COLONEL STUART KNOXsaid, he wished to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Whether he has any objection to place on the table copies of the following documents connected with the charges made by Mr. Justice Keogh at the late Assizes for Tyrone against certain Magistrates of that county—namely, statement of the Judge from the Bench; his Report to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland; the correspondence that has ensued between the Lord Chancellor and the Magistrates in question; also Copy of the Evidence of the Constables at the Petty Sessions at Dungannon on the 1st of October, 1866, upon whose statements the Judge founded his remarks?
LORD NAAS,in reply, said, he believed it would be necessary to institute an inquiry into the whole of the circumstances connected with the case to which the hon. and gallant Gentleman referred. Under those circumstances, it would clearly be improper to produce any documents until that inquiry was completed. When, how- 1710 ever, that time had arrived all the documents should be laid upon the table of the House.