MR. M`CARTAN (Down, S.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether he is aware that the list of fair rent cases to be heard at Banbridge on the 4th of April next does not include any of the applications made immediately before the 1st of November last by tenants on the estates of Baron Trevor and the other large landed proprietors in the County of Down; whether he can state why, contrary to precedent, the Banbridge 43 list includes a large number of applications from Downpatrick Union, and why no special list was published for Downpatrick; and, if he can say at what dates sittings of a Sub-Commission will be held to hear the fair rent applications of the leaseholders and present tenants from the Unions of Banbridge and Downpatrick who are entitled to the benefit of the reduction in respect of the half-year's rent due at 1st November last?
§ THE PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SECRETARY (Colonel KING-HARMAN) (Kent, Isle of Thanet)(who replied) said: The Land Commissioners are at present on Circuit in the County Clare, and they are unable to furnish the required information until Saturday next.