Mr. O'Connellbegged to ask whether the right hon. Baronet opposite would have any objection to lay on the Table of the House the coroner's inquest, and the report of the commissioners sent down by Government to Ennis, to inquire into the unhappy and frightful scene which had taken place there, and in which several had been killed?
§ Sir R. Peelsaid, that all he knew of the case officially was, that the Lord-lieutenant of Ireland, immediately upon hearing of this lamentable occurrence, sent down a Queen's Counsel to take a report of the matter, and that a verdict had been returned by the coroner's inquest; and under these circumstances, he hoped the House would not press at present for the papers.
Mr. O'Connellsaid, that besides this, another inquiry of even higher interest was whether Government had done, or was about to do anything to relieve the fearful distress which prevailed in all parts of Ireland, even in Wicklow, the district nearest Dublin?
§ Sir R. Peelwould only say, that the Government was deeply alive to the importance of the subject.