§ MR. SLOANI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been called to a scene which took place in Sligo on the 21st instant, when a number of magazines, including the Sunday Companion, London Magazine, Answers, and a number of others, were burned in Sligo Roman Catholic cathedral yard, and if he can state what were the special circumstances under which these periodicals were destroyed.
MR. BRYCEI am informed that on the evening of the 21st instant the police found a pile of magazines and journals burning on a triangular patch of waste ground where three roads meet near the Sligo Roman Catholic cathedral. About sixty boys and girls were round the fire. The motive for burning these periodicals is a matter for surmise.