§ MR. SEXTONasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether he has made inquiry into the case of Mrs. Mary J. Conway, late of Cliffoney, county of Sligo, now a patient in the Sligo District Lunatic Asylum, and formerly for more than twenty years a teacher under the Board of Commissioners of National Education in Ireland; whether the Board of Commissioners were justified in refusing a retiring gratuity to Mrs. Conway, as appears by their Secretary's letters of 7th April and 4th June 1880; and, whether the Government will now cause a gratuity to be allowed for the benefit of Mrs. Conway's children?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTERI have inquired into the case of Mrs. Conway, and I think the Commissioners were quite justified in refusing her the retiring gratuity. If the hon. Gentleman will call on me personally, I shall be happy to give him all the information I have on the subject.