MR. O'CONNOR POWERI beg to ask Mr. Solicitor General for Ireland, Whether he has received any particulars of the riots which, according to the newspaper reports, have taken place at Portadown; whether during these riots an attack was made upon Mr. Thomas Dickson, a Member of this House; and, whether he is in a position to state what is the condition of the hon. Member for Tyrone, who, the newspapers state, has been severely injured?
§ THE SOLICITOR GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. WALKER), in reply, said, he had received a telegram as to the result of inquiries on the subject, and could state from the information thus received that a serious riot had taken place on the occasion of a Liberal meeting held at the Town Hall, Portadown, that several persons had been assailed, and he regretted to add that the hon. Member for Tyrone had been injured. Several persons who were engaged in these riotous proceedings had been identified, and would be prosecuted.