§ MR. HEALYasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether it is the fact that at the last Castleblayney Quarter Sessions Judge Barron refused to listen to the solicitor engaged by the Farney Tenants' De-fence Association, because he was not engaged by individual tenants; whether it is true that hundreds of ejectments had been served on these tenants, who combined to take a common defence through their association; what notice the Government propose to take of the Judge's refusal to allow a defence to be made; is it the fact that many of the ejectments thus granted by him without defence have just been served for a year and a half's rent on the Bath estate; and, that the tenants were quite willing 1340 to pay their rents had the Judge granted time?
§ MR. TREVELYANSir, the Government have no official cognizance of these matters.