§ MR. W. JOHNSTONsaid, he would beg to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Whether the Government have caused the promised inquiry to be made into the operation of the Party Processions Act; and, if so, what was the result of the inquiry?
§ MR. CHICHESTER FORTESCUE, in reply, said, that the intimation he gave last year was to this effect, that the Government would, during the Recess, carefully look into the matter of party processions in Ireland, and if they thought it requisite to order a special inquiry to be made into it, they would do so. But they had not deemed it necessary to institute an inquiry in that special form, and he should be able to state the intentions of the Government on the subject early in the Session.