§ CAPTAIN DONELAN (Cork, E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that at the quarter sessions for 1404 the division of East Cork, held at Midleton on Thursday last, the calendar did not contain a single criminal case; and whether steps will be taken to accelerate the reduction of the Constabulary in East Cork.
§ MR. ATKINSONThe fact is as stated. Five stations in the East Riding of Cork have been discontinued during the past year, and no further reduction is contemplated at present.
§ CAPTAIN DONELANAs the police have so little to do could not their services be availed of to protect the Nationalists in the Orange centres of Ulster?
§ MR. SPEAKEROrder, order!