§ MR. SHEILasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether sub-constable Forbes was transferred from Meath to Limerick because of a complaint against him; what the charge against him was; whether the Inspector General, as well as Mr. Ross the County Inspector of Meath, were aware at the time the transfer was ordered, that sub-constable Forbes had hired a house for his family and himself, for which he had paid a year's rent in advance; and, whether the loss suffered by sub-constable Forbes, in consequence of the unexpected change of his quarters, will be made good to him?
§ MR. TREVELYANSir, I am informed that Sub-Constable Forbes and two others were transferred for the good of the Public Service on suspicion of their having been concerned in an anonymous correspondence in the Press, reflecting on the conduct of certain officers and men of the Force. As the Service makes no provision for leaving a man permanently at any particular station, if Sub-Constable Forbes paid for a house a year in advance, he, of course, did so at his own risk, and is not entitled to any compensation in the matter.