§ MR. LONSDALEI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that at the Sligo Assizes, on Thursday 9th July, ten men were charged with having assembled to disturb the public peace and prevented a postman from delivering His Majesty's mails, that the Judge told the jury that there was no room for doubt, and that the jury disagreed; and whether it is the intention of the executive to allow these persons to escape punishment.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe jury disagreed in the case referred to, and the defendants entered into recognisances to appear at the next Assizes. It will be for my right hon. friend the Attorney-General to decide in due course whether the prosecution is to be continued. The matter has not yet come before him for consideration.