§ MR. LONSDALEI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that, in addressing the grand jury at the Galway quarter sessions on Monday, Judge Anderson stated that he had had no reports furnished him by the police as to the state of the county, and he could only judge of what had been going on by what he saw in the newspapers; whether the usual reports were withheld 372 of set purpose, and whether the police acted upon instructions from headquarters; and, if so, whether he will state the nature of those instructions.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe Recorder of Galway is reported to have said that he refrained from making any observations on the state of the county because the police did not furnish him with reports on the subject and he had no information save that which he had gathered from the newspapers. It has never been the practice to furnish Recorders and County Court Judges with police reports as to the crime of the district. Such reports are furnished to Judges of Assize only.