§ MR. DILLONasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether the police still refuse to allow houses to be erected for the thirty families evicted by Lord Cloncurry in Nurroe, county Limerick; whether the site selected for these houses was some miles distant from the farms from which the tenants had been evicted; whether two Dublin carpenters, who were engaged in erecting these houses, have been arrested and are now in Limerick Gaol, no offence being alleged against them, except their being engaged in constructing these houses; and, whether the Irish Government are prepared to make any statement in reference to police interference with the erection of shelter for evicted tenants in Ireland?
§ MR. TREVELYANAs to the distance of the huts from the farms of the evicted tenants, I have got information from Dublin; but it is not in sufficient detail to satisfy my own mind, and I cannot expect that it will satisfy others. I shall not feel satisfied until the highest Executive authorities in Dublin have inquired into the question, and I hope to be able to give an answer on Thursday.