MR. GATHORNE HARDYsaid, he would beg to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Whether the Government have during the Recess circulated queries relating to the occupation of land to the several Poor Law Unions in Ireland; and, if so, whether they will lay such queries and the answers before the House?
§ MR. CHICHESTER FORTESCUE, in reply, said, that certain Returns had been made to the Government by the Poor Law Inspectors, and they would be laid upon the table of the House at once.