§ MR. JUSTIN M'CARTHYasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether his attention has been drawn to a statement made by the Philadelphia correspondent of The Times, in. a letter dated May 13th, to the effect that several steerage passengers on the 444 steamer City of Rome, pauper emigrants from the workhouses in Kerry, have been detained at Now York, in order that they may be sent back to Ireland; and, whether he will take any steps to discourage the deportation of paupers from Irish workhouses?
§ MR. TREVELYANI have soon the statement referred to by the hon. Member; but it is not the fact that any workhouse inmates have been sent out this year from the county of Kerry as State-aided emigrants. All the State-aided emigrants who went out in the City of Rome were persons carefully selected, who were going to their relations or friends, having produced letters of encouragement from them, and whose journeys were paid for to the towns or places where their friends lived.