§ MR. MACARTNEY (Antrim, S.): I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that Mr. Frederick Hobson, the Sub-Sheriff of County Limerick, while executing an ejectment decree against John Bridgeman, near Limerick, on the 25th of July, was offered severe resistance, Mr. O'Brien, the agent, being badly hurt, and that he had to abandon the execution in consequence of the violence displayed; whether he is also aware that the Sheriff sent one of his men to the adjoining police barracks at Clarina, who informed the police that a severe assault had taken place, and that 8 their attendance was requested by the Sheriff; whether the police complied with the Sheriff's request; whether the attention of the Law Officers have been drawn to the action of John Bridgeman in resisting the Sheriff in the execution of his duty; and whether the Government propose to take any action in the matter?
MR. J. MORLEYI replied very fully to a question put to me in reference to this matter on last Tuesday by the hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Mid Armagh. I have since directed that proceedings should be instituted.