§ MR. FLYNN (Cork, N.)I beg to ask the Attorney General for Ireland whether he has seen a report of the February Petty Sessions, held on Tuesday, 25th February, before Messrs. Burke and Beresford, Resident Magistrates, and at which Edward M'Ginley, an evicted tenant, was charged with intimidating one Charles Gallagher by interfering with the sale of the latter's pig at a fair; if it is true, as reported in the newspapers, that the only overt act of intimidation deposed to consisted in the defendant's "winking at the pig;" and the magistrates held there was no proof that the pig buyers were intimidated, and dismissed the summons, but yet bound the defendant in sureties to keep the peace, or in default to be imprisoned for three months; and was the prosecution brought under the Criminal Law and Procedure (Ireland) Act; and, if not, under what Statute?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. MADDEN, University of Dublin)I am unable to answer the question, as I have not yet received a Report.