§ *MR. DANEI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been called to the statement made by The Times Irish correspondent in the issue of that newspaper of the 2nd instant, that the national school at Newmarket-on-Fergus is at present being boycotted, owing to the refusal of the teacher to expel the son of an evicted farm caretaker; that the children attending the school, to the number of 90, left in a body, and that their parents have intimated their intention of not allowing them to return until the caretaker's son has been expelled; and, if such report be accurate, what steps Her Majesty's Government intend taking in the matter?
MR. J. MORLEYThe school referred to is not at present boycotted, although I am informed by the constabulary that on the 24th and 25th ult, the pupils, or nearly all of them, withdrew from the school because of the attendance of the children of a caretaker, who, however, were not expelled from it.