§ MR. MACARTNEY (Antrim, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that on Thursday, 2nd August, Colonel O'Callaghan, of County Clare, who had brought up a number of sheep from Clare to Smithfield Market, Dublin, for sale, was followed about the market by a person named Malone from the neighbourhood of Bodyke, County Clare, who caused the sale of the sheep to be boycotted: whether Malone has already been bound over to the peace for threatening Colonel O'Callaghan; whether a constable of the Metropolitan Police to whom Colonel O'Callaghan applied was acting in accordance with the law in declining to interfere because no assault had been committed; and whether any steps will be taken to protect the rights of sellers in this and other markets when necessary?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. J. MORLEY,) Newcastle-upon-TyneThe information supplied to mo is not sufficient to enable me to reply to this question to-day, and I regret, therefore, to have to ask the hon. Gentleman to defer it until Monday next.