§ MR. TOTTENHAMasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, What steps Her Majesty's Government intends to take to compensate those persons who have been sufferers from personal injuries caused by agrarian outrages since the last assizes, and who have served all the requisite notices, and incurred legal expenses, but who, owing to the expiration of the Peace Preservation Act, are now debarred from bringing forward their claims before the grand juries of counties?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTER,in reply, said, that he had no information as to any such persons as those referred to. No Assizes in Ireland took place before July, and it was not necessary that any notices should be served until 14 days before the Assizes. Notices, if any, served before the 20th of May must have been served on the mere chance of the Act being continued or re-enacted; and, if served subsequently to the 20th of May, must have been served with the full knowledge that the Act would not be continued. Under these circumstances, Her Majesty's Government did not feel called upon to make compensation, and they had received no claims.