§ MR. T. D. SULLIVANasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of 1833 Ireland, If his attention has been called to a letter signed by the honorary secretaries of the Young Ireland Debating Society, Dublin, published in the "Freeman's Journal" of May 2nd, wherein it is stated that, on the evening of April 29th, five policemen applied for admission to the meeting of the Society, and that, on the previous day, another policeman called at the house and asked the caretaker for the names of the officers of the Society, and for the key of the Society's room; and, if police interference of this kind with literary and debating societies in Ireland has the sanction of the Government?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTER, in reply, said, he had been in communication with the Chief Commissioner of Metropolitan Police in Dublin with reference to this Question. The writer of the letter to which the hon. Member alluded must be under some misapprehension. No member of the Metropolitan police had ever sought admission to the meeting of that society, and no one was more surprised than the police were to see such a charge made.