§ DR. TANNERI beg to ask the Attorney General for Ireland whether he is aware that, in the case of the policeman charged and proved to have been drunk when on duty in Mill-street on 22nd July, there was division of opinion on the Bench of Magistrates trying the case on the 5th inst.; whether Surgeon Major Leader, who dissented, is correctly reported to have stated that "a case was brought before them of false imprisonment by a policeman" at the prosecution of his District Inspector, "and that he thought they should go into it no matter what happened subsequently," and to have stated that, on the evidence of the head constable, the arrests were illegal; whether a conviction for illegal arrest can be given under the Act of Will. 3, c. 13, s. 19; and whether the attention of the Lord Chancellor will be directed to the action of Mr. Butler, R.M., in obtaining the dismissal, without prejudice, of the case against the policeman in question?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI have not been able to obtain the information. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will put the question down again.
§ DR. TANNERWhen?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURTo-morrow.