What has been the result iv Ireland ? (A voice • "Shooting.") Misery such as, perhaps', the world has never s^,eu—famines of the most dreadful k.ind. discontent such as one can hardly contemplate) 'Is it possible-that for many years millions of people should be content to, rent an acre—iv some instances a. quarter of «v aero—or five acres of land, taken under successive landlords, rent being extracted down to those who can live nearest starvation, and who can therefore yield the highest rent? Just conceive millious of people from the time of Elizabeth shut out from any hope, except to labour for their whole lives upon a sub sistence which barely keeps body aud sou,! together. (Cheers.) Then again, 1 turn to Scotland, and 1 find that twelvo persons own one quarter of that, ftnd S2O people own two-thirds of- Scotland. (Sensation.) What does "that Jneau? Not only that misery was suffered there, but lately, in my own timo, the Highlanders were evicted by thousands aud driven out to find new homes. Then, again, I take England and Wales. 2SO persons awn one-half of England—one-half, «£' the whole of that fertile country, Iv England and Wales 10,20? people own two-thirds of tho whole of the land. (Sensation.) A few more than 10,000 people own \\\s whole of that great country; aud to sum up, for I will not weary you, I would say with regard to Ireland, two-thirds oi it are held by 1942 people, and it has been inquired what will becoiiio. oi the remaining two thirds-rt,%t they will at the termination of

the leaseholds revert to those great land owners with all the improvements upon : them. (Sensation.) it has been found that 12,469 persons own two-thirds of Great Britain and Ireland, and that the other one ; third is left to the 39,000,000 of people to do what they can with. Now, is that astute of things which can possibly exist— (Nu) ; '-I \ and uut only has that state of things resulted ' in the state of things that 1 told you of it has resulted in many other things. In the1 first place, until quite recently, the ; owners of these vast properties re i turned a great majority uf the legig. [ lators to the House of Common' ' They do so to the present day. 