MR. DICKSONasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Whether any steps have been taken to cancel the Commission of the Peace issued to Mr. William James Devlin, of Cookstown, a few days previous to the disappearance of that gentleman, on account of his bankruptcy; or whether, in case of his return, he will still be entitled to sit on the Bench as one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for county Tyrone?
§ SIR MICHAEL HICKS - BEACHThe Lord Chancellor of Ireland, with whom these matters rest, informs me that Section 21 of the Debtors (Ireland) Act, 1872, renders a justice of the peace who has been adjudged bankrupt incapable of acting as such until he has been newly assigned. He adds, however, that he has superseded Mr. Devlin in the commission of the peace.