§ MR. FIELDI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that a number of placards, giving notice of a lecture about to be recently given in Dungannon Club, Carrickmore, were repeatedly torn down or defaced by the local constabulary force; (2) whether instructions were forwarded from Dublin Castle to have this done; (3) whether the constabulary were further instructed to send to Dublin Castle the name of any person whom they could identify as having posted the placards; (4) and whether he will arrange that the right of free discussion will be preserved in Ireland.
MR. BRYCEThe local police, acting on their own responsibility, took down several of the placards referred to in the vicinity of Carrickmore. The reply to the second and third inquiries is in the negative. I trust that the right of free discussion in Ireland will be preserved.