1UISI! AC 81 



Forstcr's fill from office after he himself had 



effeiUil with 1' then in Kilmainham 



sort of of pea< so-called 



. A tew days after 

 :iew Chief Seer Lord 



derick Cavendish, and the Under-Secreta 

 Mr Burke, were murdered by the 



. 



showed more clearly than an else how 



dangerous was the policy of tli leaders 



by a fierce agitation an cxcit- 



e peopl attempting at the same time 



to h< ;ick from deeds of violence. 1 



most revolutionary agitation of the 

 ul League made possible the continuance of 



n reform. Clear-headed men had rec< 

 cd that the simultaneous occurrence of t 

 prices and bad harvests had made the con- 

 cnt of the old rents impossible. 

 i ognizing this, the Government attempted to 

 check the increase of evictions. In 1880 it had 

 brought in a bill granting a postponement to 



were unable to pay their re; 

 When the Lords had thrown out this bill, 

 Government appointed a Commission, the 

 " Bessborough Commission," to go into the 

 >le agrarian question with a view to further 

 on. 



1 Compare on these point* T. \Vcmyss Reid's " Life of 

 \V. i; Pom of Gladstone," Vol. Ill 



chap. 4 ; Barry O'Brien's Life of P. 1. I. 



