§ MR. LONSDALE (Armagh, Mid)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the attention of the Lord Chancellor will be called to the fact that an attachment has been issued against Mr. Thomas Smith, Justice of the Peace, for contempt of Court in having taken part in an act of intimidation, with a view to the removal of this person's name from a Commission of the Peace.
MR. BRYCEIt is not the practice of the Government to call the attention of the Lord Chancellor to cases in which his jurisdiction as to magistrates is involved. If his jurisdiction is invoked, I have no doubt he will institute any such inquiries as he may think necessary, and exercise his discretion after he is satisfied as to the facts.
§ MR. JOHN REDMOND (Waterford)I presume the right hon. Gentleman is aware that this gentleman has been committed without having been heard in his own defence.