THE EARL OF LIMERICKasked, Whether Her Majesty's Government have considered the propriety of any alterations in the terms for the sale of tithe rent-charges laid down in the Irish Church Act, and whether commutations of tithe rent-charges under the provisions of the Irish Church Act will all be calculated from one day, provided that there has been no unnecessary delay on the part of the persons commuting, and, if so, from what day?
LORD DUFFERIN, in reply to the first Question of the noble Earl, said, that the subject referred to was under the consideration of the Government; but he thought that they would not be able to deal with it in the present Session. Two Bills relating to the subject had been introduced into the other House that Session; but he was instructed to say that neither of them proposed to solve the difficulty in a satisfactory manner. In regard to the second Question of the noble Earl he had to say that arrangements for the payment of the borrowed money by instalments would take effect on the 1st May preceding the day on which the application should have been made at the office of the Tithe Rent-charge Commissioners.