§ MR. WEBBI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether there would be any objection to laying before the House the grounds of the release, by order of the Lord Lieutenant, after about 10 days' imprisonment, of the two constables of the Royal Irish Constabulary, named Waters and O'Shea, who last October were by Mr. O'Donel, Chief Magistrate of the Dublin Police Courts, sentenced to terms of one month and three months' imprisonment respectively, with hard labour, for assaulting two members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, who had remonstrated with them for using obscene language in the public street?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThe sentences referred to were modified on a Memorial submitted by the men, who appealed to their previous good conduct, and to the fact that the occurrence had arisen suddenly and without premeditation. This Memorial came before the convicting Magistrate, who, in view of the facts, approved of the substitution of fines. This was accordingly done.