§ MR. T. P. O'CONNOR (for Mr. T. D. SULLIVAN)asked Mr. Attorney General for Ireland, If he can state the result of the further inquiries which he promised to have made into the state of health of Mr. James Higgins, who has been confined for a period of more than four months in Kilmainham gaol, who has spent a great portion of that time in the prison hospital, and who has been reported by two doctors, one of them the medical officer of the prison, as suffering from a disease of the heart?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. LAW)Sir, on the 22nd of July last my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary for Ireland directed that Mr. James Higgins should be examined by some independent physician of eminence, and on the 28th of July Dr. Wharton certified as follows:—
I have the honour to report, for the information of the Lord Lieutenant, that I do not consider the life of James Higgins to be in danger by further confinement.