Captain CRAIGasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he is aware that parcels of lottery tickets have been dispatched to the head teachers of national schools in Ireland by the superior of the Passionists, Mount Argus, Dublin, with an intimation that a commission on all sales effected will be paid by the sender; and whether His Majesty's Government and the Commissioners of National Education propose to permit national schools to be utilised as agencies for disposing of tickets for raffles held in aid of monasteries and nunneries?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Commissioners of National Education inform me that they have no information on the subject.