§ MR. JORDAN (Clare, W.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether his attention has been directed to a report of the Vandeleur evictions in The Daily News, of July 31; whether the Sheriff, Mr. Croker, evicted a tenant named Joanna O'Dea; whether a sick child six years old, afflicted with spinal complaint and idiotic, was lying on a straw bed near the fire; whether the authorities compelled the inmates to remove the invalid from the dwelling house to an outhouse; and, whether he will take steps to prevent such occurrences in future operations?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR) (Manchester, E.)The Divisional Magistrate reports that at the eviction in question there was a child in the house. The doctor saw it, said it was idiotic, and must have been so for a very long time; but that there was nothing to prevent its being removed. It was taken outside by the woman of the house, and was not taken to an outhouse; and that there was no inhumanity whatever about the proceedings.