§ MR. SWIFTasked the First Lord of the Treasury whether it was true that application had been made by the English Government to the Emperor of the French to secure his interference with the Holy See in regard to the appointment of a coadjutor bishop for the Catholic diocess of Elphin, such interference being supposed to be in favour of the Rev. Mr. Kilroe, Secretary of the present Bishop of Elphin, and a known political partisan of the Irish Attorney General?—2. Whether any such interference in respect to the appointment of a coadjutor bishop, if not made formally by the English Prime Minister to Count Walewski, had been made less officially through some subordinate Members or agent of the English or French Governments; or whether there had been any interference substantially of this nature or to this effect in any other form, or through any other channel?—3. Whether the Government had any objection to lay upon the table of the House the correspondence which is known to have taken place on occasion of the vacancy of the Catholic diocess of Armagh in 1850, and the letters, whether emanating from Members of Lord John Russell's Cabinet, or from subordinate Members of the same Administration, by which an attempt was made to secure in Rome the appointment to the vacant see of a nominee of the English Government?
§ VISCOUNT PALMERSTONNo correspondence of the kind to which the hon. Member refers has taken place, and, in regard to any former correspondence on the subject, I have no knowledge whatever of it.