§ MR. DILLON (Mayo, E)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether it is true that, at the eviction of Mr. Trant on Lord Ormathwaite's property on Monday last, the police acted as described in The Cork Examiner of Wednesday; whether they broke in a door with hatchets and other weapons; whether, throughout the evictions, they acted as Sheriffs' bailiffs; whether, in the course of the eviction, they were ordered to load the guns with buckshot; and, if so, what justification 1237 there was for this order; and, whether the police in Ireland are now instructed to act as Sheriffs' bailiffs at evictions?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH) (Bristol, W.)I have not yet received this Report, as the Question only appeared on the Notice Paper this morning. But it is not a fact that the police in Ireland are instructed to act as Sheriffs' bailiffs at evictions.