§ MR. J. G. TALBOTasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether his attention has been drawn to the Scheme of the Senate of the Royal University for Ireland, and to the unlimited number and high scale of prizes proposed for students in arts and professional schools; and, whether, before the said Scheme is sanctioned, Parliament will have any opportunity of expressing its opinion upon it?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTER, in reply, said, of course his attention had been called to this matter, and, in accordance with the provisions of the Act, the Scheme had been laid on the Table of the House. The University Act that was passed instructed the Senate to draw up a Scheme, and, on being communicated to the Lord Lieutenant, it was his duty to put it upon the Table of the House. There was no power given to the Senate to alter the Scheme, and no power given to the Government to propose alterations in it. Whatever was done about the Univer- 1007 sity, must depend very much on the Estimates which would be submitted to Parliament. An opportunity would be given to the House to express their opinions; but he was not quite sure whether that would not be on a Bill brought in rather than on a Vote.