§ MR. JAMES STUART (Shoreditch Hoxton)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether it is true that it is proposed on the part of the Crown to apply for a further postponement till the Winter Assizes of the trial of Father M'Fadden, and of the Gweedore prisoners charged with being concerned in the murder of Inspector Martin; whether, considering that a number of these persons have been in gaol awaiting trial, bail being refused, since February last, and many of them are poor people on whose labour their families depend for their support, it is intended to continue to detain these persons in gaol until the Winter Assizes; and what reason is assigned for thus 1459 again postponing their trial, seeing that it is so long a time since the alleged offence, and that a considerable period has now elapsed since the charges against them were formulated by the Attorney General?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI am advised that, as the case is pending, it would not be proper for me to enter upon the question as to what application the Attorney General for Ireland may deem it advisable to make to the Court.