MR. O'BRIENasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether he will state to the House why an official shorthand writer should have been present during portions of the examinations of witnesses at Dublin Castle, under the Sixteenth Clause of the Crimes Act, and absent during other portions of these examinations?
§ MR. TREVELYANFor reasons which I think will be obvious to the House, I must decline to answer this inquiry.