§ Mr. VINCENT KENNEDYasked the number of Catholics holding the commission of the peace in county Cavan, and the proportion to the total number holding the commission of the peace in that county, and also the proportion of Catholics in the county to the whole population of the county?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThere are 156 persons holding the ordinary commission of the peace in the county Cavan, of whom seventy-eight, or exactly one-half of the total number of magistrates in the county, are believed to be Roman Catholics. The exact proportion of the Roman Catholics to the whole of the population of the county at the present time cannot be stated until after the publication of the returns of the recent Census.