§ MR. MACNEILLI beg to ask the Attorney General for Ireland whether his attention has been directed to the fact that Mr. Henry Stubbs, J.P., who lives with his brother, Mr. Alfred Stubbs, solicitor, is accustomed to adjudicate in cases at Petty Sessions in Ballyshannon in which Mr. Alfred Stubbs is professionally employed; whether he is aware that this practice has created grave distrust in the administration of the law and the decisions of the Magisterial Bench, and 148 has given occasion to repeated comments and protests in the public Press; whether he is aware that Mr. Alfred Stubbs, on the 10th April, appeared as solicitor in cases before a Magisterial Bench composed of three members, of whom one, Mr. Hamilton, is closely connected with Mr. Alfred Stubbs by marriage, and another is the said Mr. Henry Stubbs; and whether the Government will take any steps to prevent the repetition of such proceedings?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. MADDEN,) University of DublinI am informed that no complaint has reached the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland on the subject.