§ SIR JOHN GRAYsaid, he rose to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland, If he has received any official communication with respect to the condition of the agricultural population in the western portions of Mayo; and, if so, will he communicate the purport of the same to the House and the nature of the precautionary steps, if any, which it is proposed to take in order to avert the distress which is said to be anticipated in that district?
LORD NAASsaid, in reply, that no information, official or unofficial, had reached the Government with regard to the existence of distress in the west part of Mayo.