§ Mr. JOHN PHILLIPSasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if the Estates Commissioners have acquired from Mr. Levenge, the landlord, by agreement, the lands of Cartron, or Corteen, Parish of Cloonguish, county Longford, for increasing the uneconomic holdings and restoring evicted tenants of the district; when will the land be divided; and the number of applications for this grazing ranch?
§ Mr. BIRRELLProceedings have recently been instituted and are pending be-for the Estates Commissioners for the sale of these lands under the Irish Land Act, 1564 1903. It is not possible to make any further statement at this stage of the proceedings.