Captain CRAIGasked the Chief Secretary whether he is aware that Major John M'Bride, an official in the employment of the Dublin Corporation, in the course of a lecture on the 29th March last at the Sinn Fein Offices, Harcourt Street, Dublin, stated that though the sword had fallen from their hands at present they hoped to pick it up again, and they would not stop until they had swept away every vestige of the British Empire, and that they should strike how they might and when they might against the Throne and the British Empire and for the freedom of Ireland; and whether any, and, if so, what steps he and the Irish Law Officers of the Crown have taken against this person for sedition?
§ Mr. BIRRELLI would refer the hon. Member to the reply given yesterday by my right hon. Friend the Attorney-General for Ireland to similar questions on this subject.
§ Mr. MOOREIs it the intention of the Government to send a police note-taker to the next lecture that Major M'Bride gives?
§ Mr. BIRRELLIf when the police receive notice of this intelligent gentleman's intention to deliver a lecture, I should not at all be surprised if a note-taker was one of his audience.