§ COLONEL KING-HARMANasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If he will read to the House the Letter addressed by Mr. Hastings to Mr. Healy, M.P. for Monaghan, which the latter gentleman has de-scribed as "incriminatory," and as confirming his suggestion that Mr. Hastings' newspaper, The Irish Citizen, is supported by His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant out of the Secret Service Fund?
§ MR. TREVELYANI am at a loss, Sir, to know upon what ground the hon. and gallant Member can expect me to read to the House the private correspondence of the hon. Member for Monaghan (Mr. Healy). But I am glad of this opportunity to contradict, in the most emphatic terms, the suggestions that have been made that The Irish Citizen newspaper received, or ever did receive, any support out of the Secret Service Fund. The Lord Lieutenant's support of it was limited to subscribing for one copy, and I may observe that to that extent the support—if it can be called support—of the Irish Government is given to newspapers of every shade of 1867 politics, including United Ireland and The Nation, and otherwise advocating similar views.