§ MR. O'KELLYasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutent of Ireland, Whether the charge against Mr. Matthew Harris, now in Galway Gaol, committed on the 16th April under the Peace Preservation Act, be that he is "suspected of inciting others to assault and injure a certain person;" and, if so, whether His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant had all the facts put before him upon which this charge is founded; if said informa- 38 tion was supplied to His Excellency previous to his deciding that the term of Mr. Harris' imprisonment should extend beyond three months, as communicated to Mr. Harris on the 18th instant; if a verbatim Report, taken by a competent person at the time the supposed offence was thought to have been committed, was given to His Excellency; and, would the Government give information as to whether the "certain person" that Mr. Harris is suspected of inciting others to "assault and injure" has up to the present time been assaulted or injured; and, if not, whether that circumstance was made know to His Excellency?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTER, in reply, said, the warrant upon which Mr. Harris was imprisoned in Galway Gaol set forth that he was reasonably suspected of inciting others to commit an assault. He (Mr. Forster), as the hon. Member was aware, could not enter upon the general grounds of the arrest, and he could not give any more complete answer to the Question without doing so.