§ MR. MACVEAGHI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether he is aware that a Parliamentary Return is issued every quarter giving statistics of alleged agrarian offences in Ireland, and that no such Return is issued quarterly or annually for England, Scotland, or Wales; whether he can state the reason for circulating such a Return specially for Ireland; and whether he will give directions that similar Returns will be circulated with regard to England, Scotland, or Wales, or, alternatively, that the Return for Ireland will be discontinued.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThe varying statistics of Ireland for a century at least—I think longer—have been regarded as an indication of the social condition of that country. That, however, has not been the case in England and Wales or in Scotland. Hence statistics are obtained in one case and not in the other.