§ MR. MACNEILL (Donegal, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland why Patrick Donnelly, who has been a prisoner in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, since December, 1883, when he was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude for larceny by Judge Lawson, has not been allowed the usual period of three months' diminution off each year of his sentence; and whether, having regard 881 to the lengthened period of imprisonment to which this man has been subjected, his case will be considered, with a view to reducing the original term of his sentence?
§ MR. JACKSONThe General Prisons Board report that there is no convict at present in custody in Ireland under the name of Patrick Donnelly.