§ MR. J. R. COX (Clare, E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whether he will undertake that an officer of the Government, to be named by him, will serve a subpoena, on the part of the Irish Members, on Cullinane, the informer, to appear before the Special Commission?
§ * MR. A. J. BALFOURIt would be convenient that all requests for assistance in connection with the inquiry pending before the Royal Commission should be made in the regular 1133 manner by the solicitors of those concerned, and not by way of Question across the floor of the House. As a matter of fact, the Irish Government are unacquainted with Cullinane's whereabouts.
§ * MR. A. J. BALFOURSolicitors have already applied to the Government. It must be done in the usual way, by writing to the Irish Government.
§ * MR. A. J. BALFOURI think so.
§ MR. LABOUCHEREwill the right hon. Gentleman agree that, in the same way as reports of the evidence of Major Le Caron, the informer of the Government, were given to Mr. Houston, the secretary of the Loyal and Patriotic League, the reports of Cullinane's evidence shall be given to Mr. Schnadhorst, the secretary of the National Liberal Federation?
§ The Question was not answered?
§ MR. SEXTONIs Cullinane now outside the jurisdiction of the Courts of the Queen; has he left this country since the Commission commenced, and where did he obtain funds to enable him to go away?
§ * MR. A. J. BALFOURI have not the slightest knowledge on the subject.