§ MR. J. P. FARRELLTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been called to the case of tenants in Ireland paying a fee-farm rent to a landlord, and also tithes, who are now called on to purchase, subject to redeeming the tithe rent-charge; whether he is aware that this charge, in the case of such holdings in county Longford, was fixed in 1826, when wheat was largely and profitably grown in Ireland; and will he see that some reduction is made to such tenants when now called on to redeem this charge.
(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) The proper scale on which these tithes are to be redeemed in any case is a matter for the determination of the Land Commission or Land Judge. I have not any power in the matter.