Mr. Maxwellpresented a Petition from the parish of Tomregan, in the county of Cavan signed by 258 Protestants, and 319 Roman Catholics, praying that the grant to the Kildare-street Society might not be withdrawn. The hon. Member also moved for the depositions taken at the Coroner's 1374 inquest at Newtownbarry; and, in doing so, availed himself of the opportunity of stating, that if the documents which he had already offered to the House had failed in satisfying the mind of every person as to the statements respecting the atrocities alleged to have been committed on Mary Mulroney being utterly destitute of foundation, he begged leave to adduce one testimony more, which, he was certain, must remove every existing doubt from the mind of even the most prejudiced person. He held in his hand the affidavit of a most respectable gentleman, Mr. Boyce, the medical person who examined the body of the deceased. Mr. Boyce swears, "That he is a practitioner in surgery and medicine, and a licentiate in midwifery; that he attended Mary Mulroney on the 18th of June last; that she died from the effects of a gun-shot wound; that a bullet had passed through her body, entering at the right hip, and passing out at the navel; that there was no child protruding, nor was the said Mary Mulroney in in a state of pregnancy; that she had no other marks of violence than the ordinary appearance of a gun-shot wound; the orifice of said wound not being by any means larger than just sufficient for the exit of the bullet; and that it is untrue that said Mary Mulroney was ripped open, either by a bullet, or by any other means."
§ Motion agreed to.