§ MR. T. M. HEALY (Longford, N.)I wish to ask the right hon. Gentleman the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether his attention has been called to a letter published today by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Birmingham (Mr. John Bright), recommending to the country a pamphlet by an Irish barrister named Brougham Leech, which is to be had, price 3d., at Ridgeway's, Piccadilly, on The Continuity of the Irish Revolutionary Movement; whether Leech is Examiner of Title to the Irish Land Purchase Commission, at a salary of £1,000 a-year; and, whether the Government approves of one of the officials of this Department becoming a Primrose Pamphleteer, and attacking the political objects of one of the great Parties in the State?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR) (Manchester, E.)I am sorry to say I have not seen the letter nor the pamphlet.
§ MR. T. M. HEALYI beg to give Notice that on the Estimates for the salary of this gentleman, who is paid by 593 taxpayers of all opinions, I will call attention to this gentleman debasing his position by Party action, and to the fact that Mr. George Fottrell, when Solicitor to the Land Commission in 1882, was dismissed by Mr. Forster for publishing a pamphlet merely recommending tenants to buy their farms.