§ COLONEL HOWARD VINCENT (Sheffield, Central)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he can inform the House about how many Protestants there are in Ireland outside the province of Ulster?
THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. J. MORLEY,) New-castle-upon-TyneThe Registrar General reports that, according to the census of 1891, the number of persons returned as Roman Catholics in the provinces of Leinster, Munster, and Con-naught was 2,802,448, and of all other persuasions 282,488. The latter number includes 1,497 Jews, 191 unspecified cases, 124 "unknown," and 331 cases in which information was refused; it also includes the Protestant population of Dublin and Cork cities. I do not know whether the hon. Member also desired the figures for Ulster, but I have them here. Out of a population of 1,619,814, the number returned as Roman Catholics is 744,859.