§ MR. T. M. HEALY (Louth, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if the Land Commission intend to accept the decision of the majority of the Court of Appeal, reversing the Queen's Bench and granting mandamus against them, in "Rossmore v. Donnelly"; is he aware that the Lord Chief Baron laid down that there was no primâ facie presumption that any holding is a holding to which the Land Acts apply; and, in view of the importance of the case to all Irish tenants, why is an appeal not taken to the House of Lords?
MR. J. MORLEYThe Land Commission report that the operation of the Order of the Court of Appeal is stayed until the first day of the Michaelmas Sittings, and that the course to he taken in respect to the Order is now under their consideration.
§ MR. T. M. HEALYHas not the right hon. Gentleman received a communication at variance with the statement officially made to him as to what has occurred in this case, and will he be good enough to enable the tenants to take the case to the House of Lords?
MR. J. MORLEYThe newspaper report I have received is slightly at variance with the answer I have given on the Report of the Land Commission. I will make further inquiry of the learned Judge as to how the case actually stands, and answer the hon. Member when I get that information.