§ CAPTAIN DONELAN (Cork, E.)On behalf of the hon. Member for North Westmeath (Mr. J. TUITE), I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland can he state the decision of the Lords Justices in the cases of the two young men who were sentenced to three years' penal servitude at Mullingar Quarter Sessions, October 1895, for throwing a stone from a bridge on a passing train, and on whose behalf a memorial was presented to the Lord Lieutenant in March last?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. GERALD BALFOUR,) Leeds, CentralThe County Court Judge in sentencing these men to three years' penal servitude expressly stated he had regard to several previous outrages of a similar character in the same locality, and the Lords Justices decided in March last that the law should take its course.