§ MR. GINNELLI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he is aware that on the 20th July last the Estates Commissioners undertook to inquire if the Hon. Mr. Pakenham would sell his Cooksborough and Macetown ranches, in Westmeath, for distribution; that Mr. Pakenham's
† See (4) Debates, clxiii., 805 et seq.561 agent has since publicly announced the owner's willingness to sell those ranches; and will he state what it is in these circumstances prevents the purchase and distribution of those ranches before a letting is made of them for next year.
MR. BRYCEThe Estates Commissioners inform me that they have inquired from Mr. Pakenham whether he is prepared to sell his untenanted land in ' County Westmeath, but up to the present he has not stated whether he is willing to do so. The Commissioners are about to address a further communication to him on the subject.