§ MR. WILLIAM REDMOND (Fermanagh, N.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If the attention of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland has been called to a report of an assault case heard at the Enniskillen Petty Sessions, which appeared in The Fermanagh Times of May 6th, and in which Mr. J. Porter Porter, J.P. of Magheracross, Ballinamallard, county Fermanagh, was defendant; if Mr. Porter Porter was fined by the Court, and made pay costs for assaulting and beating a boy named James Maguire; and, if Mr. Porter Porter is a justice of the peace for 190 Fermanagh; and, if so, whether the Lord Chancellor will call upon him for an explanation of his conduct?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. JOHN MORLEY) (Newcastle-on-Tyne), in reply, said, that the Lord Chancellor's attention had not been directed to the matter referred to in the Question until he saw it on the Paper; but he had directed a communication to be sent to Mr. Porter, asking him for any information he can furnish as to his conduct on the occasion referred to.