§ MR. LUNDON (Limerick, E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland is he aware that negotiations for sale to the tenants were, some time since, almost brought to a conclusion on the estate of Mr. Adam Stafford Delmege, Garryspillane, Knock-long, county Limerick; that the tenants wanted that the untenanted lands on the estate should be sold through the Estates Commissioners to the labourers and tenants renting uneconomic holdings; and that a tenant, named Edmond Murphy, of Ballingarry, has been processed for rent due only six days because he refused to sign purchase agreements, although at the same time he owed only a half year's rent and the running gale; and will he take any steps to prevent further proceedings against Murphy.
§ MR. WALTER LONGAn application for the sale of a portion of this estate has been received by the Commissioners, but no agreement for purchase has been lodged by Edmond Murphy, and no untenanted lands were comprised in the 765 application. I have no information as to proceedings taken against Murphy, nor have I any power to intervene in any Case of the exercise of legal rights by a landlord.