§ MR. D. MACALEESE (Monaghan, N.)I beg to ask the Attorney-General for Ireland if he is aware that two brothers named Maguire, at present in 1257 gaol on a charge of alleged murder, were inarched handcuffed to each other through the public streets of Omagh, from the gaol to the courthouse, on the 18th July instant, it being market day. By whose authority was the practice in such cases of conveying prisoners in a van departed from; and, will he take care that in future no such proceeding as this shall recur?
§ THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. J. ATKINSON,) Londonderry, S.On the 23rd instant I stated in reply to a similar question addressed to me by the hon. Member for Mid Tyrone that there was no foundation whatever for the allegation that the prisoners referred to were marched through the streets to the jail or courthouse on the occasion mentioned, but that they were conveyed in the prison van in accordance with the invariable practice.