§ MR. BIGGARasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether, on 28th September last, shots were fired into the convent of St. Vincent de Paul, in Lurgan; whether a number of pellets were found embedded in the wall of the house; whether similar pellets were not found in a house from which the shots might have been fired against the wall of the convent; and, whether the Government have offered any reward for the discovery of the perpetrators of the outrage, and what means they have used to discover the guilty party?
§ MR. TREVELYANOn the afternoon of the 28th of September several panes of glass were broken in the windows of a house in Lurgan occupied by the Order of St. Vincent de Paul. The mischief is believed to have been done with an air-gun. Some pellets were found in the room; but it is not the case that any were embedded in the wall, or that any were discovered in a house from which the shot from the air-gun might have been fired. Close inquiry and search were made by the police, but no reward for information was offered. Ample precaution has since been taken to prevent the repetition of the annoyance.