ME. JAMES REDPATH AND THE MARQUIS OF LANDSDOWNE.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5052, 23 March 1885, Page 2

ME. JAMES REDPATH AND THE MARQUIS OF LANDSDOWNE.

Mr James Redpath has just contributed an interesting article on the Marquis of Lansdowne, the" Governor* General «f Canada, to the New York Sun :—•

The largest landlord ia Kerry is the Marquis of Landsdowne, the present representative of the British Crown in Canada, who owns over 94,554 acres. He is the descendant of a Dr Petty, a land surveyor in Cromwell's time, who, although

a Freethinker, kept on such good terms with the Puritans that he soon became one of the largest owners of the confiscated territory. He was the earliest shadow that I have been able to trace in English history of that coming Power since so conspicuous in our Western States— the speculative land/surveyor, who is often an Indian agent also, and always a land-grabber wherever he may appear; I made a thorough in« vestigation of Lanadowne's estate at a time when he was singled out as a model landlord by the London Tory press. Bit Charles Russell, the famous English barrister, by my advice, given through • mutual frieod, soon afterward went over the same route, and not only confirmed my testimony, but still further, by accumulated evidence, demonstrated the astounding greed, rapacity, and despotism of Lansdowne and his agent, Mr Trench, whose father's book, entitled " Realities of Irish Life," has done so much by iti Munchausen perversions of the truth to bring opprobrium on the peasantry whom he ruled with a worse than Siberian inhumanity. On Lansdowne's estates the peasantry are worse fed, worse clad, worse housed, and treated with less eonsidertion, and regarded in practice as having fairer fyutnan rights, than the slaves of the most penurious slaveholders of our South before the war. I speak from personal know^H ledge of both systems, as I travelled over Lansdowne's estate and walked 6a foot more than thirty years ago through the seaboard and Gulf States.