§ MR. SEXTONasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether James Loughlin, Thaddeus Sexton, and Martin Loughlin, of Ballintogher, county Sligo, tenants of William Beamish, M.D., Mrs. Alice Rogers, and the representatives of the Earl of Aid-borough, have recently been prevented from using the footpath loading from their holdings to the public road, which they had been using for thirty years, and are now without any regular means of communication with the highway; whether, at the time of the fixing of judicial rents for the holdings of these three tenants, about eighteen months ago, an undertaking was given to them by the agent, Mr. Anderson, that they would be provided with a suitable passage to the public road, and whether the Land Commission, or the local Sub-Commission, has record or cognizance of the undertaking in question; whether the landlord is bound to provide the tenants with a way to the public road; and, what means of redress are open to the tenants?
§ MR. TREVELYANI understand that the alleged right of way claimed by the three tenants named in the Question is disputed, not by the landlords or their representatives, but by another tenant; and that the matter has been the subject of much litigation, having been decided in favour of the claimants by the County Court Judge, whose ruling was afterwards reversed on appeal to the Assizes. It is, of course, impossible for me to express any opinion as to this question of private rights; and the litigants must be ruled by their own advisers as to whether they can proceed further in the matter, or whether their landlords are bound to provide them with a pass. I believe that the agent is anxious to assist them in every way in his power. With regard to the alleged "undertaking" on the part of the landlords when the cases were before the Land Courts, the Land Commissioners inform me that there is no record of any arrangement of the kind.