HC Deb 10 August 1870 vol 203 c1792

DISSENTIENT:

  1. "1. Because property has its rights as well as its duties, and the present Bill is the greatest violation of them in modern times.
  2. "2. Because the interests of landlord and tenant are identical, and whatever injures the one cannot fail to injure the other.
  3. "3. Because this Bill is contrary to all the received principles of political economy.
  4. "4. Because this Bill will be more severe against the improving and indulgent landlord than the harsh and inconsiderate one.
  5. "5. Because it will produce a great amount of litigation, and necessarily produce collisions between parties who have hitherto been on the most friendly terms.
  6. "6. Because it will paralyze the attempts of landlords to improve the condition of their tenantry and to introduce a good system of husbandry.
  7. "7. Because no legislation will settle the land question as long as successive Governments, under the influence of party exigencies, encourage professional agitators to disturb the minds of the people.

"TALBOT DE MALAHIDE, HAWARDEN, DENMAN, CLONBROCK, SALTERSFORD, DIGBY, CLEMENTS, CLANCARTY."