§ MR. T. P. O'CONNOR,asked Mr. Attorney General for Ireland, Whether Joseph B. Walsh, now in Kilmainham Prison, under the Protection of Person and Property (Ireland) Act, is detained because he is declared to be reasonably suspected of having committed an offence, for which the maximum punishment after conviction is three months' 351 imprisonment; and, whether, after he has suffered the full sentence which the law allows for persons convicted of this crime, Her Majesty's Government will discharge him?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. LAW)No, Sir; the maximum punishment for the offence is not three months' imprisonment, but penal servitude for seven years, or imprisonment, with hard labour, for three years; long before the expiration of either of which periods the Act for the Better Protection of Person and Property in Ireland will have ceased to be in force.