§ MR. GIBSONasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If he had received any confirmatory telegrams with respect to a statement of an alarming character which appeared in the evening papers in reference to Ireland? The statement was to the effect that at a riot at Frankfort, King's County, on Saturday, a number of persons who were reported to have paid their rent were attacked and beaten in a fearful manner. The police succeeded in arresting 30 men, and, under the 1841 command of the resident magistrate, proceeded to clear the streets at the point of the bayonet. He wished to know if the right hon. Gentleman was aware whether order had been at present restored to the town, and what was the condition of the people who were said to have been beaten in a fearful manner?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTER,in reply, said, he had not seen the evening papers, and as he had not been at the Irish Office he had not received any confirmatory telegram on the subject.
§ MR. GIBSONsaid, he would ask the Question to-morrow.