§ SIR MICHAEL HICKS - BEACHasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether he can give the House any information as to the number of cases in which persons have been committed for trial on account of the murders or more serious agrarian outrages reported in Ireland during the months of April, May, and June, 1882, or have been summarily punished for minor agrarian outrages; and, whether, since 1st May 1882, any persons have been arrested and are now detained under "The Protection of Person and Property (Ireland) Act, 1881," on suspicion of having been guilty of such outrages?
§ MR. TREVELYANSir, the Question of the right hon. Baronet only appeared this morning, and therefore I cannot, from the short space of time, give the information asked for. To obtain an answer to the first paragraph of the Question will necessitate a reference to all the County Inspectors in Ireland. As regards the second part of the Question, on the 1st of May two persons were arrested in the County Galway on suspicion of being accessory to murder. On the 8th of June three men were arrested in the County Cavan on suspicion of shooting at and wounding. The only other arrests since the 1st of May are one for "Boycotting" and one for a riot.
§ SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACHasked whether any person had been arrested under the Protection of Person and Property Act of last year for having committed the more serious crimes; and, if not, was it because they were not suspected?
§ MR. TREVELYANSir, I think that is a Question of which I ought to have Notice; but, so far as my memory serves me, I have no reason to believe that there have been any.