§ Mr. HUGH BARRIEasked the Chief Secretary whether, as the proceedings of the Commissioners of National Education are conducted within closed doors, and as no reference is made in any of their published reports to their sanction of pictures of sacred subjects or their permission of statues in the schoolroom during the hours of united instruction, he will ask the Commissioners to furnish a list of the names of such pictures and statues, together with the Minutes of the Board that relate to them, to be laid upon the Table of the House; and what steps he proposes to take to prevent the further violation of the fundamental principles and rules of the system of national education?
§ Mr. BIRRELLI would refer the hon. Member to my reply to the questions on the same subject asked by him on the 28th April last. The Commissioners of National Education do not consider that any public interest would be served by laying copies of their minutes on the subject on the Table of the House.