§ MR. CONYBEARE (Cornwall, Camborne)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether 246 his attention has been called to a paragraph in The Pall Mall Gazette of the 2Gth instant, headed Cooking the Cowper Commission's Report, which purports to give a letter from Mr. W. Sinclair, of Strabane, to The Dublin Express, complaining that portions of his evidence had been omitted from the Blue Book, and that the proofs of his evidence had never been sent to him for correction; whether the above statements are correct; why Mr. Sinclair was not enabled to correct the proofs of his evidence, and why portions of his evidence were omitted; whether any, and which, of the other witnesses were treated in a similar manner; and, whether the Government intend to publish an Appendix to the Blue Book containing all the passages so omitted from the evidence of different witnesses?
THE PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SECRETARY (Colonel KING-HABMAN) (Kent, Isle of Thanet)(who replied) said: The Irish Government has nothing whatever to say to the matters referred to by the hon. Member. Reports of Royal Commissions do not pass through their hands.