§ MR. ARTHUR O'CONNORasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether he will be able to lay upon the Table a Statement showing how the 2,734 persons evicted in Ireland during the month of April (as shown in Return No. 199) are circumstanced; i.e. the number receiving temporary shelter in the neighbourhood of their late homes; the number of those who have emigrated; the number of those who have been forced to go to the workhouses; and the number of those who are altogether homeless and wandering?
§ MR. TREVELYANSir, I regret that I cannot give the hon. Member this Return. It could only be given approximately, and even to do that would be a work of considerable time and labour, and the time of the constabulary is at present fully occupied by their many important duties. I may say that I have directed a very important Return to be prepared of the number of tenants evicted in Ireland whose term of redemption is now running out, and have ordered it to be pressed forward with all possible despatch.