§ MR. W. JOHNSTON (Belfast, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland will he explain on what grounds the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland have omitted from the Fifth Book of Lessons the history of the British Constitution, by the late Archbishop Whately, and also 18 articles, by the same author, on political economy, and why five out of the eight lessons on Scripture History have been omitted, and writings substituted which are objected to by Protestants, 761 and in the Third Beading Book for children from 9 to 12 years of age the last verse of Moore's Canadian Boat Song, teaching the Invocation of the Saints, has been inserted; and if this change is made with the sanction of the Government?
MR. J. MORLEYBefore answering this question there are one or two points on which I desire to satisfy myself, and I must therefore ask the hon. Member to postpone it until Thursday.