§ MR. LARDNERTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he can state what decision the Estates Commissioners have arrived at in reference to the application of Peter M'Guirk, an evicted tenant, who was reinstated in his holding on the sale of the estate in County Monaghan, of Lord Rossmore, for a grant to enable him to begin farming again; and is he aware that at the time of the tenant's reinstatement the land was covered in furze, the fences broken down, and the houses in ruins, and that since the time when he was reinstated he has lived in an out-house without chimney or fireplace; and will he now have this case taken up and dealt with.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Estates Commissioners have received from Peter M'Guirk, of Effernagh, an application for a grant, and the application is at present under their consideration.