" DISSENTIENT:

"1. Because to remove Doubts as to the Meaning of an existing Act of Parliament by making that to be the Law which was but a notoriously erroneous Construction of it is a novel Principle of Legislation, unworthy of the Dignity of the Legislature.

"2. Because in adjudicating as to the Parentage of illegitimate Children the most important Points will be not of Law, but of Fact, depending mainly on the Value of the Evidence, and that these can be most satisfactorily deals with local Magistrates cognizant of the Character of the several Witnesses.

"3. Because it is throwing an undeserved Stigma on the Irish Magistracy to suppose them to be unfit or unwilling to deal with judicial Matters, which are left in the Hands of local Magistrates in England.