§ MR. M'CARTAN (Down, S.)At the request of the Secretary of State for War I beg to postpone a question I intended to ask the right hon. Gentleman whether his attention has been called to the report in the Newry Reporter of 26th June, 1890, of an action for trespass against Captain Irwin, of the East Lancashire Regiment, brought before the County Court Judge of Down at the last sitting of the County Court at Newry, from which it appears that, on the 15th July, 1889, Captain Irwin and about 60 men of his regiment were going through a "night attack," in the course of which a number of his men trespassed on the lands of Mr. James Goodman, of Cloghmore, and did damage to his crops; whether he has observed that it appeared in evidence that, when Mr. Goodman protested against the trespass on his 1371 crops, one of the soldiers pointed a revolver at him and threatened to shoot him; whether Mr. Goodman offered to leave to arbitration the amount of loss sustained by him; whether Colonel Griffiths, on 14th August last, in answer to a letter of Mr. T. J. Marron, Solicitor for Mr. Goodman, referred Mr. Marron to Captain Irwin as "the officer who was in sole command, and who was solely responsible for any occurrence connected with his party on that night;" whether, at the trial, advantage was taken of the fact that the trespassers were under the immediate command of the colour-sergeant, and that the proper defendant was not before the Court and whether the Judge is correctly reported to have said "he believed damage had been done by the military, but he could not hold Captain Irwin liable," and he dismissed the case; "and whether he will cause inquiry to be made into the matter, and see that fair compensation be given to Mr. Goodman for the damage done to his property by the soldiers on that occasion.