MR. O'KEEFFEasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland why Mr. Dunleary, journalist, Ennis, county Clare, who was sentenced to three months' imprisonment by Mr. Hoddes, R.M., for, as the official announcement of his sentence recorded on his cell door announces, "abusing a policeman," has been removed last Monday from Limerick, his county district prison, to Tullamore Gaol; and, whether there are at present over 40 empty cells in Limerick Gaol, and, if so, what reasons, disciplinary or precautionary, have occasioned the necessity of Mr. Dunleary's transfer?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURsaid he was unable, at present, to answer the question, not having received the necessary information. A report had been called for, but had not yet been received.