MR. O'KEEFFE (Limerick City)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if his attention has been directed to the fact that only three Roman Catholics were summoned on Grand Jury for County of Limerick at present Assizes, although its population, 142,000, are mostly all Catholics, and that one Grand Juror protested against such selection; and if the Government would intimate to High Sheriffs in Ireland to exercise their right of summoning properly-qualified tenant farmers and traders of counties?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThe impanelling of Grand Juries is regulated by Statute. I have no information as to the religious belief of the persons impanelled. The Government would have no title to make the intimation to High Sheriffs suggested in the second paragraph.