§ MR. SYNANsaid, he wished to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Whether he intends to bring in a Bill in the present Session to carry out the recommendations of the Select Committee of 1868, to amend the Irish Grand Jury Laws?
§ MR. CHICHESTER FORTESCUEreplied, that he was sorry he could not speak with any confidence of being able to bring in a Bill that Session on that important subject with a fair prospect of carrying it. There were several Bills on Irish matters of no little importance, which he hoped would be passed. But that particular question, although it called for legislation, was one of a very complicated nature, and would require a great amount of discussion. It would, therefore, be a great mistake to take up the time of the House in discussing it without that prospect of carrying it which he did not think existed at present.