§ COLONEL KING-HARMANasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If it is a fact that on Sunday, April 22nd, the Rev. Charles Flynn, R. C. curate of the parish of Cloonclare, county Leitrim, addressed the congregation in the chapel at Kiltyclogher, on the subject of payment of rents, and used the following words, inter alia:—
I have been begging for you and doing all I could for you for the past two or three years, and now I find that you are settling with and paying rents to people who have no mercy, and had you refrained from paying rents the property would have been in the courts before now;and what action the Government propose to take in the matter?
§ MR. TREVELYANSir, I am informed that the Rev. Mr. Flynn's words are very inaccurately quoted in the passage contained in this Question. I have taken great pains to obtain every information that can be got on the subject; and, in addition to the report I have received, the constable who was actually present in the chapel, and who has been removed to another part of Ireland, has been communicated with, and has given his recollection of what was said, which certainly, in substance, is very different from that quoted in the Question. The statement made by the rev. gentleman was of quite a different tendency and character.