§ MR. BIGGARasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If his attention has been drawn to a notice in the "Freeman's Journal" of 28th March, of the death of a woman at Ballinglera, Donegal, whose death was attributed to anxiety about the imprisonment of her two sons, who were imprisoned on the charge of obstructing the sheriff in the work of eviction; and, whether the Lord Lieutenant refused to mitigate the punishment by a few days, to allow the dying woman to see her sons before her death?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTER, in reply, said, that the name of the woman was Julia M'Donogh, and she had sent a memorial asking that she might see her son, who 535 was a prisoner in Sligo Gaol. A telegram was at once sent to the Sub-Inspector of police, asking whether her statement was correct, and a reply was sent back to the effect that the woman was dead. M'Donogh was, with 23 others, convicted before Baron Fitzgerald of riot, and sentenced to four months' imprisonment with hard labour, at the expiration of which sentence he was to give security for his good behaviour. He wished to point out that he was not a prisoner under the Protection Act.