Remarks of G. Shaw Lefevre, M.P., and Right Hon. Hugh Law, M.P., on preceding papers

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G. Shaw Lefevre, M. P., who was received with applause, said he felt very much pleasure at being called on to say a few words on the very able and interesting papers they had just heard read. He felt that he owed that honour to two reasons—first, that he had recently been elected President of the Statistical Society of London, which was engaged, as they were, in investigating the condition and progress of their own and other countries, and in part also to the fact already alluded to by the chairman—that he had ventured last session, as an humble member for an English borough, to handle a purely Irish question, and move for a committee to inquire into the cause of the comparative failure of what were happily called the Bright clauses of the Land Act, and also to report whether any further measures could be taken to facilitate the acquisition of their holdings by the tenant farmers of Ireland.