§ MR. HEALYasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who it was that ordered the recent bayonet charge at Wexford; and, whether the sub-inspector in command of the Police is the same C. E. A. Cameron formerly stationed in Gort, and later in the town of Galway?
§ MR. TREVELYANSir, the charge was made by order of Sub-Inspector Cameron. Mr. Cameron has in the course of his service of 23 years been stationed both at Gort and Galway.
§ MR. HEALYI beg to give Notice that I will ask whether it is a fact that when Mr. Cameron was stationed at Gort he had a dispute with the nuns of that community with respect to a right of way, and was obliged to leave Gort in consequence; and whether he is the same person who was obliged to leave Galway by direction of Archbishop M'Evilly for having directed the police to take notes in the chapel of entirely non-political discourses?
§ MR. TREVELYANAs the hon. Member has given Notice of that Question publicly, and as the details cannot come from Ireland for two or three days, I am bound to say that the Inspector General tells me that he holds the highest opinion of Mr. Cameron as an officer of the Force, and that he has performed excellent service during his 23 years' connection with it.
§ MR. TREVELYANI am sorry that the hon. Member should have made such a retort to my observations.