§ MR. JAMES O'CONNORI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury if he would consider the question of advising Her Majesty the Queen to exercise Her Royal clemency by granting a free pardon to the Irish treason felony prisoners on the sixtieth anniversary of Her Majesty's accession to the throne?
§ MR. MICHAEL DAVITTasked whether it was not the invariable custom among the European Powers to exercise the prerogative of clemency on occasions of this kind, and whether Her Majesty's Government could be equally magnanimous with the European Powers?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURYI am afraid I cannot answer the latter question, as I am not aware how the facts stand. With regard to the first question I have nothing to add to the general statement of policy I have already made, and it is manifest, as the hon. Gentleman will see, that the lime has not arrived for considering what ought or ought not to be done on the sixtieth anniversary of Her Majesty's reign.