§ MR. PARNELLI beg to give Notice that on the second reading of the Land Law (Ireland) Bill I shall move the following Amendment:—
That, in the opinion of this House, the Bill in its present shape will fail to secure for the tenant farmers of Ireland such a reduction in their rents as to afford adequate protection for 1842 the property in their holdings acknowledged by the Act of 1870 to belong to the occupying tenants, while it leaves tenants evicted or threatened with eviction for inability to pay rack rents in a defenceless condition; and further, that the provisions of the measure afford no suitable guarantee that its operation will result in the establishing of a sufficient number of occupying owners to check the monopoly in land at present existing, or to make available for the employment and support of the labouring population of Ireland any of the large area of cleared land from which the former occupying tenants were evicted, and whose property in the soil was forcibly and fraudulently appropriated by the landlords without any compensation.