§ MR. HEALYasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether Mr. M'Corkell is to be retained in the service of the Government as Crown Prosecutor of the county Tyrone?
§ MR. TREVELYAN, in reply, said, there appeared to be some misapprehension as to the nature of the position of a Crown Prosecutor. It was not an office. It meant that the Attorney General gave directions to the Crown Solicitor to send briefs, in cases prosecuted by the Crown, to the gentlemen designated; and, as a matter of course, the direction so given was not interfered with by succeeding Attorney Generals, so long as the duties were efficiently discharged, and no occasion arose for a change. Mr. M'Corkell was assigned in that way by the late Government to prosecute for the county of Tyrone, and he had discharged his duty efficiently and honestly. [Mr. BIGGAR: Oh !] He was speaking of the opinion of the Attorney General as to the manner in which Mr. M'Corkell discharged his duties as Crown Prosecutor. The Attorney General had no doubt he would continue to discharge his duties in the future in the same manner. While he considered that Mr. M'Corkell had acted within his discretion in attending at the Corporation Hall at Derry, on the 1st of November, he did not consider he ought to interfere with the gentleman's employment us Crown Prosecutor.
§ MR. HEALYDoes the right hon. Gentleman consider that the associate of a gang of murderers, one of whom was convicted of an attempt to murder, is a fit and proper person to hold briefs in the county Tyrone, and to prosecute Orangemen?
§ [No reply.]