§ MR. HEALYasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, In how many counties or districts in Ireland Mr. Clifford Lloyd has been employed in 1881 and 1882; if he can inform the House of the number of outrages, &c. committed in those districts during Mr. Lloyd's magistracy, and for the corresponding periods before he 260 took charge; and, what was the date of Mr. Lloyd's appointment as resident magistrate originally; what were his qualifications; by whom he was recommended; and in what district he first acted?
§ MR. TREVELYANMr. Clifford Lloyd has been employed in the following districts during the years 1881 and 1882:—Belfast, up to the 22nd of January, 1881; Longford, from the 22nd of January until April or May, 1881; Kilmallock district, County Limerick, from the 10th of May to the 27th of December, 1881, when he was given entire charge of the County Limerick as special Resident Magistrate. At the same time he was appointed special Resident Magistrate for the County Clare; and on the 28th of June last he was appointed in a similar capacity for the County Galway. I have endeavoured to obtain a Return of the outrages alluded to in the second paragraph of the Question; but the Inspector General of Constabulary informs mo that, as the Constabulary districts are not conterminous with those of Resident Magistrates, the Crime Records in his office do not afford the information asked for. The information could, of course, be obtained from the local Constabulary officers; but it would be a work of much time and labour, which should not, I think, be imposed on those officers, who are already heavily weighted with important duties. Mr. Lloyd was originally appointed on the 19th of February, 1874, to the Ballynahinch district, in the County Down. There are no official records to show by whom he was recommended, or what qualifications were submitted to Goverment at the time. It appears, however, from a Return now being prepared in pursuance of an Order of this House, that he held various legal and executive offices in British Burmah; that he passed "with credit" lower and higher standards in law, as laid down by the Government of India; and that he also passed in 1873 the examination for call to the English Bar.