§ MR. MOLLOYasked the First Lord of the Treasury, If he is aware that at 671 the late sitting of the Edenderry (King's county) Sub-Commission on Monday all the tenants who had served originating notices withdrew their cases, as, after the nature of the evidence given by the court valuer at Balbriggan, they no longer had any confidence in the working of the Act; if in one of the Balbriggan cases the judicial rent was fixed at a sum more than six per cent, in advance of what the landlord's own valuer thought fair; if he is aware of the proposal of the Armagh Tenant Farmers' Association to hold, a conference of all the Associations in Ulster, in order to consider the propriety of withdrawing from the Courts until some change is effected in the present system of procedure; and, what course he proposes to take in the matter?
§ MR. TREVELYANSir, perhaps the hon. Member will allow me to answer the Question. It is the case that a number of tenants at a late sitting of the Edenderry Sub-Commission who had served originating notices withdrew their cases. In one of the Balbriggan cases the judicial rent was fixed in advance of the valuation of the landlord's valuer. With regard to the decision alluded to, of the same Sub-Commission when sitting at Balbriggan, the Land Commissioners only receive the orders of the Sub-Commissions fixing judicial rents, and they can give no opinion as to the propriety of any particular order made. Any party to a suit before a Sub-Commission can, if he thinks he is aggrieved, have his case reheard by the Land Commission sitting as a Court of Appeal. I have no information about the intentions of the Armagh Tenant Farmers' Association.