§ MR. H. A. HERBERTsaid, he rose to ask the President of the Poor Law Board, Whether his attention has been called to the case of Daniel Shea, who, having been sick for many months, died on the 29th of May in the Killarney Workhouse in consequence of hunger and cold endured by him on his passage from London to Cork; and whether he has directed an Inquiry to be made into the conduct of the Poor Law Officials of the Islington Union who caused his deportation under circumstances of such peculiar hardship? It was alleged that the poor man in question had not received even sufficient food during the passage.
§ MR. C. P. VILLIERSsaid, his attention had not been directed to this matter otherwise than by the Notice on the paper. There had been no communication made to the Poor Law Board in reference to the matter. But he had directed an inquiry to be made of the Parochial Officers of Islington as to what was known of this case, and they had positively denied that any blame attached to them, or that they were in any way responsible for the death of Daniel Shea, who was in the workhouse, and who, most unusually, applied to bere-moved to his own country.