§ MR. CALLANasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Whether it is true that Kirwan, who was convicted of the murder of his wife, under circumstances of great atrocity, at Ireland's Eye, has been set at liberty; and, if so, on what and whose recommendation?
§ SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACHpresumed that the hon. Member referred to a convict whose name was not quite identical with that given in the Question, but who was convicted of this murder and sentenced to death, which sentence was commuted to penal servitude. He had not been set at liberty, and was still undergoing his sentence.