§ MR. HAYDEN (Leitrim, S.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether there were 71 applications recently listed for hearing before the Land Commission from the district of Carrigallen; whether the Land Commission was applied to to fix Carrigallen as the place for hearing these applications; whether that request was refused, and on what grounds; and, whether, in consequence of this refusal, the suitors were obliged to walk 14 or 15 miles, and most of them to be absent from their homes from Tuesday to Saturday, being detained to suit the convenience of the landlord, who did not attend when the cases were called?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR) (Manchester, E.)The Land Commissioners inform me that the number of applications listed from the Carrigallen District was about 71. The Land Commission has been applied to to fix Carrigallen as the place for hearing these applications; but they were of opinion that the balance of convenience was against selecting that place, and that it would conduce to the more rapid discharge of business to hear the cases elsewhere. The cases taken up and heard each day were fixed in advance, so as to avoid the possibility of any loss of time.