§ MR. BIGGAR (Cavan, W.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether it is a fact that at last Spring Assizes in Cavan nothing over three appeals were entered from decisions of the County Court Judge; and, whether in one of these cases the appeal was not defended; and, in the other two the former judgments were varied but not reversed?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR) (Manchester, E.)The Ques- 1711 tion put by the hon. Member does not represent the real facts. The Clerk of the Crown and Peace reports that the number of such appeals listed was 33; and of these 20 were heard with the following results:—Reversed, 10; varied, 6; affirmed, 4.