§ MR. WRIGHTSON (Stockton-on-Tees)I wish, in accordance with private notice, to ask whether the Chief Secretary has any information to give to the House with reference to the dynamite explosion which occurred on Saturday night at the Four Courts in Dublin?
MR. J. MORLEYI am sorry to say that I can add nothing to the information which is given to the public in the ordinary prints. An explosion took place in the Four Courts on Saturday night. It seems to have been of precisely the same kind as we had experience of in the Castle in December, 1891, at the offices of The National Press in Abbey Street, and near the Castle, in Exchange Court, on Christmas Day last. We are taking every possible measure to obtain some clue to the perpetrators of the outrage. One of the officers of the Home Office leaves for Dublin to-night. It is premature, however, to assume that it is a dynamite outrage; that we cannot state until this officer has examined the spot. The Police Authorities are not without hope of being more successful than on previous occasions.