MR. MACARTNEYasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Whether the statement is correct which appeared in the morning papers of Tuesday last that the Honourable W. le Poer Trench, Mr. Andrew Doyle, and Mr. Charles Sharman Crawford have been appointed Commissioners to inquire into the working of the Poor Law System in Ireland?
§ SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH, in reply, said, it was true that those gentlemen had been appointed Commissioners, not, however, to inquire into the working of the Poor Law system in 677 Ireland, but to inquire into the special points mentioned by him in reply to a previous Question put by an hon. Friend.