§ MR. KENNYasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If he is aware that the Land Commission Court had fixed a sitting to hear appeal cases at Ennis for August 6th next, which they have abandoned; if it is a fact that several hundred cases were listed for hearing and that they are now indefinitely postponed; if he is aware that the landlords continue to demand the old rents pending the appeals being heard, and that few, if any, settlements can be arrived at out of Court until a standard is established by a sitting of the Chief Commissioners in that portion of Clare; if he can state the reason for the action of the Chief Commissioners in deciding not to sit for some time to come to hear the Clare appeals; and, whether, in view of the important interests at stake, he will recommend the Chief Commissioners to hold the Court at Ennis on August 6th as originally fixed?
§ MR. TREVELYANSir, the Land Commissioners inform me that they were obliged to postpone sitting at Ennis for re-hearings, as they had hoped to do, in consequence of two of the Commissioners being unable, from the state of their health, to undertake the labour of a Circuit sitting at that time. It is a mistake to say that the old rent is payable pending a re-hearing, as the judicial rent, until altered, is the rent which alone can be recovered.