§ MR. LONSDALEI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been called to the case heard at Trim Quarter Sessions on Thursday, when compensation was awarded for injury done to forty bullocks and heifers, driven off the lands of Captain Fowler, D.L., near Moate on 9th May; whether he is aware that the evidence showed that the cattle were driven over a six-foot fence, across ploughed land, through a river, and over a barbed-wire fence, which cut several of the animals, that the Judge said he was told that these cattle-drives were an innocent form of amusement, and the cattle were only driven gently along the roads, and that he wished those who held that opinion had heard the evidence of the dastardly manner in which these animals were treated; and whether any persons were punished for the cruelty perpetrated in this instance.
§ MR. CHERRYIn the case in question the County Court Judge awarded the sum of £21 as compensation for the injury to the cattle. I understand that the evidence given during the hearing of the case, and the remarks of the County Court Judge, were substantially as stated in the Question. I am informed 775 by the police authorities that it was not possible to make any person amenable in the case owing to the lack of evidence.