§ MR. T. W. RUSSELL (Tyrone, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is prepared, on behalf of His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to explain on what grounds His Excellency, during 1064 the course of a recent visit to Cork, received an address from the Corporation of that City from which every expression of loyalty to the Sovereign had been excluded by a direct vote, and which made demands for the release of the dynamite prisoners and the restoration of the evicted tenants, whereas, on His Excellency's accession to office last year, he declined to receive addresses offering him a loyal and hearty welcome as the representative of the Sovereign from the Dublin Chamber of Commerce and the Methodist Conference, on the ground that the addresses contained political allusions; and whether he is aware that the sole political allusions contained in these addresses were paragraphs referring to the attachment of the bodies in question to the Legislative Union between Great Britain and Ireland as it now exists?
MR. J. MORLEYI think the hon. Member will agree with me it would be proper that I should have an opportunity of communicating with the Lord Lieutenant before I answer the question, and, as His Excellency is still absent from Dublin, I will ask that the question be postponed till next week.
§ MR. T. W. RUSSELLI quite agree, and am perfectly willing to postpone it till Tuesday.