§ MR. SPEAKER acquainted the House that he had received the following letter 236 relating to the Imprisonment of a Member of this House:—
§ Athlone on Circuit,
§ March 23, 1888.
§ Sir,
§ I have the honour, as is my duty, to inform you, that Mr. Patrick O'Brien, a Member of the Honourable The House of Commons, was this day sentenced by me, to be imprisoned for four months as a first-class misdemeanant, upon the hearing of an appeal from a Court of Summary Jurisdiction constituted under the Criminal Law Procedure (Ireland) Act of 1887.
§ I have the honour to be,
§ Sir,
§ Your obedient servant,
§ WILLIAM O'CONNOR MORRIS,
§ County Court Judge and Chairman of Quarter Sessions,