§ MR. STAFFORDwished to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he had taken any steps to correct the mistakes in the returns lately presented from the poor-law officers in Ireland, which had rendered these returns of no value whatever? or, if he had not, he begged to call the right hon. Gentleman's attention to the fourth page in these returns, where he would find a mistake amounting to 8,500l.
§ The CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERsaid, he had compared the printed papers with the originals sent from Ireland, and he found that the printed papers 1211 were accurate transcripts of the originals. He had written by that very post to Ireland desiring that these mistakes might be corrected, and also wishing to know whether these mistakes had originated in the summing up, or in the details.