§ MR. JOHNSTON (Belfast, S.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether his attention has been called to a Resolution passed at a meeting of the Newport (Mayo) branch of the National League, held in the chapel yard, on Sunday, the 24th July, to Boycott the Protestant shop-keepers of Newport, because they did not join in a general illumination on the occasion of the nuns being installed in their new convent; whether, on the same Sunday evening, a mob assembled in the street, hooting, throwing stones, and smashing windows; and, whether this Boycotting of Protestants, as such, continues?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR) (Manchester, E.)My attention has not been called to the particular Resolution mentioned; but there is, unfortunately, no doubt that Protestant shopkeepers at Newport are Boycotted. It is true that on the 24th of July a noisy mob assembled in the town and broke some windows in the house of a Mr. Newcombe; but I do not know that this circumstance had any connection with the Boycotting of Protestants.