§ MR. DILLWYN (for Mr. CHAMBERLAIN)asked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, If he will lay upon the Table of the House the Correspondence, recently referred to by him, in which the Government warned boards of guardians to provide stores of food and fuel, with Copies of any Replies received to this Communication?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERSir, I have to say that there is no Correspondence to produce. What I stated was that instructions had been given by the Irish Government to the Local Government Board and the Inspectors of the Local Government Board that they should take care that proper steps were taken for the purpose to which the Question refers. I alluded to a passage in a private letter from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to one of his Colleagues with regard to the steps so taken, and I did so for the purpose of showing that as early as the date of that letter we had the subject before us; but there is no Correspondence which can be laid before the House.