THE EARL OF LEITRIMinquired, Whether, since 1856, any rules and regulations has been made in respect to the employment of the Irish Constabulary for the suppression and prevention of illicit distillation in Ireland; and, if so, why they have not been laid before Parliament, as required by the Act passed in the year 1854?
§ EARL GRANVILLEsaid, that the rules and regulations which had been laid before Parliament in the year 1856, applied only to the county of Cavan, and another county. Subsequently, at the desire of the Treasury, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland extended the operation of the rule to 278 the whole of Ireland. He was not aware that any additional rules could be issued, but if he found on inquiry that any such existed, he would have them laid on the table of the House.