§ MR. MOLLOY (for Mr. O'KELLY)asked Mr. Attorney General for Ireland, Whether it is true that, at a petty sessions court held at Keadoe, county Roscommon, on Friday the 4th of the present month, Mr. Garnett-Tatlow, J.P. the agent over the extensive estates of Lady L. Tenison, occupied his usual place with the magistrates on the Bench while cases in which persons who were summoned at his instance for trespass and killing rabbits were being tried; whether five of the persons thus charged were fined one pound each; and, whether Mr. Garnett-Tatlow shall be instructed not to occupy for the future a place on the Bench during the trial of cases wherein he is directly interested?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. W. M. JOHNSON)Sir, I have inquired into this matter, and am informed that at Keadoe Petty Sessions, on the 4th instant, five persons were summoned, at the suit of Lady Louisa Tenison, for trespass in pursuit of game, and fined £1 each. Mr. Garnett-Tatlow was, I understand, the Chairman of the Bench on that day; but when the cases were called on another magistrate took the chair, and Mr. Tatlow moved away from the other magistrates, and took no part whatever in the hearing or adjudication of any of these cases.