§ COLONEL STUART KNOX,in putting a Question to the Secretary of State for War, said, he wished to explain that he had taken the words from the leading journal, and that it appeared to him that it was the regiment which was aggrieved and not the lieutenant colonel, he having previously addressed an incendiary letter to a meeting of Dublin roughs. He wished to ask the right hon. Gentleman, Whether he has any objection to state to the House the substance of the Report made to him by Her Majesty's Lieutenant of the county of Leitrim, in which he has stated that he informed the Right honourable Gentleman that he was successful in preventing his men (the Westmeath Rifles) being mixed up in that disorderly proceeding, viz., the burning Judge Keogh in effigy; and, whether the conduct of the regiment was such as to render it unfair (as stated by his Lordship) to mix up his name with that of the regiment he had the honour on that occasion to command?
§ MR. CARDWELLSir, the Lord Lieutenant of Leitrim is also colonel of the Westmeath Rifles. In that latter capacity he has reported what passed on the occasion in question. It appears from that report that the conduct of the regiment was free from reproach, and this opinion is corroborated by the resident magistrate in a like report upon the subject.