MR. O'BRIENasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Is it a fact that Mr. George Bolton, Crown Solicitor, on receiving the jury panel for the present Commission in 31 Green Street from the Sheriff on the 5th of April last despatched a messenger with a copy of the said jury panel to Mr. Welch, now or at one time an official of the Leinster Street Conservative Association; and, whether Mr. Welch has received £5 5s. for his services in connection with the panel, together with further fees for subsequent searches; and, if so, what was the nature of the services so rewarded?
§ MR. TREVELYANI stated, in reply to a former Question, that I must decline to make any statement as to the steps which the Crown Solicitor, for the proper discharge of his duty, thinks it necessary to take to obtain confidential information in matters of this kind; and I must adhere to that decision.
MR. O'BRIENThen the right hon. Gentleman declines to state what part the Secretary of a Dublin Conservative Association takes in ordering Catholic jurors to stand aside?
§ MR. HARRINGTONI would ask the right hon. Gentleman whether the confidential information refers to the religion of the jurors?
§ [No reply was given.]