§ Mr. STEPHEN GWYNNasked whether it is necessary that the assizes should open in Galway on 17th March, that day being observed in Galway as a public holiday?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe dates for the holding of assizes at the several assize towns are fixed by the going judges of assize, and the matter is not one over which the 1623 Executive Government has any control. This is not by any means the first time that assizes have opened on 17th March. In the present year the Spring Assizes at Belfast and Londonderry, both open on that day, and other assizes open on the 16th, and, presumably, will be continued on the 17th.