§ MR. O'SHAUGHNESSYasked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether before proceeding with the adjourned Vote in the Civil Service Estimates, Class 3, for Law Charges and Criminal Prosecutions, Ireland, he will lay upon the Table of the House an Account in the same form as that given in the case of the Tichborne Prosecution, of the amount expended in the defence of each of the actions brought against the Chief and Under Secretary, and the police, arising out of the transactions connected with 701 the meeting in the Phoenix Park in August 1871; an estimate of the probable amount still remaining unpaid; and of the future expenditure; and whether, having regard to the recommendation of the Comptroller and Auditor General, that this expenditure should be placed under a distinct subhead, mentioned in the Appropriation Accounts, he will state under what subhead of the Estimates in the past and present years respectively this expenditure has been provided for?
§ MR. W. H. SMITH, in reply, said, it was not his intention to lay upon the Table of the House any account of the nature specified in the Question.