§ MR. O'DONNELLasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If it is true that the Clerkenwell Board of Guardians have passed a resolution directing the removal to Ireland of "all removable Irish poor?"
§ MR. SCLATER-BOOTHPerhaps the lion. Gentleman will grant me permission to answer the Question. I have made inquiries of the Guardians of the Holborn Union, in which Clerkenwell is situate, and I find it is true that they have passed a resolution respecting certain paupers—four men and two women—who are to be removed to Ireland. They appear to be the only paupers who are to be removed; and I am told that in each case the paupers have expressed their willingness to go to Ireland, not only to the Board, but before the magistrate before whom the order for removal was signed. It was in consequence of the application of some of these Irish paupers that the Board has taken the resolution in question.