§ MR. HENNESSYsaid, he wished to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland, When he will lay before the House his Scheme for reducing the Professorships in the Queen's Colleges, and appropriating to other purposes the Grant now given for maintaining the libraries and lighting and cleansing the buildings.
§ SIR ROBERT PEELsaid, that now Parliament had consented to appropriate a certain sum, it would be necessary that the proposal for its application should be submitted to the Senate and the Chancellor of the University, and should afterwards be carried out by Royal Statutes.
§ MR. HENNESSYsaid, he wished to know what reduction was to take place in the number of Professorships?
§ SIR ROBERT PEELreplied, that nothing could be done in the matter until the Chancellor of the University had been consulted.