§ MR. COX (Clare, E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether it is a fact that the police have torn down placards requesting the neighbours of Pat Haugh, an evicted tenant in the parish of Kilmihill, county Clare, to help in building a but to shelter him, his wife, and eight children; and whether such interference on the part of the police is authorized by law, or has been directed or sanctioned by the Irish Government?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThe Constabulary authorities report that the man mentioned had been evicted from the holding upwards of a year ago, when he owed four years' rent, his eviction not being considered one of hardship. Notices were posted in the district on the 17th of March last calling on the people to assemble at the place to build a hut, and others calling on them to join the National League which was suppressed in that district as an unlawful association. The police in the discharge of their duty tore down these notices.