§ MR. MACALEESEI beg to ask Mr. Attorney General for Ireland, (1) if he will consent to release on parole Patrick M'Quaide, a prisoner detained in Dun-dalk Gaol since the 30th of January last, that the. man may have the opportunity to get a memorial prepared to place before the Judge at whose instance he was arrested and imprisoned, seeing that M'Quaide's offence of trespass, out of which his arrest arose, was not a taking of forcible possession, as has been alleged, but the cutting of a small bundle of rushes to replenish the bed of one of his little children; and, (2) whether he is aware that there are precedents for such a course to be found in the administration of the late Chief Secretary Forster, who paroled suspect prisoners on several occasions without having any reason to regret the step?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. JOHN ATKINSON,) Londonderry, N.I am informed that M'Quaide has forwarded to his solicitor a written statement to be laid before the Receiver Judge, containing an apology for the misconduct complained of, and a promise not to repeat it. I should assume that this letter will be favourably considered. There is no analogy between this case and those referred to in the last paragraph of the Question.