§ MR. LONSDALEI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, what steps have been taken to discover the men who fired at and wounded Mr. White-Blake, J.P., and his mother, as they were returning from mass on Sunday, 17th November last; and with what result.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe police authorities inform me that every effort has been made to discover the offenders in this case, but sufficient evidence to justify an arrest has not yet been obtained.
§ SIR F. BANBURYIs it not the fact that a considerable number of persons saw the outrage committed?
§ MR. BIRRELLMr. White-Blake was under police protection at the time. Two policemen were behind him and two others were within call when the shots were fired from the plantation, but I am sorry to say they entirely failed to see the people, if there were more than one, by whom the shots were fired.
§ MR. T. L. CORBETT (Down, N.)Did not Mr. White-Blake complain that instead of endeavouring to secure the arrest of the offenders some people who heard the shots cheered?
§ MR. BIRRELLI cannot charge my memory with the exact facts, but I know enough to satisfy me that the outrage did not receive that reprobation which I should have hoped it would.