MR. O'BRIENasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether the Lord Chancellor has yet come to any decision with respect to the conduct of Mr. Edward M. Archdale, J.P. who, at the Dromore inquest, admitted 1353 that he had led and arranged the Railway fares of a thousand of the men who participated in the riot at Dromore on the 1st of January; and, whether Mr. Archdale will be continued in the Commission of the Peace, and in the position of High Sheriff of the county of Fermanagh?
§ MR. TREVELYANSir, there was an unavoidable delay in laying before the Lord Chancellor the Papers in this case, as they were required for the preparation of a Return which I undertook to lay on the Table in consequence of Questions put to me by the noble Lord the Member for Middlesex (Lord George Hamilton). The Papers are now before the Lord Chancellor, and he will come to a decision in the case as soon as possible.