§ MR. HARRINGTONasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Why no notice was printed in The Gazette of the appointment of Mr. O'Shaughnessy to the office of Registrar of Petty Sessions Clerk in Ireland for two months after his acceptance of the office; and if he can explain why the acceptance by Mr. Porter of the Mastership of the Rolls was gazetted immediately?
§ MR. TREVELYAN, in reply, said, that when Mr. O'Shaughnessy was appointed to his present position the same steps were taken as in the case of his predecessor. The appointment itself was not one which it was thought necessary to gazette. A short time afterwards, however, it was pointed out that a difficulty existed as to the issue of a Writ for Limerick in consequence of a Gazette notice not being forthcoming, and thereupon the notice was published. In the case of the Master of the Rolls the appointment was made by patent in London. On receipt of the patent in Dublin it was gazetted according to the usual practice.