§ MR. G. MORRISsaid, he wished to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Whether the Royal School of Banagher has not been closed for the last two years; why no Head Master has been during that period appointed; and, what has become of the endowment and emoluments reported by the Royal Commission in 1858 as belonging to that School?
THE EARL OF MAYO,in reply, said, he 103 was sorry to say that the School had been closed for a considerable time in consequence of two causes. First, an endeavour had been made to see whether an arrangement more advantageous to the public might not be made with regard to the School by joining it with some other similar establishment; and secondly, great difficulty had been experienced in getting a competent person to accept the office of Head master, owing to the lowness of the salary. The endowments and emoluments belonging to the School had been received by the Commissioners of Education.