§ MR. SEXTONasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Who were the gentlemen lately recommended by the Athy (Kildare) and Killadysert (Clare) Boards of Guardians for appointment to the Commission of the Peace; whether the Lieutenant of either county supported, in any case, the recommendation of the guardians; and, if not, whether either the Lieutenant of Kildare or the Lieutenant of Clare communicated to the Lord Chancellor or to the Board of Guardians any reason for the refusal; whether the Lord Chancellor appointed any of the gentlemen recommended by the Boards in question; and, whether the intimation in his secretary's letter of the 10th instant, to the Killadysert Board, that, "in the absence of any recommendation from the Lord Lieutenant of the county," he rejected the application of the guardians, is to be regarded as conveying that the repeated declarations by the Government of the determination to appoint suitable persons, in the absence of recommendations from Lieutenants of counties, has no effective force?
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANI must decline to state the names of persons who have not been appointed to the Commission of the Peace. It is true that the Lord Chancellor, acting not only on the opinion of the Lieutenants of the two counties but on his own judgment, has not seen his way to appoint the gentlemen recommended by these two Boards, but he has no intention of departing from the declarations which have been made on this subject.