§ MR. LONSDALE (Armagh, Mid)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he will state the terms upon which the bailiff Brady surrendered the evicted farms at Ballinglera, county Leitrim, to the Estates Commissioners: whether he is aware that this man has been rigorously boycotted for years, and all attempts to punish persons who have molested him and his family have failed through the disagreement of juries; whether the former tenants on the lands surrendered have been reinstated and assisted out of public funds; and whether he is aware that the United Irish League have determined to continue the boycott upon Brady so long as he remains in the country.
§ MR. BIRRELLThomas Brady has voluntarily sold his interest in the evicted 877 farms referred to in consideration of the sum of £300 paid to him by the Estates Commissioners. The former tenants, four in number, have been reinstated by the Commissioners who have sanctioned grants to them, amounting in all to £140, to enable them to work the farms. I have ascertained from the police authorities that Brady was boycotted for upwards of a year, and that prosecutions against persons for molesting him have failed. The police have no information to the effect stated in the concluding part of the Question.