§ MR. TOTTENHAMasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether it is true that the Sub-Commissioners under the Land Act for the county Kerry have fixed the sittings of their Court at Cahirciveen for the 12th instant, the same day the assizes for the county begin; whether it is the case that they have been appealed to, to adjourn to a later day, but refused; whether the Chief Commissioners have been applied to with the same object, but declined to interfere; whether there are eighty-three Civil Bill appeals to be heard at the assizes, which will necessitate the attendance there of many of the local solicitors, whose clients also have 1749 land cases at Cahirciveen; whether in addition many of the parties interested in land cases are obliged to attend the assizes as jurors and otherwise; and, whether, in view of the inconvenience to all parties which must necessarily ensue, he will represent to the Chief Commissioners the propriety of their interference to prevent a miscarriage of justice?
§ MR. TREVELYAN, in reply, said, the sittings of the Sub-Commissioners at Cahirciveen had been arranged in the beginning of January. Several requests had been made to them to postpone the sittings in consequence of the Kerry Assizes; but they had been compelled to refuse every application of that kind, as they thought that greater inconvenience would result from a postponement than if they went on simultaneously with the Assizes. There was an immense mass of business to be transacted, no less than 299 cases being entered for hearing. The Commissioners would, however, be ready on cause being shown to adjourn any case in which an application for adjournment was made. The number of Civil Bill appeals for hearing at the assizes was very small.