§ MR. PARNELLasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in reference to the case of Edward J. Barrett, telegraph clerk, of Croughwell, who is at present detained in Galway Gaol on a warrant issued by the 1644 Lord Lieutenant charging him with "writing and causing threatening notices to be received," Whether the Right honourable Gentleman has received any information to the effect that on Sunday, June 12th, several notices were posted through the village of Croughwell calling on the people to "Boycott "a" land grabber" named Clasby, who as the notice stated gave cars to the police and the Crown Prosecutor, when other car owners refused them, and that Clasby's wife when in a state of intoxication charged Barrett with writing these notices, and boasted that she would have him arrested, and so sent for the police and had a long interview with them; and in the course of the week she said that if Barrett were not arrested it would not be her fault?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTER, in reply, said, the resident magistrate reported that one notice to the effect mentioned in the Question was posted on the chapel gate on the 12th instant. The resident magistrate was not aware, until the Question was referred to him, that Barrett had been threatened by Clasby's wife. Mrs. Clasby did not send for the police, as alleged in the Question. The posting of the notices on the 12th instant had nothing whatever to do with Barrett's arrest.