§ MR. PARNELLasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If he can inform the House of the number of ejectments which have been executed in Ireland since the passing into Law of the Protection of Person and Property (Ireland) Act; and, whether he can inform the House of the number of ejectments executed in Ireland during the period of similar length immediately preceding the passing of this Act?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTER,in reply, said, that in the month of March last there had been 196 decrees of ejectments in Ireland, and 91 had been re-admitted as care-takers. In the month of February there had been 83 ejectments, and 32 of the tenants were re-admitted. The inference which he supposed the hon. Member wished to be drawn from these figures—that this increase was owing to the Protection of Person and Property (Ireland) Act—was not correct, because the largest increase was in Ulster, where the Protection of Person and Property (Ireland) Act was not in force.
§ In reply to Mr. GIBSON,
§ MR. W. E. FORSTERsaid, he believed that the ejectments were almost entirely agricultural.