MR. MEALYasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether his attention has been called to the following Resolution adopted by the Skull (county Cork) Board of Guar- 793 dians on May 10th:—That we strongly protest against the conduct of Mr. R. H. Notter, J.P. on the 26th of April, in using threats of arrest under the Coercion Act calculated to intimidate and prevent us from discharging our duties as representatives of the people of the Skull Union, inasmuch that when we alluded to the arrest of our Chairman Mr. Richard Hodnett, now in prison under the Coercion Act, Mr. R. H. Netter quickly replied by saying "more will soon follow!" and we request the clerk of the union to forward a copy of this Resolution to the Lord Chancellor; whether the Mr. R. H. Notter, J.P. complained of is the same Mr. R. H. Notter, J.P. who recently expressed a hope from the bench that "the people would soon get powder and ball;" whether, in consequence of a question put in this House thereupon, Mr. Notter was cautioned against the use of inflammatory language; and, whether, as the Lord Chancellor's attention has a second time within a few months been called to the conduct of Mr. Notter, the Government can now hold out any hope, whether by removal from the bench or otherwise, that some restraint will be put upon the language of this magistrate?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTER ,in reply, said, he did not think the matter alluded to in the Question was worthy of the attention of the Government or of the House.