MR. SULLIVAN (for Mr. MELDON)asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Whether he will have any objection to lay upon the Table of the House a Re-turn giving the number of persons who are reported by the police to have entered the public houses of Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Londonderry, and other places on certain Sundays of the present year, giving at the same time the means adopted, if any, for ensuring that the same persons were not counted as different individuals on entering different 1419 public houses or on re-entering the same house?
§ SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH,in reply, said, he would be happy to lay before the House all the information on this subject which had been furnished to him by the Constabulary. The Returns might not be precisely accurate, but he believed that, generally speaking, they would be found to be substantially correct.