§ MR. W. ABRAHAM (Cork Co., N.E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been called to the conduct of Constable Coughlan, Kildorrery, County Cork, who has had several interviews with Mrs. Nagle, an evicted tenant, and, by predicting that there is no hope of a Bill for Reinstatement of Evicted Tenants becoming law, is trying to induce and terrify Mrs. Nagle into either disposing of the interest in her farm, or submitting to such terms as her landlord may impose; and if Constable Coughlan will be cautioned that it is not his duty to interfere in the relations between landlord and tenant in such a way?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. J. MORLEY,) Newcastle-upon-TyneI have received from the District Inspector of Constabulary a Report in which he states that the constable named denies that there is any foundation for the statements alleged in the question. It appears that the farm from which Mrs. Nagle had been evicted has been taken by a neighbour of hers, and 721 that the constable expressed the opinion that as a stranger to the locality had not taken the farm it was likely she would get something for her interest in the holding. I am making further inquiry into the matter; and, meanwhile, I may observe that it is no part of the duty of the police to interfere in the manner alleged.