§ VISCOUNT CLEMENTSasked whether Ministers intended to bring in any measure 942 to alter what was called the rundale or joint-tenancy system in Ireland. No fewer than 1,902,547 acres were held upon this system of joint-tenancy in Ireland, and a Bill was necessary to put an end to the pernicious practice.
LORD J. RUSSELLanswered that Ministers were about to introduce a Bill on the subject of the relation between land-land and tenant in Ireland, but he could not undertake to say that it would touch the rundale system.