MR. JUSTIN M'CARTHYasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether the Government are prepared to make any inquiries in the sentence recently passed upon a Catholic clergyman by the Fermanagh magistrates?
§ MR. TREVELYANIn this case the original decision of the magistrates was appealed against to the Quarter Sessions, the result being that the conviction was affirmed, but the sentence mitigated from imprisonment to a fine. These proceedings followed the ordinary course of the law, and I am not aware of any ground upon which the Government could institute inquiries. The Lord Lieutenant does not take into consideration individual sentences, except upon a Me- 1551 morial being presented, which has not been done in this case.