§ MR. T. M. HEALY (Longford, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is it true that a letter written from Cork Gaol by Mr. John Slattery, as President of the South of Ireland Pig Buyers' Association, in favour of the proposed Cork, Fermoy, and Wexford Railway, was stopped by the Governor, and its publication disallowed; whether Mr. Slattery, being a bail prisoner, is entitled to publish such letters; and whether Mr. Davitt, Mr. Healy, and other bail prisoners in Richmond Gaol in 1883, were permitted to publish letters on topics far more controversial?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThe General Prisons Board report that this question which appears in this morning's Paper without previous notice necessitates a local reference. They are therefore not in a position to furnish a reply to-day.