MR. LLOYD MORGAN (Carmarthen, W.)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether the Government have taken, or are about to take, steps towards the construction of a scheme for 1600 granting advances out of the public Exchequer at a low rate of interest to embarrassed Irish landlords, to enable them to get rid of existing encumbrances on their property; and whether lie will also consider the question of introducing a similar scheme to render assistance to tile small occupying freeholders in Wales, whose condition is referred to in both the majority and minority Reports of the Royal Commission on Land in Wales, and in reference to winch the Commissioners are unanimous in recommending the Government to render them assistance by the advance of money?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR) Manchester, E.was understood to say that no such policy had been undertaken in the case of Ireland, and that it would be time to make a declaration of the policy of the Government in regard to Wales when the Government made any declaration in regard to Ireland.