Ulster Winter Assizes

MR. DILLON  (Mayo, E.)
I beg to ask Mr. Attorney General for Ireland if he can explain why the original promise to hold the Ulster winter assizes every fourth year has not been fulfilled; and whether he can now undertake that the winter assizes will be held in Armagh every fourth year.

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (MR. ATKINSON, Londonderry, N.)
I am not aware that the promise mentioned was ever made. Having regard to the fact that the selection of the venue for the winter | assizes must depend each year on a number of changing circumstances, I do not think it should be made, and I am, therefore, unable to make it on this occasion.