§ MR. MACARTNEY (Antrim, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been called to a report of a meeting of the Corporation of Drogheda, 1706 reported in The Drogheda Independent of November 4; whether he is aware that Mr. Butterly, who moved the adoption of a resolution originally passed by the Monasterboice Branch, I.N.F., and published in The Drogheda Independent on October 21, is a Magistrate; whether his attention has been called to a resolution moved at the same meeting, in which a Mr. Chambers was named and held up to execration, as a purchaser of certain agricultural produce; whether he is aware that the Mayor who presided at this meeting is a Magistrate; and whether, having regard to the character of the resolutions (moved and adopted), the attention of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland has been called to the conduct of these gentlemen on this occasion?
MR. J. MORLEYI have seen an extract from the newspapers mentioned which purports to give an account of the proceedings referred to. The Mayor and Mr. Butterly are both Town Justices of Drogheda, and were, I may observe, both recommended by Lord Massereene, the Lieutenant of the County. The papers have been sent to the Lord Chancellor, with the view of his considering what action, if any, should be taken in the matter.