§ MR. BANKESsaid, he had been given to understand that the colleges established by the Government in Ireland were now supposed to be useless. He wished to know if they were in operation, or if any salaries were being paid to the professors and masters?
§ LORD J. RUSSELLreplied, that there had been a sum voted by Parliament for the erection and maintenance of these colleges, and that the buildings were now nearly completed. They would be ready in the month of October, and a great many professors had already been appointed. So far from the colleges being useless, a great many persons of the highest respectability in the Roman Catholic Church were their warm supporters.