§ MR. AGAR-ELLISasked the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether it is intended that the provisions of subsection 1, Section 25 of the Irish Church. Act, relating to National Monuments, should be allowed to remain inoperative?
MR. GLADSTONEin reply, said, that it did not rest with Her Majesty's Government whether the provisions to which the hon. Member referred should remain inoperative or not, but with the Church Commissioners in Ireland. He had communicated with the Commissioners on the subject, and was assured that they were now engaged in making inquiries in order to ascertain what structures there might be within the powers of the Act of Parliament that ought to be maintained as national monuments; and as soon as those inquiries were concluded, further information would be given.