§ SIR ERSKINE PERRYsaid, he wished to ask the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Attorney General for Ireland whether, in the opinion of Her Majesty's Government, it will not be more expedient that Mr. Hargreave be made one of the Judges of the proposed new Landed Estates Court in Ireland, instead of being pensioned off as a Judge of the Incumbered Estates Court on the full amount of his salary?
§ MR. WHITESIDEsaid, that the only object of the Government was to make known to the House the facts on which their decision upon that subject must be founded. Since they had last had the question under their consideration a number of country gentlemen had stated to him that as a large amount of new business would rise under the operation of the Bill which he had introduced, they thought it desirable that the services of Mr. Hargreave as a third Judge should be retained. Her Majesty's Government were at present prepared to adopt an arrangement to that effect, and to retain the services of Mr. Hargreave on such terms as Parliament might think fit to sanction.