MR. O'CONNELL,seeing the right hon. Gentleman the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in his place, wished to inquire of him if he had received any intelligence that seemed to threaten a renewal of the disease with which potatoes had in the past year been so extensively affected?
§ MR. LABOUCHEREsaid, that in answer to the question of the hon. and learned Gentleman, he had only to state that he had received letters from various quarters, official letters as well as private communications, to the effect, that though the prospects of a favourable harvest were excellent as regarded all other productions, yet that with respect to the potato crop, the disease had unfortunately made its appearance; and he feared that there was every prospect of its spreading to a serious extent.