§ MR. T. D. SULLIVAN (Donegal, W.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he is aware that the Inspector of Weights and Measures for the Dungloe Petty Sessions District, County Donegal, was obliged to cease his inspection of weights and measures in the Dungloe Court House on the 7th of February, in order that the agent of the Marquess of Conyng-ham might have the use of the place as a rent office; is he aware that the Court House referred to is paid for and maintained out of the public rates; and whether he will direct that no such interference with the business of the public shall take place in future?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. J. MORLEY,) Newcastle-upon-Tynesaid, the facts were as stated in the first paragraph of the question. The rent of the Courthouse was, as he understood, paid by Grand Jury presentment, and it appeared that the Inspector of Weights and Measures had no statutory right to use the building for the purposes for which he acted as such Inspector. It did not look as if the agent had shown any good judgment in interfering with the public duty of the Inspector; but he (Mr. Morley) had no right whatever to interfere in the matter.