§ SIR THOMAS LLOYDsaid, he would beg to ask the President of the Poor Law Board, Whether he is prepared to take into consideration the propriety of relaxing the rule now in force by which the Poor Law Board refuses its sanction to grants of money from Boards of Guardians in aid of paupers desirous of emigrating to the United States of America, and limits such sanction only to intending emigrants to our British Colonial possessions?
§ MR. GOSCHEN, in reply, said, that the subject was under the consideration of the Board, and he had communicated with the Emigration Commissioners as to the regulations on pauper emigration. He found that one of the restrictions placed upon pauper emigration was that alluded by the hon. Baronet. It was at present illegal for guardians to send paupers to the United States, and the restrictions arose from a remonstrance made in 1838 by the United States Consul on the subject. Whether the United States had the same objection now to the immigration of paupers he could not say.