§ LORD ROBERT MONTAGUsaid, he now wished to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Whether in the Return No. 202, 1560 recently laid upon the Table of the House, the "total amount of purchase-money, £5,940,989," comprises the value of the Estates which were sold in the Encumbered Estates Court; or whether this item refers merely to the amount of the purchase-money of Estates already brought into the new Landed Estates Court? He asked the question, not because he doubted the accuracy of the Return, but because some persons imagined that the £6,000,000 mentioned included some of the sales under the old Encumbered Estates Court.
§ SIR ROBERT PEELsaid, the figures in the Return referred to sales under the new Landed Estates Court. The amount sold under the old Encumbered Estates Court was about £21,000,000.