§ LORD JOHN MANNERSBefore the House adjourns I wish to ask the 200 Prime Minister, or the Home Secretary, whether he is able to give any information respecting a painful report which has reached the House from Dublin? It is understood that certainly one, and perhaps two, officers of the law have been sacrificed in the most atrocious manner in the streets of Dublin. We wish to know whether the Government can give any confirmation of the report?
MR. GLADSTONEAn account has reached us by telegraph during the Sitting of the House to the effect that a juror in the case of Hynes has been assaulted by two men, who got off a car, struck him down in North Frederick Street, Dublin, and wounded him in various places gravely and, perhaps, fatally. Two young men came to his assistance; but the malefactors—murderers, at any rate in intention, I may call them—got upon the car and drove off at a rapid pace. The young men endeavoured to raise the hue and cry, but did not succeed in inducing the car to stop. There has also been a second rumour about the House during the latter part of the evening; but as a telegram as late as 11.49 has been received from the Dublin police on the subject of the former outrage, which makes no allusion to the second, the rational inference seems to be that that is the not unnatural growth of the tale of horror which has been told and the excitement which has arisen.
§ House adjourned at half after Twelve o'clock.