§ MR. BODKIN (Roscommon, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if his attention has been directed to the land appeal of "John Gorman (tenant) v. Lord Rossmore (landlord), "heard in Monaghan on Wednesday last, before Mr. Justice Bewley, Mr. Commissioner Fitzgerald, Q.C., and Mr. Commissioner Lynch, and reported in The Freeman's Journal of Thursday last; is he aware that it was proved at the hearing of that appeal that the sub-agent of Lord Rossmore induced the tenant, John Gorman, to sign a document purporting to strip himself of all rights under the Land Act of 1881, the tenant being, as the sub-agent confessed, under the impression that he was thereby merely securing himself in the tenant right of the farm which he had just purchased at a cost of £140, and that the sub-agent further confessed that this practice was a common one on the estate; is he also aware that this document was used on the part of Lord Ross-more, both at the hearing of the land case and on the appeal, and that the proceeding was described by Mr. Justice Bewley as a transaction that deserved the highest censure from that or any other Court; and whether he will bring the transaction so described by Mr. Justice Bewley under the notice of the Lord Chancellor for Ireland, with the view of determining whether Lord Rossmore shall be permitted to retain the 226 Justiceship of the Peace for the County of Monaghan?
* MR. J. MORLEYI have called for a Report in reference to this question; but as I have not yet received it, perhaps the hon. and learned Gentleman will postpone the question for a day or two.