§ MR. SPEAKERacquainted the House, That he had received the following Letter, relating to the Imprisonment of a Member of this House:—
§ Kilkenny,
§ 12 July, '88.
§ Sir,
§ We beg leave to inform you that, at Goresbridge Petty Sessions, on 8th February 1888, we convicted Mr. Patrick O' Brien, a Member of the House of Commons, of the offence of that, on the 8th day of January 1888, at Goresbridge, in the co. of Kilkenny, being a district proclaimed under "The Criminal Law and Procedure (Ireland) Act, 1887," he did incite certain other person and persons unlawfully to take part in a criminal conspiracy to compel and induce certain other persons, tenants of farms of land in Ireland, not to fulfil their legal obligations, to wit, to refuse to pay and not to pay to John Smithwick, an owner of land in Ireland, the rents which said tenants were lawfully bound to pay, and which the said John Smithwick was lawfully entitled to receive and to be paid, under "The Criminal Law and Procedure Act, 1887," and sentenced him to three months imprisonment without hard labour; that this sentence having been confirmed on appeal, at Thomastown Quarter Sessions on 10th April, 1888, and appellant having been ordered to be detained as a first-class misdemeanant, we issued our warrant accordingly for his arrest, and that on that warrant he was arrested on 11th inst., and was committed to Kilkenny Gaol, where he now is.
§ We have the honor to be,
§ Sir,
§ Your obedient servants,
§ HEPP. F. CONSIDINE, R.M.
§ D. G. BODKIN, R.M.
§ To the Right Honble. the Speaker of the House of Commons.