DR. M'DONNELL (Queen's Co., Leix)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he has received a resolution from the Grand Jury of the Queen's County calling for a change in the law relating to the appointment of Sheriffs, the gentleman appointed in that county having refused to serve; and whether he will consider the possibility of so altering the law or practice as to enable men having the confidence of the mass of the ratepayers to fill this office if men of the landed classes are unwilling to undertake it?
MR. J. MORLEYThe Government are alive to the great inconvenience attending the existing law in relation to the appointment, &c., of Sheriffs, and have agreed, in another place, to the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into, and report upon, the question generally.