EXECUTORS (SCOTLAND) AMENDMENT BILL. In favour: From Greenock; to lie upon the Table. SALE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS In favour: From Kendal, Walsall, Holyhead, Sunderland, Blackburn, Plumstead, Woolwich, Liverpool (2), Coventry (8), Eastgate, Southend (6), Hartlepool, Cheltenham, Wheal Frances, North Finchley, Battersea, Clapham, Preston (2), Deepdale, Barry, Freckleton, Lostock Hall, Darlington, Ledbury, Pinxton, Lemington-on-Tyne, Durham County, Colesford, Minster-in-Sheppey, Bradford, Hyson Green, Rotherhithe, Kimberley, Preston, Clifton, Guestling, Bayswater, For abolition: From Clifton; to lie Fairlight, Winchester, and Stepney; to upon the Table. FEMALE SLAVERY IN ZANZIBAR. lie upon the Table. GROCERS' LICENCES (SCOTLAND) ABOLITION BILL. In favour From Dumfries, Sanquhar, Grantully, and Brechin; to lie upon the Table. SALE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS For alteration of Law: From Bristol; to lie upon the Table. QUESTIONS. CHEST MEASUREMENT OF ARMY RECRUITS. for trial; and whether he can state the result of his investigations, and what action, if any, the Crown will take? THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRE LAND (Mr. ATKINSON, Londonderry, N.): at SIR C. DILKE (Gloucestershire, My right honourable Friend has already, Forest of Dean): I beg to ask the in answer to two previous questions, Under Secretary of State for War why detailed at some length the circumstances there has been omitted from the annual connected with the disturbances Reports of the Army Medical Depart- Ballinahinch on the date mentioned. It ment for 1895 and 1896 the average is the fact that Mr. Campbell sat on the chest measurement of the total number bench at petty sessions when the cases of recruits approved in the year, always arising out of the disturbances were given in previous years; and whether brought up for investigation, but the the missing statement for the two years most careful inquiry made by the police has failed to substantiate the allegation in question can be supplied? that he was with the attacking party on the 12th May. As already stated, proceedings were at once instituted by the Crown against a number of persons for riot on the occasion; informations have been refused by the magistrates against two of the defendants, and the cases against nine other defendants have been adjourned until Monday next. THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. W. ST. JOHN BRODRICK, Surrey, Guildford): The Returns hitherto rendered showed chest measurements exceeding 35 inches in one group, as measurements above 35 inches, without giving details, and in calculating the average these have been taken as being all 35 inches. This does not represent the true average, and an alteration has been made so as to approximate to it more nearly. The Report for 1897 will show an average calculated in this The for 1895 and averages 1896 worked out on a basis similar to previous calculations were in each year 33.7 inches, as compared with 33.6 inches in 1893 and 1894. manner. THE BALLINAHINCH DISTURBANCE. MR. PATRICK O'BRIEN (Kilkenny): I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he has investigated the riots caused by Orangemen at Ballinahinch on the 12th May last, in which the houses of Roman Catholics were attacked and injured; whether he has found that Mr. Campbell, J.P., was with the attacking party, and subsequently sat on the bench at petty sessions where the cases were brought |