§ MR. MURPHY (Dublin, St. Patrick's)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether John R. Guy, a bankrupt, was within the past year tried and convicted by a jury on a charge of concealment of property and other offences against the Bankruptcy Act, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment; whether he was released by order of the Lord Lieutenant after a few weeks' imprisonment; whether Thomas Moroney has been now confined in prison for more than a year, without any trial or conviction, on a commitment by the Judge for unsatisfactory answering in the Bankruptcy Court; and, whether the Lord Lieutenant will order the release of Thomas Moroney as well as of John R. Guy?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR) (Manchester, E.), in reply, said, John R. Guy was released by direction of the Lord Lieutenant upon the medical officer's Report that further confinement would endanger his life. There did not appear to be any ground to apprehend that further imprisonment would endanger the life of Thomas Moroney, and the Lord Lieutenant had, therefore, no power to interfere.