§ MR. P. O'BRIEN (Monaghan, N.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether it is true that the County of Monaghan has been fully proclaimed under the Criminal Law Amendment Act; and, if he would state the grounds on which the county was proclaimed, seeing that there have been in the last 18 months, commencing January, 1886, and ending June, 1887, 14 offences, four of which are threaten-letters? I wish to add to the Question, I whether, within the last four months, Mr. Shirley, Mr. Dacre, Mr. Hamilton, Colonel Forster, and Mr. Roe, landlords of Monaghan, have instituted ejectment proceedings against a number of tenants who represented nearly 12,000 persons; and, whether it is in consequence of the ejectments and evictions which have taken place and which are pending, and in consequence of the crime reported in the statistics, that he has proclaimed the County Monaghan; and, what is the particular area of the county which induced the right hon. Gentleman to proclaim it?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR) (Manchester, E.)In addition to the general ground I have already stated to the House, I may inform the hon. Gentleman that there are 163 persons more or less Boycotted; five are under constant police protection; and 41 four others are under partial protection by patrols.