§ MR. D. SHEEHY (Galway, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1), whether it has now been brought to his notice that the case against Michael Hennessy was dismissed with costs; if so, will he state from whence he received the former information which misled him; and(2) whether, under the circumstances, he will advise the Lord Chancellor to remove the name of Mr. Farren, the gentleman in question, from the Commission of the Peace for the county of Galway?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURThis matter has been brought under my notice by a letter received from the hon. Member for East Galway, and on further inquiry it now appears that the case referred to was dismissed with costs; the statement previously made 678 that the case was dismissed without costs was supplied by Mr. Farren, who in making the statement seems to have confused "costs" with "expenses." Costs, I understand, in a County Court dismiss of this kind, follow the order as a matter of course, and not as in Petty Sessions, where a special application is necessary. It is absurd to suppose that Mr. Farren intended to wilfully mislead in the statement originally made by him, and upon the information at present before me I can see no reason for taking the course suggested in the second paragraph of the Question.