§ VISCOUNT CRICHTONasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, If it be true that Mr. M'Cann, a gentleman from Armagh, has been appointed stamp distributor in the borough of Enniskillen; and, whether there are not many residents in the latter town fully qualified to fulfil the duties of the office; and, if so, if he will have any objection to state why they have been passed over and a total stranger appointed?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTON, in reply, said, these appointments rested with the Treasury, and not with the Irish Government. The ordinary practice, though by no means the invariable rule, was to fill up these vacancies by appointing some one belonging to the neighbourhood where the vacancy occurred. Circumstances might, however, occur which would make it desirable that this rule should be departed from. In this instance Mr. Armstrong, a gentleman resident in the town, and not Mr. M'Cann, had been appointed.