§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
THE EARL OF KIMBERLEY,in moving the second reading of this Bill, said, that its principal object was to repeal a clause 706 in an Act passed by the Irish Parliament before the Union, which required that the professors of anatomy and surgery, chemistry and botany in the University of Dublin should be of the Protestant religion. It had been found inconvenient to limit the choice of that University with regard to these Professorships to persons of the Protestant religion, and he was sure there would be a general concurrence of opinion on the part of their Lordships that the Protestant character of Trinity College would not be endangered by the appointment of Roman Catholic teachers of scientific subjects; and there would probably be no objection on the part of their Lordships to the Bill, which had already received the sanction of the House of Commons. The rest of the Bill was concerned with certain arrangements between the College of Physicians in Dublin and Trinity College, and certain obsolete regulations with respect to the well-known institution, Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital, which it was proposed to amend. The provisions of the Bill had, he believed, the entire consent and concurrence of the Board of Management of Trinity College, of the College of Physicians, and of the Governors of Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital.
§ Motion agreed to: Bill read 2a accordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next.