The Marquess of Normanbysaid, it was his intention, pursuant to his notice, to put a question to the Government on a subject affecting the pure administration of justice. The question related to a subject to which their Lordships' attention had been already called. What he wanted to know was, whether after what took place at the King's County assizes, when Mr. Biddulph, a magistrate, had admitted his having advised certain prisoners to run away, any communications had passed between the Government and that gentleman, and whether he was still in the magistracy? Since then he had had a communication with his noble Friend the Lord-lieutenant of Ireland, who stated that the case had never been brought before him, and thought there was some remiss-ness on the part of those who ought to have brought the matter under the noble Lord's notice; yet he felt confident that as soon as the noble Lord directed his attention to the case, it would strike him in the same light as it struck him. Under these circumstances he willingly postponed putting any question on the subject until that day week.
§ Question postponed.