§ MR. SEXTONasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether Dr. Murray, the medical officer of the Sligo Prison, has ordered the three Orangemen committed for trial on a charge of wounding with firearms at Ballymote, to the prison hospital, on hospital diet, leaving the Catholic prisoners, charged in the same case, in the body of the prison; and, whether Dr. Murray is also attendant at Sligo Workhouse, and some time ago was reprimanded and cautioned by the Local Government Board for language used by him in regard to the Catholic inmates of the house?
§ MR. TREVELYAN, in reply, said, it was not the fact that the three Orangemen had been removed to the prison hospital and placed on hospital diet. One of them, who was suffering from bronchitis and asthma, had been so dealt with, because he could not be properly treated in an ordinary cell. The medical officer of the prison (Dr. Murray) was also the medical officer of the workhouse. About five and a-half years ago the Local Government Board found it necessary to express their regret that he should have used language which they considered unbecoming to his position; but it did not appear that his observations had particular reference to Roman Catholic inmates.