§ MR. LEWISsaid, that, seeing the Attorney General in his place, he would now ask him the following Question, of which he had only given the hon. and learned Gentleman private Notice—namely, Whether Mr. Parnell, M.P., having been arrested on the 13th of October, under the provisions of the 44th of Victoria, cap. 4, sec. 1, and having been released from custody on the 11th of April, can be lawfully rearrested and detained in custody under the original warrant; and whether, if a new warrant is necessary, it must not be issued in virtue of a new offence?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir HENRY JAMES)The hon. Member said he gave me private Notice of this Question; but I received no Notice whatever until I entered the House. I must, therefore, ask him to put his Question on the Paper, to be answered by myself or the Irish Law Officers to-morrow.
§ MR. LEWISgave Notice that he would ask the Question to-morrow. As it related to the liberty of the subject, he thought that no great Notice ought to have been required under the circumstances. He had left the Notice in the room of the Attorney General nearly an hour ago.
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir HENRY JAMES)What is that?