§ MR. WILLIAM JOHNSTON (Belfast, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can say if 16 cases of persons injured during the visit to Dublin of the right hon. Member for East Manchester were treated in Mercer's Hospital; and how many of them were respectively Unionists and Nationalists? At the same time, I beg to apologise to you, Mr. Speaker, for having attempted, the other day, to put this in an irregular way.
*MR. J. MORLEYThere were, I understand, more than the usual number of persons treated at the hospital referred to for injuries which were inflicted subsequently to the meeting, but, happily, none of the injuries were of a serious nature. The police have no knowledge of the politics of the injured persons. Patients are not classified on political principles.
§ MR. W. JOHNSTONMay I ask is the right hon. Gentleman aware that 15 out of the 16 were, as a fact, Unionists?