§ Mr. J. P. FARRELLasked the Attorney-General for Ireland whether any instructions were given by him to the sheriff of the county of Longford to issue summonses to persons as grand jurors in the county of Longford for the Longford Summer Assizes who neither reside in nor have property qualification in that county; whether he is aware that in the calling of the list the Catholic grand jurors were, with six exceptions, not called on the panel at all; whether he is aware that of the twenty-three grand jurors sworn at least ten were men who had a personal animus against one of the traversers in the case of the King v. Farrell and others; and whether it is his intention to proceed on a bill found by a grand jury composed of a majority of the political opponents of the defendants?
§ Mr. REDMOND BARRYI gave no directions to the high sheriff, and had no communications with him regarding the summoning of the grand jurors for the recent assizes for county Longford. I am informed that there was no departure whatever from the regular practice in the calling of the list. So far as I can ascertain, there is no foundation for the suggestion that members of the grand jury had a personal animus against any of the traversers. It is my intention to proceed on the indictment found.