§ MR. P. A. M'HUGH (Leitrim, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is he aware that early in March last an insane patient was detained 26 hours in the police barracks at Manorhamilton, County Leitrim, no second Magistrate being available to commit him; was this circumstance brought at the time under the notice of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland; was the Lord Chancellor requested to appoint to the Commission of the Peace for the County of Leitrim certain gentlemen resident in the Petty Sessions district of Manorhamilton; and has the Lord Chancellor arrived at any decision regarding the names submitted to him?
MR. J. MORLEYI am aware of the facts mentioned in the first paragraph. The patient was detained, as stated, in consequence of the necessary absence at Assizes of three of the four 1819 local Justices. The matter was not brought under the notice of the Lord Chancellor. The names of two gentlemen resident in the district referred to in the third paragraph were submitted to the Lord Chancellor, who regrets he has been unable to accede to the application for their appointment.