MR. HARTLEYI bog to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether, pending the consideration of the Financial Clauses of the Government of Ireland Bill, he will undertake that no more money shall be advanced from the Imperial Exchequer to enable Irish tenants to purchase their holdings?
THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY(Mr. W. E. GLADSTONE, Edinburgh, Midlothian): The Government have no power and no intention to interfere with the sale of land in Ireland under the Laud Purchase Acts.