§ SIR T. LEA (Londonderry, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland what number of schools in Ireland were free from all school fees last October, and in how many schools fees are still paid?
MR. J. MORLEYI gather from the last Annual Report of the Commissioners of National Education that the number of schools declared by the Board to be absolutely free from school fees on October 1, 1892, was 7,173, and that the number in which fees have been partly abolished is 1,071.