§ MR. MARUMasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether his attention has been called to an extensive larceny of cattle perpetrated upon a holding of Mrs. Catherine Fitzgerald, of Kilmanagh, in the county of Kilkenny, that is to say, that eleven yearling heifers and one yearling bullock were removed off those lands on or about the 13th of June last, that five of the cattle have since been received by the owner, but that the remaining seven head are still missing and unaccounted for; whether he will cause the local constabulary, augmented for the past two years by the number of fifty additional constables over and above their normal strength, to make search for the same; and, whether he will detail some of the extra detective force to bring to justice the perpetrators of this outrage, and to discover the missing cattle believed to be still in the Country?
§ THE SOLICITOR GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. WALKER) (for Mr. TREVELYAN)I am informed that 12 head of cattle disappeared from Mr. Fitzgerald's land; but it is by no means clear that they were stolen. Some of them, amounting, in all, to seven, have since been found straying in different places; five are still missing. The local Constabulary used every effort to trace the missing animals, and will continue to do so with regard to those still missing. It is mainly owing to their exertions that seven of them have been recovered and restored to their owner.