§ MR. WEIR (ROSS and Cromarty)I beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland whether he will enlarge the scope of the inquiry referred to a Royal Commission on land in the Highlands and Islands Of Scotland, so as to include lands formerly commons, which have been appropriated without compensation by landlords in the Island of Lewis and the mainland of Ross-shire to the serious loss and injury of the population?
§ *SIR G. TREVELYANI am obliged to give the same reply as to other proposals to enlarge the scope of the Commission. It is appointed for a special purpose of great importance, which should not be mixed up with any other considerations.