§ SIR WALTER B. BARTTELOTasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If he has received any information corroborating the statement which appeared in the Irish Correspondence of the "Times" of the 1st instant, viz., that—
A daring raid for arms is reported from Kerry. The house of Samuel Morgan, steward of Mr. Mahony, of Dromore, was entered in broad daylight by a party of disguised men during the absence of the family at church, and two guns were carried away. Three men named Sullivan, Shea, and Laveny have been arrested;and, in the event of these men being returned for trial to the next assizes, if he will consider, whether, in the present state of the Country, there can be a satisfactory trial?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTER,in reply, said, he must appeal to hon. Members not to put down Questions immediately after reading statements in newspapers and before it was possible for the authorities to make the necessary inquiries. It was true, however, that there had been a raid for arms in County Kerry. One man had been arrested and discharged, and another, who was suspected of being concerned in the crime, was believed to have escaped to America.