§ MR. WHALLEYasked the First Lord of the Treasury, with reference to the surplus Revenues of the Irish Church, Whether he is prepared, on the part of the Government, to give favourable consideration to the proposal for applying such Revenues in part or in whole in relief of the extraordinary expenditure still called for to suppress outrage and conspiracy in Ireland?
MR. GLADSTONESir, the idea of my hon. Friend is an original one. I am afraid that if the Government were to entertain the proposal at all they would give it an unfavourable consideration.