§ MR. SEXTONasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether, on the evening of the 7th instant, at Drangan, county Tipperary, three members of the Constabulary Force stationed in that village entered the house of Miss Cusack, a licensed vintner, made their way, without legal warrant, and without asking leave, to a private room in Miss Cusack's house, and, finding there a tenant farmer who had been evicted from his holding in the locality a few days before, and Mr. T. E. Croke, of Drangan, who had before him two printed forms issued with reference to applications for relief by evicted tenants, and was engaged in filling up one, the constables deprived him of both the forms, declaring them to be illegal, retained one of the forms, intimating that they should send it on to Dublin Castle, and threatened that Miss Cusack's licence would be withdrawn for allowing her premises to be used for illegal purposes; whether this was an unfounded accusation; what notice will be taken of the conduct of the constables; and, whether the eviction forms, the property of Mr. Croke, will be returned to him?
§ MR. TREVELYANSir, three members of the constabulary visited the 1710 licensed premises of Miss Cusack, at Drangan, county Tipperary, on the 7th instant, under Section 23 of the Licensing Act of 1874. They did not enter any private room. They entered the taproom, where people usually drink, and there found an evicted tenant named Burke, and the other person, Mr. Croke, referred to in the Question, who was filling up an eviction form, headed "The Ladies' Irish National Land League." The constable asked whether he might see the forms, and Croke immediately handed them to him. One was partly filled, and this the constable returned. He did not otherwise interfere. He did not say, as alleged in the Question, the form was illegal, or that he would send it to Dublin Castle, and he did not threaten Miss Cusack that her licence would be withdrawn; for, as a matter of fact, he did not see her at all on the occasion.