§ MR. MACARTNEY (Antrim, S.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether his attention has been called to a Report of the proceedings at the Petty Sessions on 10th April at Caledon, county Tyrone, which appeared in The Belfast Newsletter of 12th April; whether he is aware that, in the case of Mr. William Naye against Denis Finnigan and James Finnigan, the former for assaulting him and the latter for aiding and abetting, on 26th March, Mr. Hamilton, R.M., said the magistrates were unanimously of opinion that Denis Finnigan was the entire originator of the disturbance in Mr. Naye's house. He would be imprisoned for one calendar month, with hard labour. He seemed to him, from what he had seen to-day, to be one of the principal disturbers of the peace of the district on the occasion in question; whether, in view of this decision of the magistrate, he has modified the view he formed on Mr. Naye's alleged conduct; and, if he would explain to the House all the circumstances of the case?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. JOHN MORLEY) (Newcastle-on-Tyne), in reply, said, there was a fight outside the public-house between Naye and the man Finnigan, and, that being so, the District Inspector was, he thought, justified in saying they assaulted one another, though the investigation showed that Finnigan was to 1768 blame. As to the last paragraph of the Question, he did not express any opinion of his own as to Naye's conduct.