§ Mr. Bernalbrought up the Report on the Church of Ireland Bill.
§ Sir J. Grahamsaid, that perhaps the noble Lord, the Secretary for Ireland would permit him to put a question to him relating to certain alterations which he perceived had been made in this Bill, and which were, as far as he understood them, of considerable importance, inasmuch as they affected the question of the surplus, after supplying the wants of the Irish Church. He understood, that the alterations went to raise the minimum of allowances in one case from 200l to 300l., and in another, from 100l. to 150l. If he understood those alterations rightly, the object of the noble Lord was to increase the income of the clergy. The question he wished to ask was, whether those alterations would diminish the surplus upon which the noble Lord calculated?
§ Viscount Morpethreplied, that in order that the nature of the alterations might be clearly known, he intended to move that the Bill be reprinted before the third reading. He had certainly introduced the alterations to which the right hon. Baronet had adverted. One of them was that of increasing the minimum; but as his calculations had been formed upon the maximum, it would make no difference in the result, As to the glebe lands, he was 94 sure that he had made allowance for the change.
§ Bill to be read a third time, and to be reprinted.