§ MR. LONSDALEI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland what was the number of prisoners for trial at the recent summer assizes in Ireland for offences recorded as agrarian; and what were the results of the trials in such cases.
§ MR. CHERRYThe number of persons returned for trial at the recent summer assizes, for offences recorded as agrarian, was 167, the number of distinct cases being twenty-three. Three persons were convicted; thirty-one were acquitted; in the case of twenty-three persons the jury disagreed; and as regards the remaining 110 persons the cases were postponed to the next assizes.