§ MR. BIGGARasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether the attention of Government has been drawn to the statement that recently one Peter Freeman, attended by four bailiffs and five policemen, seized the goods of Mr. John Williams, Back Moss Lane, Burscough, near Ormsbirk, Lancashire, in distraint for tithes; that one of the party, named James Draper, felled to the ground Kate Kallaran, aged 18; and, whether Her Majesty's Government will cause inquiry to be made into this alleged outrage?
§ MR. HIBBERT, in reply, said, that the Government had no information as to the case referred to, but would cause inquiry to be made upon the subject.