§ Mr. THOMAS O'DONNELL (Kerry, W.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland a Question of which I have given private notice, viz., whether his attention has been tailed to the statement of Chief Baron Pallas at the Cork Assizes on an occasion when jurors were ordered to stand aside, to the effect that they could go home for the rest of the Assizes, as it was of no use keeping them there when they were never allowed by the Crown to serve, and whether, after that protest by so eminent a Judge, the unconstitutional practice of ordering Nationalist jurors to stand aside by the Crown for political reasons will be discontinued.
§ Mr. WYNDHAMreplied that he did not think the words of the Judge could be correctly described as a protest. In any case, he had no announcement to make on 1409 the exercise by the Crown of the right of ordering jurors to stand aside.
§ MR. THOMAS O'DONNELLWould not the national festival of St. Patrick be a convenient opportunity for discontinuing the practice?
§ [No answer was returned.]