§ MR. DONAL SULLIVANI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that at the Petty Sessions, Brides well, County Roscommon, on the 22nd May, 1892, Captain Preston, R.M., and J. J. Keogh, J.P., presiding, a licensing case was heard, in which, after the evidence being heard, the Bench disagreed, and the case was dismissed; that on a second similar licensing case being gone into the Bench also disagreed, but in this case Captain Preston insisted on adjourning its further hearing; and whether he can state on what grounds the first case was dismissed and the second adjourned?
§ *THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. JACKSON,) Leeds, N.I think the hon. Member appears to be under a misapprehension. As I am informed, there was no difference between the members of the Bench in the case referred to. It and other cases were adjourned to the next Court day for the attendance of a third Magistrate.