Captain CRAIGasked the Chief Secretary whether at a meeting of the board of 1892 guardians, South Dublin union, on Wednesday, the 15th November last, a lady member moved that a child already baptised as a Protestant at the written request of its mother by Archdeacon Walsh be allowed to remain a member of the Church of Ireland; that the guardians defeated the motion by a majority of five and decided that the question of the child's religion be left in abeyance pending inquiries; and whether he will give the necessary orders that the child be brought up in the religion its mother desired and in which it was baptised?
§ Mr. BIRRELLAt the meeting of the board of guardians on the 15th November a proposal was made that the deserted child referred to should be registered as a Roman Catholic, and an amendment was moved to the effect indicated in the question. The guardians adjourned the consideration of the question of the religion of the child's parents for inquiries, and at their next meeting unanimously decided to take no further action and to leave the child to be brought up in the faith in which by its mother's wish it had been baptised.