§ MR. O'KELLYasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether, at a recent special Sessions held in Athenry, county Galway, the sitting magistrates awarded Lord Dunsandle the sum of £30 as compensation for a house accidentally or maliciously burned; and, whether Mr. Martin O'Halloran offered in open court to rebuild the house for the sum of £8 15s., at the same time tendering two solvent persons as bail in £100 each as security for the due and proper performance of the work?
§ MR. TREVELYANI am informed that the facts are correctly stated in the Question, except that the house was certainly maliciously, not accidentally, burned, and that Martin O'Halloran's tender was for £7 15s. I understand that the magistrates considered the tender altogether inadequate, and did not accept it, as they knew it could not be fulfilled. In any case the matter is not one in which the Government has any power to interfere.