§ MR. MAGUIREsaid, he rose to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Whether it is true that he does not intend to immediately fill up the vacancy in the Board of Directors of Convict Prisons in Ireland, paused by the appointment of Mr. John 1066 Lentaigne to be Inspector General of Prisons; and, if so, whether it is his opinion that this course can be adopted without injuriously affecting the working of the system of Convict treatment pursued in Ireland?
§ MR. CARDWELLsaid, it was quite true that the Irish Government had expressed their intention not to fill up at present the vacancy in question, and, looking to the diminished number of convicts in the prisons in that country, it was believed that they might make the retrenchment with a due regard to the efficient working of the system.