§ MR. O'DRISCOLL (Monaghan, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is he aware that, on the night of 13th or early morning of 14th July instant, the stable of Rev. A. B. R. Young, M.A., the Protestant Rector of Ballibay, County Monaghan, was entered, and the mane of a valuable horse so mutilated as to greatly reduce the selling price of the animal, the reason for this malicious injury being, it is supposed, that the reverend gentleman had some Orange flags removed from the tower of his church in consequence of one of the pillarets to which they were attached having been knocked down and broken on the night of the 7th instant; and what, if any, protection has been afforded to Mr. Young against a repetition of such outrage?
MR. J. MORLEYI am informed that the facts are as stated in the question. Some three or four inches of hair were removed from the horse's mane, but no bodily injury was inflicted. The reverend gentleman is receiving every necessary protection from the police.
§ MR. O'DRISCOLLIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that the rev. gentleman, in consequence of his action, has been burnt in effigy by members of the Orange organisation and threatened 670 with condign punishment by the leaders of that body?