MR. LLOYD DAVIESsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it was his intention to bring in a Bill to repeal the clause in the Act of the 16 & 17 of Her present Majesty which authorised the removal of St. David's College from Lampeter to Brecon, under the sanction of Her Majesty, advised thereto by the Privy Council; and if not, whether such sanction would be withheld, in compliance with the prayer in the numerous petitions presented on the subject?
§ SIR GEORGE GREYsaid, it was not the intention of the Government to propose a Bill for the repeal of the clause by which it was in the power of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, if they thought it expedient to do so, to remove the College from Lampeter to Brecon. He might state, however, that he had received many memorials against the removal, which would be transmitted to the Privy Council Office, for it was there the question would be entertained. But he was informed that there was no scheme for the Privy Council for the removal of the College; and upon inquiry of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, he learned that no proposition of that sort had been submitted to them. At all events, no final decision would be come to upon the subject of removal without giving 469 the parties who had forwarded memorials against it an opportunity of urging and explaining their objections.