§ MR. HEALYasked the Secretary to the Treasury, In what portion of the Estimates for 1884–5 does the pension of £436 11s. 4d. to Corry Connellan, given on page 545 of last year's Votes, 1882 appear; will he lay upon the Table a Copy of the Treasury Minute of 1st October, 1868, authorising the allowance; and, as the pension is said to have been granted on the ground of "age," can he give Connellan's present age, and state where he now is, or where he draws his pension?
§ MR. COURTNEYin reply, said, this pension was included in the Irish section of the Superannuation Vote, and the hon. Member would find it at page 472 of the Estimates. The Treasury Minute in question was purely formal, and there would be no use in laying it on the Table. The pensioner was now 77 and a-half years old, and his pension was drawn in Ireland.
§ MR. HEALYasked the Prime Minister if he was aware that the Corry Connellan mentioned was the person who was obliged to quit Dublin some 15 years ago, because a warrant was out against him for an unnatural offence; that he had been in receipt of a pension from the Treasury of £436; that his name appeared in the Estimates until last year; that this year it suddenly disappeared; that its disappearance synchronized with the exposures in Dublin last October, as, of course, those who had the preparation of the Estimates must have known the pension would be attacked in Parliament; and whether the Treasury meant to continue the payment of £436 per annum to a man who was beyond Her Majesty's Dominions, and who fled from justice because of an unnatural offence?
MR. GLADSTONEsaid, the Question had not in the first instance been addressed to him; but if the hon. Gentleman would give Notice, he would answer it.