§ SIR THOMAS ESMONDE (Dublin Co., S.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether, in the case of the recently reported outrage at Rathfarnham, County Dublin, whereby six of Colonel Rowley's cattle had their tails cut off, it was discovered, upon examination, that only one of the beasts had lost its tail; if, upon further examination, the missing tail was found in the farmyard, where it had dropped off, eaten away by disease; and, whether this outrage forms one of those enumerated in the last Return of Irish crime laid upon the Table of the House, or will form one of those enumerated in the next?
§ THE PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SECRETARY (Colonel KING-HARMAN) (Kent, Isle of Thanet)(who replied) said, it was reported to the police at Rathfarnham, on 27th ultimo, that the tail of one cow—not six as mentioned in the Question, Colonel Rowley having but two—had been cut off the previous night. The police at once visited the place, and on examination found that the loss of the tail had been occasioned through disease. No outrage having occurred the case does not, and will not, appear in any Return.