§ MR. M'CARTANI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he will state on what date Mr. Daly and the other prisoners convicted of boycotting the Great Northern Railway at Carrickmacross were transferred from Derry to Belfast gaol; and if he will explain why they were obliged to wear the prison uniform on their journey, and handcuffed when brought through the streets of Belfast?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThe General Prisons Board report that the prisoners referred to were removed from Derry to Belfast Prison on 8th April. These prisoners elected to wear the prison dress while in prison, and were, as usual in such cases, transferred in that clothing. They were handcuffed in accordance with the practice which is adopted by the constabulary in the case of prisoners under their charge when passing through a thickly-populated town, when the escort happen to be also strangers to the town.
§ MR. SEXTONIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that a man named Dunlop, who was lately convicted of forgery, and who was suspected of complicity with murder, was taken to prison in his own clothes, and was not handcuffed?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI am not acquainted with the case; but, of course, the duty of the police would be regulated by the circumstances of the case.