§ MR. SEXTONasked Mr. Solicitor General for Ireland, If his attention has been given to a case of "trespass in pursuit of game," at the suit of the Hon. Evelyn Ashley, M.P., landlord, against Patrick M'Hugh and James Gilmartin, recently heard in the Grange (county of Sligo) Petty Sessions Court, before Mr. Charles Gore Jones, J.P., with the result that both the defendants were fined; whether the alleged pursuit of game took place on the farm of a tenant, Thomas Higgins, and whether, having regard to 1 and 2 Will. 4, c. 32, and the recent Ground Game Act, the prosecution, if undertaken at all, should have been undertaken not by the landlord, but by the tenant Thomas Higgins; whether, under 23 and 24 Vic. c. 90, sections 11 and 12, the case in question should have been heard and decided by not fewer than two Justices of the Peace; and, whether the hearing and judgment by Mr. Charles Gore Jones are valid?
§ THE SOLICITOR GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. WALKER), in reply, said, that the defendants were fined 10s. each. Not only a landlord, but any member of the public, would be entitled to bring such a prosecution. One magistrate was competent to adjudicate, and the proceedings appeared to be regular.