§ MR. LONSDALEI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if his attention has been directed to the reports of illegal proceedings at various meetings of the Longford and Clonguish branches of the United Irish League, reported from time to time in the Longford Leader newspaper, of which the hon. Member for North Longford is the proprietor, in furtherance of the boycotting of Mr. Robert Geelan and in condemnation of other persons for associating or dealing with him; whether he is aware that so recently as the 21st November the same newspaper published a report of a meeting of the Longford branch of the league, on which occasion a charge against a man named Nevin for buying a quantity of apples from Mr. Geelan was investigated, with the result that Nevin apologised to the league for his action, and undertook to have no further dealings with Mr. Geelan; and whether the Government propose to give effect to the warning already communicated to the proprietor of this newspaper by the institution of proceedings for the continued publication of illegal matter.
§ MR. BIRRELLI would refer the hon. Member to my reply to his Question of yesterday on this subject.