The EARL of STRADBROKEpresented a petition from the parents and guardians of children, both Roman Catholic and Protestant, attending the school of Kilronan, in the county of Waterford, stating that the school is in connexion with the Church Education Society for Ireland, one of the rules of which is, that the holy Scriptures, in the authorised version, shall be used in the daily instruction of every child capable of reading—that the petitioners approved of the rule, as tending to bring up their children in the way they should go—but that in consequence of this rule the school was precluded from participating in the advantages of the Parliamentary grant for promoting the education of the poor of Ireland. The petitioners, therefore, prayed that the school, and all others of a similar character, might be permitted to participate in the said grant for 614 national education, without being required to abandon this rule.
Petition ordered to he on the table.