LORD NAASsaid, he wished to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland a question with regard to the extraordinary Correspondence published in the newspapers as having taken place between Sir Robert Kane. Dr. Bullen, and the Irish Government, Had the annual Report of the President of the Queen's College, Cork, for the past year, yet been presented to Her Majesty, or laid upon the table of the House; 716 whether that Report contains the whole of the Correspondence which has taken place between these gentlemen and the Irish Government; and, if it does not, whether he will lay the entire Correspondence on the table of the House?
§ SIR ROBERT PEEL,in reply, said, the Report of the President of the Queen's College, Cork, had been presented yesterday, and was laid upon the table of the House. Some other Correspondence had taken place, not between Sir Robert Kane and the Irish Government, but between the Inspector General of Constabulary and Dr. Cullen—he meant to say Dr. Bullen; and there would be no objection to produce it if the noble Lord wished.
LORD NAASAm I to understand that that Correspondence was published in the newspapers before it was presented to Her Majesty?
§ SIR ROBERT PEELThe Correspondence was not published by the authority of the Irish Government. It did, I am sorry to say, appear in the newspapers before the Report was laid on the table of this House.
§ MR. HENNESSYsaid, he wished to ask, Whether the right hon. Gentleman will produce two Estimates framed by the Government; one for £7,000, which the people of Cork were called upon to pay for the rebuilding of the College, and the other a detailed Estimate for £4,000, which that House was asked to vote for the same purpose?
§ SIR ROBERT PEELsaid, that if the hon. Gentleman would repeat his question on another day he would consider the matter.