IRELAND.
The Landed Estates Court in Ireland—the successor to the Encum- bered Estates Court—has issued a report of its progress from the filing of the earliest petition (November 20, 1858) to August 10, 1859. The following are the main statistics :-
"Number of petitions presented, 241. Classified as under :—Petitions for sale, 227; judicial declaration of title, 2; conveyance to a vendee, 4; partition, 4; exchange of lands, 1; appointment of new trustees to marriage settlement, 2 ; apportionment of rent, 1. (Of these 12 were supplemental, the original petitions having been filed in the Encumbered Estates Court, and four were supplemental, the original petitions having been filed in the Landed Estates Court.) Number of absolute orders for sale, 160. Number of statute acres comprised in the above 241 petitions, in or about 92,0001. (The above is exclusive of house property, tithe, and other rent charges, coal mines, &c., &c.) Net annual rental of estates comprised in the said petitions, in or about 148,0001. (In many cases the estates were either un- let, or in the possession of the owner, and the valuation not stated in the petition ; but by the 19th general rule the valuation must be ascertained after the order for sale shall have been made absolute.) Number of matters in which owners presented petitions, 170. Number of matters in which owners were bankrupts or insolvents, 1.5. Number of conveyances executed by the judges, 749. Number of estates, or parts of estates, sold by public auction in court, by the judges, 138; by provincial auction, and subse- quently confirmed by the udges, 19; by private contract, and subsequently accepted by the judges, 48. Number of lots sold, 1015.
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