§ MR. WILLIAM REDMONDI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether in view of the proposal to appoint Lords of Appeal for the colonies and India, a Lord of Appeal will be appointed from Ireland; and whether his attention has been called to a meeting of the Irish Bar recently on this subject.
MR. T. M. HEALYI beg at the same time to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether the Government has received the resolution of the Irish Bar protesting, against the departure from established precedent in filling up the recent vacancy in the Irish Lawlordship by an English appointment; what reply has been sent to this resolution; when will the Bill be introduced for the creation of Australian, Canadian, African, and Indian Lawlordships; and will the salaries of the new Peers be borne by the colonies and dependencies of the Empire or by the: taxpayers of Great Britain and Ireland.
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR, Manchester, E.)As regards the resolution of the Irish Bar, I have to say that I have not received any such resolution. With regard to the other questions, the Bill referred to not having been introduced, I think that any question as to what it will contain had better be deferred until its introduction.