§ MR. ARTHUR PEELasked the President of the Local Government 1390 Board, Whether, having regard to the recent Report of Mr. Doyle, Local Government Inspector, on the Emigration of Pauper Children to Canada, he proposes to take steps, in concert with the Government of the Dominion, to regulate such emigration; and, whether there is a prospect that the necessary precautions will be taken before the ensuing emigration season?
§ MR. SCLATER-BOOTH, in reply, said, that he hoped before this, he should have been able to inform his hon. Friend that steps were being proposed by the Government of the Dominion of Canada with a view to the regulation of this system of emigration; but Mr. Doyle's Report had not been very long sent over to Canada, and although communications had been opened, they were not very far advanced; whether the arrangements between the Home and the Dominion Governments would be completed in time to allow of the necessary precautions being taken before the ensuing emigration season he could not at present say; but the number of pauper children sent as it were under Government sanction bore but a small proportion to the total number sent out by Miss Eye and other ladies.