§ MR. DILLON(for Mr. T. M. HEALY) (Mayo E.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Is it the fact that, in a county so preponderatingly Catholic as Monaghan, the common jury panel for the trial of party cases at next Quarter Sessions contains only the names of nine Catholics out of forty-eight, and 1162 can he explain how the panel comes to be so constituted?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. JOHN MORLEY) (Newcastle-on-Tyne), in reply, said, that they had no means of knowing the religion, of the jurors placed on the panel, for which duty the Sheriff was responsible. He was assured, however, that the names were returned by the Sheriff alphabetically according to rule. Any juror summoned out of order might bring the matter before the Court and have the Sheriff fined. As to the particular cases referred to, the Attorney General, in the exercise of his discretion, had determined that the trial should take place at Assizes and not at Sessions.