§ MR. M'CARTAN (Down, S.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether it is a fact, as published in The Belfast Northern Whig of the 23rd instant, that the Sub-Commission for the County of Down will sit at Newry on 4th April, and at Ban-bridge on 4th May next; whether, considering the large number of originating notices to fix fair rents served by the tenants of the Lord Lieutenant, the Marquess of Downshire, Colonel Forde, and Lord Annesley, in the Unions of Newtownards and Downpatrick, he can now state on what dates a Sub-Commission will sit to hear applications from tenants in these Unions; and, whether it is intended to have only the one Sub-Commission sitting in the County of Down?
§ THE PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SECRETARY (Colonel KING-HARMAN) (Kent, Isle of Thanet)(who replied) said: The Land Commissioners state that a Sub-Commission for County Down will sit at Banbridge on the 4th April, and, as far as possible, dispose of the applications from the north side of the county. The sitting at Newry, although at present fixed for the 1st of May, will be open to re-arrangement as occasion may justify. It is intended to have only one Sub-Commission sitting in the County Down.