, Purchase of Land Act, 1885, By the amending Act,whiclr re- eeivedthe royal assent on the 24th of t ecetnber, 1888, a further sum of X5,- 000,000 was granted for the purpose of advances to tenants and of purchases of Estates. Daring the year terminat- ed 21st August, 1889,5,53 3 applications were received for advance s, amounting to £2,024,966,naking the total amount applied for to that date 47,525,335. In estimating the amomit available for further applications a suis of £719,592 was deducted as representing applica- tions refused by the commissioners, on. the ground of insufficiency of security or for other reasons, thus leaving. £2,- 894,257 available for future applicants. Of the total amount so applied for, the Commissioners sanctioned 14,017 appli- cations for loans,amounting to 45,672,- 975, and of the amount so sanctioned there has been issued 11,021 loans a- mounting to £4,629,665, including the sum of £140,838, being the amount ad- vanced upon twenty-seven estates bought by the Commissioners in the Land Judges' Court under the section of the Aot for the re -sale of farms to tenants. Applications for advances to the amount of £1,232,76S were at the close of the last year reported upon,and were provisionally sanctioned. Of the 11,012 loans issued, amounting to £4,- 629,655, 6, 081, to the amount of L1,- 820,965, were for Ulster; 2,031, amount £1,381,388,were for Munster; 1,720, a- mount £1,114,398, were for Leinster; and 1,180, amount £312,904, were for Counaught. Of these 11,012 loans, SSO were for sums not exceeding 450; 1,- 749 ;749 for sums exceeding 450, and not exceeding £100; 2,612 for sums ex- ceeding £100,ancl not exceeding £200; 3,224 for sums exceeding £200, and not exceeding $500; 849 for sums ex- ceeding £500, and not exceeding£700; 596 for sums exceeding £ 700, and not exceeding £1,000; 1,017 for sums ex- ceeding £1,000,and not exceeding £8,- 000; 85 for sums exceeding £3,000. The number of applications for loans under the Act has been steadily increas- ing since it went into operation,in 1886. In Ulster the number of applica- in 1886 was 1,782; in 1889, 2,365. Munster, 1886, 559; in 1889, 1,227. Leinster, 1886, 495; in 1889, 1,141. Connaught, 1886, 185; in 1889,800; or a total of 5,533, in 1889, against 3,021 in 1886. In the cases in which adyances were provisionally sanctioned during. each of the four years, the average prices for all Ireland, calculated upon the rents, were in 1886 18.0 times the rent; in 1887, 17.6; in 1888,17.0; and in 1889, 16.4. Taken in counties the av- erages during the four years ranged from 19.3 to 13.2 times the rent. Out of the total number of cases in which loans have been issued, 136 were to tenants who applied for sums not ex- ceeding three -fourth of the purchase - money. In seventy-nine cases the ten- ants lodged the necessary guarantee deposits. In the remaining cases the guarantee deposits were retained by the Commissioners out of the purchase money, as provided by the Act, The total amount of guarantee deposits so lodged or retained was £917,599, of which £82,116 has been invested upon the application of the party interested therein in securities authorized by the Act of 1887. e The Commissioners state that the col- lection of instalments in repayment of advances under the Purchase of Land Act continue to be most satisfactory. On the 1st of May last the number of payers under that Act on the books of the Land Commissioner was 8,670.while the total amount receivable in respect. of interest and instalments from the passing of the Act to that date was £225,345, of which sum £77,489 was payable in respect of the gale which accrued due on the 1st of May. - The total amount of arrears unpaid on the 21st August was.$7,522, which, up on the 31st day of October, has been re- duced to £2,883 due by 297 payers. With the exception of £442 the entire of this arrear was due in respect of the £77,489 which became payable on the 1st of May last. Comparing these fig ures with those given in the last report it will be seen that while £2,252 was the arrear upon a total collection of £90,630, £2,993 is the amount now un paid in respect of a collection since in- creased to the sum of £225,345. The report of the Irish ' Land Com- missioners appointed under the Land Law Act of 1881 (Mr. Gladstone's Gov- ernment) which provided for the fixing of "fair rents," Shows that the entire number of rents fixed by all the meth- ods enumerated from the passing of the Land Law Actin 1881,to the 22nd August, 1889, was 233,607, not includ inti judicial leases and fixed tenancies. The number of cases "struck out," with- drawn or dismissed. was 43,720. The, total number of eases disposed of 'dur- ing the period from 1881 to 22nd Au- gttst, 1889, wee, therefore, 277,471- That these two Acts have proved.. of immense benefit to Irish farmers is de- monstrated by the fact and figures contained in the reports of the Commis- sioners appointed under them ACME OF LrP-LOYALTY. Mr. Dalton McCarthy bearing a pro- testantla 1, armed and equipped f q Aped for a life's cruisade against the inevitable, is scarcely likely to afford satisfaction to reasoning and reasonable people. The member of North Simcoe made the G• mistai:o of iusixivatinb. disloyalty, where it does not exist; doing so under the guise of anxiety to economise ex- penditure in the North-West Territor- ies. He asks that the dual language should be abolished, but does not stop there; over the shoulders of the half- breeds and French Canadians who live in that section of the Dominion, he proceeds to administer punishment to the Province of Quebec; thus nullity ing what good he might have accom- plished by a plain, practical and states menlike adherence to the issue profes- sedly of first importance. We do not, of course, intend to question Mr. Me- Carthy's privilege to adopt whatever course deemed by him most advisable; but we have the right to question the wisdom of such policy, as well as to ask, whether the argument was driven home by an olivebranch, or a black thorn? Mr. 11Ic0arthy's panacea for the wholesale production of patriots is to make them talk English, and he pro- poses to accomplish this by saving $400 or $500 per annum on what may be termed Sentimental Contigencies in North West expenditures! The member in North Simcoe may be correct inven- turing the opinion that some French Canadians favor annexation; are no English -Canadians into whose veins a similar virus has permeated? And we venture to say, on either side, the num- ber is very small indeed. According to Mr. McCartliy's argument then that the refusal to recognise French as an official language, will tend to make every French Canadian loyal, what legislative blister would he applied to the disloyal. English speaking subject? Probably enact that such an offender should be deprived of his right to speak at all! Be this as it may, the, fact re- mains,that the memberfor NtiithSimcoe has managed to introduce -a disturbing element into the legislative - halls of the country; he has made it mole difficult than ever, to arrive at a fair and states- manlike solution of the problem, and arrayed scores against his proposition, because of his want of tact and paucity of judgment in dealing with the sub- ject. The honorable gentleman can- didly admited, that it was not for one moment intended to interfere with the vested rights of Quebec -yet one-half of his recent speech was to show that the dangers of two languages, was,• a gradual drifting of French Canadians from British allegiance and their ul- timate absorption into the United States. The remedy proposed by him is -eradicate the use of French from official proceedings in the Worth -West! Cocoon sense would convince any think- ing person, that the mere discontinu- ance of the recording of a few pages of French in the North-West, would not prevent the use of that language, in the Dominion Parliament, the Quebec Legislature and through French Cana- dian social oro c mmercial circle. Pol- itioal religionism is likely at any time to mislead its votary. To release this one has only to read the work of John Fox -"Act and Monuments,"for instan- ce -and then turn to the curious pro- duction of Dodd, called "The Church History of England." The former writes the martyrology of the Protest- ant, the latter the abundant martyrol- ogy of the Catholics -and which side suffered the greater tortures, depends, to a considerable extent, upon the ro• mantic genius and intellectual vigour of the respective chroniclers, No: The French-Canadian will become more French by any attempt at ostraism. One month ago, few French-Canadians in Parliament would • have been un- willing to view the question of dual lan- guage in the North-West, from a prac tical stand point, and to agree to the policy most satisfactory to the people of that portion of the Dominion The mere doing away with recording legis- lative of judicial proceedings in French, would not :muzzle the French Cana- dian who wished to Speak French; would not, in short abolish his lan- guage. 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