§ MR. BIGGARasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If he is aware of a Memorial from the magistrates and merchants of Moville, asking His Excellency to grant a County Court sitting in Moville; if His Excellency declined to grant the request of the Memorialists; if he is aware that the inhabitants of the Session district of Moville are taken a distance of forty or fifty miles to have their legal business conducted, and to smaller towns; and, if His Excellency has any objection in stating his reasons in withholding the privileges granted to other towns?
§ MR. CAMPBELL - BANNERMANThe hon. Member for the county of Donegal (Mr. Lea) will perhaps allow me to answer at the same time the Question No. 16, which he proposes to put to my hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor General. I have not been able to ascertain that precisely such a Memorial as that referred to by the hon. Member for Cavan (Mr. Biggar) has been received since the year 1871. At that time the matter was fully considered by the then Lord Lieutenant and the Privy Council, who did not feel themselves able to comply with the prayer of the Memorial. Several Memorials have been recently received from the county of Donegal, including three from Innishowen, relative to additional places for Quarter Sessions. They have been referred to the County Court Judge for report, and will shortly come before the Privy Council.