§ MR. P. A. M'HUGH (Leitrim, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that there is no Nationalist holding the Commission of the Peace for the County of Leitrim resident in the Petty Sessions district of Drumkeeran, in which 94 per cent. of the inhabitants are Nationalists; has a Nationalist Magistrate ever adjudicated in the Petty Sessions Court of Drumkeeran district; has the Lord Chancellor of Ireland been requested to appoint to the Commission of the Peace for the County of Leitrim a Nationalist residing in the district; has the Lord Chancellor up to the present refused to comply with the request, and why; and will the Lord Chancellor consider the advisability of appointing a Nationalist in the district to the Commission of the Peace for the County of Leitrim?
MR. J. MORLEYIt is probably the fact, as I am told, that no Nationalist Magistrate adjudicates in the Petty Sessions district referred to; but the Lord Chancellor has no authentic information on the subject. The Lord Chancellor has been asked to appoint one gentleman to the Commission in this district; but he has not appointed him, and he has asked me to say that, as the result of his inquiries, he is compelled to decline to 1248 appoint the gentleman in question. The Lord Chancellor will be glad to consider on his own responsibility the claims of any gentleman whose name may be submitted to him, and to appoint him if he ascertains him to be fit.