HC Deb 14 February 1893 vol 8 c1376
MR. JOHNSTON

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to the publication, on the 30th January, of the first number of a newspaper, the Jacobite, the organ of the so-called "Legitimist Jacobite League," in which the wife of Prince Louis of Bavaria is styled "Mary IV." of England, and spoken of by the Secretary of the League as "England's rightful Queen, who will soon enjoy her own again"; and whether the establishment of such an organisation at this juncture will be taken notice of by Her Majesty's Government?

MR. ASQUITH

Her Majesty's Government do not propose to give fictitious importance to a foolish and ephemeral craze.

MR. JOHNSTON

Is it not a fact that Jacobite clubs are being formed in various parts of the country?

MR. ASQUITH

I am unable to answer the question.

MR. W. REDMOND (Clare, E.)

Has the right hon. Gentleman any information that unless this newspaper is suppressed the Loyalists of Ulster intend to rise in revolt?

[No answer was given.]