§ MR. FLAVINI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that Edmund Carmody, of Cuss, county Kerry, who was convicted at the Cork winter assizes in December, 1898, and sentenced to three years penal servitude, was mainly the support of his father and mother; and whether, seeing that the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has received a petition, largely signed by magistrates, clergymen, and the general public, praying for the release of the prisoner, who has now served more than half his sentence, he will recommend the consideration of his case.
§ MR. G. W. BALFOURI have no information as to the first paragraph. The case of this prisoner has been twice before the Lords Justices on a memorial for a mitigation of sentence —the last occasion so recently as April of this year; but it was decided that the law should take its. course. It is not my province to take the action suggested at the conclusion of the question.
§ MR. FLAVINMay I again ask why the same clemency has not been extended to this man as was given to Lord Ken-mare's bailiff?
§ [No answer was given.]