The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1881.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3985, 6 October 1881, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1881.

It baa been the opinion of the m6sfc enlightened writers upon the object of land that tho time was fast approaching when the English laws affecting land would require many modifications, if not actual wiping out of the statute book altogether. It has been advanced that the demands of the people, the welfare of the state and the future prosperity of the country, all called for material alterations in the land laws. A cablegram in another column iuforms us that JSir Stafford .Nortlicote, the leader of the Conservative" Party in England, admitted in an address to tne people of Bereriy that there was great cause for the agitation on the question of an amendment of land laws. Such opiuions coming from_ a statesman of the reputation of the late ; Chancellor of the Exchequer, carry with them considerable weight-, and are significant of the feeling of the country. A late writer says : "Is it for the common weal that the laws which affect land, and which have the same effect that similar laws used to have on the Continent—viz., to keep the laud tied up in great estates, and to prevent it coming into the market as much as it otherwise would do —should be ; retained upon the statute book of Great Britain and- Ireland. In reply to the question, the whole subject is well aruutd by the late Joseph -Kay in his volume upon ' Free Trade in Laud.' "