§ MR. KENNYasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether the Lord Chancellor has yet come to a decision with regard to recommendations made him to appoint Messrs. M. F. Ryan, of Clonakilla House, and E. Power, of Erribul, to the Commission of the Peace for the county of Clare? I also beg to ask, If the Board of Guardians of the Mohill Union did in May last recommend the names of several gentlemen for appointment to the Commission of the Peace; if two of those gentlemen, Messrs. Quinn and Maguire, are owners of property in Leitrim and other counties, and the former coroner for South Leitrim; and, if, considering the small number of Catholic magistrates in that county, the Government will fulfil their promise of remedying this state of things by appointing the two gentlemen, named to the Commission of the Peace?
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANThe Lord Lieutenant of the county of Clare has refused to recommend either of these gentlemen to the Lord Chancellor, and the Lord Chancellor, having fully considered the matter, declines to overrule the decision of the Lieutenant of the county, with regard to the second Question of the hon. Gentleman, the two gentlemen named were recommended by the Mohill Guardians; but the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Leitrim, declined to adopt such recommendation, and, in the opinion of the Lord Chancellor, not unreasonably.
§ MR. KENNYIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that the Lord Lieutenant referred to is an Orangeman and Protestant, and that he repeatedly refused to recommend to the Commission of the Peace any persons not of his own way of thinking in politics?
§ [No reply.]