§ MR. FINUCANE (Limerick, E.)asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether his attention has been directed to the following report, which appeared in The Cork Herald of Tuesday, 16th instant:—
On Saturday night about 20 or 30 men of the Derbyshire Regiment, at the Windmill, Limerick, attacked the house of a Mr. Cullivit, and endeavoured to burst in the door of a room in which a wake was being held at the time on the remains of Mr. Cullivit's mother-in-law, who died the day before. Having failed to force the door, they forcibly entered the room by the window, having smashed the glass, knocked the lighted candles off the table, and thrust also at the corpse;and, whether he will order an investigation into the accuracy of this report?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. E. STANHOPE) (Lincolnshire, Horncastle)The officer commanding the troops at Limerick has reported by telegraph as follows:—
The statement is not true. No attack was made by either the men of the Derbyshire Regiment or 3rd Hussars on Mr. Cullivit's house, which was not entered by the men, who were attacked by civilians when leaving the Windmill public-house.
§ MR. J. O'CONNOR (Tipperary, S.)asked whether the Secretary of State for War had seen a report in the papers, in which it was stated that some men of this same regiment on Tuesday last had an altercation with some civilians, which 23 terminated with stones being freely used on both sides; but that the military, not content with the result of the engagement, attacked a house in the vicinity of the barracks and—
§ MR. SPEAKEROrder, order! This is a Question of which Notice should be given in the usual way.
§ MR. J. O'CONNORI will give Notice of a Question on the subject.