§ MR. SEXTON (Sligo, S.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether the Irish Constabulary have information that a landlord named Waller, residing near Navan, county Meath, has sent round his steward to his tenants and labourers to call for their signatures to a petition against Home Rule, and to extort compliance by the intimation that, if they refused, "the master wouldn't be their friend;" whether another landlord named Tisdall, in the same district, has acted in a similar manner; whether attempts are being made, in various parts of Ireland, to compel tenants and labourers to sign petitions against Home Rule, by threats of eviction and disemployment; and, whether the Constabulary will be instructed to inquire into and report upon such proceedings?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. JOHN MORLEY) (Newcastle-on-Tyne)I find on inquiry that the Constabulary have no information to bear out in any way the allegation mentioned in the hon. Gentleman's Notice.