MR. SULLIVANasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If his attention has been called to the circumstances under which the demolition of Church Lane, Saint Giles, is being carried out; and, if he can state what steps, if any, have been taken to provide the extremely poor population who are being thus dispossessed with suitable accommodation equally convenient for the petty industries, such as that of costermonger, &c., which most of them pursue?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS,in reply, said, that the demolition which was going on in the district referred to was not being carried out by any public body, but by private owners, with whom the Government had no power to interfere. Notice had been given a long time ago to the tenants that they would be required to quit, and further notice would be given before they were turned out.