§ MR. WILLIAM REDMOND (Clare, E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether, as the extra police have been withdrawn from Clare in consequence of the peaceable state of the county, he will ask the lord Lieutenant to consider whether the 498 time has now come for the release of the prisoners from Clare convicted of agrarian offences many years ago, and now in Mountjoy Prison.
§ MR. G. W. BALFOURA memorial on behalf of all the convicts referred to in the question is now before the Lord Lieutenant, and a decision upon the memorial will be arrived at in due course.