CAPTAIN CRAIGI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he can state the number of outrages in which firearms were used, cattle-drives, boycotting, and other cases of intimidation which were brought under the notice of the police since the House rose, and the number of persons convicted.
§ MR. BIRRELLDuring the period in question twenty-seven offences were committed in which firearms were used, and in three of the cases persons are awaiting trial. The number of cattle-drives was seventy, and in respect of these cases fifty-six persons were ordered to find bail, of whom forty-seven were committed to prison in default of giving bail. Twelve other persons are awaiting trial upon charges of riot and unlawful assembly. There were five cases of intimidation, in one of which proceedings are pending. On 31st August there were sixteen cases in which persons were wholly boycotted, ten cases of partial boycotting, and 188 cases of minor boycotting.