§ MR. SEXTONI beg to ask the Chief Secretary another question—namely, whether, in reference to the Ballymote case, under the Statute of Edward III., which the right hon. Gentleman undertook should be postponed for further inquiry, the trial has been proceeding to-day in Ballymote?
MR. J. MORLEYI told my hon. Friend yesterday that through the Attorney General I had directed that the proceedings should be postponed. But, after I had given my hon. Friend that answer, I received a communication from Ireland to the effect that the representatives of the Departments urged very strongly—in fact, to the point of insistence—that the case should not be postponed, so that, under these circumstances, we could not postpone the case.