§ MR. ARTHUR O'CONNOR (Donegal, E.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether it is a fact that a man, named Wason, was, on the prosecution of Mr. Attorney General, last year convicted of extortion, in connection with the execution of decrees for rent, and sentenced to four months' imprisonment; whether the present Sheriff of Donegal has appointed this same man as his bailiff, to execute writs and decrees in the district of Dunfanaghy; and, whether the Government intend to allow it?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR) (Manchester, E.), in reply, said, he found the facts were as stated in the Question. It was in the discretion of the Chairman of Quarter Sessions, under his statutable power, to make an order preventing a bailiff from acting in his district.
§ MR. ARTHUR O'CONNORasked, whether the Government proposed to get rid of this bailiff?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURsaid, the matter lay in the hands of the Chairman of Quarter Sessions.