§ MR. PATRICK M'HUGH (Leitrim, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been called to the fact that an insane patient, whom the police were about to take to the Sligo District Lunatic Asylum, was detained two days in Manorhamilton Police Barracks, owing to difficulty in finding a second 1594 Magistrate to sign the necessary form of committal; is he aware that out of a population of 78,618 in the County of Leitrim 71,098 are Roman Catholics, and that of 63 persons who hold the Commission of the Peace for that county only three are Roman Catholics; has the Lord Chancellor of Ireland been requested to appoint to the Commission of the Peace for the County of Leitrim certain Nationalists, whose names were forwarded to him; and will he appoint those gentlemen to the Commission of the Peace; if not, will he explain on what grounds he declines to do so?
MR. J. MORLEYI have received a Report, from which it appears that the lunatic referred to in the first paragraph was detained in the police barrack for about 26 hours, no second Magistrate being-available to commit him. As regards the remainder of the question, the Lord Chancellor has under consideration the names of gentlemen recommended for appointment to the Commission of the Peace in the County Leitrim.