§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ LORD CARLINGFORD, in moving that the Bill be now read the second time, said, its only object was to provide, by a charge on the Irish Church Fund, the necessary means to enable the Royal University of Ireland to commence operations. That University was created by Act of Parliament two years ago, under the auspices of the late Government; and as the present Bill contained nothing beyond the provision to which 923 he referred, he was sure their Lordships would not object to it.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a"—(The Lord Privy Seal.)
LORD BALFOUR OF BURLEIGHsaid, that, having no objection to the proposal contained in the Bill, he did not rise to oppose the second reading, but merely to remind Her Majesty's Government, when they were making this large provision of £20,000 a-year for the Royal University of Ireland, that there were some very poor Universities in Scotland; and, should money be asked for them in case of their requiring assistance, it was to be hoped that Her Majesty's Government would show towards them the same corresponding liberality they were now exhibiting.
§ Motion agreed to; Bill read 2a accordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next.