Excerpt from Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, Vol. 270: Commencing With the Accession of William IV., 45° Victoriae, 1882, Comprising the Period From the Fifth Day of June 1882, the Twenty-First Day of June 1882

Loan aberdare said, he fully con curred with the noble Marquess oppo site that a bargain such as he had de scribed would enormously increase the difficulties of government in Ireland, and the course taken by the Opposition in this matter tended to increase that very danger, but when Her Majesty's Go vernment, in the strongest and clearest terms, and in accordance with the most natural construction that could be placed upon the whole matter. Repudiated any such compact, he could not understand how the Opposition could persist in their tactics. What good result was to be oh tained by regarding the afi'air, in spite of these declarations, as a dangerous and iniquitous compact In his time he had worked with most of the Ministers who formed Her Majesty's Government, and he knew them to be utterly inca pable of stating what was not the fact, and when, with the full responsibility of their position and character, they denied that any such negotiation had taken place, it was not unreasonable to ex ect that they should be believed. Hat had, in fact, occurred 1' A Bill was in troduced by certain Members of the Land League into the House of Com mons, roposing to amend the Land Act, a1 ough up to that moment they were opposed to the measure altogether. They had hitherto done their best to frustrate the advantages to be derived from the Land Act, and to prevent the ¿ows having recourse to its rovisions.

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