§ MR. DOOGAN (Tryone, E.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland who supplied him with the inaccurate information with reference to the stoning of the Rev. Father M'Brien, at Cookstown, on the 1st August; whether facilities will be given to identify the constable who failed in his duty to report to his superiors that the rev. gentleman was insulted and threatened on his journey, and apprehensive of personal violence when returning by the same road to his home; whether, in consideration of the excitement in the town on the occasion, and seeing that on this road Canon Rice, parish priest of Cookstown, and two nuns were stoned last year and several Catholics since, he will explain why no patrol was placed on the road between Cookstown and Stewartstown; whether he is aware that Father M'Brien has written to the district inspector disclaiming the statement attributed to him that his assailants consisted of six or eight boys and girls only, and asking for a full inquiry into all the circumstances of the case; and whether such inquiry will be made.
(Answered by Mr. Wyndham.) The information upon which I based my reply to the hon. Member's previous Question of the 8th instant was supplied by the district inspector at Cookstown. The Rev. Mr. M'Brien has communicated with him in the sense mentioned, and 555 full inquiry will be made into the matter referred to in that communication.