§ MR. SEXTONI beg to ask the Chief Secretary if he is aware that as 800 Catholics, men, women, and children, were about to leave Belfast yesterday morning on an excursion on board the steamship Victoria, a murderous attack was made upon them by a body of workmen, who threw iron bolts by hand and by sling as missiles, and that some of the women and children were injured, one of them, a boy, very severely?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI have received information of the attack, and I am glad to say the most serious injury is a scalp wound on a little boy, which is not of a dangerous character. The proceeding was very disgraceful, and every effort would be made to bring the guilty parties to justice.
§ MR. SEXTONI am glad to hear the right hon. Gentleman's statement. Have any arrests been made, and what steps will be taken in the matter?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI can give no further information.