18. Captain CRAIGasked the Chief Secretary whether it is the intention of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland to appoint Mr. David O'Sullivan, of Ballylongford, county Kerry, to the commission of the peace; whether Mr. O'Sullivan is the holder of a publican's licence in Ballylongford and was in June, 1903, fined £3 and costs at Ballylongford Petty Sessions for a serious assault committed with an iron bar on one Nicholas Mulvihill; and whether he will bring these facts to the notice of the Irish Lord Chancellor before the commission is issued to Mr. O'Sullivan?
§ Mr.BIRRELLNo application for Mr. David O'SuIlivan's appointment to the magistracy has been made to the Lord Chancellor. The second part of the question does not, therefore, arise.
§ Mr. MacVEAGHIs it not the fact that the hon. and gallant Member who put this question on the Paper is himself a distiller and a Justice of the Peace?