§ COLONEL NOLANwished to know whether the Motion of the right hon. and gallant Baronet (Sir John Hay), which was to the following effect:—
That the detention of large numbers of Her Majesty's subjects in solitary confinement, without cause assigned, and without trial, is repugnant to the spirit of the Constitution, and that, to enable them to be brought to trial, jury trials should, for a limited time (in Ireland), and in regard to crimes of a well-defined character, be replaced by some form of trial less liable to abuse,did not contain two distinct propositions; and, if so, whether they should not be put separately to the House?
§ MR. SPEAKERIt appears to me that the Motion of the right hon. and gallant Baronet is consistent on the whole; and if he proposes that Resolution to the House, I shall think it my duty so to put it to the House.