§ MR. O'SHEAasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If he has received a Copy of Resolutions recently passed by the guardians of the poor of Corofin, county Clare, calling attention to the high poor rates and county cess, and to threatened destitution in that union; and, if so, whether he will cause official inquiry to be immediately made into the statements contained in those resolutions?
§ MR. TREVELYANSir, the Local Government Board in Dublin have received from the Guardians of Ennistymon Union copies of resolutions relating to apprehended distress. These resolutions, which only reached the Local Government Board yesterday, will have immediate attention, and inquiry into the subject of them has already been ordered. I have seen copies of the resolutions in Saturday's Irish papers; but they have not yet reached me from the Guardians.