§ MR. HAWES, in answer to questions from Mr. Grattan, Mr. Divett, and Lord Ashley, said, in reply to the question of the hon. Member for Meath, who referred to the treatment of some Irish orphan girls who had gone out, that papers would be laid on the table which would show what had been done in regard to the matter; the Government were determined to investigate all such cases, and to punish guilty parties with the utmost severity. In the case of the Ramilies, it appeared that there was no flogging in the ordinary sense of that term, as supposed, but that four women were punished by the surgeon, quite unjustifiably and severely, but in the presence of the matron and some other parties; but that when the ship arrived at her destination, in March last, the passengers made no complaint of ill-treatment to the authorities of the colony, and unfortunately all the parties received their full gratuities; but the Lieutenant Governor, seeing a statement in the local papers, caused the matter to be examined into, and the facts just referred to came out. Whether any steps could be taken here, in the absence of witnesses, he (Mr. Hawes) was not able to say.