§ Tests Abolition (Oxford) considered in Committee.
§ (In the Committee.)
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MR. COLERIDGE moved a Resolution,
That the Chairman be directed to move the House, that leave be given to bring in a Bill to provide for the abolition of Religious Tests in connection with Academical Degrees and Offices in the University of Oxford.
§ MR. FAWCETTthought the House would remember that last Session the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Calne, in one of the most completely Liberal speeches he ever made in the House on the Universities, strongly advised that so far as possible some of these Bills should be united, and that the House should not be troubled with constant repetitions of the same question. The Bill of the hon. and learned Member was distinct in principle from that of another hon. Member, because the latter affected endowments, while the present Bill simply related to degrees and offices in the 297 University, and he was aware that some who would vote for one would not support the other. What he rose for was to give notice that if the Bill of the hon. and learned Member went into Committee, he should move that it be an Instruction to the Committee that the Bill be made to apply to the University of Cambridge as well as to the University of Oxford.
§ Resolution agreed to.
§ Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to move the House, that leave be given to bring in a Bill to provide for the abolition of Religious Tests in connection with Academical Degrees and Offices in the University of Oxford.
§ Resolution reported:—Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. COLERIDGE and Mr. GRANT DUFF.
§ Bill presented, and read the first time. [Bill 16.]