§ MR. SEXTONI beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether he is aware that Mr. James Muir, Inspector of Poor, parish of Bothwell, who has in his charge two orphan girls, Rose and Mary Flannegan, now respectively 14 and twelve years of age, has removed the children from the Motherwell Workhouse, and refuses to inform their next-of-kin, namely, Mathew Flannegan, their uncle, and Elizabeth Flannegan, their grandmother, where the children are at present; and whether the uncle 573 and grandmother, being desirous to bring up and educate the children, are entitled to have the custody of them?
§ * SIR C. J. PEARSONI have not yet received detailed information as to the facts of this case, but I am informed that it is now under consideration of a Court of Law, and I am, therefore, precluded from giving the hon. Member any opinion on the subject.