§ MR. J. P. FARRELLI beg to ask Mr. Attorney-General for Ireland whether he is aware that in the course of evidence given by a bailiff, named Francis Cooke, on the O'Brien Estate, in North Longford, Judge Curran, in refusing to receive the evidence, stated that the late Judge Monroe declared that this man should be prosecuted for perjury in evidence given before him; whether this man is employed as receiver in Judge Ross's Court; and will these remarks of these learned Judges be brought to the notice of Judge Ross, with a view to his removal from the office.
§ THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. ATKINSON, Londonderry, ) N.The man Francis Cooke is not a receiver in Judge Ross's Court but only the bailiff of a gentleman named Colonel Dopping, who is a receiver in that Court. As far as I have been able to ascertain, Judge Curran considered that Cooke had,, in a case tried before him, given inaccurate evidence in identifying on a map produced the precise locality of an alleged trespass, but the Judge made^ no reference whatever to the late Judge Monroe or to any evidence given before that Judge by Cooke, nor did Judge Curran himself accuse Cooke of perjury. The reply to the later query is in the negative.