The Marquess of Westmeathwished to know whether the noble Viscount opposite had any objection to the production of certain documents connected with a recent appointment of a very extraordinary nature in Ireland. He alluded to the appointment of a person named Robert O'Connor as returning officer of the Athlone Union, that individual having been heretofore tried for a capital offence, convicted, sentenced to death, and a day fixed for his execution. As he understood that the Poor Law Commissioners were acquainted with the fact of this man's conviction when they made the appointment, he was anxious to see the correspondence that had taken place on the subject. The noble Marquess moved for "a copy of the record of the conviction of Robert O'Connor, late Serjeant in the 73d regiment, who was tried at the Roscommon July Assizes, 1836, for the abduction of Jane Matthews; a copy of his appointment to the situation of returning officer of the Athlone Union; and the correspondence with the Poor Law Commissioners on the subject of that appointment."
§ Viscount Duncannonhad no objection to the production of the papers.
§ Motion agreed to.