§ MR. SEXTONasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether Mr. William J. Doherty, C.E., of Clonturk House, Drumcondra, Dublin, a justice of the peace for the county of Donegal and a special juror for Dublin, has represented to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland that he was summoned to serve as a juror in the Barbavilla conspiracy case, but, on answering to his name in Court, was ordered by the Crown to stand aside; and, what reply, if any, the Lord Chancellor has made, and what view he takes of the course pursued by counsel for the Crown in the case in question, in peremptorily challenging a justice of the peace who had been summoned to serve as a juror?
§ MR. TREVELYANIt is the fact that Mr. Doherty has made the representations mentioned to the Lord Chancellor, by letter dated the 25th of April last, and the Lord Chancellor sent a reply thereto on the 3rd instant, stating that he has no power whatever to interfere with the right of peremptorily directing a juror to stand aside, which is vested in the Crown; and that the circumstance that a juror so ordered to stand aside holding Her Majesty's Commission of the Peace makes no difference either in the power or duty of the Lord Chancellor.