§ DR. TANNER (Cork Co., Mid)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether any inquiry is being made into an assault upon a poor woman and her husband, named Sullivan, who were way laid and dreadfully beaten near Millstreet, County Cork, on Tuesday night last, the 3rd instant, on their way home, and, after being attacked and wounded, struggled into the house of a post boy named Buckley, who in consequence was stoned by the gang; whether he is aware that the Sullivans were medically treated in the Millstreet Union Hospital by Dr. Leader, who refused to give a certificate to the effect that Sullivan's life was out of danger; whether many similar assaults have taken place near Millstreet daring the past year; whether the police have arrested and brought to justice any of the gang notoriously implicated in this and other similar recent outrages; and whether steps will be immediately taken to ascertain who are the employers of the gang?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI must ask the hon. Gentleman to defer the question until to-morrow.
§ DR. TANNERMay I ask the right hon. Gentleman how many police are now stationed in and about Millstreet?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThe Constabulary Authorities report that there are stationed in the town of Millstreet one District Inspector, one Head Constable, and 19 men, and that there are two huts, each four miles distant from Millstreet, having a party of five men each.