§ MR. SEXTONasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether the Rev. Thomas Heany, now acting as a member of the Emigration Committee of the Sligo Board of Guardians, lately issued, in his capacity of Chaplain of an Orange Lodge, a circular, since published in the Press, in which circular he and his co-signatories called upon the landlords of the county Sligo to give to Protestants only vacant farms and vacant situations; and, whether, if so, the Local Government Board will permit the Rev. Thomas Heany to continue to act as member of a committee of a Board of Guardians having in charge the emigration of Catholics out of the county of Sligo?
§ MR. GIBSONasked whether this rev. gentleman denied that he signed his name to such a circular?
§ MR. SEXTONAnother clergyman denied it—not this one.
§ MR. TREVELYANSir, the Rev. Mr. Heany himself states that his name was attached to this circular without his knowledge or consent, and that he would not have approved of such a circular if it had been submitted to him. The rev. gentleman made this communication to mo in reference to a former Question with regard to this circular, which was asked about a month ago; but, unfortunately, I did not receive his letter until after the Question had been put.