§ MR. SEXTONI beg to ask the Prime Minister or the noble Lord the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with regard to the positive statements which have appeared in the Press, Whether it is true that the British Government has caused representations, through Mr. Errington, to be made to the Sovereign Pontiff, with a view of influencing His Holiness in the appointment of an Archbishop to the Catholic See of Dublin, other than the capitulary of Archiepiscopal See, contrary to the wishes of the clergy of the diocese?
§ MR. T. P. O'CONNORDoes the noble Lord require Notice to answer a Question as to whether the British Government meddles in a matter of internal government like the appointment of an Archbishop of Dublin?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEYes, Sir; I do require Notice.
§ MR. T. P. O'CONNORWhen the Question of which Notice has been given by my hon. Friend (Mr. Sexton) is put, I beg to give Notice that I shall ask, Whether, when Her Majesty's Government instructed Mr. Errington to interfere, they at the same time caused a copy of Vaticanism and other works of the Prime Minister to be sent to the Holy See?