§ MR. MACARTNEYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether any arrests have been made in connection with the attack made on the house of a Protestant fanner named Edward Ruddle, in the townland of Upper Back, near Stewarts-town, County Tyrone?
MR. J. MORLEYOne person has been charged by Ruddle for an offence arising out of the alleged house attack, and Ruddle has himself been charged with an assault on the same occasion. Both cases have been sent for trial before Sessions. Although it transpired at the Petty Sessions that Party expressions wore used on both sides, one of the parties cursing the Pope and the other i King William, there appears to be good ground for believing that the whole affair was the outcome of a drunken brawl.