In answer to an Irish Catholic deputation to Mr. Gladstone
on Monday, which represented the desire of the Irish Catholics for an educational system in Ireland which should be based on the system of perfect equality betweeu Catholics and Protestants, Mr. Gladstone made a reply which was very careful not to admit that, as regards the primary schools, there is any grievance to remedy. Ho had fully admitted, he said, the grievance in relation to Uni- versity education, and is anxious to remedy it, but Irish questions have taken up so very large a proportion of the time of the Legis- lature, that it has beeu hitherto impossible to touch it. The Prime Minister cautiously declined to go further into particulars, and was, on the whole, anxiously reticent. We infer that the Government stick at present to the existing National School system, and are only considering how to give the Catholic University fair play.
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