§ MR. FAYasked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether his attention has been called to the newspaper reports of the proceedings in the Landed Estates Court on Friday 25th July last, from which it would appear that out, of four estates put up for sale one was adjourned because there was no bidding, two were adjourned because the bidding was insufficient, and two lots out of four of the remaining estates were adjourned as the bidding was also insufficient; and, having regard to the remarks of Judge Flanagan on that occasion, to the effect that there is at present a panic about landed property in Ireland, and that persons were endeavouring to get the same under value, whether he would, in order to save landholders a repetition of the ruinous forced sale of the famine years, and tenants from having placed over them speculators as landlords, be prepared to give effect to the recommendations of the late Land Committee as to creating a peasant proprietary, and of the Resolution of the House thereon?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERSir, I am afraid it would be impossible at this period of the Session to deal with so large a subject as that referred to in the Question of the hon. and learned Gentleman.