§ ME. DILLON (Mayo, E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that on Monday, evening last a planned attack was made by a party of roughs upon a number of Roman Catholic cattle drovers engaged in the work of removing cattle from the railway vans of the Great Northern Railway to the English cross-channel steamers at Belfast, and that one of these Roman Catholic workmen while so engaged was beaten and sustained severe injuries; and, seeing that these cattle drovers have been repeatedly threatened and assaulted during the past twelve months, and thereby intimidated from pursuing their avocation, whether he will take measures to put a stop to the congregating of these roughs between 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock in the evening outside the Great Northern Railway works by stationing a sufficient number of police from the railway gate to the Boyne Bridge to protect the workmen therein engaged.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe information before me is to the effect that a Roman Catholic named Black was assaulted on the 15th instant while engaged in this work, but that, so far as the police can ascertain, no planned attack was made on the Roman Catholic drovers. I have not sufficient information to enable me to reply to the remainder of the question, and perhaps the hon. Member will be good enough to repeat it to-morrow.