§ MR. FLYNNI beg to ask the Attorney General for Ireland if it is true that as a Mr. John M'Swiney, a respectable young farmer at Tullyland, near Bandon, County Cork, was returning home on horseback a few days ago he was met by two policemen, who seized the horse by the bridle, ordered Mr. M'Swiney to open a bag that was strapped on the saddle; that he declined to do, and asked what authority they had for searching him; and that thereupon one of the constables ripped open the bag with a knife and pulled out the contents, namely, the coulter of a plough; if the facts be as above stated, was the conduct of the policemen legal or other-wise; and, under what law or authority did they act on this occasion?
§ * MR. MADDENI have made careful inquiry, and I have reason to believe that the statement is without foundation.