§ MR. WINGFIELD VERNERsaid, he wished to ask Mr. Attorney General for Ireland, Whether it is or is not the case that the Lord Major of Dublin retains the commission of the peace for the year succeeding his year of office?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. SULLIVAN)said, in reply, that the Lord Mayor of Dublin did not retain the commission of the peace for the year succeeding his year of office. The misapprehension upon the subject had probably arisen from the fact that the Lord Mayor of Dublin pre- 747 sided in the Court of Conscience during the year following that of his mayoralty, but he did so not as a justice of the peace, and not by statute, but by immemorial custom.