§ MR. WILLIAM O'BRIEN (Tyrone, S.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Is it a fact that on the night of March 27th, an Orange drumming party, celebrating a victory over a Protestant Nationalist candidate at the Poor Law elections, 599 paraded the streets of Caledon, county Tyrone, playing party tunes, firing revolver shots, and shouting "To —— with the Pope and Popery!" and "No Surrender!" with a Poor Law Guardian named Naye, carrying a sword, at their head, and attacked, among others, the house of John Hughes, in which his wife and daughter were lying ill, and smashed the windows with stones; did they also attack the house of a very old woman named Sally M'Cann, and was her little grandchild, who was sitting near the window, struck with a stone on the head; did the Nationalists give any provocation to these outrages; is it true that the proceedings were witnessed by a sergeant and five policemen; did they make any attempt to interfere with the rioters; how many of the latter have been made amenable; and, did Lord Caledon, two days after the declaration of the poll at the South Tyrone election, withdraw his custom for horse-shoeing and blacksmith's work from John Hughes, on the ground that he had voted for the Nationalist candidate, and did he start an Orange blacksmith in opposition to him; if so, will any notice be taken of his conduct as a Deputy Lieutenant, and will any steps be taken to stimulate the activity of the police?
§ MR. MACARTNEY (Antrim, S.)asked whether, on the evening of the 26th of March, Mr. Naye was not dragged from his own door and beaten by sticks; and whether, on a previous occasion, Lord Caledon's band was not fired upon—[Cries of "Notice!"]—and whether other bands had not also been attacked?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. JOHN MORLEY) (Newcastle-on-Tyne)I think I shall require Notice of that Question. In reply to the hon. Member for Tyrone, I beg to say that as the Question appeared on the Paper only yesterday, and as the particulars received will necessitate further inquiries, I will ask the hon. Member to put the Question again on Monday next.