MR. O'BRIENI would like to ask the Solicitor General for Ireland a Question which I think he will have no difficulty in answering without Notice—Whether he has learned that William Orr, charged with discharging a revolver from the Orange Hall at Newry on a Nationalist procession, was acquitted to-day by a Belfast jury; whether it was sworn by the police that the prisoner threw the revolver out of the window when one of the barrels had been discharged; and whether the jury not only acquitted Orr, but expressed their disapproval of the Nationalist procession permitted by Lord Spencer; whether the further charge of riot against Orr will be proceeded with before a Belfast jury; and, whether the trials of the other Orangemen charged with firing at the Nationalist procession will be entrusted to juries which have made so gross a display of partizanship?
§ THE SOLICITOR GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. WALKER)said, he could not answer the Question.
MR. O'BRIENWill the hon. and learned Gentleman answer whether it is 394 intended to proceed with the cases against the Orangemen at the Belfast Assizes?
§ THE SOLICITOR GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. WALKER)said, he would speak to the Attorney General on the subject.