§ MR. KIRKasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Whether his attention has been drawn to the peaceable and satisfactory state of the county of Louth, both from the constabulary reports and from the address of the going judge of assize to the grand jurors, this summer; and considering the very satisfactory condition of the county for a number of years, whether it is his intention to remove it totally from the operation of the Coercion Acts?
§ SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACHSir, the hon. Member for Louth, I think, must be unaware that the proclamation of the whole of the county Louth, except the borough of Dundalk, was revoked so far back as the 11th February last. I must say that the restrictions imposed by this Act cannot have been severely felt by the hon. Member and his constituents, seeing that the county has been free from its operation for five months, and they have not experienced any difference.