§ Sir F. BANBURYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the tenants on the Rodney estate have refused to pay rent for their holdings until the estate has been handed over to the Estates Commissioners; that MR. Kirwan, the agent for the said estates, was under police protection when he visited Athenry on Monday the 27th ultimo to collect rents; and whether he will engage that the landlord shall receive legal payment for his lands either from the tenants or the Estates Commissioners.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe Estates Com missioners inform me that no proceedings for the sale of this estate have been instituted before them, and they know nothing of the alleged withholding of rent. It is the fact that the agent received police protection when at Athenry on 27th May. Obviously I cannot give the undertaking suggested in the last part of the Question. If the facts are as stated, the usual legal remedies are open to the landlord.