§ Captain Pechellrose to explain a statement which he had made on Friday last on the subject of the employment of the Navy to enforce the payment of Poor-rates in Ireland. The right hon. Baronet opposite, one of the Lords of the Admiralty, had stated that he was not aware of the existence of such a practice; and he had quoted from an Irish county paper a statement that the Earl of Lucan had, at a meeting of the Castlebar Union, declared his determination rather to encourage resistance to the poor-rate collectors, than to submit to the imposition of a new rate, while so large a portion of the first rate remained uncollected. In reply to the Earl of Lucan, Captain Blake was reported to have said that naval forces were coming round to the coast; and the Earl of Lucan was reported to have replied that he had no doubt but that the Government would send forces to enforce the collection of the rates. He had since received a communication from the Earl of Lucan denying that he had ever made such a statement, and he thought it his duty to state that fact to the House. At the same time, he begged to state that he had only quoted the statement as he had found it in the Mayo Telegraph, published in the noble Earl's own county.