§ COLONEL FRENCHsaid, he rose to inquire, Whether the attention of the Law 1201 Officers of the Crown have been called to the 42nd Geo. III., c. 66, which enables the Government to accept the services of any corps of Volunteers which it is proposed to embody; and whether, in their opinion, it will be competent to form Volunteer Corps in Ireland.
MR. DEASYsaid, the attention of the law officers of the Crown had been directed to the difference in the law respecting Volunteer Corps in England and in Ireland. It was their opinion that, although the Crown was enabled to accept the services of the Volunteer Corps in Ireland, no power existed either to regulate or control those corps when once levied, and even the Commanding Officer was equally destitute of authority. All the Crown could do was to disband the corps, and to compel them to return their arms and accoutrements into store.