Lieut.-Colonel MALONEasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland what is the present pay and allowances to resident magistrates, and in what year these rates were fixed; have any proposals been 467W received for the increase of salaries and allowances, and has any application of this nature been placed before His Majesty's Treasury; and what has been the result of that application?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONI would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the reply given to the question on this subject asked by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for York (Sir J. Butcher) on Thursday last, and to which I have nothing to add at present.