§ MR. SEXTONasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether, in the district of Cappard, Peter's Dell, county Galway, on the property of a landlord named James Galbraith, there are at present, and have been for some time past, a police barrack occupied by ten men, and four huts containing a further force of twenty men; whether the said Mr. Galbraith is a gentleman who has been in the habit of obliging his tenantry to labour for him at a wage of eightpence a day; whether he applied for this extraordinary force of extra police in consequence of the refusal of his tenants to so labour for him unless upon increase of wages; whether the district in question is comparatively quiet, the most serious outrage committed there being the burning of some turf; and, whether it is the intention of the Government to continue the force of thirty men in occupation, and to charge any part of the cost of the force upon the poor occupiers of the district?
§ MR. TREVELYANThere are eight men—five of whom are soldiers—in a hut at Cappard for the protection of Mr. Galbraith. There are six men in another hut in the vicinity for the protection of other persons; and there is a third hut on another part of the property containing five men, which has been erected for the purpose of putting down crime and outrage. Mr. Galbraith has not been in the habit of obliging his tenants to work for him for 8d. a-day. Since October last he has paid them 1s. 6d. a-day, and prior to that he paid 1s. a-day. He applied for police protection in consequence of his having refused terms dictated to him by his tenants relative to the payment of their rents. Up to a very recent 891 period he had been subjected to a system of "Boycotting." The sub-district has been comparatively quiet since May; but in the few months previous there had been a large number of outrages. There is no present intention of withdrawing any of the men from the district, and the question of charging any portion of the costs on the locality has not yet been decided upon.