The evidence given on Thursday before the Select Com- mittee
of the Commons now engaged in inquiring into the admission of strangers into the House, was of a very re- markable nature. Mr. Munro, Assistant-Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, described the manner in which dynamiters from America were watched by the police, how two of them were taken by Mr. J. Nolan, M.P., into the Strangers' Gallery, and how Mr. Nolan also introduced to the House two daughters of General Millen, the well-known Fenian officer of the Clan-na-Gael. Mr. Munro further alleged that this General Millen "was in communication with Mr. Nolan by means of letters conveyed by Milieu's daughters," and that "one of the letters so conveyed was a letter of introduction to Melville," the dynamite impresario. Mr. Nolan, in reply to these statements, though he admitted having shown two ladies named Millen over the House, would not acknowledge that he knew them to be daughters of General Millen, thongh he stated that he knew one of the ladies before, and that he also knew General Millen. It would be out of place to comment upon this evidence till the Committee has reported; but undoubtedly the House must often be in extreme danger from the ruffians whom the rules do not prevent obtaining admission.
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