§ MR. HEALY (for Mr. ARTHUR O'CONNOR)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether, in the case of Mr. Timothy Harrington, editor of the "Kerry Sentinel," at present confined in Galway Gaol on suspicion of having, in the county of Westmeath, incited persons to unlawfully assemble together and commit riot for the purpose of obstructing and preventing the execution of the process of the Law, the cause of his arrest will be inquired into at the end of three months; whether, with a view to furnishing evidence for that inquiry, he will state on which of two occasions on which Mr. Harrington was ever in Westmeath the offence is alleged to have been committed; and, whether the testimony of eight Roman Catholic clergymen, and the only reporter who attended the meeting, will be deemed sufficient to contradict the unsworn testimony of the person upon whose information the arrest has been made?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTER, in reply, said, Mr. Timothy Harrington was arrested on the 3rd June. The case would be carefully considered at the end of three months, according to the provisions of the Act. He could not answer the further Questions of the hon. Member with regard to the evidence upon which the arrest was made.