§ MR. MAGUIREsaid, he should postpone the Motion on the subject of the distress in Ireland standing in his name; but he wished at the same time to call the attention of the Chief Secretary for Ireland to the fact that twenty-five deaths from starvation had lately taken place in that country.
§ SIR ROBERT PEELin reply to the statement that twenty-five deaths had occurred from starvation, begged to say that such was positively not the case. Unfortunately, a number of deaths had occurred in Ireland, but he was prepared to show that the hon. Gentleman had been misinformed as to the cause; and that those unhappy circumstances were not to be attributed to the positive want of food.