§ MR. FAWCETTsaid, he wished to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Whether he will promise that the Government will not advise Her Majesty to grant a charter to the proposed Catholic University in Ireland until Parliament has had an opportunity of expressing its approval or disapproval of the scheme, by either granting or refusing the public money which it is stated the establishment of such an University will require?
THE EARL OF MAYOreplied, that the desire of the Government was to act in concert with Parliament in this question, and they would take care before any final steps were taken in the matter to give the House by some means the opportunity of expressing an opinion on the subject. He would avail himself of this opportunity to correct an erroneous impression which appeared to have been formed in respect to the statement he made the other night. It seemed generally supposed that he said that the institution the Government proposed to found in Dublin did not resemble any institution in the United Kingdom. What he had said was exactly the reverse. It was that the charter proposed did resemble, to a certain extent, the charters given to similar institutions in the United Kingdom; but the institution they proposed bore no resemblance whatever to the Roman Catholic University now existing in Dublin.