§ MR. LOGAN (Leicester, Harborough)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury if he can explain how it is that if owners of land in Ireland are assessed on Griffith's Valuation, the statistical abstracts show that the assessments which in 1862 were close upon £9,000,000 sterling had increased in 1877 to close upon £10,000,000, although Griffiths' Valuation had been completed long before the former year?
§ SIR J. T. HIBBERTI believe that the increase referred to is mainly apparent and not real, being largely due to a change of classification which was made in 1877, by which farmhouses and buildings were transferred from the head of houses to that of land.