§ MR. L. P. HAYDEN (Roscommon, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been drawn to a judgment recently delivered in the Court of Queen's Bench, Ireland, in the case of Doherty, a road contractor in Londonderry, the effect of which is that County Contractors cannot be paid at the next Assizes for the work which they will then have completed; and whether, in view of the fact that, if acted upon, the effect of the judgment will be to cause serious loss and inconvenience to a large body of people and the disarrangement of fiscal affairs of the various Irish counties, he will consider the advisability of introducing a short, non-contentious Bill to remedy this state of things?
MR. J. MORLEYI called for a Report on the facts of this case yesterday, but not having yet received it, regret to have to ask the hon. Gentleman to defer the question till to-morrow.