§ MR. CHARLES CRAIGI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that Mr. P. J. Kelly, a justice of the peace, at a meeting held at New Inn, county Galway, a few days ago, speaking of Lord Ashtown, who has incurred the displeasure of the United Irish League and is under constant and strict police protection, said that if he (Lord Ashtown) was living in the neighbourhood of Killenadeema or Loughrea they would have had him on a stretcher long ago, the same as John Blake (who was shot dead in Loughrea in 1883), but that the men of Woodlawn had not the courage or manliness to treat him as they should; whether Kelly will be prosecuted for this incitement to murder; and whether he will at once be removed from the magistracy.
§ MR. BIRRELLMr. Kelly's speech is at present under the consideration of the Government.