§ MR. GIVANasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether his attention has been called to the fact, as stated in the "Belfast Daily Post," that a Memorial signed by the Rev. William Thompson, Rector of the parish of Layde, county Antrim, the Rev. Eugene O'Meara, P.P., the Rev. Charles Giles, Presbyterian Minister, the Rev. P. Starkey, P.P., Dr. Robinson, and over twenty of the most respectable merchants and farmers in the town and neighbourhood of Cushendall, county Antrim, has lately been presented to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, requesting an investigation into the magisterial conduct of Captain Daniel M'Neil, J.P., against whom a strong feeling of dissatisfaction exists in the locality; that the Lord Chancellor declined to grant an investigation, on the grounds that the matters complained of could be dealt with in a court of law; and, whether, in the present condition of the Country, it is intended to permit this gentleman to retain the commission of the peace?
§ MR. TREVELYANThe matter referred to in the Question of the hon. Member is one entirely for the Lord Chancellor, and my attention had not been called to it except by this Question. The Lord Chancellor has, however, favoured me with a report in reference to the question, from which I learn that 697 he did receive the Memorial referred to, in which certain complaints were preferred against Captain M'Neil. Having considered the complaints, he arrived at the conclusion that there was nothing in them calling for his interference, and nothing that would justify him in removing Captain M'Neil's name from the Commission of the Peace.