§ MR. ARTHUR O'CONNORasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether his attention has been called to a resolution passed by the Mountmellick Board of Guardians on the 28th ult. to the effect that the state of the River Barrow is such as to make it impossible to keep the town of Portarlington in a proper 1105 sanitary condition; and, whether he will obtain and lay upon the Table of the House an official Report upon the injury done by the river to the town of Portarlington, and to the land on its banks in the barony of Portnahinch, in the Queen's County?
§ MR. TREVELYANI have seen a copy of the Resolution referred to by the hon. Member. It is dated the 28th ultimo, and was forwarded by the Board of Guardians to the Local Government Board. That Board have instructed one of the Medical Inspectors to report whether the sanitary condition of the town of Portarlington is injuriously affected by the state of the River Barrow. When I receive that Report I shall be able to judge whether or not it ought to be presented to Parliament.