§ MR. BAGWELLsaid, he wished to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland, What steps the Government of Ireland mean to take in regard to the extra Police force at present quartered in the townlands of Boyton-rath and others, in the county of Tipperary?
§ SIR ROBERT PEEL, in reply, said, before the hon. Gentleman had given notice of his question, the subject had been under the consideration of the Government, and the matter had been referred to the resident magistrate of the district named, who had put himself in communication in reference to it with the Lord Lieutenant of the county. Unfortunately, the occurrence of another agrarian murder within the last day or two, in the county, seemed to show that such a step as the withdrawal of the extra police was not advisable.
§ MR. BAGWELLsaid, he wished to know, whether the right hon. Baronet has received any detailed account of the melancholy event to which he has alluded?
§ SIR ROBERT PEELWe have received a telegram, from which it appears pretty 516 clear that the murder of Mr. Jackson was one of an agrarian character. He left his residence, it seemed, about nine o'clock in the morning, was shortly afterwards shot, and died immediately. I have also received a telegram, stating that three persons have seen arrested on suspicion of having committed the murder, but whether they are the actual perpetrators or not, I do not know.
§ MR. SCULLYIs it not the fact that the scene of the murder is thirty or fourty miles distant from the districts in which the extra police force is stationed?