§ MR. DELANY (Queen's County, Ossory)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with reference to the Return of agrarian offences in Ireland, whether any similar Return is made relative to England, and what authority decides whether an offence committed in Ireland is agrarian or ordinary in character.
§ MR. ATKINSON (for Mr. WYNDHAM)The English Returns are not classified so as to distinguish agrarian from non-agrarian offences. The Inspector General of Royal Irish Constabulary decides, after an exhaustive examination into the facts and circumstances of every outrage, whether it should be recorded as agrarian or otherwise, and in this he is assisted by an experienced staff, who have been engaged in this work for many years past.
§ CAPTAIN DONELANIs the right I hon. Gentleman aware that there is more: crime in one day in England than in a whole month in Ireland?